Another successful IB DP Exhibition! These guys are so awesome! And just to let you know how hard they really worked – here is a peek behind the scenes during the last week prior to the Exhibition. And to create some excitement…. we created posters and did a social media blitz! Because why not? And FINALLY! The time has come! The IB DP Visual Arts Exhibition opens it doors! What a fun night! Our halls of SIS came alive with […]
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MS 6 ART LINKS: FREDO, POPKAPI, FANTASY FRUIT. Painting Portraits Inspired by Fredo step one – developing our compositions step two – painting our compositions WIP finished compositions Fantasy Fruit Inspired by clay sculptures of Kate Malone step one: exploring texture. creating our fruit sculptures out of clay. adding glaze finished sculptures Painting inspired by PopKapi step one: sketch a self portait, develop our composition using shapes and colours to create original ‘face’ designs, then practise ‘painting’ with our squeeze […]
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Besides our IB art show which I organized alongside with our fabulous IB DP students, we also organize a MS/HS art show in May. See more about our MS/HS art show from my post on my SIS art blog During the Art show, I always like to include an ‘ audience participation’ section. This year, inspired by the sticky note art galleries popping up around the world, we decided to create our own! Visitors to the MS/HS art show could […]
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Our IB DP Visual Arts Exhibition was wonderfully successful! Our students hard work paid off and they really enjoyed showing their revealing personal art shows to their peers and parents! But don’t take my word for it – take a look at what others are saying! Spencer Low (HL) UPDATE: Spencer is not attending King’s College in Cambridge! Viriginia Li (HL) UPDATE: Viriginia is now attending USC, studying Film. Anna Duan (SL) UPDATE: Anna is now attending Boston College, studying […]
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During my first year at SIS, I taught our Grade 9 Art class. During this class, we took the time to develop our documenting skills and experimented with old school (sketchbooks) and new school (screens) to try and figure out which way works best for us – as we continue in our HS journey – leading us to IB Art. Still Life Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth Batik and Watercolour Final Project
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Art Rocks Mandalas Book Collages
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Sculpture Papercut Perspective Studies
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For the Grade 6 Climate Change project, we collaborated with Humanities classes. During our process we first looked at artists with a message, Chris Jordan and Jill Pelto, then we looked at how illustrator Yuko Shimizu develops her ideas and her process. We also tapped into Tim Kelly’s Puzzle Project to look at how our individual artworks can fit together to make a larger composition – in our class and connect to artists all over the world. For our Zentangled […]
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For the IGCSE submission, the expectation is that the students complete two parts – Coursework and Final Exam during Year 11. For Coursework, students are expected to submit 4 Preparation Boards and 1 Final Work. In order to maximize our submissions, we used both sides of our Preparation Boards. Students could choose their own topic and were expected to show the process of developing their idea and final composition. Topics for the exam component are released in January, giving the […]
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