More Things and Other Happenings

Students are almost complete with uploading their work to Artsonia from the last project. Here are some more pieces from students from this week. 

Ella: My piece is made from pen, and wire. It came as a difficult art work to make, it was a struggle at first with many hard collaborations we went threw. But in the end I would take the head or cap of the pen and the bottom, and would take one of them and wrap in with wire, and wrap one piece at a time. But after lots of try I finally got good at it, and it started clicking. I used pens for this piece for my lost idem, because if you are me, you use a lot of pens and pencils. But my art is not only that, it is a necklace. I had gotten a idea, or something of the sorts from the artist Mr. Wayne Thiebaud he has uses very feminine, so he persuaded me to make jewelry, so i made a necklace that may be different from others. But its my own master piece.

Ethan: This is a picture of a house on a scenic plot of land, this is inspired from multiple techniques of graphite drawing. This piece puts great emphasis on the horizon, and orthogonal lines. The theme of this piece is Objects Artifacts, and Things left behind, this theme is represented mainly by the fact that the house is all alone, with multiple largely grown trees, and mountains.

Grant: I made this cake out of paint plaster, and foam on the inside. I chose the foam as a rough shape of what it was going to be like then, I covered it in plaster. When the plaster dried, I painted it.

Reagan: I made this artwork for this project because she is leaving behind the real world. The materials I used is, a drypoint print template, three picture from a history book and a steal point stylus. I made this kind of like the Artist Wayne Thiebaud.

Lily: In my photoshop piece, I decided to make a collage of different potato chips that I have designed myself. To keep a hint of texture, I used the quick selection tool to select the area with only the logo so I could keep the logo identical for every bag I created. Plus, I attempted to keep the idea of unity in mind and make sure their was a lot of variety in the space. The artist, Jim Dine does a great job at keeping the theme of objects and things left behind included in his piece. For example, he has a couple pieces where he uses different hammers in different colors and sizes.

In addition to finishing up this project, students got started on their next theme: We've Got Issues. Students brainstormed ideas around issues they would like to create work about before using PBS LearningMedia to inform their work. Student choices ranged in a variety of avenues from civil rights to animal cruelty to sports injuries to the recent attacks in Paris.

After settling on ideas and doing some research, students sketched out ideas and worked in table groups to pitch ideas and get feedback. It was fun to see conversations that resulted as students asked clarifying questions about the work and gave suggestions to make it stronger. Most students finished up their preliminary sketches today and will complete their work next week.

Students shared ideas and gave feedback through a critique process before conferencing with me and starting their final piece.

To finish out this week, the BCPS Visual Arts department worked together to create our Winter Show exhibit at the Van Singel Fine Arts Center. We will have our Artist Reception on Monday and I am very proud of the selection of work and am excited for many of those works who will proceed to compete at the Scholastic Art Awards later this month.