Author Archives: Sharon
Art Nouveau – Cut Paper Design
Students could choose to create a high contrast design by cutting and pasting paper. Amazingly, this student cut out her design in one piece!!
Art Nouveau – Typeface Designs
Students were challenged to create an original typeface design.
Art Nouveau – Ink Drawings
Students studied some of the work of artist Aubrey Beardsley–noting his use of shading techniques and his use of contrast–before exploring their own artistic possibilities in ink.
Art Nouveau – Student Choice Projects
Students were introduced to a variety of art and artwork of the period, and from there they decided on a project that was somehow influenced by the work they’d viewed and researched. In addition to the art production part of … Continue reading
Art Nouveau
Over the years when I used the Art Nouveau period as a unit of study, students were inspired to create original artwork based on their knowledge of–or reaction to–the prominent artists and artwork of this artistic era. At times I … Continue reading
Sculptural Paintings
Students were challenged to create an acrylic painting that was also a relief sculpture. They sketched their design on a canvas panel (gridding, if necessary) and built up areas with mat board covered with a layer of papier-mache’ before starting … Continue reading
Acrylic Paintings – Hudson River School Theme
High school Art students created landscape paintings in acrylic, featuring scenes from the school’s campus. They were encouraged to use their own photographs as reference. The art history connection with this unit included a study of Hudson River School artists, … Continue reading
Decorative Painting
Students practiced the techniques of “one stroke” painting, using resource materials by popular decorative painters, such as Donna Dewberry and Priscilla Hauser. Additional resources included a wide variety of books on decorative and “folk art” painting, and an attractive display was set up … Continue reading
Watercolor Fall Leaves
Students painted small watercolors of fall leaves before starting on acrylic paintings. This exercise helped them with observational drawing, and with color mixing and color matching, as they were using real leaves as reference.
Screen Printing using Transparency Film Stencils
We used Mask-Ease for most of our screen printing projects, but we also used printer transparency film to create reusable stencils. In addition to being reusable (unlike the Mask-Ease which had to be removed from the screen and discarded after … Continue reading