Art Studio Class Notes

This month the Art Studio has been a veritable laboratory, with the students exploring, experimenting and delving into both representation and abstraction through drawing, painting, collage and sculpture.

First we dove into drawing and painting animals, inspired by our animal spirit cards.

Then we took a look at various portraits by master painters, including DaVinci, Picasso, Bottecelli, Frida Kahlo, Vermeer and Modigliani, and did drawn and painted reproductions of their paintings. And most recently, we have been diving into both collage and sculpture with cardboard. Our collages have taken us far and wide, exploring various concepts of abstraction and representation, color, shape, texture and illusionistic space. We have approached these various concepts from a variety of starting points. With one starting point, we cut various shapes of cardboard to arrange and paint in what is traditionally called "assemblage". With another, we glued a random piece of an image from a magazine to a larger piece of watercolor paper as a starting point for a conceptual drawing and painting. And yet another, we cut out various representational and abstract images from magazines and arranged them together along with paint and drawn elements. Each different approach provided us with an endless array of inspirations, opportunities and ideas.