May 5, 2016 Night of the Arts

3rd Annual Night of the Arts at Richard R. Green HS of Teaching coming up May 5, 2016 at 7 Beaver St, New York, NY. All are welcome! We don't have advanced art classes or sequential art electives, but the work produced in our Studio Art 1 classes will make you think we do. Come check out our photo booth, henna station, science fair, face painting, coffeehouse performances, and art exhibit. Come have a mocktail and a light snack and support NYC student art!!!

Mural club

Making progress on the large staircase wall at RRGHST!

Buddhism Paintings

Getting close to completion on our group Buddhism Paintings!!!  These items will be exhibited during Richard R. Green High School's 3rd Annual Night of the Arts on May 5 on the 1st floor!  Support student art!!!  #brianbachisin

5 Pillars in Progress

The 5 Pillars of Richard R. Green HS of Teaching

The entrance to the main office of Richard R. HS of Teaching now welcomes guests, students, and staff with the 5 mottos we implement in our teaching, learning, and daily communication. These were painted as an advisory project.

Buddhism Paintings

Interdisciplinary work with Global Studies on a Buddhism Unit. Beginning stages of large paintings in groups of 3-4. More focus on value, light and shadow using other mediums.
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Asian Art

Students are doing some experimentation with bamboo brushes and sumi ink. I have them practice Chinese kanji and bamboo as one of the preliminary activities to landscape scroll paintings.
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Drawing from Obervation

Students were required to do thumbnail sketches to plan out a composition for these coffee cans with various objects and figurines. still lifes. Here are some results of the final still lifes done in pencil and sharpies. Some ideas I like to focus on:
• seeing, not just looking
• observing light and shadow in real life objects
• observing shape, line, and form and recording them 2 dimensionally
• sketching multiple times to familiarize yourself with objects
• tools for creating interesting composition
• sketching as a rough draft and for practice

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Abstract Mobile Sculptures

To give an idea of what those positive/negative space drawing turned into take a lol at my classroom ceiling. I made photocopies of the drawings which the student mounted onto cardboard. Using the cardboard, students created abstract sculptures in groups of 3-4 people. Student group came up with concepts for their sculptures then did some thumbnail sketches. From there, they started building using hot glue guns and string. We did some artist studies prior on Alexander Calder, Picasso sculptures, and the architecture of Frank Gehry. The results of these sculptures were fascinating as students enhanced team-building skills, overcame hurdles, and problem solved throughout the process; and my classroom looks amazing.