Project Snapshot: Palette Knife Portraits
Teen Focus on Painting: Palette Knife Portraits Grades 6-12 Overview: Students create an acrylic portrait painting through painting techniques using only a palette knife. Essential Skills: Discover how to create 3 simplified values: highlights, mid-tones, & shadows. Learn how to sculpt and carve into paint to create texture. Experiment…
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Educator Showcase: Amanda Burns-Elhassouni
Tell us a little bit about you and your background. I am a realist commissioned artist, who specializes in portraits of all sorts, such as people, houses, places and pets in paintings, drawings and mixed media. Sometimes they are a traditional posed portrait, other times a special or everyday moment…
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Team Showcase: Fred Quayenortey
Tell us a little bit about you and your background. As a child I was always been interested in Cartoons and Manga, and some things never change. I’ve been drawing for as long as I can remember and that followed me through university where I received my degree in…
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Student Showcase: Charlotte T.
Tell us a little bit about your journey as a young and developing artist. I’ve always been really into digital art. I stared doing traditional art as a kid but when I got my first tablet I was really interested. It’s much more forgiving because you…
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This month student artwork has been on display during our Spring Student Shows across all school locations. Many thanks to everyone who has already stopped to view the work of our talented artists who have been exploring a variety of art materials while learning new techniques over the past few…
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Educator Showcase: Dana Kjeldaas
Tell us a little bit about you and your background. I’m an art educator at One River specializing in digital art. I started drawing digitally when I got my first WACOM tablet in 2014, and haven’t stopped, beginning my freelance illustrator career in 2015. I was…
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Team Showcase: Megan Joseph
Tell us a little bit about you and your background. I received my BFA from The Maryland Institute College Of Art (MICA) in Painting and my MFA from Brooklyn College in Interdisciplinary Sculpture. I have since gone off to teach art for 8+ years at all levels including the…
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Student Showcase: Sydney F.
Tell us a little bit about your journey as a young and developing artist. For the longest time, I was unsure I wanted to pursue art and was very self conscious of my lack of skills. I honestly stopped art all together for a few year because I thought…
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Educator Showcase: Kathleen O’Brien
Tell us a little bit about you and your background. I am a classically trained Animator and Illustrator. I studied at Stony Brook University and received a BA degree in Studio Art with a focus in Digital Media. I also went to San Jose State University and graduated with…
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Team Showcase: Marisa Andropolis
Tell us a little bit about you and your background. I have always loved art and remember drawing even as a small child. I vividly remember being young and watching Star Wars with my dad and trying to draw every spaceship as accurately as I could. When I decided to…
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