The most wonderful time of the year!

It seems like the art room is ALWAYS busy, but this time of year- it's even MORE busy! We are getting all of our art ready to upload to the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. Here is where you can login and learn more about this incredible nationwide award program that recognized students in the area of Visual Arts and Writing. Traditionally, submissions were due after the Christmas but this year they moved the submission date to December 15th. With that said, we have been busy photographing and uploading all of our submissions so that we have everything done on time! Here are just some of the submissions that are going in. We are hoping for some Gold and Silver Key winners this year!

Fingers crossed!

by Matt Gately

by Jessalyn Silveria

by Sara Francis

by Olivia Casey

By Bella Tocantins

by Rachel Nearis

by Alannah Allen

Fall Wrap up and Update

October is such an exciting month in the art room that it's hard to keep up with everything that is happening, while it's happening! I thought I would take a few minutes to post a round-up of October and fill everyone in on what is coming up!

Studio Art 1 has been hard at work since the beginning of the school year. Their first assignment was a collage piece that required them to learn about two very famous collage artists- Romare Bearden and Faith Ringgold. To see some of Bearden's work and learn a bit about him click: HERE.  To see some of Faith Ringgold's work and learn about her life click here: HERE Students enjoyed working in the medium of collage and were challenged by creating a work of art that needed to be a self portrait without drawing themselves or taking a photograph. Take a look at some of the creative works of art they produced!

Molly White

Ashley Sanchez

Kevin Plante

David SanPaolo

Students in my Studio 1 class have since moved on to learning about the color wheel, tinting and shading scales and are now finishing up their painting projects. I will be sure to post those next month when they are all completed! 

Drawing 1 students have been hard at work learning the basics looking and observing. We completed our unit on contour line, which teaches our students how to really look at what we are drawing. It is the difference between drawing what you actually see and drawing what you think you see. We talk a great deal about line quality in this unit. Contour line drawings are my favorite because the line is a very slow detailed line. It sometimes appears exaggerated and can be described as yarn-like. Take a look at the some of the amazing drawings from this unit.

Elizabeth Arias

Marisa Enes

Haley Blanchette

Haille Glaser

Jacqueline Wonson

Jessica Oliver

Kayla Saltonstall

Fulton Cunha

Julia Demarijan

Katey Latassa

Drawing 1 students have now moved on to learning about shading and how to use value. They all received a set of drawing pencils and will soon be working on how to make flat shapes look three dimensional with just a few pencils!

Stay tuned!