SO MUCH YOUNG & FRESH TALENT

1 POINT PERSPECTIVE BOX CONSTRUCTIONS

INTERMEDIATE 2-D ART

graphite on bristol board with watercolor & paper collage accents

It is such a pleasure for me to show off the incredibly gifted art talents in my 2nd year 2-D class.

Two of these three senior girls are off to our top art school in the country,

Art Center of Design in Pasadena.

All 3 girls went so far over their minimum requirements for this assignment.

I love when the kids push themselves so.

The minimum was a 3 box construction in graphite with a light source and cast shadows.

Let's see what they did.

We start with Sarah Oh,

bringing in her distinctive cats and fish that are present in many of her pieces.

She balances the piece thru Approximate Symmetry and by watercoloring only the cats.

Sarah has also brought in the prefect amount of pen & ink on the cats.

Bravo young woman!

A truly complex piece.

Tiffany Chen creates this magical wonderland,

and moves your eye diagonally thru the work which the eye loves.

I also like the linear repeated texture she has brought into the upper left corner 

that helps to balance out the horned creature.

But the piece that really did it for me was this last one by Mary Kim,

and her 1-point ship.

That alone must have taken her hours,

but it was the paper collage that brought it to life.

She went thru my scrap paper drawer and found this discarded paper towel tye-dye piece. 

She masterfully ripped it into many pieces 

then patiently collaged it back together around the ship.

Also love how she pushed a couple of pieces outside the borderline.

Brilliant work Mary!

WORKING OUTSIDE THE BOX

SLAB BOXES

CERAMICS I

clay, oxides and glazes

Traditional slab boxes can be pretty boring 

so let's see what these kids have done to hold our attention.

Senior Avanthi Dev created a cool ball sculpture on top of her lid that slides down the walls.

Now that catches my eye as does the way she glazed her piece.

Senior Lauren Kennedy carved out the tip top of her lid and added balls down the side of her pyramid which gets me at first,

but it's her glaze finish that really holds my eye.

First it looks like she used white clay disks on the sides of pot that look like moons,

had the box bisque fired,

and then she put her glaze on and brushed Red Iron Oxide over top for a really atmospheric look.

Love it!

Junior Vincent Nguyen shaped his box like a flower (very difficult to do),

and then carved out the top area to melt glass shards into for the final glaze firing.

Striking Vincent!

And love the blue glaze on the inside as well.

Next up is senior Eunice Shim.

She created a very complex slab using our red & white clay in a checkerboard pattern

even before she began her box.

So much extra effort and time.

When the kids do something that extra special I always give them a few extra credit points 

because they've exceeded the minimum requirements by a lot.

Also check out the inside bottom and see the script she has collaged down. 

This next one by senior Sarah Oh made everyone smile,

and the eyes she collaged down after the glaze fire were so realistic.

Here is the inside.

I like how she overlapped a few of our glazes to vary the colors inside yet they still feel unified.

 Here we have  senior Sahil Doshi & junior Renee Lin

Both pieces are glazed so beautifully that they stand on their own with no gimmicks.

One of my favorites was made by junior Simran Doshi.

I was really impressed that she thought to have her box open in several sections.

Here we see how it works.

So cool Simi!!

I also enjoy the contrast between your light glaze on the outside and dark on the inside.

Next up is superstar senior Ashley Iseri.

The clay not only loves her but apparently I learned by reading the text on her box here

 that she is an outstanding ball player as well.

Not the melted clear glass shards on top where she carved away an area for them?

So this box is a self-portrait of the young star.

Clever idea Ashley,

and we are very proud that you played for our school "The Wildcats".

According to her box she is off to play for the University of Hawaii Pacific 

this her Freshman year.

We end once again with sophomore Olivia Krueger

 because of  her remarkable "outside of the box" critical thinking skills.

Love, love , LOVE the hand morphing from the box!

And the lovely glaze & oxide application she did.

This is our Tan glaze with Rutile oxide brushed over top.

Also note the locking lid design along her side walls.

WHAT'S LURKING IN THE SHADOWS

SHAPES OF SHADOWS

INTERMEDIATE 2-D ART

India ink on Bristol Board with watercolor & collage accents

This post is dedicated to my fabulous 7th period T.A.,

 senior Deborah Harris.

She was good enough to pose for my 2nd year 2-D kids when we needed a model.

I put her under one hot light,

closed the other lights in my room,

 and she had to sit perfectly still for an hour each day

while the students drew ONLY the shapes of the cast shadows they saw on her face.

This assignment was a great challenge for them in proportions and right brain drawing skills.

Let's see how they captured her.

This first portrait was done by junior Samantha Tun

We all loved what she did with the border and framing of the drawing.

How she brought in watercolor in a playful way,

including bringing it into her portrait.

Way to go Sam!

Senior Eileen Lee chose a different point of view then Sam's Frontal.  

She is working with Deb's 3/4 View.

The kid's were allowed to draw in pencil first. 

 Then to come back with India Ink to outline and paint in the portrait.

Then somewhere in the work they either had to bring in watercolor or paper collage accents.

In this close up above we see that Eileen has brought in both watercolor and collage 

for a very cool watery look.

And then senior Ayesha Durrani also drew Deb in 3/4View

with another really involved backdrop.

She created watercolor puddles using a wet into wet technique,

let those dry,

then came into them with a white marker pen.

She also used her thin marker to do a bit of linear additions to make them feel like they connected.

Brilliant idea Ayesha!

Two different closeups.

So sensory!

I also appreciate how she brought the blue and purple watercolor into her portrait to tie it all together.

Bravo young ones!!