Seward High School Art

December 21, 2016

Sculptural Cactus Pots

The assignment was to make a sculpture that could be used as a planter! SHS Art Students really did a great job, check them out!

Brendan McMurray

Kaylee Brockman

Laurel Correa

Ryan Miller

Zen Petrosius

Kendyl Morris

Emma Moore

Ruby Lindquist

Rachael O’Rourke

Maddy Moore

Clarence Longan

Faith Mitchell

Case Estes

Elena Hamner

Forrest Matheson

Alexis Sullivan

Connor Spanos

Heleana Backus

Allison Rogers

Meghan Mullaly

Lindy Guernsey

Beckah Christenson

Gabby Keeter

Emilia Whitcome

 

December 8, 2016

Reductive Block Prints

The first semester is wrapping up here at Seward High and we are ready for our holiday break! SHS Art students completed block prints and did a great job! The artistry was in identifying and simplifying the image into 3 different values (light medium dark) and also showing different textures! Then they had to carve this image into linoleum and print in layers to get the different colors/values. Here are some great ones for you to check out!

linoleum block and tool example

Mikayla Dumars

Forest Matheson

Nele Hohenstein

Connor Spanos

Elena Hamner

Kaylee Brockman

Case Estez

Emma Moore

Akilena Veach

Heleana Backus

Justin McMurray

Nicole Charlie

Emilia Whitcome

Ruby Lindquist

Allie Tollof

Olivia Carney

Walker McKnight

Sadie Lindquist

Brendan McMurray

Rachel O’Rourke

Robert Chappell

November 18, 2016

Hero Painting

Seward High Art Students made a painting of someone they admired and included a related quote, thinking about font and composition.  They drew these by hand and mixed their own colors!  Great job!

Rebekah Christensen

Riley von Borstel

Chad Quinn

Emilia Whitcome

Kalista Rodriguez

Lindy Guernsey

Nathaniel Basalo

Olivia Carney

Alex Ursel

Robert Chappell

Allie Toloff

Sophie Dow

Meghan Mullaly

Brendan McMurray

Trapper Allen

Walker McKnight

Seth Zimmerman

Matthew Parish

Chris Kingsland

Grace Dumars

Toni Zacher

Sadie Lindquist

Steven Osborn

Raven Stevenson

Tyler Goddard

Basil Dougherty

David Thomas

Rachel O’Rourke

October 21, 2016

Alternative Energy Art

Seward Energy Forum & Fair took place last weekend at Avtec!  This fair brought light to clean, alternative sources of energy such as geothermal, biomass, solar, wind, and hydro energy.  Students from K-12 made art inspired by this subject matter and did a great job!  This show was juried by the public and has amazing prizes from local businesses!  Here are some of them!

Emma Moore – HS First Place! Millers Landing Caine’s Head Full Day Kayak Paddle and Hiking Adventure for two!

Ruby Lindquist – HS 2nd Place! Alaska River Company Rafting and Fishing on the Kenai River!

Selma Casagranda – MS 1st Place! Kenai River Trips Kenai Scenic Float for 2 People!

Antilleon Atcherian – MS 2nd Place! Kayak Adventures 2 Free Half-Day Tours!

Heleana Backus

Kaylee Brockman

Creeanna Whitcome

Mikayla Dumars

Elena Hamner

Maddy Moore

Zen Petrosius

Case Estes

Daisy Terry

Jessi Hood

Maddy Athey

Laurel Correa

Jeremy Anderson

Josh Park

Lydia Jacoby

Isiah Harris

 

Karlye Ebberson

Preston Jeffords

Lucy Hankins

Matthias Wood

Ceramic Frames

These frames were more difficult than I’d imagined to construct!  Students made a paper pattern first and then traced their design onto clay slabs.  The photos slide into a little compartment in back and all the frames have a way to be hung too!  Thanks students for your patience and creative designs!

Chad Quinn

Chris Kingsland

Tyler Goddard

Steven Osborn

Olivia Carney

Kalista Rodriguez

Walker McKnight

Sadie Lindquist

Meghan Mullaly

Trapper Allen

Nathaniel Basallo

Angela Tinker

Sophie Dow

Brendan McMurray

Allie Tollof

Basil Dougherty

Naomi Ifflander

Natasha Tolbert

Beau Freiberg

Emma Moore

Zen Petrosius

Forest Matheson

Akilena Veach

Nicole Charlie

Shalonda Vent

Kaylee Brockman

Heleana Backus

Braden Lane

Kobe John

Robert Chapell

Linnea Hribernick

Winter Richie

Clara LaRock

Sarah Meinema

Mikayla Dumars

Dana Van Slyke

Daisy Terry

Eliza Goddard

Jack Gunther

Raven Stevenson

Krisnan

Elena Hamner

Nele Hohenstein

Ruby Lindquist

Case Estes

Maddy Moore

Jessi Hood

Joshua Park

Jaylon John

Justin McMurray

Alexis Sullivan

Egor Sturdy

Kamryn Pack

Jacob Lodzinski

Alex Ursel

Brooks Berry

September 26, 2016

Egyptian Art For SMAF

If you went to the Seward Music and Arts Festival this past weekend, you got to see this Egyptian themed art in real life!  This truly is a community centered event, with Seward El, Middle and High School students all helping by creating decorations.  Here are some of the High-schoolers pieces:

Heleana Backus

Mycah Ebberson

Ruby Lindquist

Nele Hohenstein

Emma Moore

Linnea Hribernick

Hayley Unrein

Sholanda Vent

Maddy Moore

Zen Petrosius

Beau Freiberg

Ernesto Montoya

Dana Van Slyke

Alexis Sullivan

Gabby Keeter

Egor Sturdy

Josh Park

Kaylee Brockman

Daisy Terry

Meghan Mullaly

Rebekah Christenson

Lindy Guernsey

Basil Dougherty

Emilia Whitcome

Forest Matheson poses with the King Tut Sarcophagus Collage made by Seward High and Seward Middle Students!

Thanks for supporting this event and we hope you had fun 🙂

August 30, 2016

Cairns!

Seward High has adopted a new block schedule, allowing for longer class periods, which suits art class well. We have begun the year exploring making art in and with our natural environment with the creation of cairns.
We started the first day connecting art to problem solving by building marshmallow and uncooked spaghetti noodle structures, aspiring for both height and beauty.

We then watched the documentary about natural artist Andy Goldsworthy, Rivers and Tides. If you have not checked out his work, you should! He creates outdoor pieces using icicles, stones, leaves, flowers, sticks, thorns and mud.

Then we learned about cairns in a historical and global context. Humans have built cairns since ancient times, using them as landmarks, burial monuments, defense walls, for ceremonial purposes, to located buried objects and to mark trails.
We went to Jap Creek and built our own cairns in the sunshine. Here are some photos!

March 9, 2016

Graphic Design Class

 New Currency

Faith Mitchell

Eldon Zinis

Emilia Whitcome

Jeremy Anderson

Ali Alwahd

Isabell Rodriguez

Chandler Marcus

Sohan Dissanakye

Meghan Mullaly

Hunter Allen

David Kirkpatirck

Grace Dumars

Jarrod VanderVegt

Egor Sturdy

Jared Sears

One Point Perspective

Brandon Suddath

Jared Sears

Meghan Mulluly

Hunter Allen

Jaden Sears

Emilia Whitcomb

Eldon Zinis

 

Robot Creatures

Charity Cinereski

 

Grace Dumars

 

Jaden Sears

Ali Alwahd

Jeremy Anderson

 

Egor Sturdy

Event Posters & Quotes

Sohan Dissanayake

Egor Sturdy

Jeremy Anderson

David Kirkpatrick

Isabell Rodriguez

Jarrod Vandervegt

Ali Alwahd

Egor Sturdy

Chris Carreaux

Future Profession

Jeremy Anderson

Jaden Sears

David Kirkpatrick

Emilia Whitcome

Jared Sears

Brandon Suddath

Jarrod Vandervegt

Hunter Allen

 

 

 

Julie German

Ali Alwahd

 Mandalas

Emilia Whitcome

Jaden Sears

Jared Sears

Eldon Zinis

Mehan Mullaly

Brandon Suddath

March 7, 2016

Middle School Watercolor Paintings

In my Middle School art class, we experimented with different watercolor techniques – dropping salt and alcohol onto wet paint, squishing saran wrap and tissue paper onto it, scratching it with toothpicks… After this students came up with their own compositions and used whichever techniques they wanted!

Lincoln Farris

Chynna Stanley

Rebekah Christenson

Eliza Goddard

Kyrsten Johnson-Gray

Lydia Jacoby

Onaangel Williamson

Savannah Buckmaster

William Storle

Clarence Longan

Calysta Lohman

Jared Dean

Caitlin Corrigan

Gunnar Davis

 

Linda Jack

 

 

Clay Petersen

Sequoia Sieverts

February 15, 2016

Klimt Inspired Scratchboard Collages

Detail from Klimt Painting

SMS Students studied Austrian artist Gustav Klimt.  His work is filled with gold, flattened, forms filled with geometric shapes.  This stylization is juxtaposed by realtively realistically rendered faces and skin.  We replicated Klimt’s style by using gold scratchboard and photos from magazines.  I think they turned out pretty cool!

Chynna Stanley

Bekah Christenson

William Storle

Calysta Lohman

Lydia Jacoby

Onaangel Williamson

Eliza Goddard

Caitlin Corrigan

Savanna Buckmaster

Kyrsten Johnson-Gray

Sequoia Sieverts

Lincoln Farris

Jared Dean

Clay Petersen

Gunnar Davis

Clarence Longan