LEGO Brick art- Nathan Sawaya at Faneuil Hall

Nathan Sawaya

This is a video of a street spray painter. I think this is really amazing because he uses everyday objects like yogurt caps and tape to make the shapes that the paint forms in and it does not look like he is making anything impressive but at the end it all comes together and looks incredible. When I was in New York City this summer I saw a street painter who used these same techniques and I have one of his paintings in my room at home now.

Lesley University's high school student artist workshop

Saturday, December 06, 2014

9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

You’ve been inundated with college information. You’ve looked at pictures, and maybe even toured a campus or two. But have you had a true college experience?

At Lesley University’s Workshop Visit Day, you’ll stop being an observer of the college process and start being a participant.

• Attend workshops geared at giving you a first-hand look at your future studies in the Arts, Creative Writing, Psychology and Applied Therapy, or Education
• Tour our Cambridge campus - just minutes from Boston - and get a sneak preview of life in America's college town
• Get tips about the application process, and enjoy lunch on us

RSVP Today to reserve your spot!

http://www.lesley.edu/EventDetail.aspx?id=19773

Speed Painting of a Jacaranda Tree

After Gagnon painted a beautiful cloud, I didn't know what to think when he (the painter Tim Gagnon) went on to cover it up almost entirely by the tree in the foreground! In the end, it's a good lesson on being willing to let go of some aspects of a piece for others, as will as a visual lecture on the effectiveness of using different brushwork for texture.

Thomas's art process page

Nicole's art process page

Anna's process page

Painting a Simple Watercolor Landscape

This video, although using very basic techniques, ends up looking surprisingly nice for it's simplicity!

Weston Public LIbrary- Teen Comic, November 22nd, 12:30-2pm

Teen Comic Drawing Workshop
		Contact: Youth Services   781-786-6166   smitchill@minlib.net
		Open to teens in grades 6-12.  Sign up is required.  Please contact Youth Services to register. Back By Popular Demand - This workshop will build upon Jack Purcell's spring workshop to further teach basic drawing techniques,  character design, and page design.  Jack works in penciling and inking and has worked on a variety of titles for Marvel Comics and DC Comics including Gotham Underground, Teen Titans, Batman, Countdown, Batgirl and others.  Jack has also taught comic art drawing classes for the past 20 years.

mural

I like this mural because it's abstract and simple at the same time. It has some surrealist attributes and the colors go along well.

Student art work selected for the THE CURRENT

Congrats to Sophia, Leah, Langley, Gaby and John for their work being displayed for THE CURRENT.
Please let me know if you would like a title for your piece.

Contact info: Alexandra Palocz, thecurrent@my.weston.org

Influential People Mural Idea

I think that we should do something a little graphic. I also think that we should incorporate something that represents our time now, 2015 ish. People probably wont paint over this mural for a long time, so we should do something that marks our time here.

My idea is to create a grid on each wall. In each square of the grid, we should paint pop art-like portraits of influential people from our time, writers, musicians, politicians, ect... We can make stencils of those people in class and then paint them up on the wall, which shouldn't take long because the stencils will already be done. It will be a really graphic looking hallway that marks our time at Weston High and will also be entertaining for kids who don't take art.

This kind of thing, replicated a hundred times, just not Marylyn. It would be of people such as Beyonce, Obama, Nelson Mandela, Annie Leibovitz, Oprah, Ellen, Michael Jackson, Mr. Parker, Leonardo DiCaprio, Angelina Jolie ect... 

Nicole's art mural ideas

The first art picture is really cool to me because it looks weird. I think that how the bricks are lining up and how they shape when they get to the top looks nice. 

I really also like the second picture because the eyes are kind of scary to me and it looks cool. I also like how their are many different colors in this art wall mural. 

-Nicole Davenport 

Mural Ideas

I like this because it is simple and ill be easy for everyone to do and it is not to distracting but looks clean and nice. We could also do a bunch of different shades of a color.

I like this idea of making the mural an optical illusion. We could simplify the idea and make it not as detailed but I think a lot of people would find it very cool interest if we could execute it pretty well.









Something like this might be too difficult for everyone to be involved in but I like the idea of doing something underwater and almost like you are walking on the bottom of the ocean.

it has a literary reference so it makes sense in school

i think it would look really cool if this was in the hallway

Colorful patterns for murals

Mural Ideas (from Pinterest)

Mural Ideas

I think that these two could be interesting, because the hallway we are working on gets

very little natural light, so using these sunset colors could be really beautiful. It wouldn't be too bright, and the dark tones of the trees could be fun to play with.

cool murals