"Stubborn Mom"55" x 55" framed1996

Contemporary

Alexandra Nechita (born, 1985)

Alexandra Nechita (born August 27, 1985) is a Romanian-born American cubist painter and muralist.She was born in Vaslui, three months

after her father, Niki Nechita, escaped from Communist Romania. She and her mother, Viorica Nechita, waited two years to rejoin him in the United States. The family settled in California, where her father found work as a lab technician, and her mother as an office manager.

At the age of two, she was working with pen and ink and by five was working with watercolors. Upon her seventh birthday, oil and acrylics were her tools. She had her first solo exhibition at the age of eight at the public library in Whittier, Los Angeles County.

In November 1999, Alexandra was selected by the World Federation of United Nations Associations to lead a Global Arts Initiative involving more than 100 nations. In 2005, Alexandra Nechita unveiled her United Nations Peace Monument for Asia in Singapore. It is to be set up for display at the Catholic High School. She was also enlisted to make a series of paintings named "Winning Together" for the Special Olympics.

She dedicated a theatre at the Lutheran High School of Orange County, which was her high school. It is known as the Nechita Center for the Arts, and has 740 seats.

She had a guest appearance as herself in the Touchstone Television sitcom Boy Meets World in the 1998 episode "Better Than The Average Cory".

"The Intricacies of Self" 27½" x 16½"Artist Proof Stone Lithograph

"Peace Keepers"27½" x 20¾"Artist Proof Stone Lithograph

"EmbraceGrowing Up" 27" x 21"Artist Proof Stone Lithograph

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Puzzle piece project

Objective: to demonstrate high contrast in values with accurate proportions employing a grid at a 1:3 scale

Objective: to put puzzle pieces together in a completed work by Wednesday!

Complete critique, in comments give reason for grade-not about effort

Choose backing COLOR, write color and name on the backside within the rhino outline THEN cut out rhino!

Puzzle Project

Proportion

scale

grid

Puzzle Project- worksheet

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Contrast a principle of design in visual arts; a technique which shows DIFFERENCEs between art ELEMENTS

Vocabulary:

Value the element of art that describes the lightness or darkness of an object. (depends on how much light a surface reflects.)

Shade a dark value of a hue made by adding black to it.

Tint a light value of a hue made by mixing white to it.

ProportionContrastTint ShadeValueScale

Not on vocabulary just to discuss:Grid