The Pegasus team finished up their last week in the art room taking the visual art final exam and working on the “Empty Bowls” program. The team finished creating a remarkable 75 bowls in 4 days! These bowls will be fired over the next few days, and Pegasus team members that are interested in glazing the bowls are welcome to come in the mornings before school starting March 8th. It would be great to get the bowls you made glazed by you, so try to stop in if you can! Click on the photo of the finished bowls on the drying rack to go to a gallery of the work in progress.

The Pegasus team has been finishing up on their last major project of the year, a perspective drawing created using oil pastels. Each student utilized one, two, or three point perspective to create their drawings. Images were brought into class to use as a starting point, but each student was encouraged to experiment with the placement of the vanishing points, creating new perspectives. After the preliminary drawing was completed we looked at the work of the Post-Impressionist artist Vincent VanGogh and Paul Gaugaun for inspirations in choosing colors and creating textures. Student work will be on display throughout Springman over the next few days, and can bee seen in a digital gallery by clicking on any of the outstanding examples here!

Students!

Be sure to read the post below, there are tips on what to study for the final exam!

Hey guys,

The practice final exam is open, log into your art online account above to check it out. You can take it as many times as you would like, I suggest that you take it one time, study a bit then try again!

I have also uploaded copies of all the handouts from class, as well as all the powerpoint presentations from class in the Resources link above. Download any copies you might need.

Blocks 1, 2, & 3 have their exam on Monday, February 22nd, Blocks 4 & 5 will take the exam on Tuesday, February 23rd.

The Pegasus team has been hard at work for the past two weeks working on the concept of perspective in a drawing. We looked at 1, 2, and 3 point perspective in a PowerPoint presentation, as well as in practice drawings worked on in class. To see the PowerPoint from class, click on the resources link above or click here. In the next step, students brought in images that expressed perspective, and have been using the images as a starting point for creating new images. Next week we will be looking at the artwork of Vincent VanGogh and Paul Gauguin for inspiration in the application of color and texture to create mood and emphasis in the perspective drawings. Click on the image here to go to a gallery of the work in progress! Pegasus Team members, If you really want to be amazed check out the perspective work of artist  Dick Termes. Click on his name or his image to go to his website and see still photos of his 4 and 6 point perspective spheres, really amazing work. I’ve linked a copy of his online video for creating a 4 point perspective drawing  in the videos of interest link to the right!

The Pegasus team has been finishing their graphic design prints in class this past week, great job guys! Each student was asked to represent themselves with their print. Look for items and symbols that represent personal interests and who they think they are, or would like to be. What do you think Olivia M. was trying to tell us with her design? Each student was asked to create a contrast of value within the design, making the print “POP” from the colors of the tie-dye. Click on Olivia’s print here to go to a gallery of the finished prints!

The Pegasus team has been working on a unit involving graphic design. Each students was asked to come up with a design that uses symbols to tell us something unique about who they are. Some students chose to express this by illustrating a talent, hobby, sporting activity, or a special trait. Others decided to incorporated text into their designs. The designs were limited to black and white for high contrast, and when finished, are hand cut to remove the black spaces and create individual stencils. Later this week we will begun to print the stencils utilizing silk screen printing onto the Tie-Dyes created in class last week. Click on the image here to go to a gallery of the work in progress, and check back soon for images of the finished prints!

The Pegasus team finished up on their Gesture Wire Sculptures this week. The students were challenged to create a gesture sculpture based on the drawings created earlier in the year. Students were asked to look for movement in their line, proportion in their form, and to use details to emphasize what the action was. Click on Allison B.’s outstanding example of “Slipping on Ice” to go to a gallery of the finished projects. Students, all finished sculptures have been placed in the gallery, so please remember to post your image into your Gesture Wire Sculpture Artist Statements on you online accounts! If you did not finish your sculpture, be sure to come in early after the break to get caught up, the artist statements are due on January 8th, and we will be starting our next unit after the break.

Have a great holiday break, and I’ll see you in the art room in the new year!

The Pegasus team has been doing an outstanding job with their gesture wire sculptures. We have transferred the ideas worked on in class from gesture drawing to 3 dimensional forms in the sculptures, and have been focusing on proportion, movement, and rhythm. Click on the image here to go to a gallery of the work in progress!

Hey guys,

Don’t forget to start thinking and collecting items to use for your wire sculpture details. Remember to think about details that enhance the sculpture’s pose, not just details for fun!

Recently a parent asked if they should purchase any items for this project. My response was, one of our objectives in this lesson is to utilize and recycle from found objects. For example,

• Paint a marble for a baseball
• Use cardboard from a box for a surfboard
• Create a mitt cut from a scrap of leather from an old shoe tongue
• Use the wire and tinfoil to create a sword and shield
• Use yarn to create a pon-pon for a cheerleader or hair
• Make a cape cut from a discarded item of cloth

We will be using the week of December 14th before the holiday break to construct the items in class. Remember, the gesture sculpture is more about the action; the details are ways to suggest what that is. Try to be resourceful about finding and recycling materials from disposable old items around the house , so a trip to an art supply store might not really be necessary!

The Pegasus team has completed their gesture drawings in class. The gesture drawings in the gallery are just a small selection of the hundreds produced in class by the team. Each gesture drawing is trying to capture the essence of the action happening in the image. Click on the image here to go to the gallery, or go to the links to the right to see examples of the finished drawings.