Senior HIgh

Photos 2021-2022

Still Life Drawing

Working on the RIGHT side of the Brain. Here is a really great exercise in approaching drawing/painting that forces you to ‘let go’. It enables artists to carefully observe, rather than draw what they think the subject 'should' look like.

We start with a really blurry photo, it is also upside down. The photo gets more clear every 10 minutes with 6 stages. This enables artists to simplify values and colour into simple shapes. This is also practice for drawing from life and using sighting techniques. The students needed a lot of encouragement to focus on the process and not the end result. This was a first for many of the students and they asked to try another, which I will arrange for a later date.

The Start

There were 6x slides in the series

The End

Students had 10 minutes per slide.

Results from Right Side of the Brain Drawing Exercise

Another Attempt at the blurry Photo Exercise

We have quite the mix of mediums happening right now with Textiles, Painting, Printing, Sculptures and Pottery.

Today, I brought in live Sunflowers for our warm up-still life study.

A few senior high students working on Posters for the Volley Ball teams.

A fun workshop day playing with powdered watercolour paints.

Antlers and skulls for our still life warm ups this week

Gesture Drawing: Learning to draw the human figure in motion, getting comfortable with being less concerned with detail and more in tune with expressing and creating an impression or feeling.