Some of you had some challenges this past quarter in your art classes – some of you soared. If sketches held you back – think about what your new plan of action needs to be. If you had no issues with the practice of sketches – then no worries – your practice is strong because you know that the art requires practice. A new beginning for all – and new seating charts – WEEKLY – YEP!
Art has no boundaries except those imposed by the needs of the maker. Boundaries are a form of definition, nothing more. They are a way to create a hierarchy of concerns, interests and priorities. Boundaries change all the time. That is part of what art does. By defining an area of interest or by stating a new priority, art allows us to create new definitions of ourselves and the context in which we operate. To blur a boundary is to confuse the definition. To move a boundary is to make a new definition. Kit White 101 Things I Learned in Art School.

Drawing: Mid Crit FRIDAY – Work This Week
7.2Ac: Evaluate the effectiveness of an image or images to influence ideas, feelings, and behaviors of specific audiences.
Reflect on LAST WEEK and your initial photograph, preliminary sketches, and initial drawing before you begin today! What are your OVERALL IDEAS that you hope to communicate? What do you feel you’ll be doing with the materials that are NEW and CHALLENGING to you?

Biggest struggle / success for today? Write it out and the WHY!
Studio Art 360: Intro to the SLAB
1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.
What do you currently know about using CLAY?


Here are the ideas for Final Product in the next assignment – you will have to use the same technique but with multiple solutions to the challenges – BRIGHT COLORS and GLAZES – Multiple Ideas – Clay Cup / Mug (Pinch Pot, Coils?) Post Modern – Neo-Pop Keith Haring and other 3D Works – Bright Colors etc..
AP Studio Art: CRIT – Hello Madeline
3.1Ad: Reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art or design considering relevant traditional and contemporary criteria as well as personal artistic vision.
Time to CRITIQUE your Mark Tansey artworks.Are using the ideas of the rubric to push yourself – develop your ideas – Improve your work.

As you look back on the development of your composition, what are especially satisfied about? What are 3 things that you feel are successful compositionally? What did you add to the critique?