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.

Grade 10, February 22-25, 2011

Self portraits are the challenge. We have used a grid to enlarge and transfer information about our images to the pastel paper. We have selected our colors and now... Grade ten is moving in on the features. They are looking closely in a mirror at the anatomy of their features and seeing what is really there as opposed to what they think is there. Watch out for "magnifying eyes".

Grade 8, February 22-25, 2011

Grade 8 students have gone through the steps of creating a composition from the under water- life elements they drew. Now they will add the tonal rendering and some colored pencil to introduce color to the values. Soon they will be ready to add their creative touch to the library coral reef mural.

Grade 10 - February 14 - 17, 2011

The second project in the portrait unit continues this week. Students are creating a self portrait using a grid much like Albrecht Durer used in 1550’s. They are working on tinted pastel papers with their choice of pastel pencils, Prisma colors, charcoal pencil or graphite