Watercolor Landscapes
Students learned about foreground, middleground, and background, while practicing the unique properties of watercolor paint.
White Highlight Studies
Students practiced rendering highlights and midtones on toned paper to capture the form of particular objects - shown above are leaves/branches and paper planes.
Mandalas
Students used compasses to create radially symmetrical mandalas, as well as learning about angles, degrees, both Spanish and Islamic architecture. Co-taught with math department.Â
Figure Sculpting
Students used heavily grogged terracotta to create proportionate human figures.
Clay - Camp Ramah
Students learned handbuilding and wheel-throwing pottery techniques during 2-week long summer camp sessions.
Cross Contour Cartoons
Students focused on rendering form of their favorite cartoon characters by draping contour lines over the high-volume parts of their drawings.
"Walk a Mile in My Shoes" Watercolors
Students practiced observational drawing of their shoes, and then applied watercolor techniques over them to illustrate their personalities and interests.
Chinese Ink Painting
Students learned about customs surrounding traditional Chinese Ink Painting and its common subject matter. Then, they practiced bamboo, cranes, and calligraphy on paper.
Woodburning
Students practiced the stippling technique and compared the media to printmaking's positive and negative space while using professional woodburning tools.
Keith Haring Social Activism
Students learned about the work of Keith Haring, as well as graffiti text. We also surveyed VR games - Tilt Brush and Kingspray that enable the user to practice graffiti in a positive manner.
Black Glue Henna Hands
Hands are one of the hardest subjects to draw. First, students practiced contour-line drawings of their hands. Then, students learned about Mehndi-style arts of India, as well as use of Henna in the Arabian Peninsula, and parts of Africa, and created their designs with an applicator.Â
Paint Mixing Open Studio
Students learned how to mix complex tints, tones, and shades using only primary colors (red, yellow, blue) and white. Students also were tasked with mixing the exact proportions to make black paint from scratch. Once achieved, they had open studio with the paint and could paint whatever subject or in any style they wanted to.
Notan-inspired Papercut Art
Students learned how to use positive/negative space in paper media to introduce them to block-printing design as a thought process.
Scratchboard Animals
Students focused on fur density, direction of line, and value in animal portraiture, and used their mark-making on scratchboards to imitate professional intaglio prints.