Clay Masks in Ceramics

Hello, my name is Brittany Phillips and i love fine arts! I'm not in IB Art or anything, but I'm in Mrs Cauble's Ceramics 1 class. We worked on lots of fun stuff, but halfway through the class Mrs. Cauble told us that we had to make face masks. We could make anything we wanted. At first I didn't know what I wanted to do, but then as i was looking at my wolf necklace I realized I wanted to make a wolf mask. It started out easy, but when I tried to make the ears look the same (and then the eyes) it became more difficult. That was nothing compared to the teeth! The teeth took a very long time because I had to make and place each tooth one by one in the mouth. It was hard to get to the inside of the mouth, but in the end it was really fun to make. Next is more clay fun!
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Brittany

Painting Greek Poses in IB Art

My name's Jenn Summers and I'm a student in Ms. Cauble's IB Art class. I'm a beginner and have little experience This painting was made with acrylic paints on a canvas panel. It was my second painting and I was trying to make the pose appear like the famous Greek discus thrower. James McDonald posed for me and I photographed him and used it for the colors. I gridded a black and white printout to draw the outline with. What was really funny about this painting was that it started out as a drawing. Ms. Cauble got me a canvas and I was sitting there for three days trying to shade a detailed drawing. Then, she came by and mentioned that canvas was for painting only. I took the drawing home and painted it one day while listening to the radio. My favorite part of this work was the jeans because I think the shading came out really well. The hardest parts were the face and the rack in the background. The face was really dark because it was in a shadow and I am still not really satisfied with how it came out. The rack had stuff in it that I tried to draw--badly. Ms. Cauble and Mr. Davis were really excited about the painting and were shocked that I did so well. Which surprised me, too. So, now I am going to paint another Greek pose piece pretty soon.

Illuminated Personal Manuscripts in Art 2

Hi, my name is Brandon Andrews and I'm a junior at Woodmont High School. This is my second year being in art and I enjoy every minute of it. When I get to school everyday, I can't wait to get to my fourth block class with Mr. Davis. Creating art for me is a way to forget everything around me and focus on what I'm creating or drawing. When I first started this piece I had no clue what I was going to do. It was my first illuminated personal manuscript. Mr. Davis gave us some examples and from there it just "clicked" and i knew what to do. My favorite part of this piece is definitely the clock that shows 3:30. (That's the time we get out of school.) I also like the drama masks and how i used the different colors on the masks and how they project out into the sky. A lot of the object in here are stuff that I do daily, such as playing the guitar and the piano. I absolutely love music. I have to have music while I'm doing my art. I kind of helps me get to "that other world" where it's just you, the music, and what ever your working on. Another idea that i had was to draw a music staff coming out of my trumpet and the keyboard and wrapping around the entire page. It took me about a minimum of seven hours to do, but I really enjoyed working on it everyday. I hope that I will have more chances to create more pieces like this one.

Writing and Drawing Comic Strips in Art 1

Mr. Davis's Art 1 classes recently learned how to create their own comic strip characters and write their own three panel comic strips. Students began by creating a large collection of original characters, and then gradually narrowing down the collection until they decided on a main character for their original comic strips.
Students planned out entire personalities for their main characters. They drew how the character spends a typical day, where the character works and goes on vacation, and what situations make the character feel strong emotions.
Using the characters and their personalities, Art 1 students wrote three-panel comic strips, using the setup/conflict/punch line formula. Students drew their final comics using the same materials comic strip professionals use - illustration board, pen and ink, and colored pencils.

Linocuts with Art 1

Mr. Ragland's Art 1 students recently learned how to create 3-Color Reduction Prints using linoleum.
Using reference photos of animals, students did drawings featuring crosshatching, stippling, and hatching. No blended shading whatsoever!
Student transferred the drawings to rectangles of linoleum, and then used linoleum cutting tools to cut away the areas to be left white. Next, they printed their linoleum cuts one color at a time. For example, after printing black, students cut away all of the black areas and printed again using the next color. They did this three separate times, resulting in the beautiful three color prints you see in these photos.

Tribal Tagging Self-Portraits in IB Art

My name is Leighton McDonald and I am a Senior in a Higher Level IB class. I have taken IB art for 2 years and am now in my second year. This is a self portrait done in acrylic on wood canvas. This piece took me about one school week to complete. I began to express my new "electronic tribal" style in this piece. This new style makes the painting pop and it makes it seem busy but not to busy that it takes away from the main focus of the painting. The facial details contain many other colors that minor artists would not originally use. Purples, yellows, reds, and greens helped me build the facial shading that I originally wanted. The bold lines that surround the face make the face seem like a comic book illustration. In a recent critique, another artist said that the lines make that painting look 3- dimensional in a way. After wondering what made the painting pop, i came to the conclusion that the artist was right. The bold lines completely changed the way the painting looks. The lines and colors on the outside of the face were a free style of my imagination. I didn't purposefully mean to freestyle the painting, but I'm glad I did. I have gotten many great comments about the painting, but I still think there could be something else done to it.

Working with Realism in IB Art

Hello. :D My name is Darya Kaborda. I am in IB Art for the next 2 years. My field is realism. I love making things look realistic. If the drawing or painting looks like you can reach in and touch it, I will love it no matter what the subject is. I am sort of trying to achieve photorealism, in a way, but this piece doesn't demonstrate it. To start off, I gridded the canvas, and drew the lines in. Somehow, I ended up skipping or adding in a block at the bottom near her arm, so I have to fix that and incorporate the error into the drawing. The hair is what I was afraid of the most. It took the most time and patience. I usually never spend lengthy periods of time drawing hair in portraits, and, to be honest, this is my first real portrait of a person I know. The drawing is of Caley Doud, a good friend of mine. She took the picture for me, and I printed it out on 2 pages so it would be bigger than just one page. I wanted to be able to see the detail, but it failed. My printer didn't allow me to see most of the detail that the actual picture shows. I have to work from a torn up, colored, messed up photo of her, and that's a shame because I feel like I will not accomplish what I desire through that sort of reference. I wanted to make focus the main part of the drawing in the face, and I hope I have done that, even though the amount of hair can be distracting. It's difficult to shade accurately because of the reference picture, too. So far, I like the face the most. Her arm is poorly drawn, though. I need to fix it, still. At the moment, I am still going to spend some more time touching up the face, hair, and shirt. I have gotten a critique that the shirt needs to be worked on more, so I will take that advice and try to make the shirt look more realistic. After I finish the hair, I will be satisfied, and then I will do final touch-ups. That's about it. :D Thanks for reading. ^__^

- Darya Kaborda