Tis the Season...For Art

Christmas is getting closer and my Celebrate the Seasons class just came to an end today.  It was a fun way to kick-off Thanksgiving and Christmas - stories, music, and crafts that will (hopefully) be enjoyed for years to come.

Edible cornucopia's using ice cream cones

Lovin' their squishy sock snowmen

Painting homemade ornaments

The mask class is underway and has a couple meetings to go, but the portrait artists from the class before turned out some good work.  We traveled from the Renaissance (realistic) to the modern (abstract), inspired by the styles of such artists as daVinci, Modigliani, Picasso, Warhol, and Basquiat.  A variety of materials were explored, including oil pastel, block printing, tempera paint, collage, and pencil.

Artists at work

Modigliani inspired

Basquiat primitive

Manipulated prints (photocopies) ala Warhol

Checking in With the Teen Portraits "Deconstructed" Class...



Hannah's feeling a little 2-dimensional today...

 Today was the halfway mark for the "Face to Face: Deconstructing the Portrait" class, so I thought I'd share some of the students' work.

The first several meetings of this class focused on works from the Renaissance and the study of realistic proportions and facial features.


And they practiced profile proportions



Students practiced frontal proportions...

 




Putting it all together in a Self Portrait

 


Proportion Practice



From there, we jumped ahead to the late 19th and early 20th centuries where artists began to "play" and experiment with style and approach.  For the examples shown here, the artist Amedeo Modigliani was in the spotlight and his work was used as our inspiration as we began to distort and abstract the portrait.   

Great work kids - I look forward the the next project!



A work in progress...

 


Great color - unique interpretation!