Happy New School Year! I'm excited to work with all my new classes. 

There's a cool new movie coming out...maybe there's a field trip in our future? Watch:

Friday, March 24, 2017  

The Cloisters at the Met Museum, NYC

If you attend the museum in person, you will see and sketch several of the pieces of art there. If you stay behind and are in class on this day, watch this video about the sculptural work on display there.

Miniature Sculpture

These pieces were designed for a Christian audience who were devoted to prayer and knew the bible stories. We are going to update and broaden the target audience. We will create a miniature sculpture to depict a story known in our current culture. It could be a popular book or movie or even a fable or fairy tale. While we cannot duplicate the intricacy of the boxwood carvings (yet!), we can use available materials to create miniatures with high detail. 

Procedure: (Do this on Friday in class)

1. Decide which story you would like to illustrate/sculpt.

2. Make a quick, simple sketch of the scene from this story.

3. Decide what the background, middleground and foreground of this scene will be.

4. Draw and color in the background and glue it into the Altoids box. It should fit perfectly - no box showing.

5. Draw and color the middlegound and carefully cut it out with scissors or knife. Glue it into place in the box, using spacers to separate it from the background enough to create depth.

6. Repeat for the foreground of the scene.

7. Decorate the outside edges of the box to complement the scene inside.

Mick Napier: A Place of Yes

Recent Work - Cubist Portraits

Art To See in Massachusetts

Sol LeWitt exhibit at Mass MOCA

I recently visited Mass MOCA and The Clark Institute while attending the Massachusetts Art Education Conference in North Adams, MA.

We are lucky to have so many wonderful museums close by. Go for a visit and be inspired to make your own art!

Happy New School Year!

Here is a little bit of the Art work that has been coming out of classes this Fall.

Hi Everyone,

This year, first semester, I am teaching Art III, Foundations, Clay I, and Art I. There is a page here for each of those courses, and each page has a course overview and homework list. Hope to see you in the Art Room!

AP Summer Work - Clarification!

Jay P. sent an email seeking clarification of the many papers I gave you before school closed. Here is my response to him. I thought I would share it here in case any of you are wondering...Happy Art Making!

You are being graded on 5 total projects. 3 must be drawings (although you may draw with pencil or crayon or ink. Understand drawing here to mean not an aqueous medium, not a collage, not a digital artwork.) The other 2 can be any medium of your choice. That might mean more drawing, but it could mean any of the above-mentioned media that are "not drawing".

You should, in addition to these more completed projects, also be doodling, scribbling, thinking in your sketchbook. Though I did not it in print, your summer sketchbook will be graded along with your first sketchbook prompt in September. (I guess I thought we were all at the point where we know how valuable sketchbook is, so I didn't think I needed to be all teacher-y about how it is graded?)

The blue worksheet is not mandatory, it is simply a list of ideas in case you're out of them. There is no "large vs. small sketchbook". Work in whatever size sketchbook you have. The 5 assignments should be as close to the sizes I specified on the Summer Assignments sheet as possible.