Spring 2011

What is Art?

With starting the semester, I like pose a question to all of my high school students; What is Art?
Before we discuss this topic in class, I want to know from you all what your ideas about what you art is are.
Required assignment: After brainstorming and collecting your thoughts; I would like each student to post a comment on this blog post. Each response should include at least one well thought out definition of art.
If you have never posted a comment to a blog post here is how it goes:

At the bottom of this post there will be a link in yellow that says '0 comments' (or if there are any comments it would say the number of how many comments have been left for example: 8 comments) Click this link and it will take you to a page with a box on the right side that says 'Leave your comment'. This is where you should put your response.

I look forward to reading your responses and as a class we will review these responses and go into deeper discussion regarding the question.
If there are any questions, problems, or concerns feel free to email me (my email can be found under the 'Contact Me' page.

Mixed Media

Coffee, tea, wax and paint

oil, collage

oil, mixed media

oil

oil, collage

Drawing 2 Spring Semester Project

Experiment #1

Acrylic paint, spray paint, can tabs on pallette.

41" x 34" x 5"

2010

This piece started out with a completely gessoed pallette. Then I placed can tabs on the pallette in an interesting design and spray painted it. After removing all of the tabs, I used paint to make shapes from the paint that was sprayed. I decided to reincorporate the tabs into the piece by stringing them on wire and connecting them inbetween the pallette panels.

Experiment #3

Acrylic, spray paint, nails on pallette.

30" x 46" x 4"

2010

I started by gessoing most of the pallette then on top of that I painted over the gesso in a beige color. I created a form through automatic drawing and repeated the same image in nails off to the right side. After creating the image I used a piece of cardboard used for packing as a stencil and spray painted certain areas.

Experiment #1

Acrylic, paper collage on canvas

24" x 36"

2010

I started out with a standard canvas. Then I layered newspaper and magazine in interesting textures and began creating 3-D forms. From then I just experimented with color, shape and line.

Varieties of Jellyfish

Acrylic, watercolor, yarn, can tabs on panel

33.3" x 30"

2010

I started out covering the panel with pages from an encyclopedia that dealt with animals. Then I covered on top of that with a 70s wallpaper design in sharpie. I painted to entire panel thick enough to cover the pages but not the design. Then I created these creatures out of can tabs strung together with wire and finished with yarn. The material that I had not used before was the tabs as line.

Machine

Acrylic and thread

24" x 36"

2010

I started this one with a standard canvas and began making layers of washes. Then before I painted my machine, I cut up pieces of other machines and collaged then together and came up with this image. Then I painted the image fully. I wasn't satisfied with how it looked so I scratched the paint off and painted the area white and filled in the rest of the machine with a thread outline.

Rough and Kinky

Acrylic and fabric on panel

24" X 35.5"

2010

Initially this piece stared out with a panel covered in text. Then I started to paint leaves, but I really didn't like painting so realistically. I came up with these shapes that are inspired by the plants that I saw in the greenhousee. Then for variety and texture, I added the fabric.

Abstract animal scupture

Wire Project

Circus elephant :)

Figure Drawing

This was a project we worked on in figure drawing.

it's prismacolor on cardstock.