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Art Department

Our students are busy creating expressive and exciting animorph images in the art room. For this animorph unit students needed to combine a self-portrait with an animal. Starting with a self-portrait, students learned the rules of proportions, use of guidelines, how to draw facial features, and shading. In addition, students become aware of the drawing process, how to slow down and observe, use specific drawing strategies and develop a drawing over time. Students will also create a realistic animal drawing, an animorph collage such as the ones you see here, and a final animorph drawing using colored pencil techniques and learning about texture and value. The final work is an imaginative image with personal meaning and a range of possibilities.
 
Unit Essential Questions
Why are animals such a recurring theme for artists?
What personal connections can we make with both their physical qualities, behavior and their symbolism?
How do artists capture the qualities of the face accurately?
What elements of art and rules do they need to consider? 
Why is value so important to a drawing?
How can we create texture in our drawings?
What drawing strategies can we use?
How can we combine our portraits with our animal studies? What qualities should we include?
 
9 pieces of student art work in a grid
Students
From left to right Deybi Sandoval * Samiel Cruz * Emmanuel Gerald * Sebastian Amaya * Esmerelda Rosario * Irisleidy Toribio * Arianna Hernandez * Owen Fisher-Ocran * Jeremiah Rosario.

Layered Value Drawing

Using value is essential to building the illusion of form, especially in realistic drawing. High schoolers created 3-4 layer value drawings in order to improve their blending and shading skills. They also learned about organic shapes while learning to use materials such as charcoal and blending stumps.

Layered Value Drawing Art Piece

8th Period Students

Irisleidy Toribio, Yonderson Carbonett, Owen Fisher-Ocran, Josue Antionio Marroquin Lopez, Jose Martinez, Malachi Georgie, Jederlyn Nunez Fermin, Sebastian Amaya, Dereck Loor, David Chariguaman, Jayden Cordova-Liz, Sebastian Rodriguez, Jorge Maco


We love collaborating with the drama department everyday to produce great school events. Currently, students are busy helping to design the set for the school musical coming 12/17. We are learning how to build a strong armature (skeleton) for our trees and strengthen them using cardboard tubes, craft paper, masking tape and paper mache. It’s wonderful to see students collaborating and creating strategies to work with one another.

8th Period Studenst working on their Pieces