Self-Portrait Collages in Art 1

Art 1 did a great job on these self-portraits. Working from a picture that was posterized in Photoshop to separate the values of the face into distinct shapes as their template, students used patterned and hand made papers to create these fun self portraits! The results were really fun. Next year I might steer away from the handmade papers with fiber as they were really hard to cut with exacto knives for the smaller shapes!
Enjoy!

Alex

Alisa

Allie

Carly

Carolyn

Cassie

David

Emily

Ethan

Harry

Isaac

Jett

Jimmy

Marley

Matt

Nadia

Olivia

Peyton

Polina

Shane

Shuyu

Skylar

Victoria

Will

Yiran

Zoe

Selection from this year's AP Concentrations

We've had a busy few months around here! My students in AP Studio Art turned in their AP portfolios on May 11th. This was a culmination of 2 years work- they used pieces for their "Breadth" section from projects we did the fall semester and also from their junior year in Art 3. Spring semester was spent working on their concentrations- 12 pieces following a theme of their choosing.

Enjoy a selection of pieces giving a glimpse into their very different work!

Natalie's Concentration was about "Hiding"

Lindsay did a series of Self-Portraits for her Concentration

So did Marjorie!

Marlee had a great concentration that told the story of a personal journey- she has a great illustrative style.

Shae did a concentration about all the places she considers "Home"

Kyla had a powerful concentration on different emotions

Crystal's concentration examined boyhood

Yana's concentration focused on the figure. 

Illustrated Cubes in Art 1

Art 1 was exploring different mark-making techniques with pen and ink. They made a cube and then illustrated all sides with a different mark making technique . The cubes all had a cohesive theme. The themes were all so different! It was really fun to make a drawing turning into a 3-D object.

Erik's awesome illustrated skull

Aspen, our visiting student from China drew these beautiful scenes of Native American life he learned about visiting the area.

Carolyn's birthday cube

Emily's cube was a recipe for chocolate chip cookies!

Ethan's cube was about different modes of transportation

Fall themed cubes were big!

as were Halloween themed ones!

Kevin illustrated different details of vintage cars

Shuyu's piece had hands and bubbles..

Ryan's sport-themed cube

Experiments with Pinhole Cameras

I attended a really interested workshop at the Massachusetts Art Educators Association Conference in November on creating pinhole cameras from discarded soda cans.  I have always been interested in making these with students but wrongly assumed I needed a darkroom to develop the images.

Instead , students loaded the cameras with light sensitive paper and set them out for a minimum of 3 days. We ‘exposed’ them by scanning them and inverting the images in Photoshop. The bright arc of light you see in some of the images is the path of the sun over several days!!

We created a makeshift 'darkroom' with a stool and some industrial size garbage bags over them. We used a red led light strip inside so we could see what we were doing when we loaded the cameras with the light sensitive paper.

My Digital Photography students all made a pinhole camera, but some students in other classes were curious and made them too.

Enjoy!