Expressions Art Show

Student art from Vanier, Highland and Isfeld is on display at the Muir Gallery in Courtenay all this month. Special credit to Isfeld's Andrea Murphy whose photograph is the basis for the poster and Hannah Mareck who created the poster for the show.

Welcome to Semester 2 Creative Arts

Throughout this semester, we will focus on the Elements of Design. Our first project is a line doodle.

Criteria for this assignment ( marked out of 10)

• need to fill the entire page
• piece should be balanced
• has a focal point
• varies the kind and thickness of lines

 

2011 Grade 11 Clay Projects

Watercolor demo.

Some watercolor leaf and rock
student samples from Creative Arts.

Watercolor Rocks

Our next project will be painting watercolor rocks. You will be painting as though you're looking down at the rocks on a beach or river. Layering is essential for this project. Take your time to try different techniques such as saran-wrap, splattering, shading, in order to create a multi-textured piece.

Sample:

Leaf Paintings

Assignment #3: You are to find two different leaves and trace them onto separate pieces of watercolour paper with a pencil. Next you should wet your background with water, leaving a space around the leaf and complete a wash. Wait for each background to dry before you go on to painting  details within the leaf.

Welcome to the wonderful world of watercolour

We will have the opportunity to play with watercolours over the next couple of weeks.The first assignment is to teach you to blend colours and put a wash onto the paper.

Assignment #1:
Red, yellow,orange (warm wash)
Blue, green (cool wash)
Remember we are doing a wet on wet wash, so add your water first, blend your colours before putting them onto the page, then drop on the paint. Do not forget to leave some white space.

Assignment #2:
Create a wash,any colour, sprinkle some salt onto the page and see what happens.
The last piece of watercolour paper should be used for you to play and experiment...HAVE FUN!

Zentangles

Here is a great video to help with Zentangle Designs. Zentangle patterns

Colour Theory

The new assignment for this week is to test your colour theory. We will be creating colours to match the colour swatches you cut out of magazines.

Description of Assignment: Cut out six colors that you like. (AVOID: black, white, or pure colors. You should be looking for shades or tints of a colour). Glue colour cutouts to a piece of  tag paper, and then using acrylic paints mix your own color to match. Paint your colour next to the magazine colour swatch. Remember paint dries slightly darker. Have fun.

T-Shirt Demo.

Here is a sample of a brightly colored spray paint shirt.
Artist: Brigitte Cattell

Canvas Patch

The latest project is a mixed media piece on a CD case sized canvas. All of the small canvas pieces will be stitched onto a larger piece of canvas and hung in the school. Each piece MUST include a quote which gives some advice to future generations of students at Isfeld. Remember this should be a mixed media piece.

Multimedia Canvas Samples

Here are some samples of finished multimedia canvas work.

Criteria for this assignment includes:

• many layers and textures
• coordinate your colours (do not choose every colour in the book)
• add some text ( a word or quote)
• make sure you have a focal point VERY IMPORTANT!
• ensure your piece is visually pleasing
• THE PIECE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE ON A THEME

Mixed Media Assignment.

Elements required for the mixed media assignment are:
1. Layers/ textures ( gel tranfers, collage, watercolour, stamps, spray paint etc.)
2. Coordinated colors.
3. Text
4. Focal point

Remember, Don't get too attached to your base, layers, layers, layers!

Line Doodles

Some sample artwork from this weeks doodles assignments:

Straight and Curved line design sample student work

Here is some examples from the first project of the year which focuses on the element of LINE.
Students have done a spectaclular job on this assignment, showcasing their originality.

Welcome to Creative Arts 2010/2011

Introduction to Creative Arts 9-11

Welcome back to a new school year at Mark Isfeld, I hope you are looking forward to a creative year ahead! My name is Ms. Chase and I teach Creative Arts 8-11. This class should not be confused with or considered Crafts, there is no such course at Isfeld. Creative Arts focuses primarily on the process of art , elements of design, and exposure and experimentation with a multitude of materials and mediums. Students can be found doing any number of things including: watercolour, ceramics, jewelry making, collage, acrylic painting, paper mache, card making, duct tape wallet construction, and multimedia pieces. In this class, we enjoy making art for arts sake!

Evaluation

Students are evaluated on the products they produce based on meeting the criteria of the assignment, however a significant portion of the grade is based on process. Students are also given a Studio Skills mark based on effort, attention to detail, problem solving, helping out others,proper use of materials and as clean-up.

Assignments: 60%
Studio Skills : 40%

It is my hope to update this site regularly with assignment details and photos of student work and students working.

clay sun - Skye

clay sun - Skye
Originally uploaded by chase.

Yin Yang - Dylan

Yin Yang - Dylan
Originally uploaded by chase.

Strretscene- Annalise

Strretscene- Annalise
Originally uploaded by chase.

Snowboard- Stephen

Snowboard- Stephen
Originally uploaded by chase.