January at the Atelier in the High School at Bradford Christian School

January at the

Atelier in the High School

at Bradford Christian School

Happy New Year! 

If you have been following this blog, you know that I am in my third year of teaching atelier in a private high-school. I've been sharing with the students traditional academic and Boston School training.  It has been a joy to see students employ time-tested atelier lessons and see great results in their artwork. None of the students have had any formal atelier training before they enter the class. It is amazing how effective standard atelier exercises can transform a young student's art, even from the first exercise.

Below I will share a few of this years results. 

I am also excited that our Atelier in the High School at Bradford Christian Academy has been accepted as an approved atelier school, by the Art Renewal Center!!!!!  

We are told that we have the distinction of being the first atelier ever held in a high school. 

Enjoy some of the pictures by our students! 

A copy a master work project, using a Robert Douglas Hunter painting in black and white. 

 Charcoal cast drawings.

copy a masterwork sketch

color spotting exercise

My profile picture!

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High School Atelier in its third year!

The high school atelier is in its third year! 

The atelier class is held all year long during regular school hours, as a class in Bradford Christian Academy,(http://bradfordchristianacademy.org/). This is an amazing school, check them out. I am so pleased to be able to teach this subject. The results are awesome! 
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We began the year again with some Bargue work.

We are just finishing some value studies, one above. In our next projects we will be leaving sight size and working more relationally, using comparative strategies. 

More later!

Updates!

Hi everyone! Here is some of what I have been up to this year.

High School Art classes at our local Christian Academy:

The students in my Atelier Techniques Class:

They worked some drawings....

They drew with charcoal....

They set up still-lifes and painted starts and worked a finished oil painting.....

They entered a local gallery's high school art show and 2 of the four won awards.....

The kids in the Basic Art and Design Class:

We did group effort large abstracts after Franz Kline...and individual versions too...

The students crated 3D wire sculptures.....

They worked on exercises in values.....

They worked many exercises in one, two and Three point perspective.....

They were taught to use enlargement techniques to create great images, by hand ...

They worked several various contour line exercises, studying line ....

They painted canvases after the style of Helen Frankenthaler, thus studying color theory....

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Site with Gammells Reading list...thanks Artist Tom Dunlay!

https://www.sightsize.com/articles/essential-reading-mr-gammells-book-list/

HI all!
Its been ages, have lots to post soon. Here is a link to a site that shares the reading list that Gammell recommended.
more soon!
Sandra

Some of my student's artwork---School's out for the summer!

Some of my student artwork

from my high school atelier :

 

All of these student works, except for a few by an 11th grader,  are created by 9th and 10th graders!  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I was very impressed with the student work and their efforts at learning to see and use the strategies of the Boston School and academy style instruction to capture the visual image. It was hard to squeeze down the excellent atelier experience I enjoyed for approx. 6 years at Ingbretson Studio with my teacher Paul Ingbretson.........but the kids did get a taste of the training.  The last shot is of me in one of the rooms.

Now that school is out, I hope to work more on some of my works in process!
--Sandra



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The Value of Value Spotting

 The Value of Value Spotting

                     In my high school Atelier I devised a warm up exercise to engage the students in an exercise that seems to be driving home the value of value spotting.  It is one of many critical elements in the creation of a sound image. It is part of our craft, which when executed well, attracts a viewer to your painting from across the room.

                    Before my students begin painting their still lifes each session, they must take turns working on their timed ongoing value sketch. It is run like a game and it is fun. They are translating, from a printed full color masterwork, a value sketch based on the spotting of values the master artist used.  It is refining their recognition of a good distribution of value, and helping them to distill out of the full color image the value relationships present.  I am hoping this exercise will carry over to how they explain values in their own full color paintings when they compose and look at their still lifes, "..four times for every one time," that they put the brush to canvas!
-Sandra Galda

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