Major Art/Minor Artists
June 6 - September 10, 2008Orange Coast College Art Center2701 Fairview Road, Costa Mesa, CA 92626
Exhibit open Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Santa Ana Unified School District SPECIAL STUDIO Art Program
with Cheryl Michelon & Helen Seigel, Artists-in-the-Schools
2007/2008 students represent
Esqueda, Jackson, Roosevelt and Walker Elementary Schools
Parking: Park in Lot D on Merrimac St.
(between Fairview Road & Harbor Blvd.)
Metered parking available.
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 5, from 6 to 8 p.m.OCC Art Center classrooms will be open to view.
Art Faculty will be available to discuss educational opportunities.
Tour for Teachers and Others: June 12, 3:45 to 5:14 p.m., freeRSVP for tour at (714) 558.5541
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MICRO ABSTRACTION
oil pastel on black paper
Walker Elementary, Helen Seigel, Artist-in-the-Schools
Abstraction is a distillation or simplification of what we see in the world around us. Looking through a microscope at the tiniest of things, what we are familiar with turns into abstraction, appearing far removed from what we recognize. While some artists choose to render the world, depicting what they see, others choose to abstract or change the world in unique ways. Here students use oil pastels to make abstract drawings based on microscopic imagery.
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ANIMAL PRINTS
oil pastel and printing ink on paper
Roosevelt Elementary, Helen Seigel, Artist-in-the-Schools
Henri Rousseau’s fabulous jungle paintings inspire students to make wild portraits of animal families. Inside a patterned border, students print an image of related animals. They place them together in a way that creates the illusion of space as they overlap figures and think about their “relative” size. They experience the dramatic process of printmaking. First, students incise their images into scratch foam (Styrofoam). Next, sticky black ink is applied to their printing plates with a brayer (rubber roller). Finally, they print their images onto paper, inside colorful borders they have created with oil pastels. Warm and cool color combinations in their jungle environments make their portraits come alive.
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HAIR CAN DO
colored pencil on paper
Roosevelt Elementary, Helen Seigel, Artist-in-the-Schools
Throughout the ages and in cultures around the globe, people have expressed themselves through their appearance. Hairstyles are one way to communicate. After studying examples of hairstyles from all over the world, students design unusual “dos” that represent a variety of themes and activities. Their imaginations literally run wild.
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Shapes in Space by Deanna De La Cruz, Pinada Kim, Eduardo Leal, Guadalupe Tapia, Fernando Orozco, Cesar Gomez, Jocelyn Uritsta, Angel Isidro, grades 4 & 5
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SHAPES IN SPACE (SPACE SHAPES)
pen on paper with colored paper collage
Roosevelt Elementary, Helen Seigel, Artist-in-the-Schools
Artist Piet Mondrian worked his way from realistic to abstracted imagery, ending up with highly abstract paintings that were highly influential. His most well known works are geometric, involving squares and rectangles, painted in a very flat manner. Strong black lines, both horizontal and vertical, play an important role in his striking compositions. His emphasis is on creating a very flat space, true to the physical surface of his canvas. Here, students create contrast between their own mini-Mondrian style compositions and drawings of squares, rectangles and transparent solids that fly through space… or at least seem to defy the true flat nature of the page.
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YOU FAUVE:
PORTRAITS IN THE STYLE OF MATTISE
Black tempera paint, paper
Esqueda Elementary, Cheryl Michelon, Artist-in-the-Schools
Henri Matisse was considered to be part of the Fauve (Wild Beast) movement in France for just a short time, but his work continued to be revolutionary. His vibrant colors, new shapes and simplified lines that once had people rioting, are now familiar to many. Students study the work of Matisse, first his cutout collages, with their emphasis on shape and positive/negative space and then his portraits with their heavy black lines. Color has emotional qualities; warm colors create a lively and active mood, while cool colors communicate a quiet or thoughtful feeling. After discussing this, students begin by choosing either warm or cool colored papers to collage, adding white paper over the top. Students then learn the classical proportions of the face and study their own faces using mirrors. We discuss line quality and the beauty of line, they then paint their portrait in black line. The resulting artwork is uniquely expressive in the style of Matisse.
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SHIELDS
Oil pastel, pressed tempera on tag board, colored pencil, paper, yarn and raffia
Esqueda Elementary, Cheryl Michelon, Artist-in-the-Schools
“The buffalo hide shield was perhaps the most coveted possession of the Plains Indian warrior. Though designed to physically protect the warrior in battle, its greatest value lay in its unique sacred powers, received by the warrior during a solitary vision quest and then symbolized on the shield through various painted images.”
Artist and Plains Indian scholar Maureen E. Mansell.
What are your strengths? What qualities do you like? If you were to choose an animal with traits you admire, which animal would you pick? Students explore Native American culture and its close ties to nature by creating a shield of their own, choosing an animal to use as inspiration. Using symbols and colors found in examples of Plains Indian art, and incorporating yarn, raffia and drawn feathers students create their own sacred circle.
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GO POP!
Permanent marker, colored pencils, pressed tempera on white paper
Jackson Elementary, Cheryl Michelon, Artist-in-the-Schools
Bright colors, white backgrounds, graphic images, Campbell’s soup cans, Brillo boxes, and even money became art in the hands of Andy Warhol. Warhol’s art is fun, colorful, and easy to enjoy, earning it the title Pop (or popular) art. It also makes connections and fosters discussion about art and commerce. Student try their hand at Pop art images using subjects gleaned from the kitchen, garage, and bathroom cupboards. Don’t forget to read the labels!
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