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My World
Posted in MSP Painting on Sunday, March 18th, 2012
SAIC young artists learned about collage, perspective, and how to draw from life. They made sketches from nature around Michigan lake and combined with magazines images and photos of themselves to create a composition in a world of their own creation. The collage was then painted over on DuraLar with gouache watercolor.
Drawing The City
Posted in MSP Painting on Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
The eleven to thirteen year-old campers are learning about perspective through drawing Chicago’s city landscape. After looking at the work of Charles Demuth in the Art Institute, the young artists sketched in Millennium Park the skyscrapers of the city. Back in the classroom, they transformed these sketches into larger and more refined drawings, emphasizing on [...]
Making a Crowd
Posted in MSP Painting on Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
To begin their large scale project on crowds of people, the eleven to thirteen year-old multi-arts campers looked at works depicting groups of people in the Impressionist collection of the Art Institute. After considering how depth is created in these paintings through the overlapping of figures and structures in the environment, the young artists sketched [...]
Adrienne’s Painting & Drawing Camp
Posted in MSP Drawing, MSP Painting on Saturday, June 18th, 2011
Adrienne’s Middle School Painting and Drawing campers spent their week in camp on many different projects: · They studied complementary color schemes and created still-life paintings on canvas board. · They created Picasso-inspired portraits while experimenting with color and abstraction. · They assembled Surrealistic collages after viewing paintings in the museum.
Selena’s Painting & Drawing Camp
Posted in MSP Drawing, MSP Painting on Saturday, June 18th, 2011
Middle School Painting and Drawing campers worked on many different projects throughout their one week camp, including… · They created torn paper collage portraits after studying facial proportions. · They explored the figure, fantasy and surrealism using color chalk pastel on black paper. · They viewed the cubist work of Picasso and then created monochrome [...]
Stencils and Still-Lifes
Posted in MSP Painting on Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
Aspiring painters in Erin’s class worked to reproduce a still life of fruits and vegetables. The artists then applied paint through stencils to add a dose of abstract into their paintings!
Sundays Afternoons…
Posted in MSP Painting on Saturday, March 12th, 2011
After developing compositions based on Seurat’s A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, students in Erin’s painting class discussed how artists can apply paint with different techniques to produce movement and emotion.
