Non-Objective High School Art Painting

For this assignment, I had the kids do an acrylic painting using both organic and geometric non-objective shapes and forms. I showed them work by Frank Stella, Agnes Martin, Helen Frankenthaler, Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, and Todd Chilton. Towards the end I had to help a few of them mess up their nice geometic shapes.

Devon Legge


Jen Jue


Shanika Gilmour


Emily Ottke


Anthony Brewer


Sophie Rosseel


Casey Morgan


Gaby Quintanilla


Tyler Hefner


Lauren Taniguchi

Proportion Portrait High School Art

For a whole class period, I had the kids measure eachother's faces. For example a measurement from the middle of the eye to the top of the head or bottom of the nose to middle of the mouth. When all of the face measurements were done, I had them contruct a face according to the average of all the facial proportions we had measured. This is what they came up with.

Devon Legge
Sophie Rosseel
Anthony Brewer
Emily Ottke
Gaby Quintanilla
Jen Jue
Shani Gilmour
Lauren Taniguchi

Personal Identity Collage High School Art

My art theory 1 class had to make a collage using imagery that illustrated their personal identity. Pretty happy how these turned out.

Lauren Taniguchi
Casey Morgan
Jen Jue
Gaby Quintanilla
Sophie Rosseel
Emily Ottke
Anthony Brewer
Devon Legge
Shanni Gilmour
Tyler Heffner

2-Point Perspective High School Art

These are two of the outstanding two-point perspective assignments from last semester.

Klaire Korver (11th grade)
Lauren Chen (10th grade)

Consumer Photoshop High School Art

This photoshop assignment had the students making a piece about consumption. I can't remember the names of the artists we looked at.

Maddy Fraioli
Carole Daniel
Sam Krug

Sphere Drawing High School Art

This assignment is for my sophomores. Draw a sphere. They were given 2 periods.Shani Gilmour
Devon Legge
Lauren Taniguchi
Sophi Rosseel
Jen Jue
Anthony Brewer
Tyler Heffner
Emily Ottke
Gaby Quintanilla
Casey Morgan

Paper Cut High School Art

We started off by looking at Lane Twitchell's work. The kids had to do their own paper cut with content that reflected their personal identity.

Katie Cosner
Allie Butters
Klaire Korver

Graffiti Poster High School Art

In this assignment for my studio class, they had to make a faux-poster that would be hung up around school. The subject matter could be anything they wanted. The documentation of the installed work was emphasized as being just as important or more so than the actual piece. I hope some kids or teachers do get confused.

Ellen Shmunis (the clock is the poster that Ellen made above the real school poster)
Andrew Kruep
Eric Pyka
Sarah Brenneman
Leslie Koyama
Emma Polster