After studying the history of the pointillism medium and the famous artists who pioneered it, the students made their own landscape paintings in the technique. Unlike Georges Seurat, Paul Signac and Maximillien Luce, who used paint on canvas, the students in Mr. Biondolillo's class made their paintings digitally, on an iPad app called Paper by 53. Some students painted places that they knew, some painted landscapes from a movie, and others created a scene all their own, each one made by grouping hundreds of small, colorful dots..
Zentangles
Creating zentangles is a common practice in art therapy as a means of self-expression and meditation. It is also a tool to learn pattern, rhythm, movement, motif, space, and, in some cases, shading. The work seen here was created by Mr. Biondolillo's classes as a way of practicing it all!
Art Nouveau Tiles
This project is so popular that it is taught to all freshmen at St. Francis Prep. After learning the history of the art nouveau movement, the students are tasked with creating paintings on tiles the go with the themes and styles of that period. Some students chose to use all four tiles to create one image, some chose to spread two images over two tiles, and others chose to paint a different image on each one. Acrylic on ceramic tiles.
Multimedia Illustrations
As a final project in Mr. Biondolillo's class, the students learned about the art of illustration - a career field that employs an enormous amount of working artists today. The goal was to differentiate between a drawing, painting and illustration. The students selected a subject that they liked and hand-drew them in pencil. Saturated, rough watercolors were used to fill in the subject and the background, and finally outlines were applied in fine tip marker.