Beginning Art Students created their first acrylic painting in monochrome to practice observing value. Using the grid method, they drew their image from a photo then painted their animal using black, white, and a color of their choice.
Students took photos inspired by the Fall season.
Art 1 and 2 students were challenged to create large pencil drawn portraits of a person of their choice. They used the grid method to recreate the images from photos in order to practice their observation skills. Students used a variety of pencils and blending tools to create a range of values in their portraits.
Art 1 students learned techniques to create depth in drawings. Students created pencil drawings from their imagination that show depth. Students used a variety of pencils and blending tools to create a range of values in their drawings.
Senior K. Guse and Sophomore E. Williams jointly won an art competition sponsored by Hungerford Nichols in St. Joseph, MI. The students created paintings inspired by the theme of “Change.”
Beginning Art students created animal “paintings” using cut-paper from magazines.
Acrylic and Watercolor paintings by K. Guse, T Kirk, L. Melton, and S. Thompson.
Pencil drawing by senior M. Ales.
Students composed photos inspired by Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills.
Students practiced digital drawing from scratch on drawing tablets.
Beginning students tried out printmaking for the first time. They created 3 inch by 3 inch linocut prints.
Art Appreciation students (Lake Michigan College) took a class trip to the Krasl Art Center in St. Joseph to view the sculpture garden and the current exhibition by the American Society of Marine Artists.
Senior M. Granzow and Freshman E. Lawrence jointly won an art competition sponsored by Hungerford Nichols in St. Joseph, MI. The students created paintings inspired by the theme of “Connection.”
Senior M. Granzow was accepted to the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art and Design! This university is ranked as the 1st best public university to study art in the USA in 2021 by USNews.com.
Student photography
Students created Land Art inspired by the contemporary artist Andy Goldsworthy.
Students created watercolor paintings inspired by flowers and plants that hold a special or symbolic meaning to them.
Inspired by the American artist Bob Ross, students used acrylic paint to create landscape paintings using Ross’s wet-on-wet painting technique.
To practice working with acrylic paint, students created a gradient background by mixing paint directly on the paper. After the background dried, students added a silhouette using black paint.
For our first project of the 2020-2021 school year, students created perspective drawings. These valuable skills of creating depth and perspective will be used throughout the school year in our other projects.
