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The Sculpture 1B artists were given a design challenge: construct his or her spirit animal out of cardboard and transform their person in some way. Students merged math and art by generating paper prototypes that helped them brainstorm the best strategies to design a simple, yet beautiful form. Some students chose to transform their heads, …
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Printmaking bridges drawing and painting. The Advanced Drawing and Painting artists are taking their favorite drawings from their life drawing sessions and transforming them into prints. Many students are working with reductive lino cut techniques while some students are gravitating towards incising into Styrofoam and inking and printing from that surface. Others are working with …
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We ventured to SCRAP (SF's Scroungers Center for Reusable Art Parts) to collect materials for the next project of the term: Transformed Treasures. They faced a challenge very similar to an episode of Project Runway. The challenge: in 20 minutes, students had to select a lot of one type of object, collecting everything in paper …
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Last week, the Advanced Drawing and Painting Studio classes went to the de Young museum to see the exhibition “Modernism from the National Gallery of Art." Students were struck by the magnificent size of many of the works, and amazed by the layering of paint and materials. Three students shared their reflections with us. "This …
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Arts Instructor Ascha Drake shares her art classes' experience at the de Young's current exhibit. Students in the Drawing 1A and Painting 1A classes ventured to the de Young last week to see the David Hockney exhibition, which is up through Jan. 20. It is the largest show in the history …
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