Polk Schools Fine Arts Festival

This year the festival was in Munn Park in Lakeland. It was a great location that got lots of visitors. Thank you to Mr. Scheloske for coming out to see all the artwork. One of our art students, Pedro, even drove all the way over there. He was a great ambassador for Haines City. All the art teachers thought he was great :)

The really exciting news...




Veronica got Best in Show!


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Art 1 - Radial Design

We tried a brand new project this year in Pre IB Art 1 and I'm so happy with how it turned out.  Check out these great radial designs.  Students created a stencil which they used to paint the radial designs.  This project is definitely a keeper, we will do this one again next year.

Samantha

Stephanie

Krishten

Steven

Angelica

Lena

Riane

Student artwork from October and November

Sorry it's been a long time since I posted. Here is some student artwork from first quarter.

In AP art we drew a still life on top of a painted patterned background.

Liana

Devin

Traci

Sarah

In Pre IB art 1 students worked with scratchboard to create work that focused on implied texture with animals as the subject matter.

David

Samantha

Meagan

Logan A.

IB juniors created work exploring texture while IB seniors continued work in their independent investigations.

Ornella

Kayen

Kristina

Paige

Veronica

Stephanie

Haley

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Pre IB Art 1 - Line, Shape, Pattern

Art 1 students have completed their first assignment of the year.  Students used their first name as the main part of a composition including lines and shapes.  They used repetition to unify their designs while using many different types of lines and shapes to add variety.

Brianna

Grace

Lena

Cassidy

Kirshten

Zack

Sara

Angelica

Riane

David

Logan M.

Logan A.

We finished this assignment with a post-it-note class critique.  Students responded to prompts by leaving comments for others by their artwork.

IB Juniors presentations.

In case you missed them or lost your notes, here are the presentations from Friday.

Intro to ib junior year from Michelle Debello

Mechanical object from Michelle Debello

Amazing Scores!

Last Friday our seniors from last year got their IB scores back. This year every IB art senior passed art! I'm excited because this is the first year I have had a 100% pass rate :)

The students put in two years of hard work and they deserve these scores. I am so proud of them.


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Encaustics

This was the second year of experimenting with encaustics, painting with melted wax pigments. I use this as my "after AP project" the portfolios have been submitted but we still have about a month of school so we need to do something fun.





This year we tried using other media with the wax. To start with, we added color to our boards with DynaFlow. You can't use acrylics with the wax because it needs an absorbent surface. Watercolors might work but I haven't tried them yet.












To melt the wax pigments, wax medium, and beeswax I use these metal tins and an electric griddle. Next year I'm getting a small crock pot for the medium.





Students add the wax in layers.






Between each layer the piece needs to be fused with the heat gun.






This year we tried out powdered pigments with the wax. I have metallics, some colors that were donated, and graphite powder. After the wax layer cools, pigments can be brushed on. Depending on how close you hold the heat gun to your work when you fuse this layer, you can get some neat effects.






The other media we used is oil paint. You can incise lines and texture into the cooled wax then rub oil paint into the lines. We used vegetable oil and paper towels to remove the excess.





Some students also embedded string into the layers of wax.






We used clay tools and razor blades to cut into the wax or smooth out the surface. When the wax is completely cooled we buff the piece with paper towels to make them shiny.





The students were quite successful with this project. My focus with this is experimentation rather than a perfect finished product, this allows the students to have fun with it.

My next post will have student examples.

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