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Before the end of the school year, students in the Painting 1a class completed a monochromatic self-portrait project. Generating a self-portrait is hard work, as the experience connects deeply to one’s identity and how the artists see themselves in the world. To begin, the artists in both sections looked at self-portraits from Andy Warhol, Lucien …
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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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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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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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Ascha Drake's Painting 1A were just entering into the world of paint and color, so to gain sensitivity she assigned them the Color Walk writing for homework. They each had to walk for at least one hour, uninterrupted, with no goal or destination in mind. Phones and iPods had to be left at home, and …
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