The Art Foundations 4 art students are at it again. They are currently working on interpreting a compound word into a functional work of art. With over 2,000 compounds words available who wouldn’t want to make this project?
Can you name that compound word?
The Advanced 3-D Design students are creating prototypes for future inventions based on their daily consumption of electronics, fashion, technology, etc. Visit us for more images.
On January 14, 2012, North High School Art Department hosted its 1st Annual Art Teacher Idea Exchange hosted by the Wisconsin Art Education Association and local WAEA members, Carol Rokicki of North/South High School and Brian Sommersberger of Random Lake Elementary School worked together along with Lee Amborn of Black River Falls Middle School to develop an open invitation to K-12 art educators in the North East Region, which included local colleges and private schools. Lee Amborn has been doing the Annual Art Teacher’s Idea Exchange in his district for the last 28 years.
Carol and Brian thought it would be a wonderful opportunity for art teachers to get together and exchange ideas/lesson plans and instructional thoughts. Those who participated were told to bring numerous copies of one lesson plan plus visual samples. Teachers were also asked to bring one “teacher tip” to share. Participants were excited about having the opportunity to see different ideas and approaches to art instruction. About 10 art educators attended the 1st Annual Art Teacher’s Idea Exchange from various grade levels and districts. The 2nd Annual Art Teacher Annual Idea Exchange is already being planned for next year.
Brian Sommersberger is currently serving as WAEA’s North East Regional Vice-President. Carol Rokicki is currently serving as WAEA’s Secondary Representative.
I am Kristi, the artist of this optical illusion. This piece was done in 2011, my sophomore year at Sheboygan North High school. I have been taking art all my life and it has become on of my many passions. This piece was an art project and is now a mural. This piece was inspired by doodling. my ideas never fully spark until I have the paper in front of me and I just draw. I sit and draw lots of different ideas and they are never fully developed until the last minute.
I began with 9 squares and drew different patterns and designs in each given square. The patterns consisted of line and shapes like squares, rectangles and circles. The large circles in the painting are giving the window affect. Looking into the painting it will seem like you are looking out a window through the circles and squares. This was a class project where I began to sketch it out into my sketchbook and my teacher suggested on making a larger scale of this piece. I used a large compass and a ruler to draw it out; it was colored in with black sharpies. This large scaled optical illusion has now become a piece of art on the wall of the North High basement outside of room 025.
This painting is in progress.
Yesterday, our 3rd visiting artist was Melissa Dorn Richards, an oil painter from Milwaukee. She finds ideas and inspiration from everyday objects that we often overlook on a daily basis or take for granted. Her application, limited use of color and chosen imagery delivers a powerful visual impact on what truly is seen as “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”.
Melissa talking about one of her paintings
Her Artist Statement:
Sometimes it is an object that catches my eye; at other times, it is a pattern. I take that object or pattern out of context, removing the extraneous, and re-present it to you to again consider and examine. I am intent on capturing and focusing your attention on that “thing” that has caught my eye by using bold color and employing lines or shapes to control and add impact.
It is the exploration of color and shape that I am most interested in. Organic shapes are the most appealing to me because they are often slightly asymmetrical, which works within the context of how I use line. The line, or outline, in my work is never perfect, the thickness of the line varies as it follows the shape creating an even more asymmetrical form.
There is rarely angst in my work, more likely you’ll find a veiled sense of humor and a certain pleasure in their simplicity.
Visit her at www.melissadornrichards.com to learn more about Melissa and to see more work.
– NHS Art Department
Our group has put to use everyone’s ideas to create a masterpiece of the egyptian women. By incorporating everyone’s ideas, we are all able to take credit for our artwork, which no one is left out. Our outline for the chosen artwork was based on royal cards. Also, we decided to put a “slave” version of AIDA on one half and the “royal” version of her on the other half of the rough draft, following the concept of a royal card.
One of our proposed sketches.
We incorporated the colors that was listed under the color scheme into our artwork. The reason for our border and writing AIDA in Egyptian letters was to add an effect to the Egyptian theme.
Submitted by CharlesX
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