Local Arist Apprecation - Ryan McGinness

Ryan McGinness 

Acrylic on Canvas

This painter uses constant symmetrically balanced lines to build the 

visual texture of his paintings. 

Each line is carefully crafted at specific values to achieve making some lines look as 

if they are further back than others.

Third Grade Organic Forms - Pastel Drawings and Clay Sculptures

The third grade students learned about organic forms from nature and how they differ from the common shapes we learn about in school. Form versus Shape is a common practice in studying visual arts. This sculpture lesson started with a study of the nature forms by enlarging it's size and adding colors that were not actually present in the original form. 

I collected items like seashells, coral and tree bark, items that contained various curves and texture.

 

Using pencil and then pastel, students colorful blending techniques to show texture and depth.

 

  

  

We then began making a sculpture of the organic form using additive and subtractive methods.

 

 

  

The last step is to add color using acrylic paint because of its opaque qualities. I gave the students very fine brushes to help them paint different colors in tight areas and to be able to add fine details.

I instructed the students to paint more than one layer of paint to allow the sculpture to have thicker color and more value. 

 

  

  

  

 Andy Goldsworthy is a nature artist whose work is almost completely derived from mother earth. 

While on hiking journeys, Andy Goldsworthy searches for specific pieces of nature to be used in future sculptures that re-define the idea of form.

Always making sure to place his work in the places where he collected the objects, 

Goldsworthy changes the natural landscape with color and size.

 

 

In our Kindergarten project, I brought in various objects from nature and from the art studio.

Each student worked as partners to re- arrange and re -work a given material into an Andy Goldsworthy inspired sculpture.  

The children learned about balance and placement to create a sculpture.