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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.
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
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
Portraiture
Perspective Studies
Perspective Studies
Abstractions
Abstractions
Studies of hands and feet
Studies of hands and feet
Ink drawing
Ink drawing
observational drawing Colored pencil
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
Watercolor & ink
Oil Painting • self-portrait
Oil Painting • self-portrait
acrylic paint & pastel
acrylic paint & pastel
oil painting • Landscape
oil painting • Landscape
watercolor & ink
watercolor & ink
mixed media
mixed media
THREE-DIMENSIONAL Art
Clay sculpture
Wood / Cardboard / Mixed Media
Site-Specific and Installation Art
Mixed Media sculpture
Mixed Media sculpture
clay sculpture
clay sculpture
Architectural sculpture
Architectural sculpture
Ephemeral materials
Ephemeral materials
Site-specific art
Site-specific art
Site-specific (detail)
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
PHOTOMONTAGE
RELEIF-PRINTing
RELEIF-PRINTing
Etching
Etching
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