Drawing & Painting: transformations
Drawing and painting students in the Upper School learn that through the act of drawing one is designing; that through the rigorous and intimate process of measuring, feeling and conceptualizing our ideas, something new and surprising is brought into being. This year, transformation is felt through various points of inquiry. Students transform paint into light, line into form, and feeling into image. Transformation is a byproduct of the human capacity for creative stretching of ideas.
Honors Drawing & Painting
This course welcomes self-driven and creatively motivated students and offers students the unique opportunity to develop a more independent voice while working toward a deeper understanding of specific interests in drawing, painting and/or printmaking. In this course, students work to further develop technique, explore guided concept driven assignments and nurture an ever-evolving personal aesthetic. A sketchbook is used throughout the year and builds on studio habits relating to ideation, creative notations, observed studies, and personal journaling.
Seeing Color and Painting it
Honors Drawing & Painting students conceptualized color by writing down associations of color strips into their sketchbooks. Next, they painted those colors from memory. This exercise led to paintings done from direct observation of objects in color field dioramas.
Re-Purposed Object Compositions
creating artwork from re-purposed everyday consumer products challenged students to re-evaluate what the object of choice was and how they could create new meaning for it.
Advanced drawing & painting
This course continues the study of drawing, painting and printmaking with further emphasis placed on iterations of visual language, the fluid relationship of drawing to painting, contemporary and historical artwork, and principles of composing dynamic space introduced in the previous year. Drawing, painting and printmaking are the primary focus in the fall semester while painting both in acrylic and oil is explored in the spring semester. Emphasis is placed on perceptual drawing and painting applications, architecture, portraiture, still-life, figuration, and landscape. Progress through the year presents opportunities for students to become more self-aware of their specific interests in materials and creative approach. Coursework is designed to further develop technical proficiency into higher levels of facility while fostering a sense of creative independence, vision, self-reflection, and expression.
Advanced Drawing & Painting explored a conventional arrangement of objects and transformed our visual reading of the still life using line as a transformative design element.
transform your hair into a surreal hairscape of unique objects and textures that tell a story.
Drawing & Painting
This course is an exploration of a variety of satisfying media including graphite, charcoal, pastel, ink, block print, watercolor, gouache, collage and acrylic paint. Throughout the year, students explore visual language through an introduction to the elements of art and Principles of design. The fall semester places emphasis on the exploration of line, gesture, form and perspective. The spring semester is dedicated to painting issues consisting of color theory, palette etiquette, color value, and begins a conversation exploring the dynamics of composition and space as it relates to pictorial design. Approaches range in this course from direct observation, invention and the use photographic references that lead to transformation.
