Winter 2015-2016 Papier Mache Mythic Creatures
Students built paper mache sculptures of mythic animals. Starting with chicken wire, they built armature to represent the mass and then covered it with paper mache in strip and pulp form. They finished their creatures with paint and textures. Each student wrote a myth or "creature origin story" to explain their animals.
Color and Painting Spring 2015
To learn about color and painting, students created an acrylic painting with three distinct steps. using a composition created by fragmenting a series of drawing in a cubist fashion, students explored complementary and analogous color wheel relationships in step one. For step two, students learned how to "glaze", or paint thin, transparent layers, to alter and deepen color. In step three, using 20th century painters as a model, students experimented with thick "all prima" paint and wet-into-wet processes, as they "found" an image.
Altered Book Fall-Winter 2014-2015
Because of a generous donation from Sterling Publishers, ISA students were able to make altered book as a 3-D paper engineering project. Students were required to physically change the book's shape in some manner, so that the book's "content" became it's form.
(Because it was impossible to display all students' work, a representative sampling of work by students with media waivers was selected.)
(Because it was impossible to display all students' work, a representative sampling of work by students with media waivers was selected.)
Fall 2014 Accordion Fold Name Design Books
Students created a four page accordion artist's book. Each page uses cut paper squares and strips to illustrate a principle of design; together, they spell out the students' names. (Please note that if your son or daughter did not turn in a media waiver, his or her work can not be posted.)
2014 Cubist Painting Compositions
Students created cubist compositions by overlapping and fragmenting drawings they had made from observation. They transferred these to canvas board, and, with acrylic paint, then used a limited palette of complementary colors, a gradient between, and an analogous chord for each color to fill the shapes, creating a puzzle-like composition. They then applied washes of translucent color, known as "glazing" to develop the composition by modifying the color, intentionally dulling some areas, and making other more fully saturated. Finally, after an appreciation of modernist abstract expressionist painters, they employed alla prima, or wet-into-wet, thicker paint, with pronounced brushstrokes, to develop a final image with an implied narrative or mood.
These composite images should each of the three stages of the paintings done during this unit. Please note that if a student has not turn in a media waiver, his or her work can not be posted.
These composite images should each of the three stages of the paintings done during this unit. Please note that if a student has not turn in a media waiver, his or her work can not be posted.
2013-2014 Chairs
Students used paper engineering processes to build three dimensional models of chairs. The chairs used historical images as inspiration for unique interpretations of this standard piece of furniture. Please note that if your son or daughter did not turn in a media waiver, his or her work can not be posted.)