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I'd like to thank all the students who chose to learn about one of my favorite potters, Maria Martinez!  Great work, and "high five" to:  Morgan (Evergreen) , Ivy , Hunter , Joel , Dillon , Morgan   (Westminster) , John-Luc , Tavia , and Parker ! Things are really ramping up in Portraits class! This past week, we opened up our fresh new boxes of "multicultural" crayons, and set to work on practicing shadows and highlights on the face . . .  . . . clearly, we have a number of very talented portrait artists in our class! One great thing about doing portraits is that, as long as you have a mirror, you have a subject to draw! With this kind of talent at HSC, I strongly encourage all the portrait students to practice self-portraits in their spare time!  Fantastic work, Everyone! Students in Explorations in Art (both I and II) spent the past two weeks discovering wood sculpture. After discussing several famous sculptural works, the artists set about making their ow...

Last week I asked students to find their favorite  Native American artist, and four students  really came through! ATCs were given to  John-Luc , Tavia , Hunter , and Morgan , four young artists who are well on their way to winning some very cool art prizes at the end of the semester!  If there was a special prize for best drawing of a kachina , it would definitely go to Morgan! She did the most amazing drawing of a kachina that I've ever seen! Great work! Students in our Drawing and Painting and  Drawing and Printmaking classes all had fun with scratch art this past week! Just like magic, they put their wooden stylus' to the scratch art paper, and revealed wonderful artwork through the process of "taking away." There were many more works than you see here,  but (sadly) my camera shots were mostly a little blurry.  This gives you a really good idea, though, of the  talented artists who attend HSC!  Explorations in Art (I and II) stude...

Quite a few students participated in the web challenge last week, and I'd like to take a moment to recognize them before recapping the work we did in class. Special thanks to: Valencia , John-Luc , Hunter , Parker , Morgan , Tavia ,  Keith , Delaney , and Ivy !   Each of you found your favorite Canadian artist. Great work!  Drawing and Painting students finished their modern masterpieces this past week, and I'm sure you'll agree that these photos were worth waiting for! We learned a lot about the artists' work we copied. Each brush stroke, each decision about placement, and each color choice opened a window on that artist's mind.  While this wasn't necessarily an easy exercise, it was very rewarding when finished!  In Explorations in Art (4th-6th), River finished a magnificent work that he's been laboring over for the past several weeks. It's a pencil on paper work which he calls Nighttime Jazz (below) . He's proven that talent, patience, dedication...

I'd like to thank Miss Elona for leading the Thursday classes this past week. Thanks, Miss Elona! I've been a bit under the weather and, as a result, this weeks post is running late.    In Art from Paper , students finished their self-portraits (above). Can you guess who each one is? Ceramics II students finished up work on their Haniwa figures (above). Each one has its own personality, and we're looking forward to seeing them again after they've been fired. And speaking of things being fired . . . we got lots of fantastic stuff back this past week! Among them were the whistles made by Ceramics II students. After finishing the wet clay work on their Haniwa, students finished work on their whistles by painting them in acrylics . Following are photos of some of the Origami work we did.    Because we had so much fun, and want to do lots of origami projects, we'll be working in this art form for the next few weeks.      Be sure to check back for updates...