Creative arts classes currently are sharpening drawing skills. We have been working on still life. Monday I brought magnolia branches to practice on. They did GREAT! I was really proud of all of them.

Red, White, & Blue by Georgia O’Keefe

Love this project inspired by one of my all time favorite women artists, Georgia O’ Keefe.

 

I started out leading the kids in a guided drawing using the  document camera.  We got the basic  ORGANIC shape and then they used charcoal and chalk to add value and color.

Angela Davis

 John Gabbard

 

 Sierra Nolan

 

  April Morgan Lucas Hansman

 Billy Neeley

 

  Shelby Dezarn

 Brittany Lyons

 

 

My beginning art classes are called Creative Art. They recently did a project that was inspired by the pointillism of Georges Seurat. The millions of little dots he painted with have always fascinated me.  Here is a link that will give more information on the artist.

Seurat

And you can see one of his more famous works here….

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/51.112.6

I have a few of their works in progress and will post the finished ones later on. They were given a suggestion to do something from nature but I told them they were free to choose any subject, therefore we got the occasional cartoon character. I really do not mind that when they work really hard as most of them did. I have several of these hanging in the hall in front of the art room.

Portraits were done by senior painting students using the grid method for drawing and then painted with a value scale in blacks, grays, and whites.