Advanced - AP Art - March 7-11, 2011

This week students are completing their preliminary study for the complex composition based on Durer’s Melancholia I. Each composition is developing into an expression of the individual artist’s personality.

Grade 10 - March 7-11, 2011

Can you recognize these people? Who owns the eye from last week’s blog entry?
This week we will continue to develop our distorted self portraits.

Grade 8 - March 7-11, 2011

The underwater seascapes have been completed. Students leaned about mixing colors with complements and how to use graded washes to give the illusion of three dimensionality.

They have selected their story book characters and this week will continue to build the armatures for their sculptures.

Advanced - AP Art - February 28 - March 4, 2011

We are continuing the unit reinterpreting Albrecht Durer’s Melancholia I in our own image. We are bringing individual elements together to the larger compositon.

Grade 10 - February 28 - March 4, 2011

This week we are finishing our self portraits and will begin a project on distortion. Unexpected things will happen as we change our perceptions and our perspectives.

Grade 8 - February 28 - March 4, 2011

Students are finishing their underwater still life compositions using water colors of course. Later this week we will begin a lesson on creating 3D story book characters using papier-mâché. When they are finished the sculptures will be used as bookends for the elementary library shelves. We will take them home at the end of the semester.

Adcanced Art - AP Art, February 22-25, 2011

Our advanced students are being introduced to the complexities of a composition of figures and objects in a three-dimensional space. Albrect Durer is our master artist, who will be guiding us through his self portrait in Melancholia I. Students will discover various ways to use personal imagery in an imaginative and visually coherent way.