MS Art - Trees of Life

In Middle School Art we recently did a study on the Tree of Life. First we looked at and discussed this famous painting called The Tree of Life by Gustav Klimt:

 Then we looked at the Tree of Life in the Bible. Did you know that the Biblical Tree of Life is mentioned in the books of Genesis, Proverbs, and Revelation? It's pretty interesting to read about. Read Genesis chapters 2 & 3, Revelation chapters 2 and 22, and finally Proverbs 3:18, 11:30, 13:12, and 15:4. Finally, students got to draw or paint their own idea of the Tree of Life. Some are beautiful, some humorous, and some pretty interesting! See our students' Trees of Life below. (Click on each photo to see more closely.)

By Aubrey B.

By Zoe S.

By Brody M.

By Lauren L.

By JT Y.

By Asher C.

By Graham F.

By Jaxon F.

By Massimo P.

By Marissa D.

By Stephen H.

By Addison R.

By Jaclyn B. 

By Piper S.

By Garett T.

By Ryker R.

By Mylie M.

By Hattie L.

By Abigail A.

By Atlie S.

By Kirsten H.

By Owen H.

HS Advanced Art - Thrift Store Art

By Hope T.

If you are interested in learning about an interesting and humorous artist, check out this link on Dave Pollot: 

https://www.davepollot.com

In High School Advanced Art we learned how he takes thrift store art and adds his own touches to them, creating a new type of pop art. Students in the advanced class had fun adding their own additions to a piece of thrift store art. Have fun perusing this fun way of up-cycling art and see if you can tell what our students added! 

(Click on each photo to see more clearly.)

By Joseph B.

By Brandon L.

By Elizabeth H.

By Nathan H.

By Faith P.

By Tori P.

By Maggie L.

By Hayden T.

By Elias A.

By Moriah Y.

HS Art 1 - Group Drawing Projects

Miranda, Allyson, and Ali pose with their cat drawing.

Students in Art 1 have been doing lots of drawing assignments lately. This one was pretty interesting and a little tedious, but in the end helped encourage the students' drawing skills by forcing them to look more at lines, shapes, shading, and spatial relationships. Classes were divided up into groups of 3 or 4. Each group chose a black and white photo to reproduce in a larger format. Once they chose a photo, we cut the photos up into squares and each student had to reproduce 3 or 4 of their group photo's squares onto larger squares of paper. When they finished their squares, each group reassembled their group picture. They had to work together to try to match up lines and edges and shading. This project also showed them how to enlarge a piece of artwork while keeping it somewhat proportional to the original. Enjoy checking out our group drawing projects! 

(Click on each photo to see more closely.)

By Miranda, Allyson, and Ali

Bentley, Madelyn, and Lilly with their ice cream sundae drawing.

By Bentley, Madelyn, and Lilly

Rayven, Emmett, Lauren, and Jonathan with their cheeseburger drawing.

By Rayven, Emmett, Lauren, and Jonathan

Jaron, Erin, and Teagan with their cat drawing

By Jaron, Erin, and Teagan

Julien, Kyler, Emma, and Collin stand with their knight drawing.

By Julien, Kyler, Emma, and Collin

Paul, Harrison, Stefania, and Jaxon pose with their house drawing.

By Paul, Harrison, Stefania, and Jaxon

HS Advanced Art - Animation

The High School Advanced Art class recently completed a project based on animation. After learning about one of the "fathers of animation", Walt Disney, and watching a short video showing the progression of animation over the years, students created their own old fashioned form of animation... flip books! Check them out below. A special thank you to Elias, who we dubbed "the Flip Master", for being the flip book flipper in our videos. Each cover photo is followed by a video of the book being flipped.

By Nathan H.

By Moriah Y.

By Faith P.

By Victoria P.

By Maggie L.

By Hope T.

By Elizabeth H.

By Joseph B.

By Brandon L.

By Elias A.

By Hayden T.