October 13, 2011
Advanced Art
This Year Seward High has an Advanced Art class. These students study particular art techniques or design principles and are able to choose whichever medium they want to explore them. Here is some work so far:
Color Theory
Emma Farris
Alex Ashford
Emma Farris
Brittany Baldwin
Jesse Rogers Foster
Alex Ramirez
Hatching
Alex Ashford
Jesse Rogers Foster
Gage Anderson
Kyle Boyett
Positive and Negative Space
Brittany Baldwin
Kyle Boyett
Emma Farris
September 23, 2011
Self Portrait Paintings
Seward High Intro to Art Class just completed Self Portrait Paintings. The project began as a drawing assignment, with students drawing and enlarging a posterized photo of themselves by using a grid. They transferred the drawing onto canvas and painted it with tints and shades of a color of their choosing. They turned out great! Come to the Music and Arts Festival this weekend to see them in real life!
Drawing…
…Painting
April 29, 2011
Tea Pots
Seward High Ceramic Students recently completed teapots. They were assigned to create a teapot which was unique in some way and they came up with amazing ideas. Here are some of the best!
January 21, 2011
Coiled Candle Holders
Seward High Ceramic Students began the semester by making coiled candle holders. After creating foot tall structures that incorporated at least three shapes, they coated them with spray paint them and accented them with acrylic paint. Here are some of the nicest ones:
December 3, 2010
Triptych Collages
Seward High Art students created new scenes out of old photos. For inspiration, students viewed the Abberant Art of Barry Kite. Kite is a contemporary artists who mainly reworks art history classics by cutting them up and combining them in humorous ways. Students also viewed triptych artwork from the past and were asked to make their collages in triptych form. Thanks to the Seward Library for donating encyclopedias and magazines.
December 1, 2010
Ceramic Bas Relief Tiles
Seward High Ceramic students have made bas relief tiles. Bas means low in french, these are low set sculptures emerging from a flat surface. This carving technique is quite ancient, and it has been used independently in many cultures from Mesoamerica to India. Seward high students made theirs with clay.
Pottery Wheel Projects
Seward High Ceramic students have been mastering the pottery wheel this semester, namely making bowls and mugs. Here is some of their work:
November 19, 2010
Black Tempura with Colorful India Ink
Students adjusted the threshold of a photo in Photoshop, making it pure black and white. Then they drew the image on a large scale, painted the black areas using black tempura, and filled in the white areas with colored India Ink as they chose. Here are some of the results:
October 11, 2010
Computer Arts Class
Seward High’s Computer Art class have been mastering Adobe Photoshop. Here is a sampling of some of the projects they have been working on this quarter:
New US Dollar Design
Scream Yo Opinion – Students took a stand on a controversial issue and communicated their opinion with symbols.
Concert Posters
Future Profession Faux Stencil
Hybrid Animal Ads
Here is the link to the Computer Arts Class Blog. All assignments are posted here and students in the class have their own blogs linked to this site (right hand side). Click on a student’s name to see their work!
October 10, 2010
Oil Pastels
Seward High Art Students have spent the last couple of weeks working with oil pastels. Each student completed two projects. They began with a small colored photo reference, which they redrew in a larger scale using the grid enlargement technique. Students traced this drawing onto thicker paper, and used oil pastels to add color. They used a combination of techniques, from blending with their fingers and mineral spirits, to sgraffito, which is scratching to reveal under layers. Here are some of the results:
