Monday, December 21, 2009

tri 2 week 3


Printmaking - pulling ink on a silkscreen

Printmaking - preparing a screen and 1st layer prints

sculpture - finished group junk sculptures





Fundo - decision making on a group project

Art Club - paints the cafeteria and office windows



Happy Holidays from the GHS art students!!
























































Friday, December 11, 2009

Tri 2 week 2


Even with 2 snow days we managed to get some things done. Sculpture students started their group junk sculptures.


Finishing touches are done on a painting going to Scholastic Art Awards Regional competition at Kendall College of Art & Design.

The 3-D painting is finally complete and ready to go on to the Scholastic Art Awards.
"I Dream of Dragons"
"Art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind." -Louise Nevelson








Friday, December 4, 2009

Tri 2 week 1


Art club finishing clay!


It's the first week in sculpture. We started Paddle Pinch Pots that we are going to burnish and smoke fire.

Finishing the form on the paddle pinch pots.


Burnishing paddle pinch pots to give them a shine.


Printmaking started this week by creating stamps using erasers.
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
-Emile Zola















Sunday, November 22, 2009

week 12


Photo student looking at a test strip to determine the right amount of exposure time.

Photo students working on 3-D photos

Painting students cutting matts for paintings, math in art!!

A finished product minus the paintings.

Fundo students working on clay sculptures of wacky faces.

Finished wacky faces drying.

Art club grouting tile mosaics.

Two finished mosaics.

Fremont art club joins Grant this week for a book making art club in Grant.
It's the end of trimester one this week!!
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit"






























Monday, November 16, 2009

week 11


Students removing ink on their monotype plate at the NCCS ART-IN





The rabbit is a finished monotype print

Students who attended the Art-In with their prints and the guest artist Zdzislaw Sikora.
"To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted."
-George Kneller