October 16, 2015
Seward High Art Class First Quarter
A whole quarter has nearly gone by! Here are some art updates! We began the quarter making small shrinky dink accessories. This was to practice our shrinky dink skills for the upcoming Capitol Christmas Tree Ornament project. We decorated the thin plastic sheets with sharpie and colored pencil, then baked them in the oven and watched them shrink to about 1/3 of their original size. I don’t have photos of the Ornaments, but maybe you saw some of them in person at SMAF? And I do have a photo of the shrinky dink portion of Riley Von Borstel’s Ornament below!
Blaze Havnen
Walker McKnight
Johan
Mikayla Dumars
Riley Von Borstel
We had a two week figure drawing unit where we began by drawing Renaissance based formulas for the skeleton, face, and male and female forms. Then we did Life Drawing, students took turns posing for the rest of the class to draw in various costumes. Students had to learn how to draw quickly from observation, capturing proportions, contour lines, light and shadow in various mediums. They caught on really quickly!
Clara La Rock
Ali Al Awadh
Walker Mcknight
Trapper Allen
Heleana Backus
Sadie Linquist
Bijou Burnard
Ali Al Awadh
Heleana Backus
Matthew Parish
Clara LaRock
Sadie Lindquist
Clara LaRock
Beckah Dean
Ali Al Awadh
Heleana Backus
Ashley Jackson
Riley Von Borstel
Ali Al Awadh
Bekah Dean
October 12, 2015
First Quarter Ceramics
Seward High Ceramics Class has been up to a lot this quarter! They began by making paper mache circus animals to decorate the Seward Music and Arts Festival. This involved drawing out patterns, projecting them onto large sheets of plywood, cutting the parts out with jigsaws and routers, constructing the wooden forms with screws and nails, adding the muscle and flesh with newspaper and chicken wire, paper mache-ing the outside, and painting! Here are some process shots!
After all that work, they finally began with clay, and the first assignment was to create a sculptural container with a removable lid:
Megan Mullaly
Nathaniel Basalo
Nicole Charlie
Brandon Suddath
Justin Croft
Roma Hamner
Emilia Whitcomb
Tyler Goddard
Megan Mullaly