As A Teacher

Secondary Art Educator at Parkville High School, Baltimore County
MD Certification • EdTPA • B.S. in Art Ed & Electronic Media and Film from Towson University

Classes Ms. Kaminsky teaches

Fundamentals of Art (2020 - Present)

This is the foundation course for a concentrated study in art and satisfies the 1 credit Fine Arts graduation requirement. Students will develop the foundational skills needed to communicate ideas visually while developing understandings about the contributions of various artists/craftsmen to their cultures. Emphasis is placed on observational drawing and exploring composition and design in the art of various cultures using drawing, painting, and 3-D media. Students will be required to keep a sketchbook and a portfolio.

Teleevideo (2022-2024)

This course provides opportunities for students to learn and refine skills needed to run a school wide video broadcast. The students in this class are responsible for the production of the knightly news morning announcements. Students will film, edit and produce spots, news stories, and other clips to air on the knightly news for each school day.

Intermediate Art (2020-2022, 2024 - Present)

This course provides opportunities for students to refine skills developed in Fundamentals of Art. Students will study and critique artistic styles and trends and apply knowledge gained in their own work. Emphasis is placed on working from observation using drawing, painting, and 3-D media and incorporating imaginative ideas to begin developing a personal style. Students in this course will be required to maintain a sketchbook and a portfolio.

"Final Project" Darlin E. (2021)

"The Light At the End..." - Maira R. ( 2020)

Knolled Drawing

Knolling is a type of photography technique. This technique consists of overhead shots of many objects that are related to each other, organized parallel or perpendicular to each other. Knolling is a fairly new trend in art, getting it start in the 70's and by 1987 was officially an art trend. It started with a custodial worker, Andrew Kromelow at the Frank Genhry's Furniture store. The store was creating work for the Knoll Furniture brand that is known for their very angular furinture. At the end of the work day Kromelow would rearrange the tools mimiking these right angles so that tools were accessible and easy to find. This was later picked up by another worker at the store, Tom Sachs who created art out of this knolling technique, adopted the phrase "Always Be Knolling" and made it a popular technique throughout the art world.

Project

Students were to choose objects from an activity or hobby they enjoy . They then sketched out how they would lay them out using the knolling technique, as if the objects were in front of them. Students used reference photos to look at details of their objects to create graphite on paper 12 x 12 works of art.

Still Life

Still life is a work of art that features arrangements of inanimate objects as its main subject. These objects are usually set on a table and include objects from nature, foods, or household objects like glassware and textiles. Some of the earlist still life paintings can be dated back to 15 BCE by the Egyptians, Ancient Greeks, and Romans, mostly in tombs or on walls as mosaics. Since then the still life has evolved into what we know today in comtemportary art where artist create hyperrealistic still life art.

Project

After setting up objects like vases, gourds, and animal skulls, students choose one of four still life set ups and angles they can draw from. Each perspective has a damanding aspect so each student is challenged to their fullist potential.

Pop Art

Pop Art is an art movement that came about in the mid to late 1950's. The movement is known for challenging traditional fine art by including imagery from mass mediat and popular culture.

Project

Students Choose one of two famous pop artist. Andy Warhol or Wanye Theibaud to create a pop art acrylic paining from.

Compositional Strategies

There are five compositional strategies, they are; Rotating, Overlapping, Cropping, Focal Point, and Off-centering. Compositional strategies are used in art to create a more dynamic and visually interesting work of art.

Project

Students created a mixed media (using more than one medium to create) work of art that showed sucessful use of all five compositional strategies to create visually dynamic works.

Photos

Students explored the effects of light in photography, and how we can shape light to create different effects and mood. Students were allowed to edit photos after the fact as long as the lighting was the main focus.

Animations

Students learned the very basics of stop motion animation. They used the app "Stop Motion Studiio" to take photos and stich together a 10 second animation.

Colored Pencil Opposites

Grotesque Vs As Is. This project challenged students to think outside the box and create a colored pencil drawing of an object, and a grotesque version of it. In these side by side comparisons we see an ordinary object become deformed and repulsive.

Social Justice Poster

In this project students brainstormed social issues that effect our community in parkville/baltimore and choose one they felt strongly about. They were then asked to create a meaningful poster about their topic.

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