Art With Korb

STUDENT SURVEY is HERE – If you are NOT a student – thanks for ignoring it… unless you have some incredibly nice things to say or suggestions to make.

What’s the surgeon general have to say about social media and kiddos? It falls in line with my frustrations about the cell phones in class. Maybe it’s worth a read.

If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery. It wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all. ―  Michelangelo

Advanced Painting: Narrative Painting with RULES!

What do you need to do this week to make HUGE PROGRESS in the final work of your Advanced Painting Experience? The assignment is FIGURATIVE PAINTING remember and you are making stories in the work. You have SYMBOLS and IMAGERY that stands for and represents a lot of stuff.

HERE IS THE NARRATIVE ASSIGNMENT

Intro to Painting: Painting in Acrylics

Sharon Hudson – Portraits

PORTRAIT and STILL LIFE : These terms will be here because they are important to know as genres and they are still not being fully understood. You have heard about them and you have listened to the definitions and you are still falling short (in some cases) on the demonstration of understanding. This is the time to fall short. Learning is the process.

Art Foundations: METALS and COLLAGE

Collage is a really important part of the art tradition and we do not have the time to fully do it justice. Please continue to work on the collages as you are waiting for metals supplies to free up and you can work on the jewelry project. This is your opportunity to make an artwork (again) about something important to you!

NATURE is the motif and you are all working towards an understanding of techniques. Black and white images are the final goal for the metals work and the nature will show through. Know about the techniques and LISTEN to the process so that we can have success in it all.

Here is the assignment

Collage Assignment is HERE as well. This is a GOOD in between waiting project as well… or a big project in and of itself… let’s see how things play out.

Advanced Digital art and Photography: Book Making and InDesign

We will take a look at the larger idea in the assignment and then leave it up to you to decide how you want to go about making a series of works and inserting them into a BOOK! The process is complicated and you are in need of focus and attention to the time. Studio habits are essential and I know that you have got the skills. Day 1 is an in depth dive into InDesign, the rest is on you.

MEASUREMENTS ARE IMPORTANT!

Photography and the Assignment

Introduction to Digital Art and Photography: Animation on your own.

Animation – What are your plans for this? We have learned a little about the process in Adobe Animate and NOW is the time to really see what we can do. Look at the ideas that we have seen in the television intros from last week and see how you might consider your ideas and interests in this work. What kind of animation do you want to attempt?

CELL PHONES: I am tired of them being the source of distraction. Put them away in your backpacks or somewhere you will not reach for them. If it is the course of work time and you need to make a photograph or listen to music – FINE. No social media or other distractions though… it has really cut into the time.

Advanced Painting: Narrative Painting with RULES!

Alex Bradley Cohen and Alberto Aguilar in Collaboration at the Art Institute of Chicago

What are you doing in the final painting that is telling a story? How are you finding ways to attain all the goals and requirements that have been set up? What do you find the most challenging in this work? This is it folks – we have worked hard to learn new materials and refresh our memories on previously learned tasks… what are you doing to make the most of it?

HERE IS THE NARRATIVE ASSIGNMENT

Intro to Painting: Painting in Acrylics

Elizabety Peyton – Live Forever

PORTRAIT and STILL LIFE : These terms will be here because they are important to know as genres and they are still not being fully understood. You have heard about them and you have listened to the definitions and you are still falling short (in some cases) on the demonstration of understanding. This is the time to fall short. Learning is the process.

Art Foundations: METALS and COLLAGE

NATURE is the motif and you are all working towards an understanding of techniques. Black and white images are the final goal for the metals work and the nature will show through. Know about the techniques and LISTEN to the process so that we can have success in it all.

Here is the assignment

Collage Assignment is HERE as well. This is a GOOD in between waiting project as well… or a big project in and of itself… let’s see how things play out.

Advanced Digital art and Photography: Book Making and InDesign

We will take a look at the larger idea in the assignment and then leave it up to you to decide how you want to go about making a series of works and inserting them into a BOOK! The process is complicated and you are in need of focus and attention to the time. Studio habits are essential and I know that you have got the skills. Day 1 is an in depth dive into InDesign, the rest is on you.

MEASUREMENTS ARE IMPORTANT!

Photography and the Assignment

Introduction to Digital Art and Photography: Animation on your own.

Animation – What are your plans for this? We have learned a little about the process in Adobe Animate and NOW is the time to really see what we can do. Look at the ideas that we have seen in the television intros from last week and see how you might consider your ideas and interests in this work. What kind of animation do you want to attempt?

Advanced Painting: Narrative Painting with RULES!

You are doing GREAT work THUS FAR… we are going to take a moment to look at the work with everyone to discuss the ideas that we are moving forward with. This is ALSO going to be the PLANNING STAGE of our work. RUBRIC IT!

HERE IS THE NARRATIVE ASSIGNMENT

Alex Bradley CohenIn the Studio, 2022
Acrylic on canvas
14 x 18 inches

Intro to Painting: Painting on your canvases – UNDERPAINTED?

PORTRAIT

Karen Kilminick

STILL LIFE

Janet Fish

I am leaving last weeks image up below because it is 1) GREAT and 2) we didn’t talk much about it. THIS WEEK we have already begun on the canvas!

TOP: Collage for President Elect, 1960-61. Cropped poster, magazine clippings, and mixed media, 14 1/2 x 23 13/16 inches. Collection of the artist.

BOTTOM: President Elect, 1960-61/1964. Oil on Masonite, 7 feet 5 3/4 inches x 12 feet. Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne/Centre de Création Industrielle, Paris. Photo courtesy of the artist.

James Rosenquist – the PLANNING STAGES!

• Finish the Acrylic Technique Paintings BY THURSDAY
• Construction of the CANVASES – 6 or so per day… PAY ATTENTION to use of ET and Study Halls.
• Develop and Plan your Portrait Ideas and MAKE SURE you are making Photographs… If you DO NOT OUTSIDE of class – you will use yourself or a classmate.
  • Dramatic Lighting
  • Unique POV

Art Foundations: METALS!

Wheelhouse Studios…

Motif is a new term that we are going to work with in this artwork! The idea of a common theme and idea running through the entire piece to help create a sense of unity. According to the TATE: Motif can also refer to the subject of the artwork. The phrase ‘to paint from the motif’ arose in the context of impressionism, meaning to paint on the spot.

Here is the assignment

Advanced Digital art and Photography: Handbook Cover Art – Photography and Book Making

Instructions and Plans are HERE!

Planning and Design are you. Make sure you are staying in the spirit of the school – inclusion and education. This is going to be PRINTED and delivered so… you hard work will be in the hands of hundreds of people! Exciting!

MEASUREMENTS ARE IMPORTANT!

Lawrence Von Thomas – Photography and the Assignment

Introduction to Digital Art and Photography: BOOK DESIGN and Animation!

Animation – You are working on learning this as much as I am. I hope that the videos are helping out. This week is going to be using the techniques we have learned and making them your own. Scrap all we did in the last 15 minutes (or continue them with the rest of the week) and move ahead with the following instructions.

THIS WEEK – DUE FRIDAY – we are going to work on GRADIENTS and then we will spend the WEEK coming up with our OWN Animation that deals with:

• a BACKGROUND, drawn or photographed
• Foreground that is either in front of the moving object (like the water) OR is behind the moving object (like a road under a car) 
• An object that moves through the space, on a guideline so there is up and down or back and forth movement AND had an orientation to the line
• Has GRADIENT in the colors 
• AND has movement within the object that moves or elsewhere in the image… 

USE THE VIDEOS and USE ONE ANOTHER to choose what you are going to be doing.

“All art is quite useless.” — Oscar Wilde: Art isn’t utilitarian, and if it is, perhaps it isn’t art. Art serves a non-practical role in our lives, but that does not mean that it is not vital or necessary. One’s individual identity and our collective identity as a culture have no clear serviceability, but they are critical to our ability to function as a society. Kit White © 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Kit White

Advanced Painting: Mark Tansey and Narrative Painting.

NEW WORK that is going to TELL A STORY. There are a LOT of aspects to this work – and coming up with the composition is just a part of it. Think about the canvas and what you are going to do to make it. Remember – this Narrative work based on the works of Mark Tansey AND Alex Bradley Cohen, and William H. Johnson

HERE IS THE NARRATIVE ASSIGNMENT

Alex Bradley CohenIn the Studio, 2022
Acrylic on canvas
14 x 18 inches

Intro to Painting: Canvas Building – One of Mr. Korb’s FAVORITE THINGS TO TEACH!

We are finishing up the intro to ACRYLIC CANVASES and begin on the canvas! Make sure you are PREPPED and PREPARED to go!

TOP: Collage for President Elect, 1960-61. Cropped poster, magazine clippings, and mixed media, 14 1/2 x 23 13/16 inches. Collection of the artist.

BOTTOM: President Elect, 1960-61/1964. Oil on Masonite, 7 feet 5 3/4 inches x 12 feet. Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne/Centre de Création Industrielle, Paris. Photo courtesy of the artist.

James Rosenquist – the PLANNING STAGES!

• Finish the Acrylic Technique Paintings BY THURSDAY
• Construction of the CANVASES – 6 or so per day… PAY ATTENTION to use of ET and Study Halls.
• Develop and Plan your Portrait Ideas and MAKE SURE you are making Photographs… If you DO NOT OUTSIDE of class – you will use yourself or a classmate.
  • Dramatic Lighting
  • Unique POV

Art Foundations: Neo-expressionism, Color, Mark Making! Let’s Have FUN and BE EXPRESSIVE!

The Ten Most Expensive Jean-Michele Basquiat Works Ever Sold at Auction

Basquiat in the New York Times

Let’s Hear a little about him and the work he has made.

Watercolor Techniques assignment is HERE

Neo-Expressionism and Basquiat Assignment is HERE.

Advanced Digital art and Photography: Poster DONE and Now the Handbook Cover Art!

Pit County Schools – what are you doing with our school handbook cover?

Instructions and Plans are HERE!

Planning and Design are you. Make sure you are staying in the spirit of the school – inclusion and education. This is going to be PRINTED and delivered so… you hard work will be in the hands of hundreds of people! Exciting!

MEASUREMENTS ARE IMPORTANT!

Introduction to Digital Art and Photography: BOOK DESIGN and Animation!

Animation is STILL new to Mr. Korb. Let’s continue to learn what we are doing and move forward with this project. This is an introduction to it and a learning opportunity for us all. We may walk out with a great set of skills OR we may fall flat on our faces with this. Whatever we do… it is going to be a LEARNING OPPORTUNITY for us all!

ABC Collaborative Book in Illustrator and Adobe InDesign

“Creativity is a Habit, and the Best Creativity is the Result of Good Work Habits.” Twyla Tharp https://businessinrhyme.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/tharp.jpg

Advanced Painting: UNIQUE Shaped Canvas and MARK TANSEY Narrative painting

We have a lot going on right now. Finishing up the assignment below AND looking forward to the next painting. This Narrative work based on the works of Mark Tansey AND Alex Bradley Cohen, and William H. Johnson

HERE IS THE NARRATIVE ASSIGNMENT

Intro to Painting: GENRES in ACRYLICS AND the PORTRAIT AND the Construction of the Canvases… SLOW DOWN and PAY ATTENTION to what we have to do!

ACRYLICS are upon us and we are going to be exploring the techniques they have to offer.

THREE THINGS THIS WEEK! PAY ATTENTION and STAY ON TOPIC and WORKING!

• Finish the Acrylic Technique Paintings BY THURSDAY
• Construction of the CANVASES – 6 or so per day… PAY ATTENTION to use of ET and Study Halls.
• Develop and Plan your Portrait Ideas and MAKE SURE you are making Photographs… If you DO NOT OUTSIDE of class – you will use yourself or a classmate.
  • Dramatic Lighting
  • Unique POV

Art Foundations: Jean Michel Basquiat. Neo-expressionism and COLOR.

Jean Michele Basquiat let’s become experts.

Basquiat in the New York Times

Let’s Hear a little about him and the work he has made.

Watercolor Techniques assignment is HERE

Basquiat Assignment is HERE.

Advanced Digital art and Photography: Poster DONE and Now the Handbook Cover Art!

Instructions and Plans are HERE!

Planning and Design are you. Make sure you are staying in the spirit of the school – inclusion and education. This is going to be PRINTED and delivered so… you hard work will be in the hands of hundreds of people! Exciting!

Introduction to Digital Art and Photography: BOOK DESIGN and Animation!

Animation is NEW TO MR. KORB! This is going to be an introduction to it and a learning opportunity fo rus all. We may walk out with a great set of skills OR we may fall flat on our faces with this. Whatever we do… it is going to be a LEARNING OPPORTUNITY for us all!

ABC Collaborative Book in Illustrator and Adobe InDesign

“Creativity is a Habit, and the Best Creativity is the Result of Good Work Habits.” Twyla Tharp https://businessinrhyme.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/tharp.jpg

Advanced Painting: UNIQUE Shaped Canvas and we begin with OIL PAINTS.

Chantal Joeffe – “Marina” 2014 at Cheim and Read

What is your goal for the week? What are you doing with the techniques. Now that we are starting full force… let’s take some time to talk with one another and discuss the ideas. A round table conversation artists.

Intro to Painting: GENRES in ACRYLICS

Gillian Carnegie at the Tate and a still life. Maybe not in acrylic but it is one of the genres that we are studying. How are you doing? What are the techniques that you are using in the work SO FAR?

Have we looked at the planning stages? If not – let’s look at the rubric and do that day one of week 4.

ACRYLICS are upon us and we are going to be exploring the techniques they have to offer.

Art Foundations: Jean Michel Basquiat. Neo-expressionism and COLOR.

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Horn Players, 1983, acrylic and oilstick on three canvas panels mounted on wood supports, 243.8 x 190.5 cm (The Broad Art Foundation) © The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat (zoomable image here)

Before we begin the color unit – we are going to read this lesson on Jean Michele Basquiat and become experts. Then we are going to share our expertise. Get ready to be a pro!

Watercolor Techniques assignment is HERE

Basquiat Assignment is HERE.

Advanced Digital art and Photography: How are you doing with the POSTERS? Ai? InDesign?

David Klein – Poster Designer – What period of posters was he from? This is the last week we are working on these posters – where are you in the process?

Poster Design Assignment HERE

Friday – PHOTOGRAPHY and InDesign to learn how to plan a book.

Ted Orland – Quarantine Book PDF – Available for purchase – let me know if you are interested and I’ll get you information. It is important to support our artists! tno.magcloud.com

Introduction to Digital Art and Photography: BOOK DESIGN and Adobe Illustrator

Let’s Look HERE and see how they did it! How are WE? HERE is OUR assignment.

This is the LAST WEEK and then onto Logo design (or animation???) Let’s see where we go from here.

ABC Collaborative Book in Illustrator and Adobe InDesign

Learn To Draw “Drawing is more than a tool for rendering and capturing likenesses. It is a language, with its own syntax, grammar, and urgency. Learning to draw is about learning to see. In this way, it is a metaphor for all art activity. Whatever its form, drawing transforms perception and thought into image and teaches us how to think with our eyes.” 101 Things to Learn in Art School Kit White © 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Kit White – Sol LeWitt

Advanced Painting: UNIQUE Shaped Canvas and we begin with OIL PAINTS.

Beginning in OILS. Technique and Process. This is where we begin folks! The techniques are VERY different than gouache… make sure you are using a variety of these techniques.

Amy Sherald on Making Breonna Taylor’s Portrait

Intro to Painting: GENRES in ACRYLICS

ACRYLICS are upon us and we are going to be exploring the techniques they have to offer.

Sonia Delaunay
Electric Prisms 1913

Orphism (1912–13): Coined by the French poet and art critic Guillaume Apollinaire. The name comes from the musician Orpheus in ancient Greek myths, as Apollinaire thought that painting should be like music. Main artists Robert Delaunay and Sonia Delaunay also used the term simultanism to describe their work of this period.

The TATE

Week of PAINTING! This is about TECHNIQUE as well as considering the ideas of TECHNIQUES. Make sure you are paying CLOSE ATTENTION to the techniques and the final product. FOCUS on the work!

Art Foundations: Still Life and Drawing – PRACTICE your VALUES!

The STILL LIFE is upon us and the DRAWINGS have begun. What is the stage you see yourself at?

Remember that we are using values that range from 0 – 10! We are also using all of the mark making techniques we have learned about: Shading (modeling / chiaroscuro), Hatching and Cross Hatching, Stippling, and Scumbling.

Still Life ASSIGNMENT!

Advanced Digital art and Photography: How are you doing with the POSTERS? Ai? InDesign?

https://www.internationalposter.com/product/general-dynamics–solar-dynamics-2/

How are you thinking about the use of TEXT? This is a part of the process and the final product. Make sure you are aware of the COMPOSITION!

Introduction to Digital Art and Photography: BOOK DESIGN and Adobe Illustrator

ABC Collaborative Book in Illustrator and Adobe InDesign

Advanced Painting: Constructing our UNIQUE Shaped Canvas and working in OILS with FIGURATIVE WORK! – REMEMBER the THEME OF THE SEMESTER – DIFFERENCES!

How have you chosen to go about making your ground and then constructing the shape. The approach is UNIQUE to YOU and the FIGURE needs to be included into the idea of the composition. Keep that in mind.

Alice Neel was the greatest American portraitist of the 20th century. Her work continues to astonish. – Let’s READ THIS ARTICLE (on your own) and then share our thoughts on it 5 bullet points from the article you thought were important! – 10 PLANNING POINTS!

Intro to Painting: GENRES in ACRYLICS

ACRYLICS are upon us and we are going to be exploring the techniques they have to offer.

Red Still Life 1967
© The estate of Mary Fedden – The TATE

We are going to create our own composition and then break it down to these steps. The SPHERES are a GREAT way to learn the PROCESS and TECHNIQUES AND you ALSO need to develop the process and techniques of developing strong compositions.

What GENRE have you chosen and what is your PLANNING for the process. There are a million ways to begin this and the ideas are ALL UP TO YOU!

Art Foundations: The Still Life is SO WIDE OPEN – Literally in our compositions!

Stephanie H. Shih

The STILL LIFE is upon us and the DRAWINGS have begun. What is the stage you see yourself at?

Nicole Dyer

Remember that we are using values that range from 0 – 10! We are also using all of the mark making techniques we have learned about: Shading (modeling / chiaroscuro), Hatching and Cross Hatching, Stippling, and Scumbling.

Still Life ASSIGNMENT!

Rebecca Scott

Advanced Digital art and Photography: What is your plan for your poster?

Plinio Codognato, Fiat 509, 1925

Poster Design is upon us! We all see them, use them, love them or hate them. We are going to talk about MAKING them. There is a great history of the poster – and who knows where it is headed. Think about the moving posters of today’s digital age… Incredible work. Let’s dig in and see how they have developed and communicated messages that affect us all.

MILTON GLASER Article HERE… This is GOOD TO READ! – Let’s Read it ALOUD in class – this should only take a minute or 5.

Introduction to Digital Art and Photography: BOOK DESIGN and Adobe Illustrator

ABC Collaborative Book in Illustrator and Adobe InDesign

This is a COLLABORATIVE PROJECT and YOU ARE ALL GOING TO LEAD THIS! I am here to help and guide AND YOU ARE WORKING THIS AS A TEAM!

Planning and Procedure are in your hands. We will check in with one another this week to see the process and stages you are at!

Advanced Painting: New Shaped Canvas and FIGURATIVE WORK!

FIGURATIVE and UNIQUE SHAPED CANVAS are coming soon.

Brian Frick at the James May Gallery in Milwaukee.

Intro to Painting: We are working on ACRYLICS

ACRYLICS are upon us and we are going to be exploring the techniques they have to offer. This is AFTER Spring Break AND there is some thinking you are going to have to do while you are away.

We are going to create our own composition and then break it down to these steps. The SPHERES are a GREAT way to learn the PROCESS and TECHNIQUES AND you ALSO need to develop the process and techniques of developing strong compositions. SO…

• Landscape
• Still Life
• Floral

THE ABOVE are your options – AND we are going to walk through this all together DAY 1 with a COLLAGE and SURFACE (GROUND) TREATMENT!

Art Foundations: Welcome back to Space, Form, Value

The STILL LIFE is upon us – almost. We are going to continue to develop the ideas together and WALK through the idea of an OPEN COMPOSITION so that we can also work on TECHNIQUES. Make sure you have YOUR OBJECTS!

Still Life ASSIGNMENT!

Advanced Digital art and Photography: POSTERS

What should go into the poster? What kind of information? What kind of imagery? What kind of design… Let’s look a bit more at the HISTORY of posters and Milton Glaser… one of the ALL TIME BEST and MOST INFLUENTIAL.

Poster Design is upon us! We all see them, use them, love them or hate them. We are going to talk about MAKING them. There is a great history of the poster – and who knows where it is headed. Think about the moving posters of today’s digital age… Incredible work. Let’s dig in and see how they have developed and communicated messages that affect us all.

MILTON GLASER Article HERE… This is GOOD TO READ!

Introduction to Digital Art and Photography: BOOK DESIGN and Adobe Illustrator

Ooops – I made a mistake in the lining up of the assignment – SO – let’s work through this together on DAY 1.

ABC Collaborative Book in Illustrator and Adobe InDesign

This is a COLLABORATIVE PROJECT and YOU ARE ALL GOING TO LEAD THIS! I am here to help and guide AND YOU ARE WORKING THIS AS A TEAM!

Advanced Painting: Critique and Planning for the next work – OILS

FIGURATIVE and the UNIQUE SHAPED CANVAS are coming soon. The POP ART PAINTINGS are due this week so let’s get them done and PHOTOGRAPHED and DONE!

Andy Warhol may be one of my favorites and I KNOW that there are MANY MORE that you have learned about.

Figurative Work is coming up next (so are unique shaped canvases so… be ready for MATH!)

Intro to Painting: Critique and Planning for the next work – ACRYLICS

ACRYLICS are upon us and we are going to be exploring the techniques they have to offer. This is AFTER Spring Break AND there is some thinking you are going to have to do while you are away.

Critique and Rubrics are this week so… buckle up and be ready to share your ideas and thoughts with one another! SPEED DATein… er… um… SPEED CRITIQUES are here!

Art Foundations: Space, Form, Value

Negative Space and Positive Space are ALL AROUND US – This week we are going to be working with the ideas of that through the mark making of and not of the forms and space in front of us.

Still Life ASSIGNMENT!

Advanced Digital art and Photography: POSTERS

Poster Design is upon us! We all see them, use them, love them or hate them. We are going to talk about MAKING them. There is a great history of the poster – and who knows where it is headed. Think about the moving posters of today’s digital age… Incredible work. Let’s dig in and see how they have developed and communicated messages that affect us all.

Introduction to Digital Art and Photography: ARCHITECTURE and Adobe Illustrator

Hilma Af Klint – Could she have used Illustrator – Perhaps the designs would have been doable! Let’s give it a try SO WE CAN LEARN THE TOOLS!

Upcoming Assignment – PAY ATTENTION and MAKE PHOTOGRAPHS of ARCHITECTURE (assignment)! – HERE Are 10 TIPS to IMPROVE your ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY!