Custom Skateboard Design

Level 12 started the year with the basics - elements and principles of design. In order to create high quality art, we need to have an understanding of color, line, shape, scale, space, texture and value which are fundamental pieces that make up any piece of work. Students were asked to use their previous knowledge of the elements and principles of art to design their own skateboard. It was fun to see all their unique designs on paper. The goal was to create a stunning, visually appealing design, that will pop out in a skate shop. Which design/skateboard would you buy?

Learning about Mondrian

In art class, students started learning about lines and primary colors. The importance of these elements of art is best demonstrated through the art of Piet Mondrian. 

Piet Mondrian, is best known for his paintings from the 1920s, where he reduced the shapes to lines and rectangles and his palette to fundamental basics pushing past references to the outside world toward pure abstraction. His use of asymmetrical balance and a simplified pictorial vocabulary were crucial in the development of modern art, and his iconic abstract works remain influential in design and familiar in popular culture to this day. Find out more about Mondrian here: http://www.theartstory.org/artist-mondrian-piet.htm

Level 3 and 4 Painting to Music

As students from Level 5, I asked preschoolers too, to listen to music carefully and find if some tones remind them of any color. I asked them to try to connect the sounds they hear with color, shape, hand movement.... They came up with some interesting interpretations. 

Kindergarten Painting to Music

Music helps us be calm, move, dance, think, feel....In art class students painted to music, following the rhythm and sounds, students choose their colors, hand movements and shapes.... They created some interesting art interpretations!

 

Light Drawing Photography

Light painting is an imaging technique that uses a moving light source to add light to an under-illuminated subject while taking a long-exposure photograph. We turned the art room in a "dark room" and started experimenting with exposure and shutter speed. Hope you like our experiments with our brand-new school camera :)

Team Work!

In this art activity, students drew each other using pastels and then painted the overlapping figures with watercolors. An important part of working in a team is to help, share, accept differences, resolve a problem together.... it was a fun and creative way to start the school year in art class!

Wet Felting

Art with a Voice

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High School Students Take a Stand

We all know how important part of our lives art is. Art is beautifying our surroundings, art keeps us linked to our inner self, art helps us express emotions and ideas. However, art is not just about beauty and aesthetic pleasure. More than any other art form, contemporary art has the power to provoke dialogue, deep and critical thinking, provoke questioning and empathy. Highs school students were asked to choose a topic that it’s important to them and make a statement using any art medium or form. 

They had to do few steps to finish the whole project. Brainstorm ideas, make sketches, choose topics that are important to them, research, find different viewpoints in the same subject and finally choose the best medium/art material to visualize that concept. They all had different subjects that took their interest. I found out that they are occupied with important social questions like feminism, environment sustainability, marketing and fashion, politics... I was impressed by their higher order thinking skills. Take a look of their artworks and presentations.