Art Gallery

Stain Glass in the style of artist Keith Haring (click to view photos)

• Using over simplified figures with bold outlines and bright colors, grade 9 learners created these Keith Herring styled stained glass artworks. Haring was an American artist who started out painting graffiti which soon became wide spread and in high demand in the art circles. His work featured bold outlines of figures, dogs, and even coyotes usually in high action poses such as dancing and jumping. His art was fun and full of movement, all captured in a minimum amount of details, lines and colors. Grade 9 took on the challenge to replicate his style on glass. They used thick black outline (glue) and Vitrai colored paints. Their artwork was electrifying.

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    first step with only black outlines
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    finished piece
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Casted Plaster Relief Art (click to view photos)

• In order to make a casted plaster relief, a mold first needs to be built. Grade 9 learners built their molds from clay. The molds resembled cake pans with the designs carved out in the bottom of the molds. The designs needed to be deep and lines had to be carved wide in order for the plaster to soak into them. The learners' designs ranged from fish, to fruits, to snowmen, to coins... quite an array. After the molds were done, the learners prepared the plaster mixture, mixing the limestone powder with water. They needed to work accurately and rather fast...so that the plaster was smooth and flowing (not thick and bumpy) and was abled to be poured into the molds, just like making cakes. After the plaster hardened, the learners cracked open the clay molds to reveal their relief art. After a little more work, polishing up the rough edges with sandpaper,the art was then ready to be painted.

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