Hello Friends of Art with Korb! Mr. KORB welcomes you!
Rubrics and Assessment are moving along and the changes are going to be helpful for you the artist. Grids have been (or are being implemented into he self assessment portion so that they are easier to read. The check boxes are still there so let’s keep making use of those.
In 6th grade the artists are wrapping up Photography this week and next. What kinds of images have you been able to come up with as we use the CampSnap cameras? More than the photographs, how are you able to work with the computers and file management? As strange as it seems, even us artists need to know how to manage files and work with technology! Our last day is going to be spent learning the ELEMENTS of Art. We will take some time to work through the words and the definitions so be ready to be thoughtful as you put on your thinking caps.
7th Grade Artists have wrapped up the pastel prints (well done) and the DIGITAL IMAGES are going to begin. We should have the portraits from the neurographic images still available so – unless we re-shoot we will be using those. The use of PHOTOSHOP is going to be our main goal – yes – digital images and technology. (From here we are going to go into clay so buckle up as we use the time machine to go way back after we are done here.) Photoshop and the Visual Biography with layers and layers masking. This will be fun. Take art they say. It’s easy they say.
8th Grade Artists have now moved into the realm that Mr. Korb spends most of his (and Mrs. Korb’s free time) CERAMICS! We are working on the wheel and the slab build sculpture called Bas-Relief (pronounced like what a sheep says – BAAA-relief). The wheel is going to challenge one with the steps of throwing (centering, coming up and down, poking, opening, pulling, trimming, patience, and craftsmanship. And do not forget about cleaning!). While we also look at the ideas of what a Bas (or low) relief sculpture is. Make sure you keep your clay sealed while you’re not using it. If it dries – you are starting over mi amigo!
What are YOU doing in your studio?
Here are all of our Studio EXPECTATION
6th Grade: Photography
Here are the 6th-grade semester Lesson Plans to show you what our day will look like.
Photography with the Camp Snap camera allows us to make photos and not worry about the results until we upload them. This is going to be a new challenge as well while we log into the Apple Computers in the digital lab and work through Apple Photos to do our editing and uploading. This is going to be FAST and FURIOUS! What kinds of new ideas have you come up with about cameras so far?
This is not one of my kids works but this is the direction we are going. How can you use an element of art as the focal point for your work? These artists are using line! Can you explain how that is the focal point? Let me know. One point perspective is a great use of a lot of the art vocabulary – this is another goal this year. VOCABULARY!
Here is the assignment for Photography
7th Grade: Visual Biography and Photoshop
Here are the 7th-grade semester Lesson Plans to show you what our day will look like.
We all make photographs, we all have passions and interests, and we all have a silhouette. What can we do with those in PHOTOSHOP? We are about to find out.
Using Photoshop and the internet to gather images (or maybe you can gather some of your own) we are going to spend time working with layers and masking. This is a high end artowkr with some high end computer skills that you are going to learn (and master?)! Beginning with yourself we are going to trace and import and erase and layer and resize and the list goes on and on and on… excited? I hope so!
Not one of our artist’s works but this is an idea that can take you places! What do you think about this artist and what they are interested in?
Visual Biography Assignment is HERE.
8th Grade Sculpture: Wheel Throwing and Slab Building
Here are the 8th Grade Sculpture semester Lesson Plans for you to see what our day will look like.
This post is the same as last week – the only thing that has changed is that the standards for height in the cylinder and a 4 is now 4″ versus 5″
As an artist for my entire adult life, this is what I have landed on for the past 5 years. This is how I start my day and end my day. My life and business partner do this work together and keep our little potter up and running in Korb Pottery. What the artists in the studio will be doing is the same… but maybe not as much or as large.
Starting with one pound of clay and working to pull up a cylinder is the goal. How hard can that be right? Yeah – right! The biggest challenge is going to be the centering, then the opening, then the pulling, and don’t forget to keep the arms locked and the hands in place, and don’t forget to breath. Wedging? No way am I going to try and teach that – well maybe a little. One pound of clay kids…
AND at the exact same time we are working on SLAB constructions of a work of architecture. Their homes or another work of architecture that is important to them. Maybe I’d choose a work of Brutalist Architecture from our nation’s capital – I LOVE that work. Basic techniques will be revisited AND the work will be on their own. Solve some problems, work it out, don’t let it dry out. Ugh. All that one has to remember.
- BELOW are the ceramics assignments
