UE/ CONCENTRATED EFFORT!

Quest Montessori UE students have been hard at work researching for their Egyptian paper batik portraits.
This is a complicated project requiring research regarding:  what different hieroglyphs symbolize, rules of EgyptianArt, colors used for royal headpieces, symbols for Egyptian gods. All kinds of research!

Here is how it began.

Students not only researched the hieroglyphs that sounded like their names, they created or copied modern day logos that represented their current interests. They put the selected images and symbols on paper then outline with black marker of charcoal.They carefully add brightly colored headpieces and neck pieces.


Then background colors were mixed and applied carefully (thick poster paint).

I can't wait for the next step...cover the entire piece with jet black ink!

All white areas will turn black and the poster paint will fade, when we wash the paintings off...one day after applying the ink.  Can't wait!  I will post all results!  Everyone is really getting the idea of how rigid the Egyptian rules for Art really were! These should look ancient when finished!

SUNFLOWER BEAUTY

I love working with Quest Montessori students!  They are bright and inquisitive and always eager to venture into new artistic territory! Last week  began with LE excercising their r-mode (right brain drawing) by doing quick scribble drawings and then using their imaginations, see what they could find. Check these out!

                                 Hard at work bringing out the shapes!

                                 Do you see a fox in this picture too?

                                     Perhaps you can see a whale?

After we finished our free form drawings, we began the serious work of creating 'Original Art' for upcoming fundraiser.  Students could finish  their oil pastel sunflowers from last week OR use sunflowers for printmaking. We have already practiced printing with leaves and feathers. We spoke about composition, texture, color, brayers, printing ink and mixed media! Printing is messy and fun!                     

                      Look at this application of ink!

                                                                         

After printing the sunflowers, we added brilliant water color pigments. All of these imaginative compositions were created by Lower Elementary students. It was difficult to learn how to apply the ink but well worth the effort!

 Here are some beautiful pieces of "Original Art" 2011.

                                 

        

New Beginnings!

Welcome to the 2011-2012 Quest Art Blog!!!

I am Tricia Hart, the new Art Resource specialist at Quest Montessori in Wakefield RI.   

I've been spending the past two weeks getting to know all of the eager young artists attending Quest Montessori!  Everyone is so happy to be back to school and bursting with excitement about creating new works of Art!  We have been experimenting with different types of oil pastels and water color paints! Upper Elementary students have been working on Egyptian portraits of themselves as ancient royals or gods.  Everyone is really getting into the hieroglyphs used to indicate their names.  Since they are all on field trip this week, images of these fantastic works will be posted next week once they have returned and complete more stages of their projects.

Lower Elementary have been really getting into the blending possibilities of new oil pastels!  We looked at the treatment for rendering flowers by three artists. English naturalist, Mark Catesby, Dutch artist Vincent VanGogh and American painter Georgia O'Keeffe.

Vincent van Gogh

 Georgia O'Keeffe

Students were able to examine work from each artist and choose which style they preferred. Everyone sees sunflowers...just a bit differently. Look and see!

Here are some pictures of work in progress as well as finished work. 

First, here are Quest Artists hard at work...

Who sees red?

Artists at work!

Some finished work

Welcome to Quest's New Art Blog

Our original Quests Artists Blog will still be available but going forward this will be the home of all things Art at Quest.

Please bookmark it and check back often to see updates posted by Tricia Hart, our new art teacher.

...stay tuned!