PLEIN AIR ART CLASS: Summer Opportunities – Plein Air and Printmaking!

Drawing: Outside Day 8
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
Let’s get rolling and get outside to draw from 2 – 5 feet away. One page and one drawing. That’s the goal

Once again… What is your feeling about the process of drawing outside with a book that you made and a particular goal of filling it with observational drawings?
Studio Art 360: Portrait Tuesday – Push Sketchbooks till Friday!
7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
What are two things about PAINTING in ACRYLIC that you have discovered and will STAY WITH YOU in the future?

What is it that you especially enjoy about the image you are creating in your painting? How do the ideas and colors RELATE to you?
Advanced Drawing: What’s the IDEA of your work looking like?
1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.
What did you accomplish yesterday with the facial features? Today is another day – Let’s take this 10 minutes at a time…

Tomorrow we discuss the process and planning for the next work.
Handouts for next week:
AP Studio Art: Crit!
4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
Based on the conversations you had at the beginning of this artwork, what are some of the qualities / characteristics you worked into the final portrait of your classmate? Would this be something that an audience would learn / see from simply looking at the work?

Well? How’d you do?