Category: Blog – Art
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Our Easter Phoenix
There’s a great deal of Christian heritage and tradition that is simply unknown to modern Christians, as our abbot’s recent cathedral pilgrimage amply demonstrates. Once you get a proper command of Christian iconography, it’s hard not to be dismayed at how much spiritual richness the wider church is missing out on. It’s quite encouraging, then,…
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Christmas Sparkle Necklaces
Renee designed these two necklaces and earrings because she wanted something sparkly and red for Christmastime! The necklaces are made with glass, acrylic, and metal beads. The clear diamond-shaped pendant (on the second necklace) was fused by Renee using a microwave kiln.
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Caricatures
Leah makes us all smile with her cute and quirky caricatures. These sketches feature herself, her sister Ellie, her cousin Sammy, and her friend Andrew.
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Leah’s Cross Sculpture
Leah designed and created this gorgeous cross with Super Sculpey. Super Sculpey is a clay that can be shaped and hardened by baking it in an oven. Leah painted the cross with acrylic paint after it was baked.
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Monochromatic Drawings
These drawings were done by our 3rd and 6th grade art class earlier this year. They are monochromatic drawings using white colored pencil on black construction paper, which is different than most monochromatic drawings that are usually done on white paper with gray or black pencils.
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Jr. High Fine Art Competition
Every year through GSACS (Garden State Association of Christian Schools) our students participate in a Fine Arts Day with a number of other schools. These are the pieces that were entered for the 2009 Jr. High Fine Arts Competition.
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Third Quarter Sketchbook Series
For third quarter in art class, the weekly sketchbook assignment is a little different than normal. Taking some principles from the book Visual Literacy, the class must take an ordinary, everyday object and make it interesting. An example of this would be taking a dinner plate and drawing it as a flying saucer. The object…
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Art Class Monochromatic Drawings
Our art classes have been doing monochromatic drawings as of late. The tendency is to think of monochromatic drawings as being pencil or pen drawings – a black medium on white paper. However, monochromatic drawings can also consist of black and white pencil on brown paper, or even white pencil on black paper; which the…
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The Great Seed Heist – Jared Barton
The Great Seed Heist is a book that Jared has been working on for the past few years. The book tells the story of Tommy the Squirrel, his best friend Harley, and the great adventures that they have together. Throughout the story, Tommy and Harley have many dangerous close encounters; but they eventually get back…
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First, Third and Fifth Grade Art Classes
For first quarter in Art Class, the kids all learned watercoloring. Because we have a small school, the art classes are sometimes combined. This quarter the first, third, and sixth graders all learned how to watercolor for the first time; using First Steps Painting Watercolors by Cathy Johnson. The results were absolutely astounding! 1st Grade…