Emulating the style of graphic artist Nikki Farquharson, SHS art students created their own marker drawings, choosing and tracing a subject matter and then surrounding it with colorful patterns. Happy Friday and here they are:
Tessa Lyman
Grace Wombacher
Diana German
Rachel Tougas
Gabby Katsma
Hope you all are enjoying this spring weather! Here is some art from my 2-D class. As a class, we went on a little field trip and did a photo scavenger hunt to try to capture interesting pictures. Students then picked their favorite to turn into a linoleum print. By hand, they colored on top of the grey tone photo, to simplify it into only 3 shades, black, white and grey. They traced these shapes onto linoleum and cut them in layers, printing in whichever colors they wished. Here they are:
Gabby Katsma
Rachel Tougas
Grace Wombacher
Diana German
Cambria Robinson
Amber Clark
Jesse Cantrell
Tessa Lyman
Tiffanie Rook
Alice Pfeiffenberger
Shyann Washik
Iris Anderson
Hayden Tiner
Here is some art from the Advanced Ceramics class:
We made lanterns to hold candles and took inspiration from Japanese style stone lanterns. Here are the results!
Karen Rasmussen
Alex Ashford
Ben Miranda
Matt Moore
Tyler Quiring
TJ Allen
Chelsea Olesiuk
Audra Atwood
Izzy Barnwell
Julia Davenport
Here are some goblets we made. We took inspiration from Indian Jones and the Last Crusade, the epic scene where the Nazi choses the wrong cup and ages to dust before your eyes! “He chose poorly”… I think they did a great job, here they are!
TJ Allen
Julia Davenport
Hannah Norris
Ben Miranda
Tyler Quiring
Emily Quinn
Audra Atwood
Richie Mack
Hayden Beard
Izzy Barnwell
Chelsea Olesiuk
Alex Ashford
And check out Jamie Jacobson’s Elephant! The tail is a drawer that slides out to store something.
Here is some new work from Seward High’s Graphic Design class, all done using Photoshop:
Concert Poster
Jack Broughton
Riley O’Reagan
New Money
TJ Allen
Hunter Doan
Jack Broughton
Future Profession Faux Stencil
Jack Broughton
TJ Allen
Seward’s Choice Logo
Hunter Doan
Seward Highs 2-D class is really filled with talent this semester. For their first big project they did a portrait of a person of their choice using the technique of grid enlargement. This is a common art technique, utilized as far back as the middle ages. We studied the art of Chuck Close, which has always been based on a grid, although the style changed from photorealism to looser, more abstract styles like his self portrait below after he became partially paralized.
Students first chose a photo, folded a grid on it, and then folded a grid of equal proportions on a much larger piece of paper. Then they drew the photo box by box, paying attention to the angles and placement of lines as they intersected the lines of the grid. Its a pretty mathematical process. They looked at values too, shading their drawing to show shadows and depth. After they finished the value drawing, students could lightly trace it onto a new paper, and do a final draft in any medium they chose. Both the grid drawing and final products turned out really cool, here they are:
Hayden Tiner – Watercolor & Ink
We have a small but talented Graphic Design Class this year, here’s some stuff they’ve been working on!
Pop Art
Jack Broughton
Hunter Doan
Sierra Vandervegt
TJ Allen
Hybrid Animal AD
Jack Broughton
Hunter Doan
Regional Basketball TShirt Design
Hunter Doan
Riley O’Reagan
TJ Allen
Text
Hunter Doan
TJ Allen
Concert Poster
Hunter Doan
TJ Allen
Mount Marathon Logos
Hunter Doan
Riley O’Reagan
TJ Allen
Silver Salmon Derby
Jack Broughton
Riley O’Reagan
TJ Allen
Seward Halibut Derby
Jack Broughton
TJ Allen
One of the fun things about ceramics is the creativity involved. You can drape clay over almost anything to take its form as it dries; wood, plaster, newspaper, glass… Draping a slab of clay into a concave surface is called a slump mold and onto a convex surface is a hump mold. We did both methods, using paper plates as our slump molds and paper bowls as our hump molds. You can also use just about anything to texture clay; your fingers, a fork, a leaf, a toy, stamps, whatever you can imagine…Seward High Ceramics first assignment was to make a textured plate and bowl and they really did a great job. Here are some of the best:
Mary Ramirez
Gabby Katsma
Here are some more ceramic projects from SHS!
Tea Pots
Hannah Stovall
Kira Ludwig
Sherelle Holmes
Congratulations to Gretchen Lindquist for creating the winning mural design! Her Jellyfish design will be located on the bathrooms by the skate park. The Mural Society ordered us six 4′x8′ aluminum panels (thanks Jennifer Headtke & Abby!), which we cut down to 4′x6′ (thanks Ronn Hemstock!) to facilitate the 6′x 24′ design. We then sanded, washed and primed all of the panels. Gretchen is currently drawing/projecting the design onto the panels. Once she’s done, her classmates will help her begin to paint!
Here are some more random projects from Advanced Art Students at Seward High:
Ashley Whiteshield
Ben Miranda
Ben Miranda
Emma Farris – Tree Dreamcatcher
Michael Marshall
Michael Marshall
Richie Mack
Izzy Barnwell
Brianna Honebein
TJ Allen
TJ Allen
Chelsea Olesiuk
Dylan Gillespie
Alex Ashford
Happy Thanksgiving! Here is some of Seward High Students recent artwork:
This assignment was simple, create a mask which extends beyond the shape of the face. This is what they came up with!
Jon Kingsland
Dream Catcher
Intro to art students created dream catchers using metal hoops, fake sinew, feathers and beads. Dream catchers were first made by the Ojibwe Nation (aka Chippewa) to hang above sleeping babies. The dream catchers were meant to entangle bad dreams while allowing good dreams to pass through the hole in the center. Native groups around the country, including here in Alaska since have adopted the artform. Here are Seward High Students versions:
Mason Olson
Autumn Young
Advanced Art Students were asked to create a piece in any medium they chose focusing on texture. Here is what they came up with:
Michael Marshal – Acrylic Paint
Ashley Whiteshield – Oil Pastel
Ben Miranda – Pencil and Crayon
Gretchen Lindquist – Ceramic Textured Tea Pot
Josh Dotomain – Acrylic Paint
Izzy Barnwell – Sharpie and Watercolor
Richie Mack – Pencil
Brianna Honebien – Ceramic cup and bowl
Kyle Hubbard – Ceramic Dragon Teapot
Dylan Gillespie – Ceramic cup set
Kyle Hubbard – Picasso Painting Homage
Here are some more ceramic projects. There are lots more here at our blog. We made gargoyles for Halloween and they turned our awesome! Also, please vote on your top three choices for the skate park mural design!
Gargoyles/Sculptures
Rachel Tougas
Jessica Degnan
Diana German
Andy Hughes
Tiffanie Rook
Matt Moore
Sherelle Holmes
Erin Lane
Jamie Jacobson
Hannah Stovall
Wheel Projects
Sasha Hamner
Sherelle Holmes
Josh Dotomain
Emma Farris
Sasha Hamner
Erin Lane
Alice Pfeiffenberger
Zack Martin
Butter Dishes
Hannah Stovall
Kim Leavitt
Tiffanie Rook
Students first researched various famous painters from art history. Then they picked their favorite artist and chose one of their paintings to recreate. They drew it by hand, then painted it with acrylic paint using the verdaccio (italian) or grisaille (french) technique which was developed in the middle ages. In this technique, the painting is first done entirely on a gray scale to create depth and value, and then color is added in glazes. They did a great job, and succesfully integrated their own personalities into these paintings, check them out:
Billy Joe Wardlow
Pablo Picasso
Ayla Bunch
Dali’s Windmills, not by Salvador Dali but an homage to him…not sure who did this?
Mary Ramirez
Edgar Degas, Four Dancers in Half Figure
I have two ceramics classes this year and they are filled with creative, patient students. Here are some of their projects!
Butter Dishes
Jessica Degnan
Erin Lane
For their first project, Seward High Cinematography students created digital stories about an object in their life that holds some personal significance. They wrote about the object, photographed it, and interviewed eachother about it. We studied color palette in films, and they were asked to create a color palette for their movie. They used Photoshop to edit their photos to follow the color scheme they had chosen. To create their digital story, they combined audio recordings, text, photos and music. I think they did a great job, here they are:
Autumn Young
Advanced art students made self portraits…. They did some self reflection and thought of an emotion or state they would want to convey, and chose the medium they’d like to use. Then, they drew themselves using a mirror. Here are the end results!
Emma Farris
Dylan Gillespie
Alex Ashford
Briana Honebein
Michael Marshall
TJ Allen
Ben Miranda
Gretchen Lindquist
Richie Mack
Izzy Barnwell
Ashley Whiteshield
Here are some projects that Seward Highs Ceramic Classes have been working on!
Ceramic Frames
Hannah Stovall
Diana German
John Kingsland
In the 2-D art class at Seward High, we began the year by looking at the human eye. Students studied the assemetrical eye shape, roundness of the eyeball, intricacies of the iris, edge of the eye lid, reflections off the eye, shape of the lashes and brow, and the tear duct. Taking this into account, they then made a large self portrait of their eye on black poster paper using oil pastels. Through the colors they used and designs they added, this project became a sort of self portrait of their inner personalities as well. They did an amazing job!
Corianne Douglas
Isaac Osborn
Autumn Young
Chloey Baldwin
Mary Ramirez
More here at our Art Blog.
