September 12, 2011 Grade 10 and AP Studio Art

Last week Grade 10 and AP students looked at the work of English Romantics Constable and Turner. Then they went outside and like Constable they went “skying”. They used dry pastels to try and capture the essence of the cloud formations moving overhead. It was a very “Constable Cloud” day. Next week we will look closely at American Romantic, Cole and the Hudson River School. We will also meet French Realist Courbet and American Realist Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent.

September 26, 2011 Grade 9

Grade nine students will continue to work on a series of studies to develop their foundation skills for making art. They will work on gestural drawing techniques and continue to develop their tonal rendering skills.

OPERA SEASON IS BACK IN TOWN

This year, The Honduran Musical Foundation will stage the Opera Buffa "The Secret Marriage" by Domenico Cimarosa.

Students from grades 6 - 12 will attend the presentation on OCT. 7 at Manuel Bonilla Theater. Tickets already on sale at the music room with Ms. Norma López (L. 225) We will leave the school campus at 8:30 a.m. Students from grades 6-8 will returned to the school at 1:00 p.m.

Students from grades 9 -12 will stop by the Identity Museum to observe the Picasso Art Exhibit (they will need to pay Ms. Campbell, L.30.00 extra to enter the Museum) and will come back to school around 1:45 p.m.

IMPORTANT DETAILS:
Students MUST wear formal clothes. (No tennis shoes or jeans).
Students must have a very good breakfast because we won't be allowed to eat at the theatre or museum.

Parents Please Note

STARTING TODAY SEPTEMBER 19TH, OUR MONDAY MEMO FOR PARENTS WILL NOT BE EMAILED TO OUR PARENTS. IT WILL BE POSTED AS ALWAYS ON THE ADMINISTRATION BLOG BY NOON.

September 19, 2011 AP Studio Art

This is a reference photo for one of the Juxtaposition compositions. Students have agreed that both the Melancholia/Toreador and Juxtaposition compositions will be completed and due on September 30. Most of the work to complete these compositions will be done outside of class time. The studio is open at 7:00am everyday and afterschool until 4:00 Monday and Tuesday.


This week we will spend the first 15 minutes of each class on gestural drawing exercises.
Students will spend the rest of the class period creating “image banks”. These “banks” will be used to develop our symbolic images for the Avant-Garde Abstraction as well as the area of concentration.

September 19, 2011 Grade 10

We had fun assembling the mobiles. They are now hanging in the art room.

Our students have each taken the persona of a master artist from the first half of the 19th century. They will research and share their work and discuss and debate the merits of each other’s works. They will conduct drawing experiments leading up to a landscape painting. Their work will be influenced by their master artist. They will gain a better understanding of the quote by Henri Matisse, “all art is based on other art”.

September 19, 2011 Grade 9

Grade nine students will continue to work in their sketchbooks. The will experiment with different surface treatments and complete a series of “studies” that will further develop their foundations skills for making art.