Landscapes are a SOLID part of the artmaking history and we are going to approach it in a number of ways! Collage, Photography, Observation and then… well… that’s it.
FOR EXTRA CRDIT IN PLANNING and STUDIO HABITS! Watch this video and make your own book from your own internet research.
Art Foundations: Space and Pencil – Perspective and the Still Life
MARK MAKING is HUGE in what we are going to be doing – what mark making do you know?
Still Life assignment is coming up and this is the ASSIGNMENT!
Advanced Digital art and Photography: COMING UP ON A DEADLINE – SOON
ONE MORE WEEK and then we critique – onto more designing and perhaps some animation – I need to learn this along with you. Changes in the curriculum and lesson plans? Perhaps!
Here are some more of the PHENOMINAL ARTIST Erik Johansson’s works that we can be inspired and amazed at.
Advanced Painting: Gouache and Theme and POP and DIFFERENCES!
How is the PROGRESS GOING? What has the PLANNING and RESEARCH done to help you develop your ideas as well as know a bit more about POP ART than you did on DAY 1? Write out TWO THINGS about POP art that you didn’t know before but do know now – OR – two things that you understand more about regarding POP art?
(Above) Just what was it that made yesterday’s homes so different, so appealing? (upgrade) 2004 – TATE Modern, UK
Our Book Binding is progressing NICELY with a lot of you coming in during ET and working – some with a bit of regret about needing to work but… working none-the-less and getting a lot DONE! This week is Finishing the binding and then making the paintings to go INTO the book. Make sure you are also doing the following
Making and working from PHOTOGRAPHY of LANDSCAPES that YOU MADE.
Think about COMPOSITIONAL TECHNIQUES as you make your photographs: Rule of Thirds, Leading Lines, Simplify, Framing, Right HEavy, ETC… Include the photographs in the book as well – this means you need to make prints of the photographs.
Working from your, and including them in the final books, COLLAGES of landscapes.
PLEIN AIR PAINTING – being outside (or observing from a window).
Landscapes are a SOLID part of the artmaking history and we are going to approach it in a number of ways! Collage, Photography, Observation and then… well… that’s it.
Art Foundations: Finish the Glazing and Photography Unit
In addition to GLAZING your CERAMICS – we are also finishing up the Photography Unit. Make sure you complete the RUBRIC on Photography as well as the SLIDE SHOW about your ELEMENTS and PRINCIPLES.
All Ceramic LATE WORK will receive an NP after Friday.
Photography through the Elements an the Principles… HERE you go!
Advanced Digital art and Photography: Photo Manipulation and COMMUNITY!
We are running out of time – one more week. What is the CONCEPT of your Photomanipulation? How are you digging in deep to create a STRONG COMPOSITION as well as communicating the concept? Make 100% sure the images are yours that you are working from so you can claim 100% ownership!
Here are some more of the PHENOMINAL ARTIST Erik Johansson’s works that we can be inspired and amazed at.
Introduction to Digital Art and Photography: Photography and Photoshop and Art History
(Above) After Picasso’s “The Absinthe Drinker” (Below)
We are approaching the end of the unit… how far do you need to go to complete it? While you made strong images to start with – thank you for that – what are you learning about the use of PHOTOSHOP that has made your now PHOTOSHOP PAINTED image strong and effective as a painting into itself?
End of unit – shut off the original photograph and EXPORT AS – PNG. Turn the PNG into the Google Classroom assignment and make sure you have your STEP by STEP Slideshow completed as well.
Advanced Painting: Gouache and Theme and POP and DIFFERENCES!
What are the things you are doing to move the work forward? How are you making progress here? What are your plans? What can we do together to make sure you are moving forward and beginning the process?
This is the space I got the image from AND this looks like a GREAT place to go and learn the book binding process – unless you are in my classroom and then you are ALSO in a great space. It will take us longer than 2 days.
Book Binding Demo and getting into it ALL WEEK – PAY ATTENTION TO THE PROCESS so that you are ALWAYS ABLE to work solo and help one another AS THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE HERE TO WORK WITH!
Landscapes are a SOLID part of the artmaking history and we are going to approach it in a number of ways! Collage, Photography, Observation and then… well… that’s it.
Art Foundations: Photography and Photoshop
Photoshop is going to be a place to not only have a TON of fun and explore what you can do to PHOTOSHOP a photograph BUT it is also a place to SIMPLY make a strong image and fix it just a little bit – to improve all that you have done to make a strong photograph to start with.
Advanced Painting: Gouache and Theme and POP and DIFFERENCES!
We begin this week all on your own! Remember that DIFFERENCES is the common theme for the semester – how will you look at the idea of that in the realm of POPular Culture?
I think I will leave the rest of this the same as last week as we just are getting started…
Here is a video to take a look at about some POP Artists you might NOT know about.
Progress Photographs as well – HERE is a GREAT video of (Not a pop artist) Matisse and the Pink Nude.
Intro to Painting: Watercolor and Landscapes / Plein Air / Book Binding / Observation
Much like the Advanced Painting – we are just getting started. This is going to be an assignment – an art making experience that is all about OBSERVATION and CREATING based on LOOKING. Collage, Photography, Observation from the real world and then COMPOSITION on YOUR PAPERS! Let us leave the rest of this alone as we will visit it together – we did not last week…
Landscapes are a SOLID part of the artmaking history and we are going to approach it in a number of ways! Collage, Photography, Observation and then… well… that’s it.
David Hockney is a contemporary painter who is still in the process of making his artwork.
Art Foundations: Photography and Photoshop
We begin by talking about the ideas of what the Elements and Principles are and then we go into the larger idea about what makes for a strong photograph. What DOES make a strong photograph? COMPOSITION and CONCEPT – Think about the ENTIRE IMAGE as you are pressing the shutter button. This series of works of art are SO EASY – NO THEY ARE NOT! That is the challenge with photography… it is something that we have access to ALL THE TIME and NOW you are going to be more well versed in it. Ok BIRK – Let’s go make a good series of photographs.
There is a big difference in a snapshot and a photograph. We are going to be looking at MANY approached to PHOTGRPAHS and then we will take it to PHOTOSHOP and work out the ideas of FILTERS.
Photography through the Elements an the Principles… HERE you go!
Annie Leibovitz – Muhammad Ali – 1996
Advanced Digital art and Photography: Photo Manipulation and COMMUNITY!
Advanced Painting: Gouache and Theme and POP and DIFFERENCES!
We’ve talked a bit about the POP art movement and you know about SOME of the POP Artists but… let’s look at some more of them. Even though I love Andy Warhol – there is more to the POP Movement than him.
Here is a video to take a look at about some POP Artists you might NOT know about.
Progress Photographs as well – HERE is a GREAT video of (Not a pop artist) Matisse and the Pink Nude.
Intro to Painting: Watercolor and Landscapes / Plein Air / Book Binding / Observation
Landscapes are a SOLID part of the artmaking history and we are going to approach it in a number of ways! Collage, Photography, Observation and then… well… that’s it.
David Hockney is a contemporary painter who is still in the process of making his artwork.
Art Foundations: Photography and Photoshop
There is a big difference in a snapshot and a photograph. We are going to be looking at MANY approached to PHOTGRPAHS and then we will take it to PHOTOSHOP and work out the ideas of FILTERS.
Photography through the Elements an the Principles… HERE you go!
Annie Leibovitz – Muhammad Ali – 1996
Advanced Digital art and Photography: Photo Manipulation and COMMUNITY!
Maybe you are more INSPIRED by an artwork than simply redoing it… be open to the ideas that you are having… and be inspired by a lot of artists. Check THIS out.
We learned about Sister Mary Corita Kent when we talked about the rules of the art studio… let’s learn a little more about the POP artist… it is coming up next week – but let’s start thinking about the next work.
Intro to Painting: Watercolors and a Series -Yes – Still!
The PROMPT for this painting is ONE OF THE FOLLOWING from the following list:
Hands
Close Up
Sound, Sight, Taste, Hearing, Touch
Time / Space
Geometry / Organic
Bottle(s) / Container(s)
Backpack, purse, satchel, carrying device
Flight
Music, poetry
Animal(s)
Art Foundations: Ceramics and Pottery
Imiso Ceramics – Africa. https://imisoceramics.co.za/ Let’s look at the work of CONTEMPORARY African Ceramics artists ANDILE DYALVANE. How could you use this as inspiration as you add animals or nature to your work? Let’s talk about:
Picasso – not the best person in the world but a phenomenal and inspirational maker of art created works based on the idea of animals as well as other imagery. Here are a couple of his works that were pretty common in shape to other ceramic work but through decoration he worked the idea of the animal (and figure). How are you doing?
Additive
Subtractive
Manipulative
Scraffito
What kind of animal or nature are you looking at as you create? Remember that you need to be planning things out before you begin.
Advanced Digital Art and Photography: Doodle for Google
Sit back and look at your ideas. Answer the following to get your brain thinking and the artmaking going.
What is the THEME of YOUR work?
What do the images symbolize?
How are you incorporating the Google Wordmark into the design?
What tools in Photoshop are you focusing on using?
What are three things specifically on your agenda for this block?
Let’s look at the FORM we are going to be filling out and begin the writing response today.
Introduction to Digital Art and Photography: Photographs and Themes
We are continuing to edit the images we are making as digital photographers. In addition… we will make ONE incredible photograph of the strongest work you have made and then. ALSO – you are going to use one of your photographs and EXPLORE and EXPERIMENT with PHOTOSHOP and then “Photoshop” the heck out of it. Explore and experiment with it as you please – this is going to be due along with the series.
Well… where are you headed? What is DIFFERENCE in your mind? What are your thoughts?
There are NO WRONG ANSWERS… but your planning is going to be the success to your final artwork. What could you be planning?
As a preacher about MODERN and CONTEMPORARY Art – here is an interesting article to help you know about the DIFFERENCES there… maybe this work of MODERN art (Kandinsky) can help you think about differences. These are definitely different!
The PROMPT for this painting is ONE OF THE FOLLOWING from the following list:
Hands
Close Up
Sound, Sight, Taste, Hearing, Touch
Time / Space
Geometry / Organic
Bottle(s) / Container(s)
Backpack, purse, satchel, carrying device
Flight
Music, poetry
Animal(s)
Art Foundations: Ceramics and Pottery
Imiso Ceramics – Africa. https://imisoceramics.co.za/ Let’s look at the work of CONTEMPORARY African Ceramics artists ANDILE DYALVANE. How could you use this as inspiration as you add animals or nature to your work? Let’s talk about:
Additive
Subtractive
Manipulative
Scraffito
What kind of animal or nature are you looking at as you create? Remember that you need to be planning things out before you begin.
Advanced Digital Art and Photography: Doodle for Google
What are you going to use? Illustrator or Photoshop – Hand rendered and then drawn out on the platform, use of your OWN photographs – the choices are limitless! Let’s WIN this one this year! No pressure – just the WORLD watching! Doodle for Google 2023!
A solid day of planning and drawing and working things out in the beginning stages. We will share the ideas and the progress later this week!
Introduction to Digital Art and Photography: Photographs and Themes
Let’s think about the ideas of photohgraphy and what we can do with it as we create artwork. The use of the cell phone camera is great in snapping shots and snapping chats but as a tool to make artwork that really causes THOUGHT and CONCEPT… this is where we can move forward with. Let’s look at some of contemporary photographer Uta Barth’s works.
A NOTE TO MY FOLLOWERS and MY ARTISTS. This semester is going to be a MAJOR CHANGE to the subject matter but not the mediums. Rather than specific genres of paintings for each unit, we are going to approach the units with a common theme. This semester’s theme is going to be DIFFERENCES!
What do DIFFERENCES mean? How many different directions can one go? What is it about your work that will demonstrate and exemplify the larger topic? Can it get deep? Can it be superficial and simply enjoyable to look at? Where we are going is going to be up to you – the artist! I am excited to see where this goes.
Do you remember Art Foundations and the experiments we did with WATERCOLORS? I bet you did! We are going to experiment again – better watercolors – visually challenging with OBSERVATION and REALISM! FLOWERS! (Maybe you’ll go EXPRESSIVE.) Who knows.
This may be a simple example of the final assignment but it is something that is DOABLE! Your first assignment is going to explore a NUMBER to techniques and approaches to MAKING a vessel and you have some CHOICE in how you are going to make it. Check out the assignment and get ready to get your hands muddy!
Advanced Digital Art and Photography: Doodle for Google
Illustrator or Photoshop – Hand rendered and then drawn out on the platform, use of your OWN photographs – the choices are limitless! Let’s WIN this one this year! No pressure – just the WORLD watching! Doodle for Google 2023!
Introduction to Digital Art and Photography: Photographs and Themes
We are going to test the ideas of PHOTOGRAPHY here and approach the idea of composition (so that you are FULLY AWARE of and are beaten over the head with a sponge filled with art knowledge). The assignment gives you YOUR VERY OWN DIRECTION and the ideas of making photographs as an assignment couldn’t BE more up your alley as a high schooler who ALWAYS carries a camera. The process will take Studio Time for RESEARCH and your OWN TIME for making the images. We will be EDITING THEM in the studio with PHOTOSHOP SO… it is MORE than just snapping a picture! Let’s GO!
While I LOVE The McNay show that includes many photographers (the Jessica Todd Harper above as one of them) – The J. Paul Getty Musuem is having one for Uta Barth right now! An exhibition of a contemporary photographer is happening – Let’s GO!
If I have missed any – visit TATE Art Terms to look your up and read about it.
Art Foundations – METALS and COLLAGE!
What was your MOTIF for NATURE?
How did you use the RIVETS and PIERCINGS for?
What was UNIQUE about your work.
What are you doing for the ideas in regards to the COLLAGE Artwork? We are WORKING until the end of the semester and continuing to develop the ideas of MAKING ART. Studio Habits might possibly be the strongest skills you can develop because… if you develop those the rest will all fall into place.
Intro to Digital Art and Photography – Logo and then ANIMATION!
ArtBeforeComfort Group – a small look into stop motion photography and then you can find millions more on your own for ideas.