Drawing and Painting with ME Carsley

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  • Workshops Resource Pages
    • Printmaking Instruction
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    • Secondary Student Course Information
    • Student Work Examples
    • Enrichments
    • Handwriting Clinic
  • Blog
  • About ME
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Student Work Examples

Cross Curricular Projects

Chinese History and Chinese Calligraphy

Introduction to Architecture Student Works

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The Modernist Folly
3 week project
​foamboard construction
Exploration of Plane and Volume
Public and Private Space Zoning

Modernism Study referencing 18th and 19th century garden folly precedents.

​Object in landscape


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​Drawing

Private Meditation Space

​2 week project
CAD and laser printing

Exploration of Point, Line, and Plane
Harmony and Balance in Elements
Connectedness to the landscape



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The Cardboard Chair

2 week project
An exploration in the Vitruvian Standard of firmness, commodity, and delight.

Introduction to basic structures, and craftsmanship as well as ergonomic design.

This project also includes a study of chair design and a 3-D model printing exercise.
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Fundamentals of drawing introduces students to the foundational skills of use of value and line, measurement, proportion, perspective as well as the expressive aspects of each through observational drawing and imaginative exercises.  The study begins with dry media and develops into an exploration of mixed media techniques.
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Painting

Painting expanses upon those principles and skills learned in the drawing through an exploration of watercolor, oil, and acrylic media.
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Emerging Bulbs is a special cross-curricular project where drawing students work with a biology student partner documenting and recording the changes in form, color, shape, and texture of spring flower bulbs. The drawing students compile their sketches into a handmade folding book.
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Similar to the Emerging Bulbs project, Autumn Leaves is a partnership where science and art students record the change of the season, culminating in a hand made folding book.
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