UB High School Art Exhibit

I absolutely love attending art shows. High schoolers always BLOW me away with their talent! Here are a few photos of the talent being showcased in WNY. Take note of all the political commentary pieces this year!

Mixed Media Triptychs

Line Paintings/ Amaze Art

Valued Portraits

Materials;

- Photograph of Student

- Photograph photoshopped/ edited into 5 different value ranges

- Edited photograph printed for each student

- Drawing Paper

- Pencils

- Carbon Paper

- Tape (optional)

- Tempera Paint

- Paintbrushes

Halloween Silhouettes

Color Mixing Experiment

This was a nice and quick lesson we did to introduce students to color mixing and the color wheel. They were asked to make a stencil, retrace it 6 times with overlapping, and mix the colors where appropriate.

Radial Symmetry Prints

Materials:
- 12" x 12" Drawing Paper
- Watercolor Paint
- Paintbrushes
- Black Tempera Paint
- Miscellaneous Objects for Printing (Corrugated Cardboard Scraps, Forks, Corks, Bottle Caps, etc.)

Elizabeth Murray

This was a fun little lesson my long term substitute did on artist Elizabeth Murray. Murray is a painter who used bright, bold colors, and interesting shapes. Murray’s distinctively shaped canvases break with the art-historical tradition of illusionistic space in two-dimensions. Jutting out from the wall and sculptural in form, Murray’s paintings and watercolors playfully blur the line between the painting as an object and the painting as a space for depicting objects.

Ani Hoover

Ani Hoover is a contemporary artist from St. Joseph, Missouri who now resides and works out of Buffalo, NY. Influenced by the impressionistic work of Vincent Van Gogh, she has cultivated a body of work all about color. The fourth grade students looked at her work and discussed what it could mean. How do the colors make you feel? How would you feel if you were as crowded as the circles? What do you see? They looked at the repeating circles in her paintings and learned about concentric circles. Painting their own concentric circles, they were arranged as one large collaborative piece.

Grid Paintings

Just wanted to share some grid paintings my 7th graders completed with my long term substitute.. I thought they turned out great!

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Christmas Grocery Bags

In Art Club this week we borrowed some paper bags from our local grocery store and decorated them for the holiday season! These bags will be returned and then will be floating around town- great publicity for us! And the kids are really excited to see their work outside of school, ya hoo! It was such a fun, easy, and free way to get artwork out into the community. 

Romero Britto Paintings

Materials:

- 12" x 18" Drawing Paper

- Pencil

- Tempera Paint

- Paintbrushes

- Sharpies

- Britto examples

Art Panels

We've done a little collabo to make these art panels happen. I, and our other middle school art teacher,  had our students paint these awesome 3' x 6' panels that have been hung throughout our school. One of our high school art teachers will also be working on two pieces! I was too excited to wait to post the pictures of their completion, though. Check 'em out!

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Art Stools

We painted these in the beginning of the year and I have never had the chance to upload some pictures of them! As you can see, they are very cracked and worn down now : /... I'm not sure if it was the paint I used, but they cracked quite a bit. Aside from that, though... I think my students did a great job!

Chuck Close Thumbprint Portraits

Materials:

- Tempera Paint

- Paintbrushes

- Two Sheets of White Drawing Paper Per Student

- Picture References (optional)

Little Cloud

 

 Materials:
- Turquoise Construction Paper
- Light Blue Construction Paper
- Blue Tempera paint
- White Tempera Paint
- Sponges
- Paintbrushes
- Pencils
- Scissors
- Glue / Glue Sticks

Kandinsky Color Wheel

 Materials:
- White Drawing Paper
- Tempera Paint
- Paintbrushes

Shooting Stars

 Materials:
- Star Tracer
- Drawing Paper
- Black Construction Paper
- Tempera Paint
- Paintbrushes

Personal Portraits

Materials:
- Student Photographs
- Pencil
- Sharpie
- Watercolor Paint
- Tempera Paint
- Colored Pencils
- Watercolor Pencils
- Light Boxes / Windows

Winter Silhouettes

Materials:

- Paint!