Shape to Form

Students in Miss Church's studio art class have been learning how to make a shape look like a form on a 2D surface.  Students learned about artists such as Rembrandt and Cezanne. 

To make circles look like spheres, students had to use different shading techniques, include a horizon line, light source, and shadow.  Students worked with black sharpies, compasses, and watercolor paint.

shading techniques

watercolor wash

Apple Still life

Next, students used apples as their focus to practice their shading and blending techniques. Students were introduced to warm, cool, and neutral color families. We worked with colored pencils and oil pastels. Using the same objectives, students were able to create apples that look like forms on a 2D surface.

apple study in color pencil

apple study in oil pastel

Students in Ms. Church's studio art class have been learning about negative and positive space, texture, and value! Students created a contour drawing of a bicycle and then made different designs with value to create implied texture.

Here are some examples:

Sculptural Pumpkins

Three Dimensional Designs first major project is paper mache pumpkins.  They created a newspaper armature and covered it with additional newspaper strips dipped in a mixture of flour and water to create the paste.  When the pumpkins form was finished, the students designed faces and cut out the negative space with an x-acto knife.  When the sculptural portion of the project was completed, the students used acrylic paints to complete their piece.

Pumpkin 1

Pumpkin 2

Pumpkin 3

Pumpkin 4

Pumpkin 5

Pumpkin 6

Pumpkin 7

3D Spheres!

Students in Miss Church's Studio Art class have created 3 dimensional spheres to hang around the school building.  Students learned about radial design, complementary, and analogous colors.  Students were able to create twelve symmetrical shapes and designs.  Next they assembled all the shapes to create a form. 

Check out some of the students' work in the display case just up the stairs and to the left from the high school main entrance. 

Creating radial design shapes

Assembling 

3D spheres! 

Photograms

Photograms, sometimes known as "shadow pictures" were first created by American photographer Man Ray. The images are made by positioning objects over enlarging paper and then projecting light on them. Areas that are completely covered will develop out white and those areas illuminated by the enlarger light will be black. Different values of gray will occur when some light passes through and object or wraps around a curved object. Our photography students experimented with both found objects and cut paper stencils to create these images.

Arrows

Cats

Circles

Diamonds

Hair

Pencils

Found Objects and Splattered Color

A new way to see Student artwork!

The Mahopac High School Art Department welcomes you to our new digital gallery. Our Students are creating amazing artwork every day, but unless your are visiting our building you won't get an opportunity to see it. This new blog will allow folks an opportunity to see their child's work, and occasionally work in progress.