Art Concepts Gallery : Mission Oak High School
A picture is a poem without words.
Horace
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way -
things I had no words for.
Georgia O'Keeffe
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| Word Value Portrait by Nicole Cota |
Ceramics
Student
in Semester 1 ceramics are learning a variety of handbuilding
techniques and applying these to different creative projects. Students
repeating the class have the opportunity to do advanced work on the
potter's wheel. The class teaches skill building and progressively more
sophisticated application skills.
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| Valeria working the creative process |
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Michelangelo
Art Concepts
Students
are using contour line drawing to improve their power of observation,
which is foundational to all representational drawing and painting.
Students draw five life size hands and arrange them using shape, size
color and letter elements to create a 'focal point' in
their composition. Students will cap off the project by adding a 'flat'
watercolor wash.
Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
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| Baylee Cocagne |
Leo Garcia
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| Tiana Barajas |
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| Jasmine Gonzalez |
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| Alexis Hagg |
I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.
Jodie Foster
Kameron Stiffler
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Contour line
drawing of the hand teaches the artist to truly SEE what they are
looking at. Eye hand coordination and careful observation are essential
skills for the artist.
The
artist Michael Markowsky uses contour line to express the movement and
energy of his subject in some very interesting ways. follow the video
link.
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I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way -
things I had no words for.
Georgia O'Keeffe
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| Benito glazing a pinch pot rattle in the form of an imaginary creature |
Zentangle
Zentangle is the art of abstract pattern making. The objective is to create a perfectly balanced 'all-over' composition. Students must balance both positive and negative space as-well as black and white spaces. Harder than it looks! These zentangles have hidden words in them. Can you find them?
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| Tiana Barajas |
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Alexis Hagg
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Fabric and drapery studies
As part of the figure drawing unit students practice drawing fabric and drapery in order to be able to render clothes on a figure accurately. These study drawings demand a careful eye and attention to shape, form and values.
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| Tiana Barajas |
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| Michael Quintana |
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| Jasmine Gonzalez |
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| Juleny Castaneda |
Learning to draw Portraits
Step one - chose image, trim edges and cut in half
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| Michael Q. |
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| Joaquin at work on his drawing |
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| Freddy getting started on his picture |
Step two - trace contour of face and features using the cut away half as a guide
Step three - Add values paying close attention to the values used in the image. Be sure to use at least five values
Step four - hide all lines using only value shading to create the face. Match value levels with image
This page is a collection of works representing all Art Concepts classes at Mission Oak HS
The collection will rotate new works throughout the year. Come back often to see new art.
Cubism (non-objective art) was a watershed art movement of the early 20th century. Cubism questioned the centurys old notions of art as a recorder of the visual world. Instead cubism attempted to re-interpret the visual world. The cubists weren't concerned with making things look "real" rather they strove to depict multiple of points of view simutaneously. The work displayed are examples of "synthetic cubism" created by Mr. Schubert's Art Concepts classes.
Contour Line and Water Color Technique
(objective art) Students completed a lesson series by producing a 12x18 watercolor. Students use contour line to draw hands, then added lettering to create interst and a focul point.Along drawing with contour line and close observation students also used watercolor wash techniques.
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| Natanael Gonzalez - Prelininary contour line drawing |
A picture is a poem without words.
Horace
Alyssa Gonzalez
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| Sara Haywood |
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| Ryan McPhetridge |
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| Vanessa Lozano |
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| Firyal Muharram |
3D Letter Sculptures
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Nicole (l) and Bailey (r) with their 3D sculpture letters
Building 3D letters |
A
letter font is researched then blown up in a freehand drawing. The
drawing is traced onto cardboard and two letters are cut out. The face
and back letter forms are held together with cardboard spacers glued in
place.
Newspaper strips are glued in place over the gaps between the back and face letters.
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| After the glue is dry the letters are gessoed and an original design applied. |
A picture is a poem without words.
Horace
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Art Concepts Word Values Assignment
Students
use the grid transfer method to sketch a face with expression. Then
they choose three to four words that express the emotion they see in the
face. These words are repeated over and over and packed tightly or
loosely to achieve "values" or shades of light and dark. The result is a
face drawn entirely from words with "values".
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| Kameron Stiffler |
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| Michael Quintana |
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| Nicole Cota |
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| Leo Garcia |
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Freddy Mendoza
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| Joaquin Acosta |
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| Yaneth p5 |
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| Bailey p5 |
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Lizbet p5
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Art Concepts Portrait Assignment
Students
use what they learn about shading and values of light and dark to
render a realistic pencil drawing. The goal is to make your pencil
drawing half look like it completes the photo copy side of the picture.
Most of these student have never drawn faces before.
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| Miguel Cortez |
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| Carlos Madrigal |
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| Nicole Cota |
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| Alexis Hagg |
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Anthony Sanchez
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| Tiana Barajas |
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| Valerio Lopez |
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| Nicole Cota |
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| Lisbet Langarica |
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Collage Portraits
Students
were challenged to 'see' the values (relative light and dark) in
colors. Using these color values they created portraits using the
collage technique to combine newsprint and construction paper in layers.
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| Yaneth p5 |
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| Bailey p5 |
Ceramics
Firing day. Green-ware is readied for loading into the kiln for a 26 hour firing cycle
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| Bryan checks his pottery before firing. |
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| The kiln, ready for loading and firing. |
Ceramics Handbuilding with Slabs
One of the most challenging assignments, requiring a high
degree of control is our letter
project. Students make letters from thin slabs of clay and assemble them
into a hollow letter. These are
not carved from a solid block they are pieced together creating a light hollow
form. A high degree of control and coordination is required.
Mugs
Students
were required to produce two mugs, one functional one decorative. Both
mugs had to be turned in for gradingh with a full page of concept
sketches after they were fired and completed. This means students had to
demonstrate competence in all stages of the ceramics process from
wedgeing and prepping the clay, design, building, drying fireing and
glazing.
Art Concepts Class - Color Theory
The
Art Concepts classes are taking what they've learned about mixing and
using color and have created "Color Grid Portraits". Here are a few
samples from these fine artists.
Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Color Theory Art Concepts - periods 1, 5
Concepts
students are exploring the theory behind how artist use color.
Beginning with the primary, secondary and tertiary colors student
advance to color scheme like analogous, complementary, split
complimentary and triatic. Pictured below are basic theory assignments
designed to teach color mixing and brush control.
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| Students do a color mix exercise. The
final product should look like a series of transparent overlapping
colored films. In addition students learn brush control basics that they
will apply to future assignments. |
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| Students
create a color triangle based on Goethe's color theories. The color
triangle, unlike the color circle, teaches students how to mix the
colors they need for portrait and landscape painting. |
Recent Ceramic work -
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| Luz's rainstick |
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| Traditional 'ugly jug' |
Ceramic Works in Progress
Students
are beginning work on firm slab boxes. This assignment requires
attention to detail and a regard for craftmanship. Firm slab
construction is a test of manage moisture levels in the clay body
allowing the control of the medium required for this type of
construction. More images will appear as the project progresses.
Grid Portrait - Color Values :: The process
The
assignemnt was to reproduce the face portion of Sandro Boticelli's Venus
(14th cen. Italian renaisannce). This was a class collaborative effort.
Each student was responsible for 1/37th of the picture. All 37
individual sections were then reassemblesd into a five foot by ten foot
mural. Students chose a 1 inch by 1/2 inch part of an 8 1/2 x
11 picture. They drew a 1/4 inch grid on their small part of the
picture, then they drew a two inch grid on a 12x18 in sheet of
paper. They carefully transfered details from their small part of the
larger picture onto their 12x18 sheet. Next students, using a color
guide replicated Botticelli's color scheme using pastel chalk. The same
color chart was used for the whole class so all the finished parts would
blend together. The progress is documented below.
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| The original 8 1/2x11 |
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The mural begins to take shape.
The black rectangles are referencing the corners.
These will be removed later.
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| Period Five, Stage 2 |
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| Period Five Stage 3 |
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| Period One Stage 5 |
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Period One Stage six - finished
his
is the result of 37 different student artists working together and
leaning about drawing what you see, color mixing, balance, shading,
value, and using the pastel medium
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Word Values
Artists
choose a photo which expresses some emotion, then make a grid transfer
drawing. They then choose five to ten words which capture the emotion of
the face. Using these words in varying sizes and intensities they
create the values or shadows in the face. The result is an
intreguing tension between a realistic rendering and an abstract
expresion of text. For more on this concept see this site. 45-amazing typographic-portraits
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| Delylah Paredes |
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| Nathaniel Gonzalez |
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| Victoria Garcia |
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Students use a grid totransfer an
image from another picture. |
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The lights and darks in the image that make the face recognizable are created by
using text repeated over and over to make different grades of shadow. |
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Julio Estrada
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| Kyler Ladd |
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| Megan Hoaglan |
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| Justin Herrera |
