Some of my high school Atelier Student's artwork from this past year: School is out for the summer!

 Here is some of my student's artwork 

from the high school atelier I taught this past school year:

All the images below were created by 9th and 10th graders,  one student was an 11th grader. 

 

 

 

I was very impressed with the student work and their efforts at learning to see and use the strategies of the training to capture the visual image. It was hard to squeeze down the excellent Atelier training I enjoyed for approx. 6 years at Ingbretson Studios with 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

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. Before they can begin painting their still lifes each session, they must take turns on their timed ongoing drawing, on which they are translating from a masterwork in full color oil,  a value sketch.  It is refining their recognition of the distribution of value, 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 painting when they look at their still life, "..four times for every one time," that they put the brush to canvas!
-Sandra Galda