Charcoal Drawings

Some of Jenny's charcoal and pencil drawings.

Painting Portfolio

A few paintings from Jenny's painting portfolio.  Over the course of the past two years she has completed over 500 art projects ranging from pencil drawings, paintings and sculpture.

Paper Sculpture - Architecture

I had one student who spent the whole year making architectural pop ups - not something I feel inclined to do myself but I can appreciate the work that goes into it. These are only a few that I had a chance to photograph.

IB 12 Art

This is a series done by an IB 12 student that started with a scribble and evolved into some larger pen drawings and is now evolving into large watercolour paintings.

Grade 12 IB Art

I have a grade 12 IB art student whose creative process fascinates me.  Lately has been taking very large pieces of paper and crumpling them up and then throwing them on the floor.  Then the inks and paints come out and before you know it they're being poured on the floor, her bare feet and hands are now multi coloured, everyone in the room has moved away from her, there's glue, glitter, fabric, magazines, found objects etc. everywhere - you get the picture - it's creative chaos.  10 minutes before the class is over she starts to clean up, washes the floor, puts away all of the materials and it's as if she was never there.  After about 3 days she ends with what you see below.  Difficult to capture in a photograph but hopefully you can get a sense of her end result.

Pen and Ink Doodles

This pen & ink drawing project is really doodles on steroids!  I made some worksheets with various patterns for the students to work from so they could practice prior to beginning their large pen & ink doodle.  Many of the students have found this type of drawing to be quite addictive. The images below are just a few that have finished a little early and I let the students choose their own subject matter - faces, initials, organic shapes, dragons, birds, butterflies etc..  A few students took the doodle project in a slightly different direction which was fine by me.  The last three are by special needs students.

Embellished Collographs

I had the kids revisit some discarded collograph prints that they thought were absolutely hopeless.  It's amazing what a little bit of chalk pastels, oil pastels, watercolours and glitter can do.  There's a certain sense of freedom gained when you are allowed to just play and not worry about the end product.