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Advanced Painting: Narrative Painting with RULES!

You are doing GREAT work THUS FAR… we are going to take a moment to look at the work with everyone to discuss the ideas that we are moving forward with. This is ALSO going to be the PLANNING STAGE of our work. RUBRIC IT!

HERE IS THE NARRATIVE ASSIGNMENT

Alex Bradley CohenIn the Studio, 2022
Acrylic on canvas
14 x 18 inches

Intro to Painting: Painting on your canvases – UNDERPAINTED?

PORTRAIT

Karen Kilminick

STILL LIFE

Janet Fish

I am leaving last weeks image up below because it is 1) GREAT and 2) we didn’t talk much about it. THIS WEEK we have already begun on the canvas!

TOP: Collage for President Elect, 1960-61. Cropped poster, magazine clippings, and mixed media, 14 1/2 x 23 13/16 inches. Collection of the artist.

BOTTOM: President Elect, 1960-61/1964. Oil on Masonite, 7 feet 5 3/4 inches x 12 feet. Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne/Centre de Création Industrielle, Paris. Photo courtesy of the artist.

James Rosenquist – the PLANNING STAGES!

• Finish the Acrylic Technique Paintings BY THURSDAY
• Construction of the CANVASES – 6 or so per day… PAY ATTENTION to use of ET and Study Halls.
• Develop and Plan your Portrait Ideas and MAKE SURE you are making Photographs… If you DO NOT OUTSIDE of class – you will use yourself or a classmate.
  • Dramatic Lighting
  • Unique POV

Art Foundations: METALS!

Wheelhouse Studios…

Motif is a new term that we are going to work with in this artwork! The idea of a common theme and idea running through the entire piece to help create a sense of unity. According to the TATE: Motif can also refer to the subject of the artwork. The phrase ‘to paint from the motif’ arose in the context of impressionism, meaning to paint on the spot.

Here is the assignment

Advanced Digital art and Photography: Handbook Cover Art – Photography and Book Making

Instructions and Plans are HERE!

Planning and Design are you. Make sure you are staying in the spirit of the school – inclusion and education. This is going to be PRINTED and delivered so… you hard work will be in the hands of hundreds of people! Exciting!

MEASUREMENTS ARE IMPORTANT!

Lawrence Von Thomas – Photography and the Assignment

Introduction to Digital Art and Photography: BOOK DESIGN and Animation!

Animation – You are working on learning this as much as I am. I hope that the videos are helping out. This week is going to be using the techniques we have learned and making them your own. Scrap all we did in the last 15 minutes (or continue them with the rest of the week) and move ahead with the following instructions.

THIS WEEK – DUE FRIDAY – we are going to work on GRADIENTS and then we will spend the WEEK coming up with our OWN Animation that deals with:

• a BACKGROUND, drawn or photographed
• Foreground that is either in front of the moving object (like the water) OR is behind the moving object (like a road under a car) 
• An object that moves through the space, on a guideline so there is up and down or back and forth movement AND had an orientation to the line
• Has GRADIENT in the colors 
• AND has movement within the object that moves or elsewhere in the image… 

USE THE VIDEOS and USE ONE ANOTHER to choose what you are going to be doing.

“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

Advanced Painting: Mark Tansey and Narrative Painting.

NEW WORK that is going to TELL A STORY. There are a LOT of aspects to this work – and coming up with the composition is just a part of it. Think about the canvas and what you are going to do to make it. Remember – this Narrative work based on the works of Mark Tansey AND Alex Bradley Cohen, and William H. Johnson

HERE IS THE NARRATIVE ASSIGNMENT

Alex Bradley CohenIn the Studio, 2022
Acrylic on canvas
14 x 18 inches

Intro to Painting: Canvas Building – One of Mr. Korb’s FAVORITE THINGS TO TEACH!

We are finishing up the intro to ACRYLIC CANVASES and begin on the canvas! Make sure you are PREPPED and PREPARED to go!

TOP: Collage for President Elect, 1960-61. Cropped poster, magazine clippings, and mixed media, 14 1/2 x 23 13/16 inches. Collection of the artist.

BOTTOM: President Elect, 1960-61/1964. Oil on Masonite, 7 feet 5 3/4 inches x 12 feet. Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne/Centre de Création Industrielle, Paris. Photo courtesy of the artist.

James Rosenquist – the PLANNING STAGES!

• Finish the Acrylic Technique Paintings BY THURSDAY
• Construction of the CANVASES – 6 or so per day… PAY ATTENTION to use of ET and Study Halls.
• Develop and Plan your Portrait Ideas and MAKE SURE you are making Photographs… If you DO NOT OUTSIDE of class – you will use yourself or a classmate.
  • Dramatic Lighting
  • Unique POV

Art Foundations: Neo-expressionism, Color, Mark Making! Let’s Have FUN and BE EXPRESSIVE!

The Ten Most Expensive Jean-Michele Basquiat Works Ever Sold at Auction

Basquiat in the New York Times

Let’s Hear a little about him and the work he has made.

Watercolor Techniques assignment is HERE

Neo-Expressionism and Basquiat Assignment is HERE.

Advanced Digital art and Photography: Poster DONE and Now the Handbook Cover Art!

Pit County Schools – what are you doing with our school handbook cover?

Instructions and Plans are HERE!

Planning and Design are you. Make sure you are staying in the spirit of the school – inclusion and education. This is going to be PRINTED and delivered so… you hard work will be in the hands of hundreds of people! Exciting!

MEASUREMENTS ARE IMPORTANT!

Introduction to Digital Art and Photography: BOOK DESIGN and Animation!

Animation is STILL new to Mr. Korb. Let’s continue to learn what we are doing and move forward with this project. This is an introduction to it and a learning opportunity for us all. We may walk out with a great set of skills OR we may fall flat on our faces with this. Whatever we do… it is going to be a LEARNING OPPORTUNITY for us all!

ABC Collaborative Book in Illustrator and Adobe InDesign

“Creativity is a Habit, and the Best Creativity is the Result of Good Work Habits.” Twyla Tharp https://businessinrhyme.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/tharp.jpg

Advanced Painting: UNIQUE Shaped Canvas and MARK TANSEY Narrative painting

We have a lot going on right now. Finishing up the assignment below AND looking forward to the next painting. This Narrative work based on the works of Mark Tansey AND Alex Bradley Cohen, and William H. Johnson

HERE IS THE NARRATIVE ASSIGNMENT

Intro to Painting: GENRES in ACRYLICS AND the PORTRAIT AND the Construction of the Canvases… SLOW DOWN and PAY ATTENTION to what we have to do!

ACRYLICS are upon us and we are going to be exploring the techniques they have to offer.

THREE THINGS THIS WEEK! PAY ATTENTION and STAY ON TOPIC and WORKING!

• Finish the Acrylic Technique Paintings BY THURSDAY
• Construction of the CANVASES – 6 or so per day… PAY ATTENTION to use of ET and Study Halls.
• Develop and Plan your Portrait Ideas and MAKE SURE you are making Photographs… If you DO NOT OUTSIDE of class – you will use yourself or a classmate.
  • Dramatic Lighting
  • Unique POV

Art Foundations: Jean Michel Basquiat. Neo-expressionism and COLOR.

Jean Michele Basquiat let’s become experts.

Basquiat in the New York Times

Let’s Hear a little about him and the work he has made.

Watercolor Techniques assignment is HERE

Basquiat Assignment is HERE.

Advanced Digital art and Photography: Poster DONE and Now the Handbook Cover Art!

Instructions and Plans are HERE!

Planning and Design are you. Make sure you are staying in the spirit of the school – inclusion and education. This is going to be PRINTED and delivered so… you hard work will be in the hands of hundreds of people! Exciting!

Introduction to Digital Art and Photography: BOOK DESIGN and Animation!

Animation is NEW TO MR. KORB! This is going to be an introduction to it and a learning opportunity fo rus all. We may walk out with a great set of skills OR we may fall flat on our faces with this. Whatever we do… it is going to be a LEARNING OPPORTUNITY for us all!

ABC Collaborative Book in Illustrator and Adobe InDesign

“Creativity is a Habit, and the Best Creativity is the Result of Good Work Habits.” Twyla Tharp https://businessinrhyme.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/tharp.jpg

Advanced Painting: UNIQUE Shaped Canvas and we begin with OIL PAINTS.

Chantal Joeffe – “Marina” 2014 at Cheim and Read

What is your goal for the week? What are you doing with the techniques. Now that we are starting full force… let’s take some time to talk with one another and discuss the ideas. A round table conversation artists.

Intro to Painting: GENRES in ACRYLICS

Gillian Carnegie at the Tate and a still life. Maybe not in acrylic but it is one of the genres that we are studying. How are you doing? What are the techniques that you are using in the work SO FAR?

Have we looked at the planning stages? If not – let’s look at the rubric and do that day one of week 4.

ACRYLICS are upon us and we are going to be exploring the techniques they have to offer.

Art Foundations: Jean Michel Basquiat. Neo-expressionism and COLOR.

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Horn Players, 1983, acrylic and oilstick on three canvas panels mounted on wood supports, 243.8 x 190.5 cm (The Broad Art Foundation) © The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat (zoomable image here)

Before we begin the color unit – we are going to read this lesson on Jean Michele Basquiat and become experts. Then we are going to share our expertise. Get ready to be a pro!

Watercolor Techniques assignment is HERE

Basquiat Assignment is HERE.

Advanced Digital art and Photography: How are you doing with the POSTERS? Ai? InDesign?

David Klein – Poster Designer – What period of posters was he from? This is the last week we are working on these posters – where are you in the process?

Poster Design Assignment HERE

Friday – PHOTOGRAPHY and InDesign to learn how to plan a book.

Ted Orland – Quarantine Book PDF – Available for purchase – let me know if you are interested and I’ll get you information. It is important to support our artists! tno.magcloud.com

Introduction to Digital Art and Photography: BOOK DESIGN and Adobe Illustrator

Let’s Look HERE and see how they did it! How are WE? HERE is OUR assignment.

This is the LAST WEEK and then onto Logo design (or animation???) Let’s see where we go from here.

ABC Collaborative Book in Illustrator and Adobe InDesign

Learn To Draw “Drawing is more than a tool for rendering and capturing likenesses. It is a language, with its own syntax, grammar, and urgency. Learning to draw is about learning to see. In this way, it is a metaphor for all art activity. Whatever its form, drawing transforms perception and thought into image and teaches us how to think with our eyes.” 101 Things to Learn in Art School Kit White © 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Kit White – Sol LeWitt

Advanced Painting: UNIQUE Shaped Canvas and we begin with OIL PAINTS.

Beginning in OILS. Technique and Process. This is where we begin folks! The techniques are VERY different than gouache… make sure you are using a variety of these techniques.

Amy Sherald on Making Breonna Taylor’s Portrait

Intro to Painting: GENRES in ACRYLICS

ACRYLICS are upon us and we are going to be exploring the techniques they have to offer.

Sonia Delaunay
Electric Prisms 1913

Orphism (1912–13): Coined by the French poet and art critic Guillaume Apollinaire. The name comes from the musician Orpheus in ancient Greek myths, as Apollinaire thought that painting should be like music. Main artists Robert Delaunay and Sonia Delaunay also used the term simultanism to describe their work of this period.

The TATE

Week of PAINTING! This is about TECHNIQUE as well as considering the ideas of TECHNIQUES. Make sure you are paying CLOSE ATTENTION to the techniques and the final product. FOCUS on the work!

Art Foundations: Still Life and Drawing – PRACTICE your VALUES!

The STILL LIFE is upon us and the DRAWINGS have begun. What is the stage you see yourself at?

Remember that we are using values that range from 0 – 10! We are also using all of the mark making techniques we have learned about: Shading (modeling / chiaroscuro), Hatching and Cross Hatching, Stippling, and Scumbling.

Still Life ASSIGNMENT!

Advanced Digital art and Photography: How are you doing with the POSTERS? Ai? InDesign?

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How are you thinking about the use of TEXT? This is a part of the process and the final product. Make sure you are aware of the COMPOSITION!

Introduction to Digital Art and Photography: BOOK DESIGN and Adobe Illustrator

ABC Collaborative Book in Illustrator and Adobe InDesign

Advanced Painting: Constructing our UNIQUE Shaped Canvas and working in OILS with FIGURATIVE WORK! – REMEMBER the THEME OF THE SEMESTER – DIFFERENCES!

How have you chosen to go about making your ground and then constructing the shape. The approach is UNIQUE to YOU and the FIGURE needs to be included into the idea of the composition. Keep that in mind.

Alice Neel was the greatest American portraitist of the 20th century. Her work continues to astonish. – Let’s READ THIS ARTICLE (on your own) and then share our thoughts on it 5 bullet points from the article you thought were important! – 10 PLANNING POINTS!

Intro to Painting: GENRES in ACRYLICS

ACRYLICS are upon us and we are going to be exploring the techniques they have to offer.

Red Still Life 1967
© The estate of Mary Fedden – The TATE

We are going to create our own composition and then break it down to these steps. The SPHERES are a GREAT way to learn the PROCESS and TECHNIQUES AND you ALSO need to develop the process and techniques of developing strong compositions.

What GENRE have you chosen and what is your PLANNING for the process. There are a million ways to begin this and the ideas are ALL UP TO YOU!

Art Foundations: The Still Life is SO WIDE OPEN – Literally in our compositions!

Stephanie H. Shih

The STILL LIFE is upon us and the DRAWINGS have begun. What is the stage you see yourself at?

Nicole Dyer

Remember that we are using values that range from 0 – 10! We are also using all of the mark making techniques we have learned about: Shading (modeling / chiaroscuro), Hatching and Cross Hatching, Stippling, and Scumbling.

Still Life ASSIGNMENT!

Rebecca Scott

Advanced Digital art and Photography: What is your plan for your poster?

Plinio Codognato, Fiat 509, 1925

Poster Design is upon us! We all see them, use them, love them or hate them. We are going to talk about MAKING them. There is a great history of the poster – and who knows where it is headed. Think about the moving posters of today’s digital age… Incredible work. Let’s dig in and see how they have developed and communicated messages that affect us all.

MILTON GLASER Article HERE… This is GOOD TO READ! – Let’s Read it ALOUD in class – this should only take a minute or 5.

Introduction to Digital Art and Photography: BOOK DESIGN and Adobe Illustrator

ABC Collaborative Book in Illustrator and Adobe InDesign

This is a COLLABORATIVE PROJECT and YOU ARE ALL GOING TO LEAD THIS! I am here to help and guide AND YOU ARE WORKING THIS AS A TEAM!

Planning and Procedure are in your hands. We will check in with one another this week to see the process and stages you are at!

Advanced Painting: New Shaped Canvas and FIGURATIVE WORK!

FIGURATIVE and UNIQUE SHAPED CANVAS are coming soon.

Brian Frick at the James May Gallery in Milwaukee.

Intro to Painting: We are working on ACRYLICS

ACRYLICS are upon us and we are going to be exploring the techniques they have to offer. This is AFTER Spring Break AND there is some thinking you are going to have to do while you are away.

We are going to create our own composition and then break it down to these steps. The SPHERES are a GREAT way to learn the PROCESS and TECHNIQUES AND you ALSO need to develop the process and techniques of developing strong compositions. SO…

• Landscape
• Still Life
• Floral

THE ABOVE are your options – AND we are going to walk through this all together DAY 1 with a COLLAGE and SURFACE (GROUND) TREATMENT!

Art Foundations: Welcome back to Space, Form, Value

The STILL LIFE is upon us – almost. We are going to continue to develop the ideas together and WALK through the idea of an OPEN COMPOSITION so that we can also work on TECHNIQUES. Make sure you have YOUR OBJECTS!

Still Life ASSIGNMENT!

Advanced Digital art and Photography: POSTERS

What should go into the poster? What kind of information? What kind of imagery? What kind of design… Let’s look a bit more at the HISTORY of posters and Milton Glaser… one of the ALL TIME BEST and MOST INFLUENTIAL.

Poster Design is upon us! We all see them, use them, love them or hate them. We are going to talk about MAKING them. There is a great history of the poster – and who knows where it is headed. Think about the moving posters of today’s digital age… Incredible work. Let’s dig in and see how they have developed and communicated messages that affect us all.

MILTON GLASER Article HERE… This is GOOD TO READ!

Introduction to Digital Art and Photography: BOOK DESIGN and Adobe Illustrator

Ooops – I made a mistake in the lining up of the assignment – SO – let’s work through this together on DAY 1.

ABC Collaborative Book in Illustrator and Adobe InDesign

This is a COLLABORATIVE PROJECT and YOU ARE ALL GOING TO LEAD THIS! I am here to help and guide AND YOU ARE WORKING THIS AS A TEAM!

Advanced Painting: Critique and Planning for the next work – OILS

FIGURATIVE and the UNIQUE SHAPED CANVAS are coming soon. The POP ART PAINTINGS are due this week so let’s get them done and PHOTOGRAPHED and DONE!

Andy Warhol may be one of my favorites and I KNOW that there are MANY MORE that you have learned about.

Figurative Work is coming up next (so are unique shaped canvases so… be ready for MATH!)

Intro to Painting: Critique and Planning for the next work – ACRYLICS

ACRYLICS are upon us and we are going to be exploring the techniques they have to offer. This is AFTER Spring Break AND there is some thinking you are going to have to do while you are away.

Critique and Rubrics are this week so… buckle up and be ready to share your ideas and thoughts with one another! SPEED DATein… er… um… SPEED CRITIQUES are here!

Art Foundations: Space, Form, Value

Negative Space and Positive Space are ALL AROUND US – This week we are going to be working with the ideas of that through the mark making of and not of the forms and space in front of us.

Still Life ASSIGNMENT!

Advanced Digital art and Photography: POSTERS

Poster Design is upon us! We all see them, use them, love them or hate them. We are going to talk about MAKING them. There is a great history of the poster – and who knows where it is headed. Think about the moving posters of today’s digital age… Incredible work. Let’s dig in and see how they have developed and communicated messages that affect us all.

Introduction to Digital Art and Photography: ARCHITECTURE and Adobe Illustrator

Hilma Af Klint – Could she have used Illustrator – Perhaps the designs would have been doable! Let’s give it a try SO WE CAN LEARN THE TOOLS!

Upcoming Assignment – PAY ATTENTION and MAKE PHOTOGRAPHS of ARCHITECTURE (assignment)! – HERE Are 10 TIPS to IMPROVE your ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY!

Advanced Painting: POP – Before the end of the quarter!

11 Female artists who left their mark on POP Art!

What do you need to do this week and what have you done so far? Look at the rubric and begin to define and assess the planning! One more week!

Progress Photographs as well – HERE is a GREAT video of (Not a pop artist) Matisse and the Pink Nude.

Print the following out and HANG IT IN YOUR STUDIO! I have one hanging in mine!

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Intro to Painting: BIG WEEK OF PAINTING!

Landscapes are a SOLID part of the artmaking history and we are going to approach it in a number of ways! Collage, Photography, Observation and then… well… that’s it.

FOR EXTRA CRDIT IN PLANNING and STUDIO HABITS! Watch this video and make your own book from your own internet research.

Art Foundations: Space and Pencil – Perspective and the Still Life

Still Life assignment is coming up and this is the ASSIGNMENT!

Advanced Digital art and Photography: COMING UP ON A DEADLINE – SOON

ONE MORE WEEK and then we critique – onto more designing and perhaps some animation – I need to learn this along with you. Changes in the curriculum and lesson plans? Perhaps!

Here are some more of the PHENOMINAL ARTIST Erik Johansson’s works that we can be inspired and amazed at.

Photo-manipulation IDEAS and the ASSIGNMENT

Introduction to Digital Art and Photography: Photography and Photoshop and Art History

One more WORKDAY and then the Critique. What do you need to do TODAY?

I’m ok with this – I am not a fan of Jeff Koons – but that is just me…

Famous Work of Art Created through PHOTOGRAPHY and then PHOTOSHOP! HERE it is!

Advanced Painting: Gouache and Theme and POP and DIFFERENCES!

How is the PROGRESS GOING? What has the PLANNING and RESEARCH done to help you develop your ideas as well as know a bit more about POP ART than you did on DAY 1? Write out TWO THINGS about POP art that you didn’t know before but do know now – OR – two things that you understand more about regarding POP art?

(Above) Just what was it that made yesterday’s homes so different, so appealing? (upgrade) 2004 – TATE Modern, UK

11 Female artists who left their mark on POP Art!

Progress Photographs as well – HERE is a GREAT video of (Not a pop artist) Matisse and the Pink Nude.

Intro to Painting: Watercolor and Landscapes / Plein Air / Book Binding / Observation

Top 15 Japanese Stab Binding Tutorials on the Internet

Our Book Binding is progressing NICELY with a lot of you coming in during ET and working – some with a bit of regret about needing to work but… working none-the-less and getting a lot DONE! This week is Finishing the binding and then making the paintings to go INTO the book. Make sure you are also doing the following

• Making and working from PHOTOGRAPHY of LANDSCAPES that YOU MADE.
  • Think about COMPOSITIONAL TECHNIQUES as you make your photographs: Rule of Thirds, Leading Lines, Simplify, Framing, Right HEavy, ETC… Include the photographs in the book as well – this means you need to make prints of the photographs.
• Working from your, and including them in the final books, COLLAGES of landscapes.
• PLEIN AIR PAINTING – being outside (or observing from a window).

Landscapes are a SOLID part of the artmaking history and we are going to approach it in a number of ways! Collage, Photography, Observation and then… well… that’s it.

Art Foundations: Finish the Glazing and Photography Unit

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In addition to GLAZING your CERAMICS – we are also finishing up the Photography Unit. Make sure you complete the RUBRIC on Photography as well as the SLIDE SHOW about your ELEMENTS and PRINCIPLES.

All Ceramic LATE WORK will receive an NP after Friday.

Photoshop instructions HERE

Photography through the Elements an the Principles… HERE you go!

Advanced Digital art and Photography: Photo Manipulation and COMMUNITY!

We are running out of time – one more week. What is the CONCEPT of your Photomanipulation? How are you digging in deep to create a STRONG COMPOSITION as well as communicating the concept? Make 100% sure the images are yours that you are working from so you can claim 100% ownership!

Here are some more of the PHENOMINAL ARTIST Erik Johansson’s works that we can be inspired and amazed at.

Photo-manipulation IDEAS and the ASSIGNMENT

Introduction to Digital Art and Photography: Photography and Photoshop and Art History

We are approaching the end of the unit… how far do you need to go to complete it? While you made strong images to start with – thank you for that – what are you learning about the use of PHOTOSHOP that has made your now PHOTOSHOP PAINTED image strong and effective as a painting into itself?

End of unit – shut off the original photograph and EXPORT AS – PNG. Turn the PNG into the Google Classroom assignment and make sure you have your STEP by STEP Slideshow completed as well.

Famous Work of Art Created through PHOTOGRAPHY and then PHOTOSHOP! HERE it is!