KoinoniaArt: First Semester 2015-16

It's been a great first Semester at Koinonia! We've been so busy making art since the Summer that I forget to post our progress. We just had our Fall Praise Fest, which was hugely successful and the students got an opportunity, once again, to show off their best work of the semester. I'm including lots of pics from the semester to show some of the behind-the-scenes work that went into everything you got to see at Praise Fest!
Thank you again for the opportunity to help train your young artists!

Make sure to click "see more...." at the bottom, there are lots more photos!

Eric Preston holding his completed
Penguin paper mache sculpture at Praise Fest

Early in the semester younger students were learning about painting, drawing and paper mache. Here, they are learning about Georges Seurat, pointillism and paper mache construction.

Abigail Snipes using pointillism technique

Bryna Smith splash painting
her paper mache bowl

Henry Valdez working in
paper mache

DoodleBugs at work using Q-tips to
create paintings using only dots

Faith Hollingsworth

Doodlebugs working on paper mache animals

Students working on various paintings and drawings

Ava Wood drying her painting between layers

Drawing students working on reverse drawing on
black paper with white charcoal

Ella Smith working on her dog skull composition

Lilli Preston working on a Pastel drawing

Drawing students working on still life and contour drawing skills

student drawing of still life flower before contour instruction

same student drawing after contour instruction

more drawing

Faith Hollingsworth holding her Kandinsky inspired painting

Natalie Wegner working on her
watercolor of an eel and coral

Thursday's afternoon painters

More advanced paper mache projects in Sculpture class. Students created animal forms form cardboard, newspaper and masking tape, then coated their sculptures with a paper mache clay that we made in class.