Grade 10 Conte Drawings 2011 (AVI2O)

Ah, I finally figured out how to post pictures so that they show up properly!  Enioy :)  Ms. G-E. 

Grade 10 High Contrast Paintings 2011

Artist Chairs 2011 (Grade 11 Visual Arts AVI3M)

Here are this year's chairs in various stages of completion.  Enjoy!

Poetry and Printmaking (Grade 11 Visual Arts AVI3M)

I LOVED how this assignment turned out!  I liked the idea of using magnetic poetry in order to inspire a piece of art- I also liked the literacy connection.  The grade 11 students were asked to go to magneticpoetry.com and create any sentence or phrase.  When they had completed and taken a screen shot of their words, they were asked to create a monoprint that would work with their phrase.  They had to think critically about what kind of colours and shapes would depict the emotions that their poetry evoked.  Click the pictures to see larger versions of these pictures (sorry, but no matter what I do some of these pictures are uploading sideways) .

Flower Power (Grade 11 Clay Sculpture AVI3M)

After doing some research on Google, I was inspired by organic sculpture, especially flower based pieces.  I decided to turn this interest into a project for my students, and they loved it.  The grade 11 students were asked to take a basic organic form and elaborate it, using repeating shapes and textures.  We had some difficulties with explosions in the kiln, so not every project is shown here.  Some of the more simple sculptures in this set were created by some keen grade 10 students. 

Fantastical Mode of Transportation- AVI3M

A couple of months ago, I gave an assignment called Fantastical Mode of Transportation, which was designed by my colleague Sean Arnette at St. Mary's High School.  I adapted it and asked the grade 11 students to use conte to show a human manipulating a giant insect as a vehicle.  Truthfully, I wasn't thrilled with the majority of the results, as a lot of students rushed the assignment while I was away.  However, here is a great example of the potential of the idea.  More should eventually be added (they aren't uploading properly right now). 

Some Grade 12 Art- AVI4M

The grade 12s are continuing to work on their personal portfolios.  Here are some of the pieces that they created some time ago, an assignment I call the Reinterpretation.  They were asked to take a famous piece of art related to their portfolio theme, and somehow change it to make it their own.  I hope you enjoy the results as much as I did.