Olympics

I made an illustration for my students to understand the Olympics logo.

Rodeo Clown

Another one of my clowns are inspired from Georges Renault. This rodeo clown was made from pastels and black glue.

Portrait Bello Nock with Pastels

My illustration of the clown, Bello Nock inspired from Georges Rouault. 1st is mixed black paint with Elmer’s glue and pastel on paper. 2nd is oil pastel on paper.

Inspired from Georges Rouault: My Clown 3

My students are making their own clowns inspired from the painter, Georges Rouault. Here’s another clown from me. This looks like the French Clown, Sol. Do you remember him? Tempera on paper.

Inspired from Georges Rouault: My Clown 2

My students are making their own clowns inspired from the painter, Georges Rouault. Here’s another clown from me. Tempera on paper.

Inspired from Georges Rouault: My Clown

My students are making their own clowns inspired from the painter, Georges Rouault. Here’s my clown. Tempera on paper.

American Sign Language Octopus

My students have been making illustrations of American Sign Language of animals. I made an octopus. I used blue construction paper, white pencil, and black pencil.

Roy Lichtenstein Inspired Self-Portrait

I saw an art teacher called, heidabjorg. Her (?) students portraits were really good. So I wanted to try too.

Mini Comic

I made a mini comic and showed to the students how to do it.

American Mutant Apparel 4

Here's the last one for awhile.

American Mutant Apparel 3

Again, here are more American Mutant Apparels. I could make more every day.

American Mutant Apparel 2

More American Mutant Apparel. My students liked this one.

American Mutant Apparel 1

I saw a great website from an illustrator called, Dan Meth.  I found his one page was hilarious.  I thought it was a great idea.  If I need a substitute teacher that project would be easy.  Thank you, Dan Meth.

Trojans: Mural Finished

Here is the final image. The mural was presented to the school during the graduation ceremony. I heard there was an unavailing. Alas, I was not there. I was on vacation a little early.

Trojans: Colors Applied

The book I've referred to for this project is The Mural Book: A Practical Guide for Educators by Janet Braun-Reinitz and Rochelle Shicoff. The authors recommend using Golden Paints. When I found out that Golden acrylics cost about $25 for an 8 oz. tube I nearly passed a stone. Thank God there was a more affordable option for me at Michael's. I ended up getting Liquitex's students-grade Basics acrylics. They were very creamy and covered a large area. I ended up buying double of what I actually needed. I'd recommend them to anyone. Especially, since they were only $8.99 for an 8 oz. tube. Here's one of the seniors up on the ladder.

So far so good. Next, the kids outline the entire image with black.

Trojans: Traced

I printed a grayscale version of the final image on a transparency sheet and put it on a transparency projector and blew it up on the gymnasium wall. In an earlier experiment I found that using pencils to draw on this type of masonry is not efficient. I needed to sharpen the pencil every 10 seconds. So I thought charcoal sticks or oil pastels might be too messy. It was then I happened to have discovered Korn's Lithographic Crayons hidden in one of my cabinets. They look like they could be 100 years old. Who knows how long they were in there.I had the students trace the projected image with the crayons and it went pretty well.

Trojans: Wall Primed

The area of the gymnasium wall on which the mural will be has been successfully primed thanks to the work of my students. Students and faculty who aren't in the know have been making fun guesses and questions due to the irregular shape of the image. Some have guessed correctly about the spear and arm.

Trojans In Color

As you can see I hacked out some colors in Photoshop to nail down what the final colors will look like.

Trojans In Black & White

Here is the final black and white design. I've never done a mural before and I had no idea where to start so I did an online search for school murals and came across some really great artwork. I cannot take too much credit, though. I did steal some design elements that I thought were amazing from another muralist. I took his sunburst circle background and the ribbon/banner in the front.

Trojans!

I fixed a couple of things and inked these Trojans.