Storytelling and Bookmaking

We are partnering with the Morgan Library this year to create illuminated manuscripts with gold leaf and hand mixed paints. Here is my planning process. This is based on a story I have been brainstorming for years: I Hate Birds.

Three notecards with beginning, middle, and end of the narrative.

 Narrative sketch *cutting out inessential words and ideas

Title Page

Student Painting Number Five

Medium: Acrylic paint on canvas

Title: Alexis

Date: November 2018

Palimpsest Drawing

In our throw-away and digital society, the concept and necessity of using Palimpsests are outdated and antiquated ones.

In art, you can get an interesting visual look by writing over and over on a piece of paper and then creating a realistic or non-objective scene that represents the words. I had students choose an overarching theme and then a word and a quotation that goes with that idea. Students free-wrote about their theme, gessoed over the words, then wrote the word and quote, and finally created an image over all those previous layers.

Song lyrics: Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol

Student Painting Number Four

Medium: Acrylic paint on canvas

Title: Patricia

Date: June 2018

Art and Social Justice Issues

Who is America for?

Drawing in my sketchbook

Gridded photocopy

Enlargement with Text and Colored Pencils

Fan Art

Kate and Rana

Ibtihaj Muhammad (not finished)

Sara Ramirez with a quotation from Grey's Anatomy.

Teacher Appreciation Week

NAHS students made teacher appreciation posters for all of my colleagues. I made a few as examples.

Embroidery: Drawing with Thread

I like to work on these when I travel, so these were all made or started around the NAEA Convention in Seattle.

Your Eyelids are Getting Heavy (10-inch hoop)

Viking (7-inch hoop)

Cloudburst Brewing Logo (I will work for beer!) (7-inch hoop)

Process picture

Sara Ramirez Embroidery with Snow Patrol lyrics (10-inch hoop)

Embroidery as Drawing

 I started with a photo I took at the Bronx Zoo two summers ago. 

 

I sketched it in my sketchbook in pencil and then drew over my lines with a black marker.

I traced my marker drawing onto muslin with a pencil.

It was really fun to do and I like how it turned out.

Adobe Spark Learning Journal: Comics in the Classroom

I'm taking a comics class right now through the Adobe Education Exchange. Click here to find some fun free online classes from Adobe.

Double Exposure Using Photoshop

I have always loved this look. Now I can make it and so can you...

The article from Create Magazine that explains how to do it.