September

This week EC, LE, ME, UE, & MS have been working on a Chihuly inspired chandelier to hang at the wine and cheese party.  Be sure to go and see this beautiful collaboration piece in person!

 

  

by Rebecca

August

One of our goals for EC artists is to explore different mediums of art.  This week they explored collage.

LE artists began their study of the elements of design: color, line, shape, space, texture, and form. This week they focused on color by creating a color wheel.  Their palette started with the primary colors:  red, blue, and yellow.  They mixed these colors to create the secondary and intermediate colors.

by Lily

LE musicians started the year off by preparing and personalizing their music folders.   They worked on identifying music notation such as crescendo and decrescendo as Vanessa played a melody on the piano. They also practiced singing in the key of C. In this picture, they are practicing how to sing in their head voice and are creating the arc of the sound with their arm. 

ME, UE, and MS went on a field trip to the Frist to see the exhibitions, Sensuous Steel: Art Deco Automobiles  and  Vik Muniz: Garbage Matters. 

Sensuous Steel: Art Deco Automobiles  

Vik Muniz: Garbage Matters

ME decorated their portfolios with block letters in colored paper and symmetrical totems made by folding their names written in cursive.


by Shreya

UE artists started the year off on the topic of mindfulness.  They were first given a page out of a recycled book. Without reading the page, they were asked to circle words that stand out to them, when thinking about what it means to be mindful.  They then created artwork around the words they circled to make the words stand out. 

 by Serena Thanks to all of Larry's hard work, MS artists have had an exciting start to the year with a new art studio! To start the year off, MS artists were asked to create an album/cd cover for an imaginary band of which they are a member. Before beginning,  they briefly reviewed the elements of design and looked at album art and logo examples. This mixed media project - collage, pencil, colored pencil, watercolor - has engaged their imagination and attention. by Rebecca MS artists have also been exploring the use of their graphite sketching pencils and sketchbooks.  They discussed the importance of value and tone, students created grey scales and practiced the shading of three dimensional shapes. by Ellie Aftercare artists have been focused on the elements of design, making colorful abstract drawings based upon the work of Joan Miró.

With emphasis on the element of texture, aftercare artists have also been constructing mixed media sculptures. Each artist received a cardboard base along with a container filled with similar objects.  The results were varied and imaginative! by Anabel