art @ the heart

A couple of months ago, I gave an assignment called Fantastical Mode of Transportation, which was designed by my colleague Sean Arnette at S...

The grade 12s are continuing to work on their personal portfolios.  Here are some of the pieces that they created some time ago, an assignme...

In one day, I looked around the art room and found so many reminders as to why I absolutely love my job. To begin, I was playing music from...

Here is an example of an encaustic collage that I had the grade 9-10 students create.  First, we discussed some guidelines for composition, ...

     Our school has recently been asked to participate in the ARTicles Shadow Box Exhibition, being displayed at Victoria Jubilee Hall in Wa...

When I showed my students examples of their next project, soap stone sculptures, they got very excited and also very nervous.  They were a...

Some of my favourite assignments to mark are the senior student's sketchbooks.  Each week they are asked to experiment with new material...

These pieces are created on scratch-board, therefore the students have to remove the highlights (white areas) in order to create an image- ...

These instruments were drawn as a still-life observation with conte.  Students chose their own composition and colours. 

While this images are complicated visually, they are even more complicated because of the ideas behind them.  The students were asked to cho...