Saturday Studios | High School Painting | Spring 2018 8 Saturday classes, 9:30-12pm
Class Description:
In this studio, we explored the world of painting, working both from observation and imagination. Through exploring and experimenting with, color, composition, value, texture, mark-making, materials and ideas, we created dynamic paintings that express our ideas. We also studied techniques of monotype, as a bridge between painting and printmaking, and
stained glass, as an applied art. We developed our abilities in collaboration, working together to make art. We addressed the question, ”What is the role of painting today in this time of digital technology? ‘’ Art, and especially painting as a visual art, plays a role as a tool of investigating, understanding, knowing, connecting with our surroundings, the environment we live. Painting is a medium of expressing our emotions, thoughts and dreams which visualizes the individuality of each student. We do not attempt to flatten these personalities but to bring them forward. Students learned to look for beauty, balance and harmony everywhere around them, to observe and empathize, to look inside themselves and pay attention to their inner artistic voice. Our generative topics included: Afterimages exercise, color theory, working from observation, use of objects as a starting point for our own imaginative painting, color interactions based on the exercises of Joseph Albers, color matching, still life painting interpretations, color relationships, composition, collaborative painting, stained glass project, printmaking: trace, additive, reduction monotypes, self-directed projects, self expression, portrait sketching.
Student Work
Mehmet Kraja 