This week I helped kick off the Roots + Wings After-School Program at Vance! This week we explored the medium of Oil Pastels. Check out some of the “Free Drawings” students worked on after they finished their daily projects.
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Feb 12
Kandinsky’s Circles, R+W Enrichment @ The Carolina Day School
Students created drawings inspired by Wassily Kandinsky’s “Concentric Squares and Circles.”
See a Power Point of this lesson on Mrs.Brown’s Art Class.
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Feb 12
Flying Machines, R+W Enrichment @ The Carolina Day School
Students created these “Flying Machines” using collage and crayon. They drew their inspiration from planes, hot air balloons, rockets, and other machines.
Documents:
Flying Machines Lesson Plan
Flying Machines Rubric
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Aug 10
MassArt Summer Studios Exhibit
It has been a real pleasure working with this talented group of young artists over the past month. Here are some of the photographs of the work displayed in the exhibit.
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Aug 10
Andy Goldsworthy Installations, Summer Studios, MassArt
Students in the 2D/3D class at MassArt‘s Summer Studios program worked in small groups to create these installations in the Boston Fens. The pieces were inspired by the work of Andy Goldsworthy.
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Aug 10
Figure Drawing, Summer Studios, MassArt
Students in MassArt’s Summer Studios program created these figure drawings while working from a live model.
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Aug 10
Wire Figure, Summer Studios, MassArt
Students in MassArt’s Summer Studios 2D/3D course created these wire figures while working from a live model.
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Aug 10
50 Drawings Project
Students drew a single object 50 times experimenting with media and viewpoint.
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Aug 10
Chimeras
Students combined various animals to create their own mythical creatures out of clay.
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Jul 10
Andy Goldsworthy Installations, Creative Vacations, MassArt
Students in the Studio Explorations class at MassArt‘s Creative Vacation program worked in small groups to create these installations inspired by the work of Andy Goldsworthy in Boston’s Fens.
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Jul 10
Wire Contour Self-Portaits
Using observational drawings, students manipulated wire to create contour line self-portraits.
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Apr 10
Social Issue Collage, Lowell High School
After studying the work of Romare Bearden students created collages that addressed many of the social issues we are dealing with in America today.
Some of the issues addressed were: prescription drug abuse, war in the Middle East, the portrayal of women in the media, and the loss of childhood innocence
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Mar 10
Peter Max Figure, Drawing II, Lowell High School
Students spent several classes creating figure studies of other students playing Twister. They then incorporated one of their figures into their psychedelic artwork based on the work of Peter Max. To get into the “groove” we listened to music by: The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, The Grateful Dead, The Doors, and Jefferson Airplane.
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Jan 10
Still Lifes, Drawing I, Lowell High School
For the Still Life unit students in my Drawing I classes created a still-life a day, with each day being an introduction to a new media.
Some of the mediums we covered were: charcoal, sumi-ink, soft pastel, and graphite.
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Dec 09
Cubism and the Figure
This unit started with traditional figure drawing techniques, then students were asked to break the figure down to more basic forms using Cubism to convey an emotion.
Documents:
Cubism and the Figure Lesson Plan
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Nov 09
Shepard Fairey Inspired Self-Portrait
This sophomore wanted to create a self-portrait inspired by the work of Shepard Fairey. First he used a digital photograph to create several stencils. Then he used those stencils with spray paint to layer the image.
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Nov 09
MLK Jr. Group Drawing, Studio II, Lowell High School
Each student in my Studio II class was given a 1″x1″ black and white image to enlarge on a 4″x4″ square using colored tape. Unaware of the image as a whole, students had to consider scale, and positive and negative space to create their individual squares. Once each student had finished we pieced the mat board squares together to create this image of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Aug 09
Group Drawing, Summer Studios, MassArt
This group drawing was created using charcoal and a reference image from National Geographic during MassArt’s Summer Studios 2D/3D class.
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Apr 09
David Hockney Inspired Photomontages, Lowell High School
Students in my Dark Room Photography class went into color with this photomontage project.
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Apr 08
Paint for Peace
Students in my Drawing II classes worked on the “Paint for Peace” project which was started by Boston-based artist Robert Charles Guillemin, better know as Sidewalk Sam. The project which first started on the streets of Boston is aimed to promote peace, as well as to curb youth violence in the Boston area. My students worked together in small groups stenciling doves in front of each outside door of Lowell High School. Each dove has a purple banner underneath it which reads “Stop Violence-Create Peace.”
This project empowered students to create peace in our community while also adding to the aesthetic appeal of our campus.
Thank you to Sidewalk Sam, ArtStreet Inc., and the City of Lowell for enabling us to make this happen.
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Dec 07
Shibori Backdrop, Studio II, Lowell High School
Working with students and teachers in the disciplines of Dance and Studio Art in the Fine Arts Academy of Lowell High School, Lowell, MA, my Studio II students used the Japanese surface design technique of Shibori to create this backdrop for the Fall Dance Performance.
The concept behind the performance was “Color Theory.”
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Oct 07
Slow Shutter Dance, Lowell High School
Students in my Studio II class worked with students in the Dance I class to create these moving images. The Dance I students held Christmas lights while they danced and Studio II students snapped away capturing the images using a slow shutter speed.
The images were then printed and pieced together to create a mural in an empty store front in Downtown Lowell.
