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Arts Instructor Ascha Drake shares about a recent outing to a local installation. On Nov. 8, the Drawing 1A and Drawing 1B classes ventured to Andy Goldsworthy's third Presidio installation, "Tree Fall." It is located in Building 95, just up the hill from The Bay School, and it will be there for an indefinite amount of …
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Arts Instructor Alison Frost shares a student-inspired lesson on color. In Drawing 1B, we began our unit on color by looking at the color wheel. I was explaining to the students how each medium that they use consists of a pigment and a binder, and that each pigment has its own qualities, just like …
Arts Instructor Ascha Drake shares excerpts from a recent lesson on color. The Painting 1A artists are beginning to think and work with color. The painters began the term using only black and white and shades of gray, so diving into color requires some thinking and patience. There is a complexity to color that is …
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Looking for something to do? Arts Instructor Ascha Drake reccommends the following cultural happenings for students and adults alike! The Oakland Museum celebrates The Day of the Dead http://museumca.org/event/19th-annual-days-dead-community-celebration Andy Goldsworthy’s Tree Fall in the Presidio ( just opened ! ) http://www.presidio.gov/about/press/Pages/Presidio-Trust-announces-opening-of-Tree-Fall.aspx David Hockney at the de Young Museum (opens Oct. 26) http://deyoung.famsf.org/ Matisse at …
Arts instructor Ascha Drake shares about her students' experiences on a recent field trip. On Sept. 27 the Painting 1A class headed over to the de Young Museum to view the Richard Diebenkorn exhibit. Diebenkorn was struck by the beauty and landscape of the Bay Area, and he developed his own style of Abstract Expressionist …
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