Free Art portfolio

Hello All-  

You may already be aware of this portfolio review opportunity on December 11th at the Concord Center for Visual Arts from Claire Lieu ( RISD ), but I thought I'd pass it along:

https://claralieu.wordpress.com/fall-2016-free-portfolio-review-events/

Also, here's a resource for students grades 9-12 to upload their work and get it critiqued.

https://aicad.slideroom.com/#/Login

Hope your years are going well. Good luck with Scholastics.

-Sean

Sean Hagan

K-12 Visual Arts Program Director

Bedford Public Schools

9 Mudge Way

Bedford, MA

Why Children's drawings matter

Why children's drawings matter

Graffiti Girls video

Graffiti girls

Senior Legacy mural 2017

Landscape Painting Ideas Monique Moon

Photos I've taken in New Zealand and on Lake Winnipesaukee

Waltham mills open studios, November 4th,5th, 6th

Local artist to watch in Waltham

Waltham Mills Open studios

Ryan's Senior Mural Idea 2017

This is my idea for the mural background. The image itself isn't what I think the mural should look like, but I think it has some really good features we could incorporate into the piece. If the sun were placed the the middle of the horizon, as such, it might hit the birds in really interesting ways - such as framing them in light, sorta like halos around their bodies - and overall add to the beauty of the mural. I definitely like having the dark mountains in the mid-ground, although having the grass as colorful as at is above might add too many colors such that it would distract from the painting's main idea: the birds. It would be interesting to play with the shades of the grass, although I don't think it should vary a lot in terms of the colors used, if we do decide to incorporate it.

Zoe Walker's art process page

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PZ9PBqPqmk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7d8HnfiE3k

Land Sake Farm

Caroline's artshare post

Hi mrs hom! this is for my art share posts!

I thought this video was really interesting because it shows this artists skills of drawing animals which is something I love. the paint strokes are insane it looks so much like real fur. The eye is also does with so many details. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7d8HnfiE3k

This is something similar but also different because its of a person which at some point i would love to paint. The eyesore are also so so amazing. 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArdNXy5PPKw

This is my most recent artwork. I've been working hard on my RISD application. I've been editing a lot of my old work hoping to impress the admissions team
Feel free to leave comments

Jeff's artshare post- Senior mural 2017

Here's my suggestion about the background: a combination of these two images. Because the birds in the painting are moving (although this is a instantaneous image) from left bottom to right top, a diagonal leading line in background will make a better effect of movement. Meanwhile, each bird is in high contrast, which indicates that the light should basically come from one direction. Considering the aesthetic conclusion, a sunset in background will be a good choice.

Best,

Jeff

Senior Mural background Idea

The background could be a blue sky like this with some more colors. The clouds could appear more blurry and simple to not take any focus off of the origami cranes.

MacBeth p4

MacBeth p3 Hayes

MacBeth p2 Hayes

MacBeth Motif p1

Weston Wildcats Banner!

Thank you Art club!  
Presidents- Julia Tang, Emily Kim and Natalie Tak

Free event at Brandeis University

I'm Eddy from the Brandeis University Education for Students by Students Club, and we are hosting a one-day event called Splash where high school students can come take classes taught by Brandeis Undergraduates in a variety of courses. This year we are offering classes about Jewelry-making, traditional music, Japanese paper Origami folding, etc. I was hoping that you may be able to reach out to your Arts students regarding this event on November 12th, 2016. This will also be a good opportunity for the students to do a college visit if they have any interest in applying in the near future. Thanks for your time and feel free to email me back with questions.

Best wishes,

ESS Senior Advisor

Eddy Zheng

P.S. I've attached our website information and full course catalog below.

Spencer's art process page

Nick's post regarding legacy mural background

This could be the background because it is a really cool mountain and shows a road going off into the distance to represent the heights they are going to go to (Mountains) and the road that takes them off into the distance and on with their lives. 

2016-10-18 7:46 GMT-04:00 Nicholas Proll <18prolln@my.weston.org>:

Natalie's post

The trip to land sake farm on Friday was for sure a field trip all art classes should take in the future. The run there allowed me to clear my mind, and made me more focused when drawing. There were so many different approaches one could take on this trip. For me, I set myself near the chicken coop, where I drew close ups, and full views of what I saw at the chicken coop. If you were not going to take this route, there were field of flowers, produce, and large, branchy trees. In addition, there were wheel barrels and swings that I know people liked to draw and take pictures of. Nevertheless, it was an amazing, transcendentalist experience, that opened the doors to more nature and art. 

Senior Mural Background

I think because the birds are so colorful and there are so many of them, a busy background would distract the piece or make it messy. Instead I think we should do an ombré sunset type thing

2017 Senior legacy mural

Please post background options. Use photo references to blog backgrounds. Sunset, sunrise, farm background, etc.?

Field Trip Reflection

For the Land Sake Farm Field trip, I thought the whole experience was transcendental. The jog in the morning was kinda burning my legs and hands because the wind was so cold but it was so beautiful out and it was so nice to not be in school and be running instead. When we got there, having been so much faster then everyone else, Natalie Casey and I just sat in a tree. By the time everyone got there, we grabbed our paper and pencils and I went over to draw a wheel barrel. I found it interesting to just be using a pencil to draw something, although I have done multiple portraits, none of them were still life or not off of a photo. In a way, I found the pencil restricting but I continued to play with the sketch until I could really pull the piece together. The trees and leaves and grass and sun were all so beautiful but I wanted to use color, the pencil seemed like it took so much away from the beauty so I avoided drawing objects of color.

Land Sake Farm Pictures

Idea for senior mural background: The background could be a landscape with a fall theme(red/orange/gold trees, blue sky)