G: 1.1P: Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.
A: Looking at the ROMARE BEARDEN collage on the screen, what do you think this work is about? WHY? Please work with your neighbor on answering the questions on the planning handout about social topics. This will be the basis for the final ceramics project as well as a completed design for the collage. Collage can be a way to develop ideas for additional works as well as making sketches and photographs. Collage is DIFFICULT.
G: Explain why creating art that is CLEARLY NARRATIVE / Tells a story / explains something that is of importance to you is challenging? Explain 2 major points…
Introduction to Painting: Abstraction and Canvas Building
Maryam Hoseini : Cultured Magazine Artist – Contemporary Abstraction
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: Looking at the idea of constructing canvases, what scale, size, position, plans are you going to work at in your abstract work? Hard to think about at this point I suppose. NEXT WEEK you will have your RESEARCH DONE and the IDEAS for your ABSTRACT WORK READY TO ROLL so we can build the canvas. This takes TIME and you will be tested before you can build. BE prepared to WATCH in a little bit. Abstraction Handout and LINKS to Contemporary Artists.
G: We looked at the process of the canvas building – think about the scale that you are going to be using. What scale, position, proportion, inspiration are you going to be thinking about in regards to the portrait? The PRELIMINARY DRAWINGS and PLANNING must get done so that you are ready to build next time and painting over BREAK. Consider the idea of coming in during enrichment to build.
Intro to Digital Art and Photography: Last days to work on the Letterhead and the like!
G: Develop Craft: Learning to use tools, materials, artistic conventions; and learning to care for tools, materials, and space.
G: 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: Looking at the designs that you have begun – step back and SEE what you have done, what is working? What are you struggling with? List two struggles and One success. We are doing a MID CRITIQUE in 45 minutes. This work is DUE (logos will also be graded at the same time) at the END of the next meeting.
G: What are 3 things that you see about your work that is in need of redesign or reconsideration? I hope that you have listened to the class / me about the successes and missed opportunities in your work.
“When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.” — Zig Ziglar
Art Foundations: Still Life Drawing
Fogal Painting of Boxes. Fill the space and look at the shadows.
G: 10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.
A: Last day to work these drawings out. Next time we CRITIQUE! In your handbook – what TECHNIQUES have you developed with this drawing? Be specific and write out 5 different things you did to develop this drawing.
G: What are you most pleased with in your still life drawing?
G: 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
A: Acrylic Painting Techniques. Collage/Additive, High Gel Relief/ Impasto, Variations on Color Shifting. Now we begin with acrylic paintings – DAY 3. We’re going to look at two more SETS of techniques today (and you will have to gather some ADDITIVE products to the group of materials that you will need. We are working the paintings for TECHNIQUES. LEARN THE TECHNIQUES here artists.
G: Well.. What have you accomplished in the processes of painting? We will work 2 more FULL SESSIONS to create 4 total paintings. Be prepared to identify the techniques and processes you went through in each.
Intro to Digital Art and Photography: Adobe InDesign! Let’s be patient with one another… this takes some time!
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
A: This is a solid working day of working on this corporate id. I will be talking to each of you to look at your ideas and your online homework. 3 minutes each perhaps. Time to work.
G: WHY (in sentence form and a sticky note in order to leave the room) are you PLEASED with your design OR STILL STRUGGLING with the imagery and assemblage of the work?
MoMA (the Museum of Modern Art in New Your City) reopened (after a 4 month multi million dollar renovation) this weekend! Check out this email and see what you CAN’T miss this weekend when you visit! EMail HERE!
“When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.” — Zig Ziglar
Art Foundations: Still Life Drawing
Look at the ENTIRE composition as you are working on the still life.
Fogel Painting of BOXES – We are making important artwork!
G: 10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.
A: Last days to work these drawings out. Last time we MID-CRITIQUED! In your handbook – what TECHNIQUES / IDEAS did you focus on with your drawing? Be specific and write out 3 things you are going to focus on today?
G: What did you accomplish today?
Sighting In – use your arm and the pencil as measuring devices.
Shhhhh… “We were all focused and not talking. We worked better when we are focused on it.” – One of YOU said this.
No Finger blending.
80% of time is on the looking at the object in front of you and 20% of the time is on the looking at the drawing and drawing
G: 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
A: Acrylic Painting Techniques. Now we begin with acrylic paintings – DAY 2. What objects have you brought in today for the still life. We are going to work on our canvas with the variety of techniques that are in the handout about techniques.
G: What are your thoughts about the works you have sketched / painted out today? Will you be ready for the final paintings and still life for next time?
Intro to Digital Art and Photography: Adobe InDesign! Let’s be patient with one another… this takes some time!
G: Develop Craft: Learning to use tools, materials, artistic conventions; and learning to care for tools, materials, and space.
A: What did you learn last time about your work as we did a brief critique? What can you do to move the work ahead and resolve to make stronger? List three things that you found are the same
G: What are 3 things that you accomplished with your letterhead, business cards and /or envelopes that you see as unique, original, or tie into your logo design? Part of the process of design is to make your work stand out from the work of others.
MoMA (the Museum of Modern Art in New Your City) reopened (after a 4 month multi million dollar renovation) this weekend! Check out this email and see what you CAN’T miss this weekend when you visit! EMail HERE!
“When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.” — Zig Ziglar
Art Foundations: Still Life Drawing
G: 10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.
A: Last day to work these drawings out. Next time we CRITIQUE! In your handbook – what TECHNIQUES have you developed with this drawing? Be specific and write out 5 different things you did to develop this drawing.
G: What are you most pleased with in your still life drawing?
G: 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
A: Acrylic Painting Techniques. Now we begin with acrylic paintings – DAY 1. What objects have you brought in today for the still life. We are going to work on our canvas with the variety of techniques that are in the handout about techniques. We are going to do 4 small paintings of a SINGLE OBJECT to get familiar with the techniques and then move into the final paintings in 2 days. Jude Rae is the artist we are going to explore for a while here. Let’s take a look at her works.
G: What are your thoughts about the works you have sketched / painted out today?
Intro to Digital Art and Photography: Let’s Draw our ideas about the corporate ID.
G: Develop Craft: Learning to use tools, materials, artistic conventions; and learning to care for tools, materials, and space.
G: 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: Looking at the designs that you have begun – step back and SEE what you have done, what is working? What are you struggling with? List two struggles and One success. We are doing a MID CRITIQUE in 45 minutes. This work is DUE (logos will also be graded at the same time) at the END of the the next meeting.
G: What are 3 things that you see about your work that is in need of redesign or reconsideration? I hope that you have listened to the class / me about the successes and missed opportunities in your work.
“Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. Make. Good. Art.” ~ Neil Gaiman
“Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. Make. Good. Art.” ~ Neil Gaiman
G: 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
A: How did you start with your still life on the big paper? How are you learning to draw something in 3 dimensions? What are different techniques you know and practice? What did you do successfully last time that you can continue with today? What is it you need to erase, change, resolve to make the drawing today even more successful.
G: What is one thing you are putting into your drawing of the 3D Forms that might be related to the ELEMENTS and PRINCIPLES as the building blocks of Art – things you really need to be aware of AS you are making art.
G: 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: What do you feel about talking aloud when it comes to other’s works? What are your thoughts about why you may be apprehensive or confident when discussing other individual’s work? TWO CRITIQUE all on ONE RUBRIC.
G: What were 3 things that you took away from today’s personal step back and look critique?
Intro to Digital Art and Photography: Work Day and DEMO in Adobe In-Design… Letterhead, Business Cards, and Envelopes.
G: 7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
A: What do you need to do in order to make this logo design work in 3 ways? Letters Only, Words Only, and the COMBINATION MARK (and also the SYMBOL / ICON – 4 ways I guess. What will you do to be ready to combine it with a partner in the process?
G: What are you HAPPIEST with regarding your designs? What is it about them that you see as working SPECIFICALLY with the PAUL RAND ideas from last time?
G: 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
A: How DO you draw something in 3 dimensions? What are different techniques you know? What did you do successfully yesterday that you can continue with today? What is it you need to erase, change, resolve to make the drawing today even more successful.
G: What is one thing you are putting into your drawing of the 3D Forms that might be related to the ELEMENTS and PRINCIPLES as the building blocks of Art – things you really need to be aware of AS you are making art.
1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
How do you see yourself being able to use these kinds of skills, construction of an object like a book, in the future? X-Acto Knife, Drawing / Painting from Observation, Stiching… This is more than a one project lesson.
G: What are the challenges you had in the making of this book? Difficulties? Step by Step stuff? And hey… how do you feel about the final work? Let’s sit and write a reflection in pencil inside the book.
G: 7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
A: What do you need to do in order to make this logo design work in 3 ways? Letters Only, Words Only, an the COMBINATION MARK (and also the SYMBOL / ICON – 4 ways I guess. What will you do to be ready to combine it with a partner in the process?
G: What are you HAPPIEST with regarding your designs? What is it about them that you see as working SPECIFICALLY with the PAUL RAND ideas from last time?
G: 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
A: How DO you draw something in 3 dimensions? What are different techniques you know? What did you do successfully yesterday that you can continue with today? What is it you need to erase, change, resolve to make the drawing today even more successful? Know that we are going to be critiquing our metals work next time, so… you have a few things to work on today… 1) the metals work if you are not one, and 2) the remaining parts of the value scales – those are due next time also.
G: What is one thing you are putting into your drawing of the 3D Forms that might be related to the ELEMENTS and PRINCIPLES as the building blocks of Art – things you really need to be aware of AS you are making art. Are you coming in during enrichment period to work on anything? YES is the answer if you need to make the deadline for next time.
The Golden Mean and the Golden Rectangle: A : B as B:AB… 1:1.6 units. Frank Korb uses COMPOSITIONAL Approaches in his artwork too. It’s not just a teachery thing.
G: 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
A:Working on paper is different than working on the computer. Using a collection of FONTS that you have chosen you will find a wide variety of fonts that you enjoy and explore many different way of joining letters into positive and negative shapes (as well as adding a geometric or organic shape or two) in creating a Logo Design for yourself. This will take some time – be ready to SKETCH and EXPLORE ideas.
G: What did you come up with today? Share these ideas with your neighbor and explain what you enjoy about the work you have created.
#17 Drawing is About Mark Making “Every mark has a distinct character and quality.Every mark is a signature. Variations in pressure and weight is the visual equivalent of intonation. Marks, or lines, of consistent weight or thickness surrounding a figure or object will flatten the image. Tapering or breaking a line in a curve can connote a highlight or make the curve flow. Also, a tentative line will read as such. Give every mark or line authority and make sure it serves a purpose. Try to use only the marks you need.” 101 Things Learned in Art School, Kit White, 2011, MIT Press
G: 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
A: What techniques have you learned when it comes to draw something in 3 dimensions? What are different techniques you know? TODAY we are going to THUMBNAIL, talk, THUMBNAIL, talk and then next time – begin our drawing!
G: What is ONE thing you are CERTAIN you did successfully with your drawing today? What is ONE THING you are CERTAIN you need to focus on in order to create a more realistic / successfully accurate observation drawing next time?
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
What are you concerned about in regards to the BOOK MAKING PROCESS? This was a long lecture and demo last time… it is a lot to think about. Get your paintings out… sit down… turn to your neighbor and talk about the type of book you are going to be making and then, on page 10 – week 5 – write out your plans for TODAY ONLY! What are you hoping to get done today?
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?
G: 7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
A:What is individual about your logo that others will be able to look at and EASILY identify that as a logo for someone extraordinary – you?
G: How do you feel about the final design of your image? What is successful? What would you do differently? Will it fit on the side of a pen? Will it fit on the side of a blimp? Is it SCALABLE?
#17 Drawing is About Mark Making “Every mark has a distinct character and quality.Every mark is a signature. Variations in pressure and weight is the visual equivalent of intonation. Marks, or lines, of consistent weight or thickness surrounding a figure or object will flatten the image. Tapering or breaking a line in a curve can connote a highlight or make the curve flow. Also, a tentative line will read as such. Give every mark or line authority and make sure it serves a purpose. Try to use only the marks you need.” 101 Things Learned in Art School, Kit White, 2011, MIT Press
G: 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
A: What was the biggest challenge you found as you began to draw your objects last week – the wooden ones? Why was that so hard?
G: What are 2 difficulties that you had in your PERSPECTIVE drawings today? Remember – DRAWING IS A CHALLENGE – let it be!
Painting: Book Binding Instructions
Susan Messer Hand Made Book
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 painting experiences over the past weeks? What strengths did you see in your paintings? What challenges did you face going outside of the studio?
G: What are the difficult things you see in the process of making books? What style of book are you going to create? What supplies do you need to bring in so that you are ready to roll?
G: 7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
A: How are YOUR feelings towards fonts and images affecting those who look at your LOGO? What response might someone ELSE get as they look at your image?
G: What challenges did you have today with the conversation about the logos you have come up with SO FAR? What changes are you planning on making for next time? Describe the challenges you had in MOVING AWAY from the computer lab and working without technology? Remember to keep your images crisp and clean – so that the work can be made super large and super small and can also work in black and white.
Art With Korb 
