by Erin REHIL | Apr 7, 2020 | Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 12, IB DP Visual Arts, Secondary Visual Arts, The Grades
The school closures caused by the coronavirus had an unprecedented impact on students around the world. Many DP art students were unable to hold their exhibitions and get feedback from friends, family, and other members of the community. Sadly, this was true at ABIS...
by Erin REHIL | Mar 10, 2020 | Grade 10, IGCSE, Secondary Visual Arts
Students in Grade 10 are preparing for their Art and Design exams next month on April 6th and 7th. They are also finishing up their coursework portfolios to submit shortly after the exams. Just today, Emma has completed a beautiful, highly challenging portrait of her...
by Erin REHIL | Mar 9, 2020 | Primary Visual Arts, Secondary Visual Arts
Our art club ASA has been very welcoming and relaxed. Everyone is working on their own area of interest, whether that happens to be character design, digital painting, or traditional 2D and 3D materials. Some weeks, students will use the extra studio time to work on...
by Erin REHIL | Mar 8, 2020 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Secondary Visual Arts
In Grade 7, students have looked at the expressive colors used by German-American painter Wolf Kahn. Our goal is to create our own unique landscapes based on places that are important to us. In order to be successful, we need to make our own color wheels, practice...
by Erin REHIL | Mar 5, 2020 | Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 12, IB DP Visual Arts, Secondary Visual Arts
In Grade 11, Sanna has nearly finished a large-scale oil portrait that has taken a lot of time and energy to create. The piece shows evidence of a tremendous amount of learning, artistic development, and experimentation with painting techniques; well done to Sanna! In...
by Erin REHIL | Jan 30, 2020 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Secondary Visual Arts
Students in Grade 7 took on the roles of anthropologists from the future. They “dug up” various objects from the 21st century and imagined the types of rituals for which they might have been used. There were social bonding rituals, coming of age rituals,...
