Major Assignments and Activities
Major assignments and activities are tailored each year to our students' areas of interest, as well as to where they've demonstrated a need for more growth and development. Below are some work samples that show the range of assignments and activities typically encountered in a year of High School Studio Art.
Sketchbook practice
Working from observation and imagination, students are encouraged to keep up a rigorous sketchbook practice
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"Sketchbooks. Make them a routine. Use them as therapy. Paint, draw, collage; Do whatever you want to do in them, and then share them... Bonus points for sharing your ENTIRE sketchbook. Vulnerability and empathy are key ingredients to being a great creative"
DRAWING Foundations
Value/tone shading in pencil, charcoal, chalk and pastel
Proportions of the human head and face
Proportions and anatomy of the human figure and animals
Perspective: one-point, two-point, isometric
Ink drawing with contour line, wash, hatching, layering, mark-making, etc.
Portraiture
Perspective Studies
Abstractions
Studies of hands and feet
Ink drawing
observational drawing Colored pencil
PAINTING Foundations
Color Theory
Introduction to water-based media: ink, watercolor, acrylic
Oil painting: monochromatic rub-out painting, layering, glazing, impasto, etc.
Materials and pigments of painting: history & chemistry
Assignments will vary from figurative to landscape to abstract subject matter.
Watercolor & ink
Oil Painting • self-portrait
acrylic paint & pastel
oil painting • Landscape
watercolor & ink
mixed media
THREE-DIMENSIONAL Art
Clay sculpture
Wood / Cardboard / Mixed Media
Site-Specific and Installation Art
Mixed Media sculpture
clay sculpture
Architectural sculpture
Ephemeral materials
Site-specific art
Site-specific (detail)
MIXED-MEDIA, PRINTMAKING and PHOTOGRAPHY
Collage and Photomontage
Etching, relief printing, monotype printing
Digital Photography
Experimental analog photographic processes
COLLAGE / PHOTOMONTAGE
PHOTOMONTAGE
RELEIF-PRINTing
