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GLUELINE PORTRAITS

BEGINNING 2-D ART

glue bottles and oil pastels

One of my favorite assignments to do with the beginning drawing students are these Glueline Portraits.

It forces the kids to abstract their subjects whether they want to or not.

That's because they have to draw their model with the spout of a glue bottle.

And you can't erase glue.  

Ha ha

We let the glue dry for 24 hours then come back into the piece with oil pastels.

FUN, FUN, FUN!!!!!!!!!!!

Let's take a look.

Superstar junior Jane Juan did these first two (one for extra credit)

Her model on the one above was junior Kyla Balquin,

and on the one below senior Suha Malif.

Everyone was so blown away by both her pieces including me!

Brilliant designs and colorwork Jane.

This next beauty was done by junior Hapshiba Kwon of 8th grader Olivia Krueger.

Not only did she draw flowers in her design,

 but she also attached silk flowers around her edges for additional pop.

Senior Karisma Dev created this very clever work with senior Yasmeen Pardo as her model.

She bordered with an additional piece of paper that she brunt the edges on, 

and on the other side she opened up ketchup cups from McDonalds and smashed them down.

But my favorite part is how she put a censored label over Yasmeen's mouth.

Hummm,

 I wonder why that is Yasmeen 

 LOL

Up and coming star 8th grader Sara Ryave used junior Christopher Wongsavanh as her model.

I think it's so cool how she thought to bring in text into her work,

 and how she  also used the glue spout to create texture in her background.

And her use of color is quite striking as well.

Another talented 8th grader is Olivia Krueger.

I adore her portrait of junior Hapshiba Kwon.

Love the cracked face, 

the lace collar, 

and that gorgeous purple she used for the hair.

Probably your most important piece of the year Olivia!

Junior Katherine Ku went all out on her portrait of junior Jamie Rivas.

She really captured this young man's fastidiousness in dress and appearance.

I also really feel her color choices were spot on.

Besides abstracting with the glue spout, 

I encouraged the kids to abstract thru color, 

distortion and exaggeration.

Here is junior Bernice Lin's portrait of junior Hazel Cruz.

Again we see beautiful color choices, 

and exaggeration

 which makes this such a powerful piece.

Junior Jimmy Hwang turned 8th grader Rochelle Serrano into a fortune teller.

Clever young man!

And lastly we have junior Charity Lazardo's interpretation of senior Suha Malif.

Notice the strong diagonal movement she has created in her design.

Very appealing to the eye,

along with her mainly secondary color scheme.

I hope you've enjoyed seeing these remarkable pieces 

as much as I enjoyed watching the kids create them.

Abstraction at it's Best

GLUELINE PORTRAITS

BEGINNING 2-D ART

oil pastel on black construction paper

Probably one of the funnest assignments all year are these abstracted portraits that the kids do of each other.

They use the same partners as they did in their Before and After Portraits so they are very familiar with each other's faces.

I give them a bottle of glue to draw with, no pencils allowed.

This way the portrait is abstracted from the very get go.We talk about abstracting the face thru simplifying, distortion and exaggeration.

And the abstraction can occur in the drawing or pasteling phase or both.

The results are always electrifying! 

Above we have senior YooBin Han's interpretation of 8th grader Nari Park.

Here junior Michael Cantu has captured junior Zoe Lin.

Senior Catherine Chiou has nailed senior Alex Arias.

And vis-a-versa.  LOL

And lastly we have Nari's portrait of Yoo Bin.

It's remarkable the results you can achieve with glue and oil pastel!

Glueline Portraits - Student Work

My Beginning 2-D art students did a fantastic job with these abstract portraits.  After we covered our realism unit, we discussed and saw examples of abstraction.  They were paired up with other and took turns drawing one another with a glue bottle.  They had a choice between Tacky or Elmer's glue (they all experimented first to decide which glue they liked the best).  Glue as a drawing tool has a tendency to right off the bat abstract an image.  They also had the choice to draw each other in profile, 3/4 or frontal view.  They were encouraged to exaggerate and distort features but in the end, the piece still needed to resemble their subject.  The glue needs to dry for 24 hours then they started with oil pastel (we worked on black construction paper).  Again they were asked to abstract the colors, and to include a wide range of value in both subject and background.  These were a few of the many outstanding pieces done.  

Junior Cathy Luo, an up and coming art superstar, drew a remarkable likeness of junior Alex Rendon.  Notice the complimentary color scheme of yellow and purples she's using for a powerful piece.

Junior Hannah Hwang, a very talented young artist who takes direction like a dream, worked with 8th grader Nathan Lam.  Again, she nailed him using a another complimentary set, red and green.  Hannah, come back to me next year, please!!!!  LOL

Super gifted artist, senior Alice Zhang, really gave us a great backdrop in addition to her portrait of senior Sally Choi.  What is noteworthy here is that we studied color schemes in the beginning of the year, and so far each of these children have used them in their color choices, and I didn't even require it.  I'm wondering if they did it subconsciously or on purpose.  Feedback please young ones.  Alice here used a primary color scheme of red, yellow and blues.

Next we have another talented up and coming young art, junior Deena Younan.  she worked with sophomore Jovani Garcia, and did such a great job capturing his likeness.  Love how she changed up the format and worked within a circle.

What I did require of the young ones was to try an capture an expressive quality in their subjects.  I feel like junior Arim Han really did this with her subject, junior Justin Hwang.   

And then we have award winning artist senior Sheila San Agustin working with senior Louis Manuel.  Love how she used an "S" curve to create movement as she drew his body.  Clever designer!

Even though senior Ashley Chowdhury chose to really abstract junior Judy Shih's facial features, I can still tell it's Judy because of how Ashley captured Judy's hair style.  Love the backdrop you put in Ashley.  Wonderfully playful piece!

Now here is senior Eddie Ponce's take on 8th graders Annie Oh.  Again, check out his effective use of color; a secondary color scheme of orange, green and purple.  Nathan will be coming back to me, he has tremendous talent for one so young.

And I wanted to end with one of my favorites, yeah, yeah, I know, I'm not supposed to pick favorites, but I do, got to be honest.  This exceptional work was done by junior Anne Allen, a super talented young artist on her way up.  Anne included so much interest in her backdrop to give us a very thought provoking piece.  Her subject was sophomore Matthew Chou, who loved the piece Anne did of him.  So much fun Anne, thank you for always giving me everything you've got and more!

Glueline Portraits - Student Work

In 4th quarter Beginning 2-d Art, my students are introduced to a wide range of color media.  They learn to work with both water and oil based pastels.  In this Glueline assignment I partner them back up with their Before/After partners that they drew so realistically in 3rd quarter.  But this time I ask them to abstract each other thru exaggeration, distortion, simplification and thru color.  But at the same time I still have to be able to recognize the subject.  A very good challenge for them at this point of the year.  The results are often spectacular.

Above we have sophomore Megan Yeu drawing junior Corrine Marcus.

To begin work on these pieces I ask the kids to draw each other with a glueline from either an Elmer's Or Tacky glue bottle.  They make a preliminary piece first to decide which glue they like better.  They also practice starting and stopping their lines.  We let the glue set for 24 hours then the next day they use oil pastels to color the piece in with.  Another choice they have to make is whether they pastel over the glueline or do they stop when they reach the line.  Two very different looks.

Above we have Corrine doing Megan in this very expressive work.

I really like how senior Emily He off-centered her piece of junior Sabrina Velasco, and senior Joan Kim's interpretation of senior Dustin Lee is terrific.  

Senior Victoria Wang is showing sophomore Courtney Soung what she'd look like without hair, and senior and Valedictorian Michelle Chang is emphasiing senior Carolina Navor's beautiful eyelashes.

And our very talented senior William Luo is giving junior Halah Eslsahhar a striking, expressive mood in this last work.

Glueline Oil Pastel Portraits - Student Work

One of my favorite assignments for my Beginning 2-D students are these abstract portraits that the kids draw of each other.  I give them a glue bottle to draw with, and I ask them to try and capture some likeness to original but at the same time, go crazy, be playful and add things to help exaggerate and distort the piece.    The glue lines set up boundaries, so that when the glue is dry, oil pastel can be added over top.  This powerful portrait above was done of junior Gary Fong by junior Michelle Lee.  And below senior Karen Pan did the face of senior Alex Park.  Really well done Karen!

Senior Marivel Aquirre did the fun portrait above of senior Wendy Garcia, and below junior Jhuvin Palaganas was done by senior Jennifer Park.  Very clever piece Jen.

Above very talented senior Rachel Kim drew and pasteled junior Catherine Qain for a very lovely piece.  And below sophomore Ashley Tang did the wonderful portrait below of junior Sandra Cruz.

The lastly we have the work of junior Crislyn Ogawa who worked with senior Michelle Guan below.

It's always a pleasure to show these pieces off, and to see how playful these kids can be.  Great work all of you!

Glueline Portraits - Student Art

I love this assignment because the kids get to be playful and loose after working so tightly during the drawing unit. I partner them with each other and ask them to draw one another with the tip of a glue bottle. This abstracts the piece right off the bat, which is one of their requirements. After the glues dries they come back in with oil pastel. I encourage them to abstract the face and hair color with the pastels, as well as put in as much range of value as possible. I also ask that they fill in the background with something fun. So these are the results. The top piece was done by senior Sonya Liu of 8th grader Jarick Simbol. And the one below was created by senior Jodon Gonzalez of senior Melissa Panganiban.

This next one above was done by junior Paul Kim of junior Betty Tong, and the one below belongs to Betty who of course then did Paul. It's so cool to see the different interpretations.

The above one was created by senior Jeremy Chung of senior Heather Shim, and then below, senior Alma Gudino drew senior Akash Baheti.

And lastly we have senior Brian Choi working with senior Nandini Kannan. These are all kids from the previous school year. It will be a few weeks before I start posting this years students.

Annual Open House Art Show and Sale - Student Art

The room is ready to go with another amazing display of student art for viewing and sale. We have over a 1000 pieces up ready for you to see. Please feel free to drop in at any time during the day from 8 to 3 starting April 20th running thru the first week in May. Open House Nite is on April 22 from 6 to 7:30. Would love for you to come and enjoy what the kids have accomplished this year. So many remarkable pieces. It just gets better every year. And thank you for all your love and support over the years! This piece was done by senior Hannah Chung at the end of last school year when she was in my Beginning 2-d Art class, and was drawn in Elmer's glue and then oil pasteled in after the glue was dry. The students used each other for models and were learning to abstract through exagerationa and distortion. Hannah's model was senior Mindy Cho.