The Waterford 7+ has been working very hard this summer to explore the ideas of modern and (more so) contemporary artists. This past week we wrapped up our investigation of Georgia O’Keeffe (modern) and Jim Dine (contemporary) as they worked out their observational flower paintings.
Next… we explored some fine motor skills and created out own die to ROLL for MIRO and we created the beginnings of Joan Miro inspired abstractions. Figurative (sort of) and full of colors. We will be wrapping up the art making next week and sending them all off with hand crafted sketchbooks to fill with their own inspired art making!
Thank you Waterford 7+, Connie Lelivelt, and all the wonderful assistants that make this such a wonderful way to (Covid-19 aside) work with artists face-to-face. Thank you ALSO to Bruno’s in Waterford for the AMPLE SPACE to spread out and make art safely.
What a great body of work and workers! This group has done some strong artistic work and choices. Please enjoy the work and offer us your feedback! Thank you Connie for the opportunity to work with this group again – and no arm in a sling this year! 🙂
So much time goes by and it seems like the days don’t matter. It is Whateverday and tomorrow is Anotherday, after that is… well… I’mNotSureaday…
To start the week we are making CareSlips, thanks to #ArtWorksForMilwaukee. We are creating some Post Cards and sending them off to people who need a Pick – Me – Up… and believe me howdy… I know about people who need that about now.
Start with THIS RECORDING. (I am NOT a trained or even untrained meditative anything. I have listened to CALM on my phone for a while and took some notes from another site. BUT… this gives one a few minutes to SIT and SHUSH and BE THERE for ONESELF.) Goals are to sit back and create a work of art that will help you focus for 30 minutes on the act of making art and then to send it off to someone who might need a pick me up. Photograph and document the finished artwork and insert it into the slideshow. If you get Any feedback from the person you gave it to, please share that with the slideshow. NO JUDGING HERE AT ALL.
Listen to the recording and RELAX
Think about the movement of your mind and body from the previous 5 minutes and allow the ball point pen or sharpie marker to travel all over the paper wherever it goes is fine. Take 3 minutes to do this – keep the pen moving.
Using colors – and think about a scheme or small gathering of colors – let’s take 7 minutes to add color to the work – however you want. No right no wrong, just think balance and fill the space.
On a separate piece of paper – write down all that you experienced in the work. What movements, what directions, what does it remind you of? What does it remind you NOT of? This is all good.
On the back of the card, as it has dried, write out a short little message about the imagery on the front. Perhaps ask a question – make a statement.
Lastly – Photograph this card – front and back, insert it into the slide show for this week. Then mail it off to someone you think needs a little pick me up! Make sure to sign it and address it properly. Stick a stamp on it and send it off.
What’s been keeping you active? I’ve been watching a bit of the PBS Art Assignment and have stolen – procured – a few assignments for myself and my kids at school. Here are a couple of their episodes for you to watch and I ENCOURAGE you to SUBSCRIBE to their site… and buy Sarah’s new book “You Are An Artist” as well.
I also believe that CREATIVITY is overrated – as is TALENT. Just go and MAKE stuff!
What’s been happening? It has been a long while since the last post. How have you been? Staying safe? Staying sane? Making art?
We’ve been working on ENGAGEMENT in the studio. Our classes have been a little low in numbers, and the technology has gotten the best of me. TIP – if you are using a camera as a demonstration tool, log into ZOOM first with the computer or you may miss the kids in the waiting room (so sorry folks… I hope you watched my video of 5B Art Foundations class from Tuesday. [Ok… as of this post 1 person has and that might have been me]).
In the end, it is the engagement of oneself in their education that is important. Being in the studio is important and being engaged in one’s learning is to. If you’ve gotten this far I am probably preaching to the choir – and those at this point in world history are pretty small – except maybe the ZOOM choirs, they are doing fine.
I hope you are safe and well. Join us for class – check in with your Google Classroom and click the link. Friday we are meeting with Milwaukee Artist Nicole Shaver in our weekly Friday Art Lunch Bunch. Hope you can join us.
Frank
P.S. If you want to check out some masterful blending techniques… here’s how to blend colors with your’s truly.
Sit back and enjoy the FIRST, the INAUGURAL Friday Art Lunch Bunch gathering with Ted Orland. Ted is a photographer based out of California with a wealth of knowledge and experience. A great conversation about the ideas of ISOLATION and all we are coping with. Sit back, grab your lunch, and join us in the recording of Friday Art Lunch Lunch with Ted Orland. Next week – Brett Roberts ceramicist.
Art Foundations: Color Schemes!
Birk and the Color Wheel
Introduction to COLOR SCHEMES and review HANDOUTS. This is ALL REVIEW from some point in life.
Explanation of DIGITAL ART assignment
1 Strong photograph of your own Color Wheel using Objects in your home.
3 photographs of COLOR SCHEMES you find naturally in life. You can choose from ANY of the color schemes we talked about or that are on the page HERE.
Intro to Drawing: Positive and Negative Space
Introduction to Positive Space and Negative Space. Let’s talk about the video to watch below and then go over the process with REAL OBJECTS and PHOTOGRAPHS.
A. Gather up a wonderfully interesting branch from the GROUND – DO NOT PICK IT OFF OF A TREE.
Set it against a white or solid colored surface.
Look at the NEGATIVE SPACE – not the branches themselves but the space between the branches.
DRAW THE SPACE BETWEEN THE BRANCHES.
B. Make a photograph looking up into a tree with bare branches.
REPEAT the process by using the photograph as your reference material.
REPEAT the drawing process two more times – once with branches, once with a photograph. AT LEAST 4 well observed drawings.
UPLOAD to the NEW Google Slide and explain the challenges that you had and the successes as well.
Advanced Digital Art and Photography: What is it to be QUARANTINED?
Carry Out – Nope CURB SIDE – Put that mask on properly!
Introduction to Photography and the use of the Elements and Principles as well as how to compose a strong Photograph
Explanation of DIGITAL ART assignment
3 Strong Photographs that speak to what it is to be YOU during this time of isolation / quarantine / 6 feet apart.
A brief explanation of the CONCEPT of your work in the slide show.
UPLOAD to the NEW Google Slide and explain the concept that you have in your photographs.
Edward Hopper and his works. The loneliness that his works have illustrated and depicted. Sometimes they are people in rooms together but they are generally apart.
Advanced Painting: Fauvism or YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN!
Sketches for NEXT painting – FAUVISM Part II – OR – Your own painting based on the style or technique YOU ARE INTERESTED IN
NOTE – Sometimes it is easier for a young (or old) artist to be successful when they are given a specific direction to travel with their work. If following my instructions helps you succeed – use them. If you choose to follow your own path… Great!
Please PLAN before you move into the painting. This week’s assignment will be the PLANNING stages – the sketches.
This doesn’t mean you can’t begin the final painting… it just means that the planning is the assignment to turn in.
Thanks for the following and staying on top of one’s own COVID-19 Quarantine. STAY AT HOME! While the posting seems to have died down QUITE A BIT over the past 3 weeks, know full well that the educating hasn’t. The initial intent of ArtWithKorb.com was to help share out ideas and resources to EVERYONE. It has done that as well as being a launching pad for all of the daily classes in the classroom. Well… we’re not there anymore.
As with EVERYONE we are all teaching out of our own homes and studios right now. I’ve switched all of the digital day to day to Google Classrrom – which stinks for the sharing of ideas. The time it takes to update… in the classroom it is all set, for the home studio, as you may or may not know, it takes a lot longer.
We’re still working out the bugs and getting people into the classroom. If you are in my classes make sure you are in the Google Classrooms to see buzz and the happenin’
Art Foundations: Color Schemes!
Birk and the Color Wheel
Introduction to COLOR SCHEMES and review HANDOUTS. This is ALL REVIEW from some point in life.
Explanation of DIGITAL ART assignment
1 Strong photograph of your own Color Wheel using Objects in your home.
3 photographs of COLOR SCHEMES you find naturally in life. You can choose from ANY of the color schemes we talked about or that are on the page HERE.
Intro to Drawing: Positive and Negative Space
Introduction to Positive Space and Negative Space. Let’s talk about the video to watch below and then go over the process with REAL OBJECTS and PHOTOGRAPHS.
A. Gather up a wonderfully interesting branch from the GROUND – DO NOT PICK IT OFF OF A TREE.
Set it against a white or solid colored surface.
Look at the NEGATIVE SPACE – not the branches themselves but the space between the branches.
DRAW THE SPACE BETWEEN THE BRANCHES.
B. Make a photograph looking up into a tree with bare branches.
REPEAT the process by using the photograph as your reference material.
REPEAT the drawing process two more times – once with branches, once with a photograph. AT LEAST 4 well observed drawings.
UPLOAD to the NEW Google Slide and explain the challenges that you had and the successes as well.
Advanced Digital Art and Photography: What is it to be QUARANTINED?
Carry Out – Nope CURB SIDE – Put that mask on properly!
Introduction to Photography and the use of the Elements and Principles as well as how to compose a strong Photograph
Explanation of DIGITAL ART assignment
3 Strong Photographs that speak to what it is to be YOU during this time of isolation / quarantine / 6 feet apart.
A brief explanation of the CONCEPT of your work in the slide show.
UPLOAD to the NEW Google Slide and explain the concept that you have in your photographs.
Edward Hopper and his works. The loneliness that his works have illustrated and depicted. Sometimes they are people in rooms together but they are generally apart.
Advanced Painting: Fauvism or YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN!
Sketches for NEXT painting – FAUVISM Part II – OR – Your own painting based on the style or technique YOU ARE INTERESTED IN
NOTE – Sometimes it is easier for a young (or old) artist to be successful when they are given a specific direction to travel with their work. If following my instructions helps you succeed – use them. If you choose to follow your own path… Great!
Please PLAN before you move into the painting. This week’s assignment will be the PLANNING stages – the sketches.
This doesn’t mean you can’t begin the final painting… it just means that the planning is the assignment to turn in.
Thanks for the following and staying on top of one’s own COVID-19 Quarantine. STAY AT HOME! While the posting seems to have died down QUITE A BIT over the past 3 weeks, know full well that the educating hasn’t. The initial intent of ArtWithKorb.com was to help share out ideas and resources to EVERYONE. It has done that as well as being a launching pad for all of the daily classes in the classroom. Well… we’re not there anymore.
As with EVERYONE we are all teaching out of our own homes and studios right now. I’ve switched all of the digital day to day to Google Classrrom – which stinks for the sharing of ideas. The time it takes to update… in the classroom it is all set, for the home studio, as you may or may not know, it takes a lot longer.
Thanks for the following and staying on top of one’s own COVID-19 Quarantine. STAY AT HOME! While the posting seems to have died down QUITE A BIT over the past 3 weeks, know full well that the educating hasn’t. The initial intent of ArtWithKorb.com was to help share out ideas and resources to EVERYONE. It has done that as well as being a launching pad for all of the daily classes in the classroom. Well… we’re not there anymore.
As with EVERYONE we are all teaching out of our own homes and studios right now. I’ve switched all of the digital day to day to Google Classrrom – which stinks for the sharing of ideas. The time it takes to update… in the classroom it is all set, for the home studio, as you may or may not know, it takes a lot longer.
MOST IMPORTANTLY… WELCOME BACK to ArtWithKorb… you have been missed! PLEASE visit your Google Classroom to stay on top of all that is happening.
Let’s start with some kids work… I’ve been doing ZOOM Art Classes with some wonderful Manhattanites these past weeks so… Scott – Thank you for bringing the kids to the studio! Kids – GREAT JOB – Here are your works! If anyone else is interested talk to Scott and he can get you the infor or message me and I can too!
Video about the Artist Habits of Mind – this is about ideas and meaning or CONTENT! Enjoy.
In our YayArt Bingo K2.0one can listen to an ART Podcast and create a work inspired by that story. This podcast speaks to CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS, has COOL DOWNLOADS, and is WORTH YOUR TIME. Listen to an episode or two… maybe they will interview Mr. Korb someday. Click on the image to visit Erika’ Hess’s site and LISTEN IN!
CLICK HERE to visit the site
20 Minutes of Mr. Korb talking about the 8 Artist Habits of Mind. A good listen!
