Illustration

Students create charcoal face portraits.  Students use grids to enlarge photographs.  Using the techniques they learn in class, students demonstrate the power of darks and lights to create form and shape.

Chalk Pastels

Students learn the techniques to use chalk pastels.  They create a scene that shows light as a powerful element of art.

Triptych

Students learned the history of triptychs as an art form and the newest graphic design story board techniques. Triptychs consist of three separate illustration boards. Each board is an individual illustration that is part of a 3-part story presented through the triptych.  Students used x acto knives to cut out foreground and place colored paper behind the cut paper.

Hidden Object Illusion

Students create a hidden object with their oil pastel blending techniques.  Elements and principles used were line, shape, form and color.

Color Theory

Students create a color grid with their own individual design.  They must create a grid using 16 squares. Each square represents a color on the color wheel.  For instance, red, red-orange, green, green-blue, etc. Students learn how to mix and apply tints and shades using paint.

Wood Sculpture

Students were given odd shaped wood pieces and instructed to create an abstract tower with a theme.

Mosaic

After learning the history about mosaics and their use as an art form, students create a scene or image using mosaic pieces.

3-D Letters

Students studied the importance of using lines as a way to make standard two dimensional letters into 3D.

3-D Figure Art

Beginning with a wire frame, then adding newspaper and plaster, students created a three dimensional figure. The main student aim was to focus on movement.

Scratch Art

Students learned about positive an negative space and how to include the element of balance.  Students scratched out the positive space of the of their clay scratch boards using various line thickness and weighs.