Ohio State Fair Winner High School Art

A student of mine entered the Ohio State Fair over the summer with a painting she did last year. She won a Best in Show and 1st Place Easton Award worth $1,000! Very proud of her. She has gone on to study Art Therapy in college this year.

Digital Observational Drawing Outside High School Art

Students took their electronic devices outside to draw last week due to the beautiful weather. Some were using laptops and others brought in their tablets and were using the Sketchbook Express App.

Film Studies Documentary High School Art

This documentary was made by one of our 9th graders. She won the Best in Show at our Upper School Art Show a few weeks ago.

Sketchbook Celebrity & Friends Faces High School Art

Collages Figure Study High School Art

Acrylic Self Portrait Without Grid High School Art

Logo Design Using Inkscape High School Art

Human Proportions with Skeleton High School Art

Upper School Juried Exhibition High School Art

Finally finished hanging art for our first, Upper School Juried Art Exhibition. We asked Alana Twelmeyer to be our juror. She is an Art Director for Rogue Fitness here in Columbus and did a fantastic job. I haven't posted images of the two projections we will have going during the opening that will showcase work from the Digital Art class and Film Studies. We are pretty happy with how it looks so far.

Taylor McKimens Portrait High School Art

For this assignment I showed students portraits done by Taylor McKimens, Kyle Ranson, and Vincent van Gogh. They started their pieces by doing a watercolor wash underpainting. They then blocked in with acrylic the areas of hair and face with light color. The final step is to draw in the face with black and colored sharpies using tapered lines. I would have had them use brushes, but I think we ran out of small good brushes that can make that type of line work. This might be a little much for a class that is mostly 9th and 10th graders.

Art Show Poster High School Art

Anime Self Portrait High School Art