ART STUDIO
Our art studio space is dedicated to the student looking for a fun, safe and relaxing environment to explore their creative ideas. The studio tools include a printing press, potters wheels, a spray booth, a tool kit, large tables and a clay recycling centre. Students may also use their own devices to work on digital projects. ART MEDIUMS OFFERED India Ink Acrylic inks and papers Watercolour paints and watercolour paper Acrylic paints: paper, canvas, panels Sculpture: plaster paris, modelling clay, other Clay: low fire kiln Printmaking: inks and printmaking paper Mixed media: wood, wire, other Illustration: charcoal, conte, pencils, pens and papers Digital ART PHILOSOPHY My art teaching philosophy comes from a background in craftsmanship and working creatively for personal growth. I believe in choice-based art projects. Choice projects are offered when new mediums are introduced and students choose a theme to work with or the theme is given and students choose the medium. Students learn necessary skills through demonstrations, their own explorations and reflections. Choice-based art supports the needs of all learners and promotes motivation by giving the students choice over their own learning. They can work at their own pace which gives them an opportunity to respond to their own ideas. This also allows them to gain a wide range of knowledge and skills while creating deeply personal works. The process of art making fosters students creative methods of expression, helps improve their cognitive and sensory motor function, self awareness and emotional resilience. Experiencing the art process gives students an enormous sense of accomplishment and further develops their self-confidence. Through exploring, students have time to examine various perspectives or ways of seeing the world and to find their motivations for expressing and communicating ideas. Students are encouraged to play with their ideas, experiment with a wide variety of mediums, research their ideas in a broader context by examining social and cultural ideas as well as contemporary and historical art. Problem solving, collaborating with others in group projects, communicating and sharing their ideas and skills make the art studio an innovative and exciting place to be! |
B+W FILM
Developing sink
Light tables
Enlargers
Darkroom
Scanner
In film photography, students learn the hands-on process of shooting film on a manual camera, unloading film and developing it, using negatives with enlargers in the darkroom to create silver gelatin prints.
Various editing skills such as cropping, enlarging, dodging and burning, use of filters and double exposure printing is explored.
DIGITAL
Studio
Computer lab
Scanner
Printer
In digital photography, students use their own cameras and devices to shoot digital photos and explore and play with the multitude of editing choices on platforms such as photoshop on our mac lab computers. Studio indoor lighting and long exposure light painting photography is explored in collaborative groups, using the classroom digital cameras.
PHOTOGRAPHY PHILOSOPHY
Students gain an enormous amount of satisfaction working through the often slow and difficult process of B+W film photography. I always ask students at the end of a term whether they enjoyed film or digital more. The unanimous answer is always film. Why? They say because of the hands-on non-immediate gratification. Working in their own pace, taking time to think through the steps and physically moving through the parts of the process give the students a sense of self-accomplishment.
Students also thoroughly enjoy the vast editing choices of digital photography and the amazing immediate gratification and easy to share to the digital world platform options.
Photography is exciting from which ever side you are coming from. You can even combine B+W film with digital by scanning your images and editing further in the digital world. With all the technologies we have offered in the world, it is an exciting time to be in photography!
Developing sink
Light tables
Enlargers
Darkroom
Scanner
In film photography, students learn the hands-on process of shooting film on a manual camera, unloading film and developing it, using negatives with enlargers in the darkroom to create silver gelatin prints.
Various editing skills such as cropping, enlarging, dodging and burning, use of filters and double exposure printing is explored.
DIGITAL
Studio
Computer lab
Scanner
Printer
In digital photography, students use their own cameras and devices to shoot digital photos and explore and play with the multitude of editing choices on platforms such as photoshop on our mac lab computers. Studio indoor lighting and long exposure light painting photography is explored in collaborative groups, using the classroom digital cameras.
PHOTOGRAPHY PHILOSOPHY
Students gain an enormous amount of satisfaction working through the often slow and difficult process of B+W film photography. I always ask students at the end of a term whether they enjoyed film or digital more. The unanimous answer is always film. Why? They say because of the hands-on non-immediate gratification. Working in their own pace, taking time to think through the steps and physically moving through the parts of the process give the students a sense of self-accomplishment.
Students also thoroughly enjoy the vast editing choices of digital photography and the amazing immediate gratification and easy to share to the digital world platform options.
Photography is exciting from which ever side you are coming from. You can even combine B+W film with digital by scanning your images and editing further in the digital world. With all the technologies we have offered in the world, it is an exciting time to be in photography!
B+W FILM DEVELOPING SINK
DARKROOM
SILVER GELATIN PRINTS
STUDIO
"LIGHT PAINTING" LONG EXPOSURE DIGITAL
MIXED MEDIA UP-CYLCED CAMERA PARTS HALL PROJECT
Learning the parts of the camera using wood, broken camera parts, paint, markers, other materials
Learning the parts of the camera using wood, broken camera parts, paint, markers, other materials