Studio students continued to develop their drawing skills by learning to use negative space to help them draw objects in a grouping.

Artwork by Sebasian Sabatelli

Artwork by Zach Whalen

Artwork by Holly Snyder

Shadows

Our first Pohotographs are finally done! It took a little longer then anticipated but it was worth the wait.

Drawing and Painting

Drawing and Painting students celebrate the harvest season with pumpkins donated by the LaManna family. Students are creating original designs and painting the pumpkins to sell at the French club's flea market. Proceeds will go to a charity currently being chosen by students. For more information and prices, call or email the HS art department.

Studio Art

Students are beginning to observe light and shadow areas in terms of values. They created value scales using three different drawing techniques, then drew a sphere using different values to make their drawing appear to be 3-dimensional.

Artwork by Riyadh Hossain

Artwork by Brittany Van der Maas

Studio in Creative Crafts

Students began the year transforming trash into treasure.

They focused their attention on detail and stylish design as they rolled paper triangles into beautiful beads. Emphasis is placed on creative recycling of found products. Artists in the class must come up with original ideas to incorporate and transform these materials into viable and marketable works of art.

Studio Art Classes

In the Studio Art Classes this year, we have been focusing on fundamental drawing skills and techniques. These are a few of our class excercises and projects.

Our first exercise was an experiment with various line styles and shapes

artwork by Vinnie Morano

Students also learned to improve their observation skills through contour line drawings. They used their own hand as a model, and created several drawings.

artwork by Joseph Parsons

Drawing and Painting

Random Acts of Art.
In this exciting and fun first excercise students responded to a series of prompts to stir their creative juices. Each artist was able to create a bold work of art while learning how to apply paint, integrat drawings, and mixed media in a variety of ways. They created layers using a grid and limited palette to build compositional sophistication and emphasis of one focal point. They learned to guide the viewers eye with line, texture and color and explore media. Students increased observational drawing skills while realizing drawing skills alone do not make a successful painting.

Visual Arts Faculty

Kim Ludvik, Les Castellanos, Aliza Driller .

Ceramics class

Ceramics Class

Anthony Quiles, throws a pot on the wheel.


Samantha Marabell, with her original chess set.


Cooperative class project, interpretation of Vincent Van Gogh's "White Iris"


Coil Project, Amanda Baker.

From hand building to throwing on the potter’s wheel, ceramics class is always an adventure!
Students master the ancient craft of pinching clay into functional vessels as indigenous people once did on the shores of the Hudson River. Next students use coils of clay to wrap and spiral as they grow like vines, into undulating organic bowls and vases. Slabs of clay are used as tiles to create original murals that decorate the hallways of our school.