Student Work

2-Dimensional Design

Unit 1 - Principles of Design

Emily Clark - Repetition, Emphasis, and Balance

Emily Clark - Repetition, Emphasis, and Proportion

Unit 2 - Line

Line Swatches

This exercise teaches the fundamentals of the element of line, Students are tasked with choosing a singular object or collection of objects and creating an abstract continuous line drawing.

This process breaks down the form, abstracting the composition, and then allows the student to see how lines inform our everyday lives in a visual manner.

Line Patchwork Project

This project is designed to showcase a student’s ability to create a larger scale project with the element of line, while also teaching students to creatively solve problems in relation to composition, layout, and planning.

The student is given free reign to choose one emotion or feeling from a list, and then is tasked with abstractly depicting that emotion through the element of Line.

Charley Bennight | Line Patchwork | Shock

River Wise | Line Patchwork | Bitterness

Jeanne Welch-Kurdle | Line Patchwork | Energized

Makayla McClenahan | Line Patchwork | Anxiousness

Sage Winkler | Line Patchwork | Confusion

Unit 3 - Shape

Object to Shape

This exercise teaches the fundamentals of the element of shape, Students are tasked with choosing collection of objects to create a still-life, breaking down the shapes within the composition, and then collaging construction paper together to re-create that same still-life by layering basic shapes.

This process breaks down the form, teaches students how to simplify complex shapes, while also allowing students to apply shape in a creative and artistic manner.

Verb to Shape Project

Olivia Parker | Verb to Shapes | To Force

Parker Brusherd | Verb to Shapes | To Suspend

Nevaeh Soward | Verb to Shapes | To Stretch

Charley Bennight | Verb to Shapes | to Surround