Spray away

I have been having my advanced art class create a stencil and then use spray paint to paint in the details.  They wre very excited to get to use spray paint, but then lately the weather has not been cooperating and we have been have a heck of a time to go outside and paint when it wasn't windy, raining or snowing.

A few of them are now done and I wanted to show them off. I also need to thank Art at the Apex for the idea.  They did a similar project earlier and I thought it looked like a fun one.

Cody S.

Chad V.

Maggie H.

Ryan S.

Just had to show

I have a couple of late arrivals, but they were done really well and I wanted to show them off.

Kenzie S.  - foreshortening

Connor F.  -  Foreshortening

Joslynne S.  -double canvas

Sammy K.  - Plaster hands

pixel -it

I saw a quilt project on pinterest where the quilter created a bird by making small square pixels and then just arranging them so that you could see the image.  I really liked the idea and so I had my painting class try the project.  They had to create a picture using pixels of color.  Some of them have gotten really frustrated by the amount of time that it takes to paint each square, especially when they made them so small in the first place.  However, we learned that the smaller you do the squares the better the overall picture looks.

A couple of these are not done yet, but they are close.

Maggie H.

Emma J.

Kenzie M.

Joslynne S.

Sammy K.

Ink Wash

I had my drawing class create ink washes.  I think that they turned out really good.

Cody H.

Brooklyn K.

Zack K.

Jozlynn P.

Kenzie S.

Artistic Mini Golf

Last year I saw on Art with the Apex, an artistic mini golf course at the end of the school year.  I thought that looked like a lot of fun and I wanted to try it out.  So I replaced my Claus Oldenberg project with a cardboard artist golf course.

First I got them in groups and then had them draw an artist out of a can.  I did that mostly because I didn't want 20 holes of Van Gogh.  I did let thme choose two out of the bucket and then they could pick which one they wanted so at least they got some choice.  Then they had to research about that artist.  They were required to make a sign at the beginning of the hole, they needed a border which they could bring in (like a hose or rope), they needed to make two clubs,  then three obstacles and some way to collect the ball at the end.  All items had to be made out of cardboard and then had to be painted.

Overall the project was a lot of fun.  Next year I need to give more time and a few more specific details, but otherwise the kids enjoyed the project.  It was fun to do something different especially when they are getting worn out at this time of year.  Some classes had more fun then others, but I guess that is what you expect at the end of the year.

The biggest problem was space issues in the art room.  I was happy that it was only one week, I don't know if I could have survived with that mess for longer than that.

One group decided to use the stairs for their hole.  It was pretty much a one shot and done or start over.

A Close call

Since my art 1 classes are working at record speed, (not sure if that is all good) I thought I would add a Chuck Close style picture to our lessons.  Now I added this project only to have mother nature throw a blizzard at us, so needless to say most of the students are not yet done with this project. 

Why aren't they done you might ask, well before the blizzard hit I had booked our multipurpose room for our artistic mini golf course made out of cardboard (thanks Apex for that one).  Well when we finally got back to school I had to race through the Close project so that we could start the cardboard sculptured golf course last week so it could be ready by this week.  So I will let them finish these projects at the end of this week and turn them in without a penalty.  In the meantime, I thought i would show you a few of the better finished ones.

Austin A.

Hunter S.

Natascha D.

Sydney Hag.

Andrea C.M.

Sydney Hau.

Kamber L.

Danica H.

Courtney M.

Brooke O.

Since at the time of this assignment we had all sorts of time, I wanted them to do shapes in all of the squares and I was letting them have choices about medium and colors, and in the end I kind of let anything go.  As long as it somewhat resembled a Chuck Close style picture I was happy.

Keeping perspective

I wanted my advanced drawing class to work with foreshortening and some perspective.  I also wanted them to work with people since they don't like to draw them.  I know I can be mean, and pushy, but someday they will thank me for it.  I was hoping more of them would take pictures of friends or themselves to create the piece, but only a few took advantage of that.

Cody H.

Logan O.

Kristin B.

Walker W.