#Endof (#BeginningOf) Week… Crits, Painting, Design, and MORE ART MAKING! #Abstraction #PBS

“There are three responses to a piece of design – yes, no, and WOW! Wow is the one to aim for.” Milton Glaser


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Art Foundations: Plein Air Drawings and Abstractions.

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Piet Modrian:
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The Tate: Abstraction Link HERE

  • G: 1.1P: Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.
  • A: What is the FEELING you have from your underpainting and what is the overall color warmth or coolness? What do you have to do to finish this step? Demo in the process of the next 4 steps coming up NOW.
  • G: How do you feel about the 45 minutes we had outside (or in if it was cool or raining)? What was the most challenging part of the REDUCTION / SIMPLIFICATION of the drawing using tracing paper?

Intro to Painting: Painting. Faces. Portraits. CRIT!

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Lucian Freud: https://d2jv9003bew7ag.cloudfront.net/uploads/Lucian-Freud1.jpg WIDE WALLS on Portraiture HERE
  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • A: What are you planning on doing as this is the last day to work in the studio – the last FULL DAY that is. We HAVE to Critique and self assess next time.
  • G: Our last day of painting is done… What are your results and what do you need to do to take for the next two nights to a get a successful final portrait done? Remember – Food and Drink!

Advanced Painting: Figure, Proportion, CRIT!

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God Giveth And, Dorielle Caimi, The Bennett Prize, 2017
  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • A: What are you planning on doing as this is the last day to work in the studio – the last FULL DAY that is. We HAVE to Critique and self assess next time.
  • G: Our last day of painting is done… What are your results and what do you need to do to take for the next two nights to a get a successful final portrait done? Remember – Food and Drink!

Intro to Digital Art: Literature and Illustration!

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  • G: 1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.
  • A:DAY 1: What Book / Story / Song have you brought in and thought about to use as your inspiration for this ILLUSTRATION in Photoshop? As you have read, listened to the “literature”, what have you pulled from the “story?” Is it a phrase, an idea and feeling from the ENTIRETY of the story? IS it a character? Is it something entirely different? This is going to be your PERSONAL ILLUSTRATION about the work of literature.
  • G: Looking over the THUMBNAILS and SKETCHES you CAME IN WITH… What have you accomplished today in the process of ILLUSTRATING the work of “LITERATURE.” How are you making strong artistic choices (look at the Artist Habits of Mind to make a reflection on here).

Advanced Digital Art: Gradation Covers – NEVER MIND! Let’s Focus on Door Signage!

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  • 2.3Ac: Redesign an object, system, place, or design in response to contemporary issues.
  • What are your thoughts for the signage above our studio door? Share the plans and thoughts with your studio-mates?
  • What have you accomplished during the block to get a good run at it?

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