To Start With – Get out your handbooks!
Curious about the lesson plan changes? Visit my planning pages and go to week 8. Compare it with week 7 (or before) to see the changes. A lot of info, simpler approach to the week – same quality though.
What a weekend. WAEA in Madison last Friday, 6 of our students with work at the Capitol Rotunda, I got to polka with the Lieutenant Governor of WI Rebecca Kleefisch. Then the night came around and I saw the Addams Family Musical at BHS with my family – dinner afterwards – what a great night. 3 musicals later and I now sit at the kitchen counter, Birk eating his dinner (lunch) and a curious new show on Netflix. I am almost ready to get things going for school. I mentioned that changes were going to take place with this website, and they are. I’ll be posting less frequently than daily, two or three times a week to keep everyone up to speed. I am using the Google Classroom more and I feel that there is more communication directly to the kids there with the assignments, but this is a place to stop and reflect with the handbook so we can journey through the art semester with a better understanding as to what we are doing. Thank you for the follow, please share this around, and come back to use the resources that I have provided.
Korb
The human figure is a complex construction composed of a rigid frame overlaid with soft, rounded, elongated muscles. Its main volumes can be described with a series of interlocking ellipses. There are no straight lines in a body. And it is symmetrical. When laying out a figure drawing, try to do it with a series of interlocking ovals. This will insure that the figure maintains its dimensionality, its roundness in space. This roundness applies to most objects in nature. 101 Things to Learn in Art School Kit White © 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Kit White
Stained Glass: New Project – Preliminary work.
- 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork
- 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
- What is the focal point of the composition that you are designing? How does the rest of the space (negative space?) support the dominant portion of the work. How many pieces are you looking at? Have a conversation with your classmates to discuss the challenges that you might be facing with this new work of art.
BY THE WAY: everything-stained-glass.com is a good site for your own personal research.
CIaD: Critique – Self and Others – Self Assessment
- 3.1Ac: Engage in constructive critique with peers, then reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art and design in response to personal artistic vision.
- 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
- What have you done with this work that made you particularly proud of the struggle? What new skills are you gaining? We are doing CRITIQUES this week and you will need to have a strong conversation about the process and product.
Drawing: Faces and German Expressionism
- .1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork
- 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
- What artist / images have you chosen to work from and / or have you been inspired by? Take a few minutes to chat with your colleagues to share this information. We are going to get started with the drawings today so be ready to work in your chosen medium.
AP Studio Art: Figure Drawing CRITIQUE
- 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.
- 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork
- This is a two day critique of the figure drawings and then we hang them in the display cased outside of the room. Set things up and please write up your self assessment. What are you especially pleased with in the imagery? What are you still struggling with in the work? This is ESSENTIAL to make a part of your portfolio – and if not one of these, a figure drawing at the very least.
Adv. Drawing: New Abstract Drawing MID CRIT
- 3.1Ac: Engage in constructive critique with peers, then reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art and design in response to personal artistic vision.
- 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
- This is a one day mid-critique of the abstraction drawings. We have ONE MORE WEEK and then we hang them in the hallway outside of the room (and maybe elsewhere in the building) Hang your works up in the hallway and on the boards so we can look at them all – Handbooks out and write out the strengths and weaknesses of the works. What are you especially pleased with in the imagery? What are you still struggling with in the work? WOMEN OF AbEx…
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