Portraits of our Sister School 2

A few of the finished oil pastel portraits of students from our Sister School in London Ontario Canada.

Oil Pastel Portraits of our Sister School

We have been working on oil pastel portraits of students from our Sister School in London Ontario Canada.

Last semester, they created portraits of Apex students using expressive colors so this semester we are returning the favor.

Here are a few still in the works....

Care Package from Canada

We received a care package from our Sister School in Canada -->



also, notice the cool post cards on the bulletin board ...

Sister School Perspective Drawings

Our most recent Sister School project was to draw a room using one point perspective based only on a written description sent by a student from our sister school in Canada. Trying to draw a room that you have never seen based only on a written description is no easy task.

After the Apex students completed the drawings, we posted them on our Facebook page. Now the students in Canada have started posting actual photos of the rooms so our Apex artists can see how close they were!

Want to try it??

The room is of two walls that meet at offcente, left, to the middle. Where the walls meet there are two windows on both sides. the window go about a foot from the floor and right to the ceiling. They have two panels of shutters on each window that are white. In the corner there is a two person couch on the left wall. The couch is rounded and grass green. the legs are short and rounded wood. there are two pillows on the couch one is the same colour green the other is beige. over the sholders of the couch is a hexagonal, quilted, dark purple with white rimming each purple hexagon, blanket.








Room description : colour hot pink. Theme of the room : princess & butterflys , flowers in a vase .. white cubby and white bookshelf one little night table with a white lap on it pink princess dresser computer desk beside the window a little horse stick red fluffy , furry carpet a hamper hanging up from the ceilinghalf of a window and hot pink stero when you walk into the room : theres the bed in the middle of the room with a carpet right infront of it which is red and on the left is the tall bookshelf . right beside the bookshelf is the princess dresser . right above the bed is a flower vase with the hot pink stero beside it at the far corner is the computer desk with nick-nacks on it .

Sister Schools

Since September, Oakridge Secondary in London, Ontario and Apex High School in Apex, NC have been sister art schools! We have been working on the same sketchbook assignments and even collaborating on projects.



One day we learned that Oakridge had been stalking us on google maps so we decided to return the favor.



One of the easier ways to work together with a sister school is to both work on the same sketchbook project. One of the first sketchbook projects we choose was the no portrait self portrait. For this sketchbook assignment each student created a work that represented themselves.

In order to share the assignments between the two countries, we set up a joint Facebook page and called it OPEX ART. This way we could all join, post photos, and share comments about each other's projects.



Here is an example of another joint sketchbook assignment. The students were given an unfinished K. Haring drawing that they then had to complete.



The first true project swap we did was portraits. Apex was working on value scale so Oakridge took photos of their students using strong lighting for us to use as references. We shared files using the free file hosting service Mediafire. Afterwards we posted our drawings on the Opex Art page.



Later, when Oakridge was ready to work on portraits, Apex provided the photos. Oakridge used pastels to create expressive impressions.



Another project was a postcard exchange. Both schools created postcards about their town, state or country. Then we filled envelopes and snail mailed them to each other.

Thanks to the Apex PTSA, we also were able to send Oakridge some Apex swag. Here you see Oakridge looking pretty sweet in their new Apex gear.


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Meet Your Sister School

Oakridge Secondary in London, Ontario and Apex High School are sister art schools! We will be working on the same sketchbook assignments and even collaborating on projects.



This week's non self portrait portrait will be a way for you to introduce yourself to the students at Oak. They in return will do the same.

Next week we will be working on portraits using photos of the Oak students.. and guess what? They will be creating portraits of you.

so take a minute and get to know your new siblings... check out the fan page on Facebook --> OPEX ART

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