The Art of Collage

Map of My World by Jordan Finnerty
Let's Make this by Rachel Kincade

A collage is a work of formal art, primarily in the visual arts, made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole.

Spiral by Veronica Wittig

Oops by Chasity Benne

Coil Pot

Coil Pot by Levi Mathers

A coil pot is a pot made with spiral of clay a pot formed from a structure of coils or ropes of clay laid one on top of the other in a spiral.

The Handbook

Handbook by Kirsten Colegrove

Sculpture & Pottery students are continuing to work on Altered Book projects. These projects are a chance to experiment with some of the techniques they've learned for three-dimensional art. Many of them look great hanging like mobiles.

Jasper Johns Project

Flag, 1954 by Jasper Johns

Is it a flag, or is it art? Why paint a flag? Johns said that he had a dream that he had been painting a flag. He woke up and painted one. Later he said that it was because “no one had looked at it in a long time.”

His Flag is full of stories. Under its soft, waxy, rough-smooth surface are headlines and stories clipped out of newspapers, barely visible in reproduction. In the gallery, the stories are dimly read through ghostly suspensions of white between the red bars. Their spectral presence suggests that under the surface of the flag's simple iconic presence are complicated lives, happenings and secrets. The simple banner conceals untold possibilities. For us, looking at this Flag may be a reminder of what ought to be obvious: that nations, like individuals, cannot be summed up easily.



For this project, Drawing & Painting students chose a symbol. They created a stencil for that symbol. After gluing collage elements to a canvas panel, they partially obscured the imagery with paint. Then, they stenciled the symbol over the scene. Here are a few of the finished projects.

Zoso by Levi Mathers

Dollar Signs by Logan Anthony

Creed by Helin Douglas

Pollution
by Andrew Jackson

We got this idea from an issue of Scholastic Art magazine.

Abstract Acrylic

Art I students made abstract paintings with acrylic on canvas paper. The assignment was to demonstrate the following techniques:

1. Impasto- an art term used to describe thickly textured paint that is almost three-dimensional in appearance.
2. Masking- students used masking tape to block off an area to paint within. When the tape was removed, it left a hard-edged shape.
3. Stenciling- some students used existing stencils and others created their own.
4. Scumbling- applying an uneven layer of paint over a dry, thin, relatively oil-free underpainting so that the first colour shows through to some extent.

The Tree of Life

This project is not by an art class, but by my "advisory", or home room. The school is holding a classroom door decoration contest for the holidays. The theme making good choices and avoiding destructive decisions.

The tree is decorated by the students, who are quite fond of glitter. The caricatures are by me, but colored by students. The star is the student's homeroom teacher!

Bust Sculptures

Brittany Holmes

A bust is a sculptured, painted, drawn, or engraved representation of the upper part of the human figure, esp. a portrait sculpture showing only the head and shoulders of the subject. S&P classes recently created busts from clay.

Levi Mathers

Sara Slocum

Ashlee Fisher

Mara Tate