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More than a bowl of fruit!
A still life of objects is sat up of the students choosing. Some of the traditional objects used in still life paintings include a vase of flowers, a bowl of fruit, shoes, musical instruments, candlesticks and books. Younger students will want to limit their still life to objects. The student [...]
Hello Printmaking!
Art students explore a variety of simple printmaking techniques such as stamping, vegetable printing, Styrofoam prints, monoprinting, aluminum foil imaging and digital prints. Monoprinting is the most basic which can be as simple as a handprint. One way of making a monoprint is tape off the paper size on a table, paint within the [...]
Think Clay!
The student looked at and discussed images of the The Thinker by French sculptor Auguste Rodin. The student is asked to sit in a variety of poses that she sits in when she is deep in thought. While holding a pose she is asked to pay special attention to where her shoulders, elbows, [...]
Don’t Forget the Dots!
We looked at and discussed the Aboriginal art of Australia. We paid special attention to the use of dots in the aboriginal paintings by comparing and contrasting them to the paintings of the Pointillism painting style of Georges Seurat. The student selected an animal and drew it large and simplified. Then [...]