East Palo Alto Phoenix Academy Art Department

Here are the results for the 2015 Pumpkin Drawing Contest!
Placement goes as follows:

Best in Show~ Ariadna Iglesias

P2 Art I~ 1st place- Miguel Barajas, 2nd place-Jasmin Del Rio, 3rd place- Nayeli Bautista

P3 Art I~ 1st place- Cassandra Correa, 2nd place- Arlyne Nava, 3rd place- Rosie Inostrosa

Advanced Art~ 1st place- Gissel Pedroza, 2nd place- Melisa Correa, 3rd place-Jose Penaloza

Honorable Mentions- Jordan Hernandez, Agueda Gama & Jorge Kasten & Yadira Vazquez

Great job, everyone! Prizes coming soon!

Here is some student work from the past few months. The assignments were:
- create a collage using your knowledge of color theory
- render a bottle in the style of Roy Lichtenstein
- draw a still life that incorporates at least three objects
- sketch a realistic self portrait

Students learned how to cut a stencil from a drawing while following safety guidelines. They prepped a surface, applied the stencil and spray painted the image through (or around) the mask. Subject was student's choice, but separating positive and negative spaces was the challenge, as well as planning out the image and using bridges. Some experienced students used multi-layered techniques with several colors.

Students chose a Principle of Design and created an artwork demonstrating that principle. Students also used a word and illustrated it with perspective and/or in graffiti style letters.

Beautiful designs for our staircase from our advanced Calligraphy students...each step is a one-word response to the question, "What does it take? (to rise above, to succeed)"

A few drawings from our first-time portrait artists :) Great job 9th graders!

Our young artists designed an image that expressed their 'Inner Superhero'...taking something they are passionate about & representing it graphically (with Text &/or Image). They cut their image into a stencil & then bleached it onto a t-shirt.

This year's winners are...

For this project, Calligraphy students wrote haikus about each season (Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer) in Italic with center alignment, and then illustrated an image that related to their poem...

Here are a few gems...
In this project, students explored the various elements of lines, shapes, textures, and patterns and created a silhouetted self-portrait.

I can't believe it's already been a week! Santa Barbara I Madonnari Festival was off the chain this year...amazing work done by all artists, including our very own Phoenix artists...