Gouache Paintings inspired by Vintage Travel Posters

In Honors Art 3 we looked at vintage travel posters for inspiration for our first project of the semester. Students brainstormed ideas of places they have visited or want to visit and came up with imagery that represented it. They played around with different compositions and ideas for illustrative styles (graphic, painterly) and colors schemes and then set out to work creating their own pieces.

 It was so fun seeing the wide range of approaches and places they depicted!

by Allie

by Allison

by Anika

by Cate

by Clara

by Grace

by Jillian

by Lauren

by Michelle

by Renee

They were so fun! I loved this project, it was so fun to start off the year with this.

Robert Longo Inspired Gesture Drawings

I always like to start off my AP/Art 4 Class with gesture drawing, and this year we decided to try something new. Inspired by Robert Longo's series "Men in Cities" series done in 1979-81 we set up  our photo session outside on a beautiful day. Longo used to throw things at his models to get their reactive gestures, we decided to so the same with beach balls, nerf balls and pool noodles.

From Robert Longo's "Men in Cities" series, 1980

We photographed some pretty amazing gestures!

Group Picture!

We made the drawings big! They look amazing in the hallway right now.

Yana's Drawing of Kyla

Shae's drawing in progress- the texture and details are amazing!

Natalie's self-Portrait

Marjorie is working on a portrait of Lindsay

Beautiful gesture here, by Marlee

Kyla's Self-Portrait

Lindsay's Self-Portrait

Gabi's drawing of Saman- in progress.

Crystal's Self-Portrait!

I love how they all hang together in the hall!