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In our throw-away and digital society, the concept and necessity of using Palimpsests are outdated and antiquated ones.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

Creating a High Contrast Stencil

Step 1: Take a high contrast photo. There should be shapes that are really light highlights and shapes that are really dark shadows.

Step 2: Trace the shapes that you want to cut out

Step 3: Prepare your background (if you need to.)

Step 4: Cut out your shapes.

Step 5: Spray or paint in the stencil shapes.

India Ink and Charcoal

So far the goal I have of working with my students this year is going well. We have done some expressive little india ink drawings, and charcoal still-life drawings in black and white.

Stencil Self-Portrait

Highlights: Find the lightest areas of an image and cut them out.

Spray or brush the light color in the highlight shapes.

Shadows: Find the darkest values in an image. It helped me to draw over them with a black marker.

Cut dark shadows out.

Line up your image with the first stencil color. Spray or brush through the stencil. 

Now you have an image with highlights, mid-tones, and shadows. I think my mid-tones are a bit dark here, so it's not as successful as it could be.

This is from a session I went to at the NAEA Convention in March called "Tag It" A Unit on Graffiti and Stencil Street Art by Deborah Huff. Nasco has published this lesson plan as well.

Painting 3 of Student Series

I Finally finished it!

Medium: Acrylic paint on canvas paper

Title: Justin

Date: March 2017

Collage

More Decontextualization Images

Quotation:

Cliché:

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