Seward High School Art

October 13, 2011

Advanced Art

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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

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September 23, 2011

Self Portrait Paintings

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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

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April 29, 2011

Tea Pots

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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!

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January 21, 2011

Coiled Candle Holders

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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:

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December 3, 2010

Triptych Collages

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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.

 

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December 1, 2010

Ceramic Bas Relief Tiles

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Seward High Ceramic students have made bas relief tilesBas 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.

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Pottery Wheel Projects

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Seward High Ceramic students have been mastering the pottery wheel this semester, namely making bowls and mugs.  Here is some of their work:

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November 19, 2010

Black Tempura with Colorful India Ink

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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:

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October 11, 2010

Computer Arts Class

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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!

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October 10, 2010

Oil Pastels

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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:

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