October 4, 2011 Grade 9,10 and AP Art - Opera to Picasso

Richard Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, Sets by David Hockney

This week grades 9, 10 and AP will have the opportunity to attend the opera and an exhibit of works of art by Pablo Picasso. In preparation for both of these events we will devote class time this week to taking a look at contemporary set and costume design by David Hockney and Salvador Dali.

October 4, 2011 AP Art

AP students are putting finishing touches to their two major projects that are now due October 4. They have begun developing an area of concentration for their AP portfolio. We spent one day last week experimenting with water color techniques. We will spend studio time this week on the principles of figure drawing.

October 4, 2011 Grade 10

Grade 10 students have looked at Western Art from 1800-1870. They spent some time making “mind maps” of the art-facts they haved learned. They started experiments with materials and techniques after looking at the Constable, Turner, Monet and Van Gogh “skies”. Their goal is a landscape composition emphasizing “sky”. They will be using, water color, dry and oil pastels, water color pencils and liquid water colors.

October 4, 2011 Grade 9

Grade 9 students are continuing experiments in tonal rendering. They are working to take command of the pencil! They have taken on the GIANT PASTAS! They created miniature still life compositions from different shaped pastas and are now enlarging them and drawing them using a variety of drawing techniques.

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.