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EXAM SCHEDULE

• Wednesday June 5
  • Advanced Digital Art and Photography: Block 2- Social Topic Art Presentation
  • Advanced Painting: Block 3 – Final Painting and Oral Critique
  • Intro to Painting: Block 5 – Final Plein Air Painting and Book Oral Critique
• Thursday June 6
  • Art Foundations: Block 1 – Written Exam
  • Intro to Digital Arts and Photography Block 2 – Corporate ID Presentation
  • Art Foundation: Block 3 – Written Exam

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“All art is quite useless.” — Oscar Wilde: Art isn’t utilitarian, and if it is, perhaps it isn’t art. Art serves a non-practical role in our lives, but that does not mean that it is not vital or necessary. One’s individual identity and our collective identity as a culture have no clear serviceability, but they are critical to our ability to function as a society. Kit White © 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Kit White

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FOR FRIDAY’S ROCK DAY!

Ernie Pope Photographs 2019

Art Foundations: Glazing and Painting and Collage on Friday!

• 3.1P: Apply relevant criteria from traditional and contemporary cultural contexts to examine, reflect on, and plan revisions for works of art and design in progress.
• What are you most proud of with your first abstract painting? What are / were your biggest struggles in the use of paints? Colors? Today we WRAP THEM UP, GLAZE, and
• We critiques – there is a little bit more work to do in the semester – we will create a collage and create a work based on a social topic of your choosing next time. Think about a larger social idea that is important to you – affects your life – we are going to make a collage

The Tate: Abstraction Link HERE

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Intro to Painting: Nice Day to Paint? I HOPE so!

• 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
• What are you struggling with in regards to the PAINTING PROCESS and / or the BOOK MAKING PROCESS
• What did you take away from the paintings experience last week? What strengths did you see in your paintings ? What challenges did you face going outside of the studio?

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Advanced Painting: Encaustics and POP ART!

• G: 7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
• A: The last days are yours… the next set of prompts will ask you to be reflective and thoughtful about the work you are creating – for yourself – for your own skills and development. What are you planning and how is this going to help you move forward?
• G: What did you accomplish today? What are you going to accomplish next time?

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Intro to Digital Art: How IS your ILLUSTRATION coming along?

• 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: Corporate ID – What are you going to be doing with the ideas behind the CORPORATE ID that you are creating? What was a struggle for you the first time we did this? How can you use those skills in making your designs stronger this time around?
• G: What did you accomplish today in the time we had for photography? Strong images? How were you able to make the best use of your time? Thinking about the images you created today… how many of the Elements and Principles were you able to document? Able to capture in a unique and original way?

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Advanced Digital Art: CRITIQUE DAY and Social Commentary!

• G: 7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
• A: The last days are yours… the next set of prompts will ask you to be reflective and thoughtful about the work you are creating – for yourself – for your own skills and development. What are you planning and how is this going to help you move forward?
• G: What did you accomplish today? What are you going to accomplish next time?

“All art is quite useless.” — Oscar Wilde: Art isn’t utilitarian, and if it is, perhaps it isn’t art. Art serves a non-practical role in our lives, but that does not mean that it is not vital or necessary. One’s individual identity and our collective identity as a culture have no clear serviceability, but they are critical to our ability to function as a society. Kit White © 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Kit White

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Art Foundations: Glazing and Painting – Double Duty – Collage on Friday!

• G: 1.1P: Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.
• A: This is the last day to paint… Step back and look carefully at TWO THINGS: 1) Balance: Does the work have a sense of it? 2) Space: Is there a feeling of the space that pushed back or pulls forward in the space? How are you seeing the LAYERS of the process help you to create a successful and satisfying composition?
• Alright… do you need to come in and wrap it up? So how are you going to do that? What to do? Critique and GLAZE next time!

The Tate: Abstraction Link HERE

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Intro to Painting: Raining? Let’s make the covers and prep for the next day outside!

• G: 7.2Ac: Evaluate the effectiveness of an image or images to influence ideas, feelings, and behaviors of specific audiences.
• G: 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
• A: What did you take away from the drawing experience last week? What strengths did you see in your drawing? What challenges did you face going outside of the studio?
• G: How are you going to create your own work in the future? How are you going to use the skills that you are obtaining in ALL that you do?
• BOOK ART ASSIGNMENT!

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Advanced Painting: Encaustics and POP ART!

• G: 7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
• A: What have you either ENJOYED or DISLIKED about the process of using encaustics as a means / methods of creating art? How can you use this information / techniques / approach with your own future works? This is a TOOL and TECHNIQUE that you can use in many MANY future works as you create down the road.
• G: What are your plans for the future and final artwork? How are you going to make the next and final piece a WOW of a work? I need to see your plans, sketches, information ahead of time so we both know how you are moving ahead in this work.

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Intro to Digital Art: How IS your ILLUSTRATION coming along?

• 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: How are you moving forward with the illustration? We are going to take a QUICK break from the day of illustration and look into the ideas of photography. Remember that the best camera out there is the one you have. Today we take a look at photography and MAKING A GOOD PHOTOGRAPH. We will break the camera down in advanced Digital Art so that you have a good understanding of the HOW a camera works and how you can adjust the camera to make it work and do what you want it to do. You will have ASSIGNMENTS to complete between today and the end of the semester – we will be working on them IN STUDIO as we. Today is the last day to be in studio to work on the illustration.
• G: What have you accomplished with the illustration today? Is there anything that you need to do in order to RESOLVE the illustration?

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Advanced Digital Art: CRITIQUE DAY!

• G: 7.2Ac: Evaluate the effectiveness of an image or images to influence ideas, feelings, and behaviors of specific audiences.
• Present and critique your work. Open the file, save it as a JPEG, and upload it to the folder provided. Then – you will explain your process, the thoughts, the techniques, the sign you have created! Exciting to see your works!
• The FINAL ARTWORK for the FINAL EXAM is all about a SOCIAL TOPIC that is important to you. What is it that engages you? What is it that you want to communicate about it? What is the message that you feel the rest of the world needs to know about and that you can communicate? This is your time to shine! Also – what and how are you going to use the skills that you have developed to communicate that message? What you want to do with the skills that you have learned. Your assignment for next time is to come in with PLANS, DRAWINGS, RESEARCH, WEBSITES, IMAGERY (that you are creating or MODIFYING TO THE Nth DEGREE) and WHATEVER ELSE it is you need to begin your FINAL PERSONAL DIGITAL work of art. Collage? Drawings? Photographs? What are you going to do?

“The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring.” Paul Rand

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PLEASE START WITH THIS VIDEO FOR ALL CLASSES. THANKS ALL – MAKE SURE YOU WORK HARD! Mr. Korb

Art Foundations: One more day to paint in a NON-OBJECTIVE way. How is it going?

• G: 1.1P: Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.
• Last day to paint… How are you seeing the LAYERS of the process help you to create a successful and satisfying composition?
• Alright… do you need to come in and wrap it up? So how are you going to do that? What to do?

The Tate: Abstraction Link HERE

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Intro to Painting: Raining? Let’s make the covers and prep for the next day outside!

• G: Develop Craft: Learning to use tools, materials, artistic conventions; and learning to care for tools, materials, and space.
• A: What kinds of challenges have you had in the making of art on the scale, speed, effort that you have in this experience?
• G: We’ve got a lot of artwork made this week… what kinds of thoughts have you had about the skills developed, learned, pushed, challenged?
• SIDE NOTE – But let’s look at this: Looking at Edward Hopper and the ideas of the architecture in the area – how are you able to (without a ruler) use the ideas of the buildings and space around it to create successful images? Watercolors. 1 – 2 (maybe 3) paintings.

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Advanced Painting: Encaustics and POP ART!

• : Develop Craft: Learning to use tools, materials, artistic conventions; and learning to care for tools, materials, and space.
• A: Ready to Paint? Let’s review the process and set up and then get to it! Heat, Wax, Oils, Mix and GO! Do NOT get burned in the process.
• G: What were you able to accomplish today? The painting is FAST, but the process can be slow. Be aware of the scale and time. Tuesday’s and Thursday’s are the ONLY time to come in extra.

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Intro to Digital Art: How IS your ILLUSTRATION coming along?

• 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: What did you think your ARTIST HABITS OF MIND was when we reflected last time. Remember that I am concerned about the idea of looking at the work from a distance – don’t get lose in the small details of the close up and think about the larger picture.
• G: Accomplishments? Are you on track to have the work done in 2 more full studio times? We are going to talk about the process of the critique next time – this is a skill that you are in need of. Some are stronger than others and we are all going to work on the process of talking about the work you are creating.

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Advanced Digital Art: DUE ON TUESDAY! Love the extra day? I Hope So!

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• 2.3Ac: Redesign an object, system, place, or design in response to contemporary issues.
• LAst day to work on this – a pair of REALLY FAST designs. How have you utilized the Artist Habits of Mind to make this work get done in a timely fashion?
• Do you need to come in and work outside of studio time? Make sure you are being responsible!

“The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring.” Paul Rand

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Art Foundations: Translate to the BOARD and let’s begin PAINTING!

• G: 1.1P: Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.
• A: What was the strength of last times work? What are you hoping to accomplish in today’s painting?
• G: How can you use the idea of ABSTRACTION to help you learn the materials that you might be unfamiliar with? Explain in more detail.

The Tate: Abstraction Link HERE

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Intro to Painting: Watercolors and Plein Air Art – Book Binding in the days of RAIN!

• G: Develop Craft: Learning to use tools, materials, artistic conventions; and learning to care for tools, materials, and space.
• A: Landscapes and simplification of the space – far off space. Looking at the work of Paul Cezanne and the works of the Post-Impressionists – What simplification do we see in the work they have created? Be aware of the breaking up of the space and shapes into a simple fashion, but also consider the ideas of adding details and specific shapes.
• G: How do you enjoy / struggle with the new ideas that you took in today?

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Advanced Painting: Encaustics and POP ART!

• G: Develop Craft: Learning to use tools, materials, artistic conventions; and learning to care for tools, materials, and space.
• A: How are you planning on beginning your ENCAUSTIC Work? Scale? Size? Color Schemes? Imagery? Let’s begin with a base of collage and color before we begin to draw out our images.
• G: How are you feeling about the image you have begun? The oil and way begin next time – it you are not done drawing out your image – take it home and do that!

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Intro to Digital Art: How IS your ILLUSTRATION coming along?

• 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: How are you moving forward with the beginning of the illustration? Let’s take a few minutes to talk with your BFF in here and explain the idea behind your work, the progress you have made SO far, and the directions you are going to be making this week. What is ONE GOAL for today? You CANNOT use an image of someone else’s without making HUGE changes to it so that it is now your image and no longer theirs.
• G: Looking at the Artist Habits of Mind today, which of them are you finding that you are utilizing and please explain how. This is a time to reflect. One thing to keep in mind is the BIG PICTURE! It is harder to see the big picture when you are looking at a digital screen that is zoomed in close versus a canvas or sheet of paper as a picture plane.

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Advanced Digital Art: DUE ON FRIDAY!

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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 studiomates?
• What have you accomplished during the block to get a good run at it?

“The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring.” Paul Rand

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Art Foundations: Translate to the BOARD and let’s begin PAINTING!

May 20 Field Trip to UW-Whitewater – Who’s interested in pursuing ART as a future? Field Trip is for THIS body of kids! CLICK HERE TO ADD YOUR NAME (and class) under Frank’s Classes…

The Tate: Abstraction Link HERE

• G: 1.1P: Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.
• A: What color scheme have you chosen for the entire painting? What is your accent color going to be? How can you see through the thinness of the tempra paint?
• G: What do you think is your largest success in this painting so far? Why?

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Intro to Painting: Watercolors and Plein Air Art – Book Binding in the days of RAIN!

May 20 Field Trip to UW-Whitewater – Who’s interested in pursuing ART as a future? Field Trip is for THIS body of kids! CLICK HERE TO ADD YOUR NAME (and class) under Frank’s Classes…

• G: Develop Craft: Learning to use tools, materials, artistic conventions; and learning to care for tools, materials, and space.
• A: Richard Diebenkorn (Ocean Park Series) is a good reference as we get things moving today. Simplification of space and shapes. Look for the larger areas first and then move into the smaller spaces. Nothing up close – BIG and HUGE spaces today. Pencil and Watercolors are the mediums of the day. Consider the sense of value contrast as well as the sense of color and shape. We’re looking at a bit of abstraction – this is a challenge.
• G: Step back and see what you’ve done – quick end of class look at the entire body of work we’re creating so far.

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Advanced Painting: Encaustics and POP ART!

May 20 Field Trip to UW-Whitewater – Who’s interested in pursuing ART as a future? Field Trip is for THIS body of kids! CLICK HERE TO ADD YOUR NAME (and class) under Frank’s Classes…

• G: Develop Craft: Learning to use tools, materials, artistic conventions; and learning to care for tools, materials, and space.
• A: What do you think about when you think about WAX? What are you thinking about when it comes to POPULAR IMAGES? Share your thoughts with your classmates about these two questions…
• G: Having used the computers and your relationship with the imagery of popular culture – what kids of images have you developed?

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Intro to Digital Art: How IS your ILLUSTRATION coming along?

May 20 Field Trip to UW-Whitewater – Who’s interested in pursuing ART as a future? Field Trip is for THIS body of kids! CLICK HERE TO ADD YOUR NAME (and class) under Frank’s Classes…

• 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 3: What Book / Story / Song have you brought in and thought about to use as your inspiration for this ILLUSTRATION in Photoshop? How did things go last time in the process of the DESIGN and BEGINNING of the illustration? MAKE SURE YOU ARE INVESTED in this work. OFTEN a book illustrator has ZERO investment in the book – one doesn’t have to like or dislike the story – but one does have to be able to be invested in the making of a successful image. Ok?
• G: Looking over the process you have 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).

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Advanced Digital Art: Studio Door Signage Coming DUE!!

May 20 Field Trip to UW-Whitewater – Who’s interested in pursuing ART as a future? Field Trip is for THIS body of kids! CLICK HERE TO ADD YOUR NAME (and class) under Frank’s Classes…

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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 studiomates?
• What have you accomplished during the block to get a good run at it?

“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 ON YOUR OWN!

May 20 Field Trip to UW-Whitewater – Who’s interested in pursuing ART as a future? Field Trip is for THIS body of kids! CLICK HERE TO ADD YOUR NAME (and class) under Frank’s Classes…

• G: 1.1P: Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.
• A: What are you thinking about as you look over your tracings from last time? What color schemes are you drawn to and what color schemes do you dislike? We are going to PAINT today!
• G: What color scheme did you decide to use and WHY? What kinds of advancements did you make in the process today? What is the first thing you plan on doing next time we meet?

The Tate: Abstraction Link HERE

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Intro to Painting: CRIT the Portraits!

May 20 Field Trip to UW-Whitewater – Who’s interested in pursuing ART as a future? Field Trip is for THIS body of kids! CLICK HERE TO ADD YOUR NAME (and class) under Frank’s Classes…

• 4.2Ac: Analyze, select, and critique personal artwork for a collection or portfolio presentation.
• A: Painting – Critique DAY
• G: That’s it folks – the exam gave you enough time to really reflect and talk about the work you have completed here. Good job? I hope so!

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Advanced Painting: CRIT the Figures!

May 20 Field Trip to UW-Whitewater – Who’s interested in pursuing ART as a future? Field Trip is for THIS body of kids! CLICK HERE TO ADD YOUR NAME (and class) under Frank’s Classes…

• 4.2Ac: Analyze, select, and critique personal artwork for a collection or portfolio presentation.
• A: Painting – Critique DAY
• G: That’s it folks – the exam gave you enough time to really reflect and talk about the work you have completed here. Good job? I hope so!

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Intro to Digital Art: How is the ILLUSTRATION coming along?

May 20 Field Trip to UW-Whitewater – Who’s interested in pursuing ART as a future? Field Trip is for THIS body of kids! CLICK HERE TO ADD YOUR NAME (and class) under Frank’s Classes…

• 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 2: What Book / Story / Song have you brought in and thought about to use as your inspiration for this ILLUSTRATION in Photoshop? How did things go last time in the process of the DESIGN and BEGINNING of the illustration? MAKE SURE YOU ARE INVESTED in this work. OFTEN a book illustrator has ZERO investment in the book – one doesn’t have to like or dislike the story – but one does have to be able to be invested in the making of a successful image. Ok?
• G: Looking over the process you have 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).

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Advanced Digital Art: Studio Door Signage!

May 20 Field Trip to UW-Whitewater – Who’s interested in pursuing ART as a future? Field Trip is for THIS body of kids! CLICK HERE TO ADD YOUR NAME (and class) under Frank’s Classes…

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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 studiomates?
• What have you accomplished during the block to get a good run at it?

“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.

May 20 Field Trip to UW-Whitewater – Who’s interested in pursuing ART as a future? Field Trip is for THIS body of kids! CLICK HERE TO ADD YOUR NAME (and class) under Frank’s Classes…

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?

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

May 20 Field Trip to UW-Whitewater – Who’s interested in pursuing ART as a future? Field Trip is for THIS body of kids! CLICK HERE TO ADD YOUR NAME (and class) under Frank’s Classes…

• 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!

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Advanced Painting: Figure, Proportion, CRIT!

May 20 Field Trip to UW-Whitewater – Who’s interested in pursuing ART as a future? Field Trip is for THIS body of kids! CLICK HERE TO ADD YOUR NAME (and class) under Frank’s Classes…

• 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!

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Intro to Digital Art: Literature and Illustration!

May 20 Field Trip to UW-Whitewater – Who’s interested in pursuing ART as a future? Field Trip is for THIS body of kids! CLICK HERE TO ADD YOUR NAME (and class) under Frank’s Classes…

• 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).

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

May 20 Field Trip to UW-Whitewater – Who’s interested in pursuing ART as a future? Field Trip is for THIS body of kids! CLICK HERE TO ADD YOUR NAME (and class) under Frank’s Classes…

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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?

Ralph Waldo Emerson. “Every artist was first an amateur.”

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Art Foundations: Plein Air Drawings and Abstractions.

• G: 1.1P: Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.
• A: As we think about COLOR… What are the PRIMARY COLORS? What are the SECONDARY COLORS? What are the TERTIARY COLORS? Do you know anything about COLOR SCHEMES? Write out all the COLOR SCHEMES that you can think of (we have spoken about some of them already – all of them that we are talking about actually).
• G: What did you accomplish in regards to the color scheme worksheet and what have you accomplished with the idea of an abstract  or landscape inspired color wheel? How well to you understand the ideas of the color wheel and the relationships of the colors with one another – the color wheel is the first page of our final exam by the way.

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Intro to Painting: Painting. Faces. Portraits.

• 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: This is it. What are 3 things that you need to do in order to be finished with your paintings today?  What is the due Date?
• G: Looking at the day you had today… what did you accomplish? What fell short? What are you going to be doing outside of class to get the work done?

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Advanced Painting: How is the figure the focus of your artwork?

• G: 7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
• A: Step back and look. What is STANDING OUT in your work? What is in need of work?
• G: Next week we CRITIQUE – Are you going to be ready?

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Intro to Digital Art: Literature and Illustration! Where are you going? What matters in the work? What is your focal point?

• Past Literature Images – 2019 Fall
• 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).

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Advanced Digital Art: Gradation Covers and Door Signage – Two works to plan for… but let’s do the cover first!

• 1.1 Ad: Visualize and hypothesize to generate plans for ideas and directions for creating art and design that can affect social change.
• If you are not done with the magazine cover – YOU ARE LATE! Today you are working on the graduation covers… what have you started with. Take a moment to SHARE with your classmate (next to you) and share the first thoughts (and drawings) for this design. DO NOT BEGIN DESIGNING ON THE COMPUTER without first having it on paper first.
• What have you accomplished today in the first day of the designing? Remember that you have two more days to finish this. What are you planning on doing next time?

Ralph Waldo Emerson. “Every artist was first an amateur”

• Art Foundations
• Intro to Painting
• Advanced Painting
• Intro to Digital Arts
• Advanced Digital Arts

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Art Foundations: COLOR Schemes! Watercolor and Colored Pencil.

• G: 1.1P: Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.
• A: As we think about COLOR… What are the PRIMARY COLORS? What are the SECONDARY COLORS? What are the TERTIARY COLORS? Do you know anything about COLOR SCHEMES? Write out all the COLOR SCHEMES that you can think of (we have spoken about some of them already – all of them that we are talking about actually).
• G: What did you accomplish in regards to the color scheme worksheet and what have you accomplished with the idea of an abstract  or landscape inspired color wheel? How well to you understand the ideas of the color wheel and the relationships of the colors with one another – the color wheel is the first page of our final exam by the way.

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Intro to Painting: MidCrit on Today and then BACK TO PAINTING

• 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: This is it. What are 3 things that you need to do in order to be finished with your paintings in the next few days?  What is the due Date? Let’s MID CRIT – Group Up!
• G: Looking at the day you had today… what did you accomplish? What fell short? What are you going to be doing outside of class to get the work done?

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Advanced Painting: The FIGURE – What did LAST Period’s Mid-Crit do for you?

• G: 7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
• A: We are at the beginning of the week – Let’s put our work up in the front of the ENTIRE class and just take a step back from it to see it as a whole. From a distance – talk aloud (one at a time) about the work you are seeing (your work) – One positive – One Critical.
• G: Next time we CRITIQUE – Are you going to be ready? That is 3 days!

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Intro to Digital Art: Dog Gone It let’s Self Assess Already…

• Past Literature Images – 2019 Fall
• 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).

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<h2 Advanced Digital Art: DONE with the Pages – Let’s PACKAGE them and MOVE ON!

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• G: 6.1Ac: Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history.
• 8.1Ac: Identify types of contextual information useful in the process of constructing interpretations of an artwork or collection of works.
• 30 minutes to wrap up the images and get things done and turned in. We are turning in ONE DOCUMENT. If you need to make adjustments – the next 30 minutes are the time to do so. I will be collecting these in a FOLDER – NOT a TURN IN in Google Classroom – it is easier for me to FILE MANAGE.
• What did you learn with this assignment? What are you going to be able to use in the future that this has taught you? How could you use InDesign OUTSIDE of the Advanced Digital Arts Studio that would REALLY help you in the larger world of life or education

Ralph Waldo Emerson. “Every artist was first an amateur”

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Art Foundations: COLOR! Let’s get ready to PAINT!

• G: 1.1P: Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.
• A: As we think about COLOR… What are the PRIMARY COLORS? What are the SECONDARY COLORS? What are the TERTIARY COLORS? Do you know anything about COLOR SCHEMES? Write out all the COLOR SCHEMES that you can think of (we have spoken about some of them already – all of them that we are talking about actually).
• G: What did you accomplish in regards to the color scheme worksheet and what have you accomplished with the idea of an abstract  or landscape inspired color wheel? How well to you understand the ideas of the color wheel and the relationships of the colors with one another – the color wheel is the first page of our final exam by the way.

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Intro to Painting: MidCrit on Wednesday – What to do until then?

• 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: This is it. What are 3 things that you need to do in order to be finished with your paintings today?  What is the due Date?
• G: Looking at the day you had today… what did you accomplish? What fell short? What are you going to be doing outside of class to get the work done?

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Advanced Painting: The FIGURE!

• G: 7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
• A: We are at the beginning of the week – Let’s put our work up in the front of the ENTIRE class and just take a step back from it to see it as a whole. From a distance – talk aloud (one at a time) about the work you are seeing (your work) – One positive – One Critical.
• G: Next time we CRITIQUE – Are you going to be ready? That is 3 days!

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Intro to Digital Art: Literature – But let’s Self Assess First!

• 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.
• A: Thinking about the work that you have completed over the past two weeks or so, what are the struggles you had with the process? What were the successes that you had with the work? What are you most pleased / surprised / struggled) with? Take a few minutes – 5 – to talk with and make up a list with a friend / buddy / stranger to talk about the work and come up with 3 strong talking points – Process / Tools, Successes, Struggles. Then please come up with a question that you would like to ask another artist about their work.

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Advanced Digital Art: LAST FEW MINUTES TO WORK!

• G: 6.1Ac: Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history.
• 8.1Ac: Identify types of contextual information useful in the process of constructing interpretations of an artwork or collection of works.
• Look at the work from a distance and see what you need to finish – we are coming to the end of the project – more to do yet.
• What did you accomplish today that is getting you set up for success? What are the problems that you are having in the work? Is it the program? Is it your images? Is it something entirely different? Next time we package it and turn it in. Next Assignment – GRADUATION COVERS! START PLANNING – 5 designs for next time on paper!