Our Studio with Frank Korb: Trust
Trust is a challenging thing at times. What do you trust? Sister Mary Corita Kent, artist, teacher, nun, wrote out 10 rules of her studio. Rule #1 is to “Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while.” https://www.corita.org/about/corita to learn more about Sister Mary Corita Kent and her art. Thanks!
Let’s talk about that – Come on over.
The full series of episodes can be found HERE! Come on over.
How do you see yourself in Sister Mary Corita Kent’s Studio Rule? This is the one that really sticks. It IS the people who do the work that get things done. Did you finish the artwork? Did you do the self assessment? Dis you help your classmates? Did you learn and are excited to move on? YES!
Here are all of our Studio EXPECTATIONS.
6th Grade: One Point Prospective from a NEW point of view!
Here are the 6th grade semester Lesson Plans for you to see what our day will look like.
We are wrapping up the drawing and beginning with the sharpie markers and painting. A couple of goofy days last week threw things off a bit. Let’s wrap this up and move on! Notice how all the diagonals are lined up with the vanishing point? You have the rules in front t of you, think about how you SEE the world around you. How are you seeing perspective in your world and how can you put it to use on paper (or canvas or clay or…)?
WATERCOLOR TECHNIQUE WORKSHEET! Use this (other artists and teachers if you want!) We learned about NEW PERSPECTIVES and POINTS of VIEW in the photography unit. We are working through the one Point perspective process and then into the idea of watercolors – you will learn / experience this EVERY TIME I work with you on watercolors. Let us DO THIS!
Here is the PERSPECTIVE Assignment.
7th Grade: KILN GODS – Personal “Guardians”
Here are the 7th grade semester Lesson Plans for you to see what our day will look like.
We are wrapping up the sculpture this week – PERIOD. Coils, Slabs, Pinch Pots, Texture, Score – Slip – Score + Attach, it is all in there. If you needed a guardian to watch over your prized possessions, what would you want it to be? Our 7th graders are headed there now.
What watches over you during the day? Anything? How about your stuff at home? Cameras? What watches over and protects the Clay community and the kilns? Nothing? WRONG! Kiln Gods! Well… that all depends on your belief system of course…
Here is the Kiln Guardian Art making Assignment.
8th Grade 2D: Landscape Paintings in Acrylic
Here are the 8th Grade 2D Design semester Lesson Plans for you to see what our day will look like.
These are the last days to paint. We are wrapping this up and moving along. What is next? Photographs, name Tags, and assessments.
Layers and brush strokes, color and lighting, highlights and shadows. These are all things that the artists of the past and contemporary times thought (think) about as they work. Are you considering those as you paint in your chosen style?
Planning is really important as we move forward and the first few days allowed for that. We even considered AI (hmmm) as an option for ideas. I’d sooner that one experience the REAL landscape than find one on Google or AI but…
Here is our LANDSCAPE in ACRYLICS assignement.
8th Grade Sculpture: Wheel Throwing and Hand Building
Here are the 8th Grade Sculpture semester Lesson Plans for you to see what our day will look like.
Welcome to the pottery studio. The next 4 or 5 weeks we are going to be switching between two different summative assignments. Wheel Throwing (which will be more about the experience) and a new project (I am excited about this) Bas-Relief Architectural Works.
Milwaukee Artist Heather Eiden and her Bas-Relief Sculptures of local homes and spaces. What are you thinking about as you begin to plan your ideas?
The Wheel Thrown Assignment is HERE.
The Bas-Relief Architecture Assignment is HERE
Involving more than 120 artists, craftspeople and self-taught makers from across Japan, Hyakkō is a celebration of contemporary Japanese craft aesthetics.
Virtual Exhibition of the Hyakko Show at Japan House – London. Artists – here is a great place to start for inspiration towards a lifetime of making. One could wander through this virtual exhibition for hours. Imagine what the real space would be like?
This exhibition presents works in clay, glass, wood, leather, metal and bamboo – from ceramic matcha bowls to metal teapots and urushi lacquerware trays. Each item bears traces of its maker’s surroundings and nods to tradition while quietly incorporating both innovation and self-expression.
Discover the people and processes behind the craft of Japan’s every day, where form and function exist in harmony.
https://www.japanhouselondon.uk/whats-on/hyakko-100-makers-from-japan/
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