The Drawing and Painting
First Ever Newsletter
Winter Edition
December 2021
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Dear parents, friends, and fellow community members,
Hello, from the art teachers at Black Forest Academy!
Over the years, we teachers have realized just how special it is to get the opportunity to witness every step of a student's artistic growth and journey. It has become our desire to share more of the student's works and class projects with those who know and love these students.
Please enjoy this fall edition highlighting BFA's Drawing and Painting classes, as well as our AP Studio Art class. We hope it provides some refreshing content to your inboxes as we provide glimpses into your student's/friend's/child's creative practice!
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Drawing and Painting 1
Mrs Skidmore
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The Drawing and Painting 1 class learns from Mrs Skidmore how to properly shade a sphere. Students carefully render a full range of values, using one HB pencil and a kneaded eraser.
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Hezekiah Woodard's explorations of texture; made with various ink pens.
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Student shades their sphere using value shapes and a steady hand.
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The beginning of a fabric still life drawing.
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Hard at work on their fabric still life drawings, while "BFA Cat" gets some cuddles.
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Drawing and Painting 2
Mrs Skidmore
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Drawing and Painting 2 students working on their scratchboard pieces (seen below). For this project, each student brainstormed how to illustrate "hope" using animals to tell the story.
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Students (from left to right): Joy Kang, Jesse Skidmore, Anna Penner, Kalista White, Lucy Walter, Ella Thomas
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Students create value studies with charcoal on toned paper. These studies will inform their still life project.
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For linear perspective practice, student begin making various shapes using two vanishing points.
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The AP art class (and Mrs Skidmore) in line at Foundation Beyeler Museum. Here they got the chance to view works by world renowned artists such as: Francisco de Goya, Frida Kahlo, Picasso, Mary Cassatt and others.
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Each student in AP develops a unified series of about 12 pieces. Below is a glimpse into each of their topics and work.
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Zoe Regnier uses marker and colored pencils to create a piece on cultivating a healthy relationship with yourself.
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Naomi Boyd uses watercolor and ink pen to explore how music can help us cope with mental health battles.
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Thea Heymann uses watercolor, gel and ink pen to describe how it feels to grow up as an autistic child.
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Lauren Stevens uses watercolor and ink pen to illustrate saying goodbye to guilt.
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Josh Martin uses oil paints to portray the fluidity, simplicity, and pure beauty of water.
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Kayra Jensen uses pencil and collage to speak about tensions within our identity.
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Ruth (Bei Ge) uses oil paints, burnt paper, and collage to create a piece focused on the topic of "breakthrough".
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The class welcomes Mr. Flynt as a guest speaker on the topic of Surrealism.
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Thank you for taking the time to read the Drawing and Painting newsletter! We hope you feel invited to celebrate with us in the growth and creativity of each class.
May this newsletter encourage you, and perhaps even spark some creative juices in you as well!
Peace and love,
-The Art Teachers
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