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Advanced Painting: Figurative Work Continued

Just so you are aware… the process of the figurative work has taken a lot longer than anticipated and we are going to continue this through the rest of the term. The figure is HARD. The canvases we built were CHALLENGING and the ideas that you are communicating are PERSONAL.

Make USE of the class period and studio time.

NO EXCUSES!

Last week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast deals specifically with an exhibition about the figure and HERE IT IS! Remember that we are listening and seeing artwork that is dealing with contemporary issues and you are in the Advanced levels of making art.

• What are you being challenged with?
• How is this DIFFICULT?
• What did you take away form last weeks Mid-Crit?
• How are you moving forward?

Here is the ASSIGNMENT: Figurative Art!

Advanced Digital Art and Photography: Handbook Cover Design – then we finish the PHOTO BOOKS

HE HANDBOOK COVER – this week we are cranking up our working habits and pushing to a fast deadline – welcome to the world of graphic design and deadlines – HARD AND FAST DEADLINES.

While we do not live in Liverpool, the ideas of a layout are consistent wherever you live. Are you working:

• Type Heavy?
• Silhouette?
• Mondrian?
• What other ideas are you playing with?
• HERE is a link for the 10 Basic Ideas.

HERE is the larger photography assignment – Let’s talk about the process and the layout ideas.

Art Foundations: Collage – YEAH – and Poetry

We are beginning to work on our COLLAGES! This is a FUN activity that allows one to play with the SPACE and FORM in a way that is loose and free (or tight and specific). Let’s learn about Romare Bearden and Della Wells in the process.

COLLAGE and SOCIAL COMMENTARY

Intro to Painting: Plein Air art – We wrap up LANDSCAPE and WATERCOLORS and begin HAND BINDING BOOKS!

WIDEWALLS article on Plein Air and how it has advanced what we do as artists.

The making of one’s own hand bound book can be a lot of fun and very rewarding so… be attentive to the process we are going to be teaching and work at making this a worthwhile project.

Watercolor or drawing paper is up to you.

Intro to Digital Art and Photography: MONEY comes next… I mean LOGO Design Comes Next!

Advanced Painting: Figurative Work

What have you begun with the figurative work? This is the most challenging genre to work with – the figure. We all have one. We have all drawn / painted one. We know when things look right and we know when things look wrong. Make use of your time… we have about 5 sessions left with one another… make good use of the time.

Do you want something to listen to? This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast deals specifically with an exhibition about the figure and HERE IT IS! Remember that we are listening and seeing artwork that is dealing with contemporary issues and you are in the Advanced levels of making art.

• What are you doing with your figure?
• How has your visit with the Degas and the Van Gogh Scholastic Arts Magazines challenged your thinking on what you can do?
• How will you use DETAILS or GESTURES to construct your composition?
• What are you going to do to FOCUS on MARK MAKING?

How are you thinking about the Figurative imagery that you are going to be placing in the unique shapes?

Here is the ASSIGNMENT: Figurative Art!

Alice Neel on the Modern Art Notes Podcast – GREAT INTERVIEW.

Advanced Digital Art and Photography: Books and InDesign – Let’s look at the process of BUILDING our books.

This is the last week we have with this work. BE prepared to pull it all together by the end of the week. We are going to look at the FINAL project – THE HANDBOOK COVER – this week so that you can begin planning out your ideas.

• Page Numbers?
• Titles (front of book and pages)?
• Name on the pages?
• Use of MASTER (Parent) Pages and then the pages in the body of the book?

HERE is the larger photography assignment – Let’s talk about the process and the layout ideas.

Art Foundations: Metals and Jewelry – Etching, Jump Rings, Rivets

What are your FAVORITE plans – the most successful ones in the planning stages? Let’s look at the RUBRIC and assess our planning straight away and then we will move into the DEMO of the etching process.

• Positive and Negative Space – PAY ATTENTION TO THAT!
• Value Scales – Do you have a wide variety of lights, middle tones, and darks?
• Texture and Mark Making – ALL OF THESE ARE REQUIRED
  • Smooth Blending
  • Hatching and Cross Hatching
  • Stippling
  • Scumbling
• One and Two Point Perspective
• HERE IS THE ASSIGNMENT on the STILL LIFE
  • https://seattleartistleague.com/2018/05/22/morandis-dust/

Intro to Painting: Plein Air art – We continue to work with LANDSCAPE and WATERCOLORS!

BIG TO SMALL – GENERAL TO DETAIL – WASHES TO SPECIFICS

WIDEWALLS article on Plein Air and how it has advanced what we do as artists.

Be sure to be:

• LOOKING at the trees and landscape
• Working from that OBSERVATION and SEEING what you are looking at.
• PAINT what you SEE and NOT what you think. The brain is a liar and the EYES are the truth tellers
• Outside this week to draw and paint
• Dress appropriately!

Intro to Digital Art and Photography: MONEY comes next… I mean LOGO Design Comes Next!

So you know that I spent some time working on becoming a better artist and teacher – here are my photographs from the Hirshhorn Art Museum in Washington DC. I saw some of my favorites and some I was unfamiliar with… as you should ALWAYS do.

Advanced Painting: Canvas Building and Figurative Work

Construction on the Canvases continues Tuesday and the ideas of the Figurative work move forward as well.

• What are you doing with your figure?
• How has your visit with the Degas and the Van Gogh Scholastic Arts Magazines challenged your thinking on what you can do?
• How will you use DETAILS or GESTURES to construct your composition?
• What are you going to do to FOCUS on MARK MAKING?

How are you thinking about the Figurative imagery that you are going to be placing in the unique shapes?

Here is the ASSIGNMENT: Figurative Art!

PLAN PLAN PLAN and PAINT PAINT PAINT

Alice Neel on the Modern Art Notes Podcast – GREAT INTERVIEW.

Advanced Digital Art and Photography: Books and InDesign – Let’s look at the process of BUILDING our books.

How is your PLANNING on the construction of the BOOKS and the LAYOUT working? Have you thought about:

• Page Numbers?
• Titles (front of book and pages)?
• Name on the pages?
• Use of MASTER (Parent) Pages and then the pages in the body of the book?

HERE is the larger photography assignment – Let’s talk about the process and the layout ideas.

Art Foundations: The Still Life and the Critique! Welcome to the final artworks!

Today we are CRITIQUING and then we are working into the ideas of METALS!

With the DRAWINGS (and in the end the next work as well) As we have been talking about previously, keep in mind:

• Positive and Negative Space – PAY ATTENTION TO THAT!
• Value Scales – Do you have a wide variety of lights, middle tones, and darks?
• Texture and Mark Making – ALL OF THESE ARE REQUIRED
  • Smooth Blending
  • Hatching and Cross Hatching
  • Stippling
  • Scumbling
• One and Two Point Perspective
• HERE IS THE ASSIGNMENT on the STILL LIFE
  • https://seattleartistleague.com/2018/05/22/morandis-dust/

Intro to Painting: The LANDSCAPE and WATERCOLORS! Time for a WALKING FIELD TRIP – REMEMBER TO BRING A COAT – it might be cold!

REMEMBER the TECHNIQUES we learned as Art Foundations artists

Be sure to be:

• LOOKING at the trees and landscape
• Working from that OBSERVATION and SEEING what you are looking at.
• PAINT what you SEE and NOT what you think. The brain is a liar and the EYES are the truth tellers
• Outside this week to draw and paint\
• Dress appropriately!

Intro to Digital Art and Photography: We are REALLY WRAPPING up the Literature work this week. MONEY comes next… I mean LOGOS!

Remember the LITERATURE ASSIGNMENT – Review it so you are aware of the ideas.

Advanced Painting: Critique and Canvas Building

Mark Tansey inspired narrative paintings critique on Monday and then we construct our unique shaped canvases.

Set your paintings up in the front of the classroom on the easels and let’s CRITIQUE!

How are you thinking about the Figurative imagery that you are going to be placing in the unique shapes?

While we build and construct… Let’s listen in on the ideas of one of America’s foremost figurative artists Alice Neel. Remember where we are headed – Figurative Art! Be ready to PLAN and PAINT. BE PREPARED TO WORK! PLAN PLAN PLAN!

Alice Neel on the Modern Art Notes Podcast – GREAT INTERVIEW.

Advanced Digital Art and Photography: Books and InDesign – Let’s look at the process of BUILDING our books.

How are the PHOTOGRAPHS you are making turning out? Wednesday we will look at the current ones you have started. 5 should be your goal for Wednesday. Friday is a WORK DAY as I will be in DC!

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vRt8kpjO0aeNjg5q2Kw7qQWs5l5G9N2Xx8xk-D9_Mw273PrjQEKIAtD9E02TnvFLaMna5oXlA3PzxDL/embed?start=falseu0026amp;loop=falseu0026amp;delayms=3000

HERE is the larger photography assignment – Let’s talk about the process and the layout ideas.

Art Foundations: The Still Life and building it up – back to front, large to small, general to specific, DETAILS SAVED TO LAST!

This week we are working. Tuesday of NEXT WEEK we are CRITIQUING and TURNING THEM IN! We are also going to ASSESS and CRITIQUE our CERAMICS works Wednesday so we can get them in the grade book – and more importantly reflect on the skills we are learning and developing.

Like I posted LAST WEEK, keep the below in mind:

• Positive and Negative Space – PAY ATTENTION TO THAT!
• Value Scales – Do you have a wide variety of lights, middle tones, and darks?
• Texture and Mark Making – ALL OF THESE ARE REQUIRED
  • Smooth Blending
  • Hatching and Cross Hatching
  • Stippling
  • Scumbling
• One and Two Point Perspective
• HERE IS THE ASSIGNMENT on the STILL LIFE
  • https://seattleartistleague.com/2018/05/22/morandis-dust/

Intro to Painting: The LANDSCAPE and WATERCOLORS! Time for a WALKING FIELD TRIP – Make sure you bring a coat – it might be cold!

We experimented with watercolors to review the TECHNIQUES we learned as Art Foundations artists… This week we are going to go outside and 1) DRAW a tree and then 2) Paint a tree. The most important part of this is the LOOKING at the tree and working from that OBSERVATION. Outside Tuesday to draw and paint and then on THURSDAY to make photographs to develop our compositions. Dress appropriately!

Intro to Digital Art and Photography: We are WRAPPING up the Literature work this week and then onto the idea of TEXT and LOGOS – this is a paid competition this time… MONEY!

Remember the LITERATURE ASSIGNMENT – Review it so you are aware of the ideas.

Advanced Painting: Do you have your unique shapes drawn for your canvases?

FINAL 2 DAYS TO PAINT on your Narrative Painting Assignment with Mark Tansey as an impetus – look at the REALISM! We are going to work in OILS when we get back.

Set your paintings up in the front of the classroom on the 6 easels and let’s take 5 minutes to look at them from afar. What stands out as needing work. What stands out as being successful. Stick notes in hand – write out a SOLID POSITIVE and CONSTRUCTIVE COMMENT for each work.

From here we will be painting. How about the unique canvas shapes you have drawn? We are going to be MEASURING and SCALING THINGS UP as well as reading angles so… be prepared to do some geometry and algebra!

And this is where we are headed… Figurative Art! Be ready to PLAN and PAINT. BE PREPARED TO WORK! PLAN PLAN PLAN!

Alice Neel on the Modern Art Notes Podcast – GREAT INTERVIEW.

Advanced Digital Art and Photography: Photography and Adobe InDesign

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vRt8kpjO0aeNjg5q2Kw7qQWs5l5G9N2Xx8xk-D9_Mw273PrjQEKIAtD9E02TnvFLaMna5oXlA3PzxDL/embed?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000

HERE is the assignment – Let’s talk about the process and the layout ideas. Make sure you have all of your photographs from last time in hand and ready to 1) edit in Photoshop and 2) insert into Adobe InDesign. This is a series of works you are going to have to create MOSTLY outside of class and then edit mostly INSIDE of class – so BALANCE your time wisely. We have 3 more weeks on this entire work so be ready to WORK!

Art Foundations: The Still Life and Mark Making – Let’s look at a variety of ways to make marks.

• Positive and Negative Space – PAY ATTENTION TO THAT!
• Value Scales – Do you have a wide variety of lights, middle tones, and darks?
• Texture and Mark Making – ALL OF THESE ARE REQUIRED
  • Smooth Blending
  • Hatching and Cross Hatching
  • Stippling
  • Scumbling
• One and Two Point Perspective
• HERE IS THE ASSIGNMENT on the STILL LIFE
  • https://seattleartistleague.com/2018/05/22/morandis-dust/

Intro to Painting: We have VERY little time to work… one day in and whatever you need at night. We CRITIQUE midweek!

NARRATIVE PAINTING ASSIGNMENT – Grimm’s Fairy Tales – Let’s Use THIS link and you can choose your own Fairy Tale. Think about the imagery that comes to mind and work up a FEW sketches so you are READY TO ROLL with the painting when we come back.

Intro to Digital Art and Photography: Time to CRITIQUE and then Print. Thank you for all the hard work… NEXT UP… Wait for it… Literature!

HERE is the LITERATURE ASSIGNMENT – Let’s look it over first so that you can begin thinking about the assignment. Then we critique…

What have you been up to? There is much to cover and look at. Let’s get the work out and we will step back and reflect. Donuts are on me.

Advanced Painting: Figurative work and a unique shaped canvas. Think about this and think about GEOMETRY! We are going to practice our math skills…

Narrative Painting Assignment with Mark Tansey as an impetus – look at the REALISM! We are going to work in OILS when we get back.

And this is where we are headed… Figurative Art! Be ready to PLAN and PAINT. BE PREPARED TO WORK! PLAN PLAN PLAN!

Alice Neel on the Modern Art Notes Podcast – GREAT INTERVIEW.

Advanced Digital Art and Photography: RUBRIC and Portraits – BE READY TO THINK!

HERE IS THE PHOTOGRAPHY ASSIGNMENT! Portraits.

Lawrence Von Thomas

and Article / Interview – Primary Source Research! – What are 3 things you took away from this interview?

If You Leave on Tumbler
If You Leave: 96 Ways of Capturing “Perfect Loneliness” (4:17)

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HERE is the assignment – Let’s talk about the process and the layout ideas. There is a lot to learn. The Poster Assignment. I feel as though we have a RUBRIC coming up…

Art Foundations: The Still Life and Mark Making – Let’s look at a variety of ways to make marks.

• Positive and Negative Space
• Value Scales
• Texture and Mark Making
• One and Two Point Perspective
• HERE IS THE ASSIGNMENT on the STILL LIFE
  • https://seattleartistleague.com/2018/05/22/morandis-dust/

Intro to Painting: Narrative ACRYLIC Paintings are moving along and we are critiquing – mid critiquing…

NARRATIVE PAINTING ASSIGNMENT – Grimm’s Fairy Tales – Let’s Use THIS link and you can choose your own Fairy Tale. Think about the imagery that comes to mind and work up a FEW sketches so you are READY TO ROLL with the painting when we come back.

• What are the strengths of the piece?
• Where are you still struggling with your painting?
• What is the FOCAL POINT and how are you using the composition to draw the viewers eyes around the composition.

NEXT TIME… This is important to think about as we begin our last days of working.

• Focal Point – where do your eyes go first?
• Contrast – is there a good sense of light versus dark? Smooth versus textured?
• Are your marks specific and intentional?
• Flip it upside down and step back… what seems wrong? What stands out?
• Finally – look at the edges of the picture plane and make sure that you are dealing with the edge, the corners, the sides?

Intro to Digital Art and Photography: Time to CRITIQUE and then Print. Thank you for all the hard work… NEXT UP… Wait for it… Literature!

Make sure you consider your choice of literature? What is literature for you? We will go over the assignment first thing day one. Make sure you take the time to THINK ABOUT WHAT LITERATURE IS and how you can be inspired by it.

HERE is the LITERATURE ASSIGNMENT – Let’s look it over first so that you can begin thinking about the assignment. Then we critique…

Thank you to everyone for giving me the confidence that the week will go by swimmingly. I have faith that the efforts in EVERYONE’S hands will be to create and work to the best of one’s ability and to be FOCUSED 98% of the time… (c’mon – I am not inflexible).

I had a GREAT time at ExpoChicago on Saturday and made a few videos to help you see how what WE do in the studio is based a lot on what is being done in art history (yes) but also in the world of CONTEMPORARY ART. (1,000,000 KORB Points for the first one to comment on what CONTEMPORARY means).

Below I have the videos and images for the ENTIRE WEEK so… if you want to see my inspiring words all at once – go ahead and binge the videos for your entire week… otherwise check them out as they drop in Google Classroom. (If you are NOT in my Google Classrooms and are a dedicated follower – BINGE AWAY.)

Advanced Painting: Narrative Oil Paintings

ALSO – the Modern Art Notes Podcast interview with Alex Bradley Cohen… Good Stuff.

Narrative Painting Assignment with Mark Tansey as an impetus – look at the REALISM! We are going to work in OILS when we get back.

Advanced Digital Art and Photography: Poster Design gets WRAPPED up and InDesign gets implemented.

HERE is the assignment – Let’s talk about the process and the layout ideas. There is a lot to learn.

Art Foundations: So much going on with VALUE and SHADING and MARK MAKING

• Positive and Negative Space
• Value Scales
• Texture and Mark Making
• One and Two Point Perspective

Intro to Painting: Narrative ACRYLIC Paintings are moving along

• Mark Making
• Brush Strokes
• Composition
• LAYERING
• Techniques

NARRATIVE PAINTING ASSIGNMENT – Grimm’s Fairy Tales – Let’s Use THIS link and you can choose your own Fairy Tale. Think about the imagery that comes to mind and work up a FEW sketches so you are READY TO ROLL with the painting when we come back.

Intro to Digital Art and Photography: Adobe Illustrator and Architecture

Advanced Painting: We are beginning the Oil Paintings this week.

Listen to how Alex Bradley Cohen talks about this Alex Katz painting and how you are thinking about your composition(s).

ALSO – the Modern Art Notes Podcast interview with Alex Bradley Cohen… Good Stuff.

Narrative Painting Assignment with Mark Tansey as an impetus – look at the REALISM! We are going to work in OILS when we get back.

Get yourself in as often as possible this week to get our paintings begun. Think about the techniques that we are learning about and asking you to experience. These are important skills that need to be used in the process. MAKE SURE YOU ARE EXPERIMENTING and EXPLORING the techniques.

Advanced Digital Art and Photography: Poster Design! What can you make a poster about? Let’s talk DESIGN APPROACHES as well.

What is your style. what is your inspiration in the design of the poster? These are all questions that are important for you to consider as you are moving forward in the process.

HERE is the assignment – Let’s talk about the process and the layout ideas. There is a lot to learn.

Art Foundations: Drawing: Positive and Negative Space, Values, Texture, and Mark Making

We are learning a lot of techniques with this artwork. Make sure that you are paying attention to the process and the steps we go through to learn about them. More importantly… we are learning a lot about what we can do in the future with our artwork that we will put into use down the road.

• Positive and Negative Space
• Value Scales
• Texture and Mark Making
• One and Two Point Perspective

Intro to Painting: Acrylics and Techniques: Canvas Building and Drawing for Narrative Works

What is your composition about? How are you communicating that message in the composition (and what is strong about your composition AND what is the composition style you are choosing to work with)? Make sure you are paying close attention to this as you move forward… Sketch the imagery out and make good use of the entire picture plane… how are you filling the space? How are you using the space to tell a story, create the composition?

NARRATIVE PAINTING ASSIGNMENT – Grimm’s Fairy Tales – Let’s Use THIS link and you can choose your own Fairy Tale. Think about the imagery that comes to mind and work up a FEW sketches so you are READY TO ROLL with the painting when we come back.

Intro to Digital Art and Photography: Adobe Illustrator

WORK WEEK! We are really focused on the work we have in front of us. Make sure that you are focused on the style you have chosen. Illustration is a HUGE part of what we are teaching and learning here… so make sure that you are ILLUSTRATING your imagery to the strongest level you can.

Advanced Painting: Oils are coming – So is NARRATIVE PAINTING

CANVAS BUILDING TEST HERE (and in Google Classroom)

Narrative Painting Assignment with Mark Tansey as an impetus – look at the REALISM! We are going to work in OILS when we get back.

This week we are getting the canvases built. Make sure you are getting in here as often as you can to get the canvas built and stretched. While you wait make sure you are getting your imagery and ideas gathered and developed. We are beginning with OILS and you are going to need to have supplies ready for this. I will have the paint thinner but if you have an applesauce PLASTIC jar available (or clean peanut butter PLASTIC JAR) that is best.

Advanced Digital Art and Photography: Poster Design! What can you make a poster about? Let’s talk DESIGN APPROACHES as well.

HERE is the assignment – Let’s talk about the process and the layout ideas. There is a lot to learn.

Art Foundations: Let’s open those bags of clay up and see how they lasted over spring break!

HERE is the assignment. Step back and see what you have done. What are your plans for the day? Stickynote and then I will gather it. Do this EACH DAY This week to see how you can achieve the goals and plans you have set out for yourself.

I will be trying to work out my own sculpture in clay as well.

• Additive
• Subtraction
• Slab
• Coil
• TEXTURE!

Intro to Painting: Acrylics and Techniques: Canvas Building and Drawing for Narrative Works

We are working on an idea of narrative storytelling in our painting. We are also going to learn a LIFELONG SKILL and that is building a canvas. PAY ATTENTION to the demo and BE PATIENT. Safety is my #1 concern here.

CANVAS BUILDING TEST HERE (and in Google Classroom)

NARRATIVE PAINTING ASSIGNMENT – Grimm’s Fairy Tales – Let’s Use THIS link and you can choose your own Fairy Tale. Think about the imagery that comes to mind and work up a FEW sketches so you are READY TO ROLL with the painting when we come back.

Intro to Digital Art and Photography: Adobe Illustrator

Let’s refresh out memories with the Adobe Illustrator and then get into this. We have 2 weeks – 10 days to work on this. Not 10 studio day… 10 school days. That means get yourself in here during ET and study halls.

Advanced Painting: Oils are coming – So is NARRATIVE PAINTING

Some of you have NOT been properly instructed in CANVAS BUILDING. We are going to be patient and work through the process together. There is going to be a TEST so PAY ATTENTION to the demo – ask questions – pass with 100%!

CANVAS BUILDING TEST HERE (and in Google Classroom)

I will not let you do this without me by your side. Your safety is my MOST important concern.

Narrative Painting Assignment with Mark Tansey as an impetus – look at the REALISM! We are going to work in OILS when we get back.

Advanced Digital Art and Photography: Poster Design! What can you make a poster about? Let’s talk DESIGN APPROACHES as well.

We are going to begin RE-learning the idea of Adobe InDesign. Posters are a HUGE part of what we do as artists and are HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER by many. Who has a poster in their room? What can you do to make this a project / art making experience you can be proud of?

HERE is the assignment – Let’s talk about the process and the layout ideas. There is a lot to learn.

Art Foundations – CLAY! Now… Make SURE you are wrapping it up tight – NO DRY CLAY OVER BREAK!

This week is looking at the PLANS you have made, the assessment of your plans, the beginning of the clay container, and the WRAPPING IT UP TIGHTLY so that it is NOT DRIED OUT BY SPRING BREAK.

Let’s take a QUICK look at the work by Adile Dyalvane to see what we can all do with the WIDE VARIETY of requirements in this work

• Additive
• Subtraction
• Slab
• Coil
• TEXTURE!

Intro to Painting: Acrylics and Techniques: Canvas Building and Drawing for Narrative Works

We are working on an idea of narrative storytelling in our painting. We are also going to learn a LIFELONG SKILL and that is building a canvas. PAY ATTENTION to the demo and BE PATIENT. Safety is my #1 concern here.

CANVAS BUILDING TEST HERE (and in Google Classroom)

NARRATIVE PAINTING ASSIGNMENT – Grimm’s Fairy Tales – Let’s Use THIS link and you can choose your own Fairy Tale. Think about the imagery that comes to mind and work up a FEW sketches so you are READY TO ROLL with the painting when we come back.

Intro to Digital Art and Photography: Adobe Illustrator