February 21, 2012 AP Art

While AP seniors work on their digital portfolios, Juniors will complete their second exercise in Painting as a Lanuage. They will begin planning four compositions in their area of concentration. They will also begin planning for their spring portfolio day March 23.

Students may wish to participate in the ABSH Art competition March 24.

February 21, 2012 Grade 10

Pigasso's Friends are beginning to express themselves. Some interesting things are happening in the Pig Pen. This week more embellishments will be added to these bright young pigs, all of which would no doubt would be admitted to Hogwarts, Hogvard, Pigston, or other fine institutions of higher learning.

February 21, 2012 Grade 9

Grade 10 students will continue their weaving unit. We will look at a variety of "vessels" and explore their significance in the history of art making and how this is expressed in contemporary art forms.

Students will begin experimenting with ways to use the weavers they made last week. They will look for natural and man-made materials that express a theme or concept to use in their weaving construction.

February 13, 2012 Grade 10

Grade 10 students are ready to embellish their "pig" form. They have looked at installations from around the world of decorated fiberglass forms from the Cow Parade. They have also looked at the Cincinatti Pig Gig and the Sante Fe Trail of the Painted Ponies. Now they are ready to decorate their pig for the Discovery School Pigasso and Friends Exhibit. The pigs are primed with white latex paint and are awaiting their artists in the "pigpen".

February 13, 2012 - AP Art

This week AP students will continue working on the Language of Painting exercise #2. They will also complete several short exercises. They will do some expressive drawing exercises using the pencil.

February 13, 2012 Grade 9

Grade 9 students have begun a weaving project. They are forming a basket from heavy brown paper. The first steps involve losts of measuring, cutting and folding before they can begin the weaving process. One of the challenges of this project is to be able to read and follow multi-step directions.

February 6, 2012 AP Art

Students completed their compositions based on Picasso's Three Muscians last week.
AP students will begin the second exercise from Painting as a Language. They will “layer languages”by creating a drawing or painting that borrows or addresses the language of another nonart discipline. This composition is due Friday February 10.