Author: fjkorb

Husband, Dad, Artist and Educator. I love making art, talking art, seeing art, and running.
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Week 14 – Welcome Back! We HAVE to get back to work…

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Impulse controlI can use multiple strategies to manage my emotions across settings

6th Grade: Ceramic Keepsake Boxes… What will YOUR BOX hold?

Lesson Plans

Clay Assignment HERE

Jennifer Alexander – Wisconsin Ceramicist – makes these WONDERFUL hand crafted boxes. What goes in them is entirely up to you. What are you going to put into YOUR keepsake box? We are planning this out today!

7th Grade: Neurographic Portraits – Color Schemes and Watercolor Techniques!

Henri Matisse. Portrait of Madame Matisse. (The green line). 1905. 40.5 x 32.5 cm. Oil and tempera on canvas. Statens Museum for Kunst.

What is YOUR color scheme going to be?

Lesson Plans

COLOR SCHEMES – HERE are examples of the 8 color schemes we are using. HERE is a better set of examples.

Experiments (below) with Watercolors are HERE. Are there MORE – Sure… this is what we start with. Work through it with WATERCOLORS!

  • Grab a WATER CUP and PAINT SET!
  • What do you know about COLOR SCHEMES?

Color Wheel HERE and ALONE

Neurographic Portrait in Watercolors – HERE

8th Grade Sculpture: Glazing for the Holidays… HAND THROWN WORKS (for most).

Lesson Plans

PLASTER HAND SCULPTURE ARTWORK PROJECT

  • Let’s pause from the Segal inspired Sculpture for the time and talk about GLAZING…
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Week 13 and Thanksgiving BREAK is this week so it’s a SHORT ONE.

HELLO! WELCOME to ArtWithKorb.com. If you want to ALWAYS SEE what is happening the SUNDAY before it happens – SUBSCRIBE.

Impulse controlI can use multiple strategies to manage my emotions across settings

6th Grade: Ceramic Keepsake Boxes… What will YOUR BOX hold?

Lesson Plans

Clay Assignment HERE

Jennifer Alexander – Wisconsin Ceramicist – makes these WONDERFUL hand crafted boxes. What goes in them is entirely up to you. What are you going to put into YOUR keepsake box? We are planning this out today!

7th Grade: Neurographic Portraits – Color Schemes and Watercolor Techniques!

Lesson Plans

COLOR SCHEMES – HERE are examples of the 8 color schemes we are using. HERE is a better set of examples.

Experiments (below) with Watercolors are HERE. Are there MORE – Sure… this is what we start with. Work through it with WATERCOLORS!

  • Grab a WATER CUP and PAINT SET!
  • What do you know about COLOR SCHEMES?

Color Wheel HERE and ALONE

Neurographic Portrait in Watercolors – HERE

8th Grade Sculpture: George Segal and Plaster Sculpture – PREP WORK and PLANNING

Lesson Plans

PLASTER HAND SCULPTURE ARTWORK PROJECT

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    Week 12 and the making of GREAT ART continues – DO NOT LOSE STEAM!

    HELLO! WELCOME to ArtWithKorb.com. If you want to ALWAYS SEE what is happening the SUNDAY before it happens – SUBSCRIBE. Now…

    Accurate self-perceptionI can use my knowledge of my strengths, weaknesses and future hopes to set a goal and plan to make positive change.

    6th Grade: What are you doing with PHOTOGRAPHY differently now than when we first started this project? How has it changed your approach?

    Lesson Plans

    Cindy Sherman – An American Photographer FAMOUS for recreating famous works of art, movie scenes, and using herself in costume as the focal point.

    Photography Assignment HERE

    Clay Assignment HERE

    7th Grade: Neurographic Portraits – Color Schemes and Watercolor Techniques!

    Lesson Plans

    COLOR SCHEMES – HERE are examples of the 5 color schemes we are using. HERE is a better set of examples.

    PRINT THIS Mr. KORB and Work through it with WATERCOLORS!

    • Grab a WATER CUP and PAINT SET!
    • What do you know about COLOR SCHEMES?

    Color Wheel HERE and ALONE

    Neurographic Portrait in Watercolors – HERE

    8th Grade Sculpture: Assessment TIME for the WHEEL!

    Lesson Plans

    Kiln Guardian Lesson – 2 Day Work to allow for finishing up for others AND to protect the firings in the kiln.

    • Florian Gatsby’s List of videos – 12 Videos – Above
    • Earth Nation Ceramics List of Beginner’s Videos HERE – 30 TOTAL but you don’t need them all. – Below
    • Worksheet on Totems – HERE
    • Techniques
      • Slab
      • Coil
      • Pinch
      • Sculpt
      • Wheel
    • Clay Use
      • Covering it during work time to keep it moist
      • Recycling it at the end of the class if it is too dry – MENARDS BUCKET in back or front of studio for recycling
      • Storage in BOXES and BAGS for safekeeping between classes.
      • Foam Mats to work on – wipe them down and stack them up on BACK WORK TABLE (under the paint brush color wheel).
    • CLEANING UP
      • Wipe off all tools to remove extra clay
      • All extra clay goes in bucket or bags
      • No clay should go down the drain
      • 6 buckets and 6 sponges for washing tables are available – each table is responsible for their own work space.
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    11 weeks in… 8 more to go! SO MUCH TO DO!

    HELLO! WELCOME to ArtWithKorb.com. If you want to ALWAYS SEE what is happening the SUNDAY before it happens – SUBSCRIBE. Now…

    Recognizing Strengths, Self-confidence, Self-efficacyI can use my knowledge of my strengths, weaknesses and future hopes to set a goal and plan to make positive change.

    6th Grade: Photos are a part of our DAILY existence. We make more photos in a day that were made… well it seems like ever. Let’s learn to make them STRONGER photos and BETTER images.

    Lesson Plans

    Somehow, I don’t think Anakin would have even pushed Luke or Leia on a swing. Unless it was made of light sabers!

    Photography Assignment HERE

    7th Grade: Neurographic Portraits – Let us work with the FACE and the SELF and see what we can come up with!

    Lesson Plans

    What is happening in this portrait by David Najib Kasir that is the SAME as the ideas that a CONTINUOUS LINE portrait would use?

    Neurographic Portrait in Watercolors – HERE

    8th Grade Sculpture: Kiln Guardians and WRAPPING UP the Wheel and Totem Inspired Sculptures.

    Lesson Plans

    Kiln Guardian Lesson – 2 Day Work to allow for finishing up for others AND to protect the firings in the kiln.

    Who wouldn’t want a little extra protection in the kiln? Let us try and follow some specific guidelines and make our OWN kiln guardians! Just for fun of course (or is it?). Image from Martie Geiger-Ho PhD’s The Worship of Kiln Gods: From the Temples of China to the Studios of Western Potters – Available on Amazon HERE and a PDF Article HERE and another one HERE.

    Your tools and the wheel should look like this when you BEGIN and are DONE

    • Florian Gatsby’s List of videos – 12 Videos – Above
    • Earth Nation Ceramics List of Beginner’s Videos HERE – 30 TOTAL but you don’t need them all. – Below
    • Worksheet on Totems – HERE
    • Techniques
      • Slab
      • Coil
      • Pinch
      • Sculpt
      • Wheel
    • Clay Use
      • Covering it during work time to keep it moist
      • Recycling it at the end of the class if it is too dry – MENARDS BUCKET in back or front of studio for recycling
      • Storage in BOXES and BAGS for safekeeping between classes.
      • Foam Mats to work on – wipe them down and stack them up on BACK WORK TABLE (under the paint brush color wheel).
    • CLEANING UP
      • Wipe off all tools to remove extra clay
      • All extra clay goes in bucket or bags
      • No clay should go down the drain
      • 6 buckets and 6 sponges for washing tables are available – each table is responsible for their own work space.
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    Welcome to 2nd Quarter – Where did the first 9 weeks go?

    HELLO?! Are you NEW to Art With Korb? Have you been with me for a while – 14 years? Regardless… WELCOME to ArtWithKorb.com. If you want to ALWAYS SEE what is happening the SUNDAY before it happens – SUBSCRIBE. Now…

    Recognizing Strengths, Self-confidence, Self-efficacyI can use my knowledge of my strengths, weaknesses and future hopes to set a goal and plan to make positive change.

    6th Grade: Photography – We are going to speed things up QUITE a bit – What is a photo that you think of when STRONG photography comes to mind?

    Lesson Plans

    Photography Assignment HERE

    Steve McCurry took this famous photograph during a trip to Afghanistan in 1984 to document the migration of Afghan refugees. This picture of 17-year-old Sharbat Gula was taken in the refugee camp of Nasir Bagh. It became the symbol of the Afghan struggle and was featured on the front page of the National Geographic newspaper in June 1985.

    7th Grade: Resolve the Inspirational Posters

    Lesson Plans

    You have researched messages you would like to hear yourself and messages you would offer up to a friend. This is the beginning!

    PHOTOSHOP ASSIGNMENT – HERE

    • Know about working with a partner and portraits
    • Know about PHOTOSHOP and LAYERS
    • Know about process and art making
    • Know about use of:
      • technology,
      • CREATIVE COMMONS imagery

    8th Grade Sculpture: Resolve the Totem Inspired Sculpture in the round. One more week on the WHEEL and… more to come…

    Lesson Plans

    Your tools and the wheel should look like this when you BEGIN and are DONE

    • Florian Gatsby’s List of videos – 12 Videos – Above
    • Earth Nation Ceramics List of Beginner’s Videos HERE – 30 TOTAL but you don’t need them all. – Below
    • Worksheet on Totems – HERE
    • Techniques
      • Slab
      • Coil
      • Pinch
      • Sculpt
      • Wheel
    • Clay Use
      • Covering it during work time to keep it moist
      • Recycling it at the end of the class if it is too dry – MENARDS BUCKET in back or front of studio for recycling
      • Storage in BOXES and BAGS for safekeeping between classes.
      • Foam Mats to work on – wipe them down and stack them up on BACK WORK TABLE (under the paint brush color wheel).
    • CLEANING UP
      • Wipe off all tools to remove extra clay
      • All extra clay goes in bucket or bags
      • No clay should go down the drain
      • 6 buckets and 6 sponges for washing tables are available – each table is responsible for their own work space.
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    Happy 14th Birthday ART WITH KORB! 2010

    HELLO?! Are you NEW to Art With Korb? Have you been with me for a while – 14 years? Regardless… WELCOME to ArtWithKorb.com. If you want to ALWAYS SEE what is happening the SUNDAY before it happens – SUBSCRIBE. Now…

    “Art isn’t a luxury. Art is a necessity.” Alvaro Barrington

    Recognizing Strengths, Self-confidence, Self-efficacyI can use my knowledge of my strengths, weaknesses and future hopes to set a goal and plan to make positive change.

    6th Grade: Perspective and Watercolors. Wrap up the FINAL WATERCOLOR, Fine Tip Marker to DEFINE EDGES (if you want), Mount to mounting paper, Name Tags, Display! Not much to do…

    Lesson Plans

    Works from 2023 – This is where we are headed this week.

    REMEMBER… AS YOU PAINT:

    • Work LARGE to SMALL
    • Work SLOWLY
    • Use all of the brushes you have… small for small, big for bigger.
    • Wait for parts of the painting to DRY before you keep going
    • Think about TEXTURE
      • I’ve brought SALT in to add some texture
      • Try paper towel to add texture
      • What else can you do?
    • TAKE YOUR TIME!

    7th Grade: PHOTOSHOP and PORTRAITS and LAYERS!

    Lesson Plans

    Philippe Hugonnard – Art.com – His use of Photoshop (or other technology) to create the SPOT COLOR… this is where we are going. Not New York but the spot colors.

    What messages INSPIRE you? HERE is ONE (of a million places) to start looking…

    • Don’t Let Anyone Dull Your Sparkle
    • I Always Choose Love
    • I Am Enough
    • Wherever You Are, Be All There
    • I Have Everything I Need
    • Choose Your Attitude
    • Be There
    • PLAY!
    • Make Their Day!

    You have researched messages you would like to hear yourself and messages you would offer up to a friend. This is the beginning!

    PHOTOSHOP ASSIGNMENT – HERE

    • Know about working with a partner and portraits
    • Know about PHOTOSHOP and LAYERS
    • Know about process and art making
    • Know about use of:
      • technology,
      • CREATIVE COMMONS imagery

    8th Grade Sculpture: WHEEL THROWING and Totem Inspired Sculpture in the round. Are you ready for the struggle?

    Lesson Plans

    Art Teacher Julie Sanderl and her Kapa’a Middle School Art Students finish their TIKI SCULPTURES with either a PURE WHITE or a NATURAL BROWN blaze. What are you going to think about using for your glaze as you emphasize the 3D FORM and COLOR and TEXTURE in your sculpture in the round?

    • Florian Gatsby’s List of videos – 12 Videos – Above
    • Earth Nation Ceramics List of Beginner’s Videos HERE – 30 TOTAL but you don’t need them all. – Below
    • Worksheet on Totems – HERE
    • Techniques
      • Slab
      • Coil
      • Pinch
      • Sculpt
      • Wheel
    • Clay Use
      • Covering it during work time to keep it moist
      • Recycling it at the end of the class if it is too dry – MENARDS BUCKET in back or front of studio for recycling
      • Storage in BOXES and BAGS for safekeeping between classes.
      • Foam Mats to work on – wipe them down and stack them up on BACK WORK TABLE (under the paint brush color wheel).
    • CLEANING UP
      • Wipe off all tools to remove extra clay
      • All extra clay goes in bucket or bags
      • No clay should go down the drain
      • 6 buckets and 6 sponges for washing tables are available – each table is responsible for their own work space.
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    Week 8! The end of the first quarter is almost here… and we still have a ton of work to do.

    HELLO?! Are you NEW to Art With Korb? Have you been with me for a while? Regardless… WELCOME to ArtWithKorb.com. If you want to ALWAYS SEE what is happening the SUNDAY before it happens – SUBSCRIBE. Now…

    “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

    AND “As IMPORTANT as MAKING mistakes is, it is equally important to LEARN from those mistakes” – Frank Korb

    Impulse control I can use multiple strategies to manage my emotions across settings.

    6th Grade: Perspective and Watercolors. Assess the drawing – one on one and BEGIN FINAL WATERCOLOR

    Lesson Plans

    Van Gogh’s Street Cafe One Point Perspective Interior

    AS YOU PAINT…

    • Work LARGE to SMALL
    • Work SLOWLY
    • Wait for parts of the painting to DRY before you keep going
    • Think about TEXTURE
      • I’ve brought SALT in to add some texture
      • Try paper towel to add texture
      • What else can you do?
    • TAKE YOUR TIME!

    7th Grade: PHOTOSHOP and PORTRAITS and LAYERS! – We are leaving this up for the week! GREAT EXAMPLE!

    Lesson Plans

    What messages INSPIRE you? HERE is ONE (of a million places) to start looking…

    • Don’t Let Anyone Dull Your Sparkle
    • I Always Choose Love
    • I Am Enough
    • Wherever You Are, Be All There
    • I Have Everything I Need
    • Choose Your Attitude
    • Be There
    • PLAY!
    • Make Their Day!

    You will be researching messages you would like to hear to yourself and messages you would offer up to a friend. This is the beginning!

    NEW PHOTOSHOP ASSIGNMENT – HERE

    • Know about working with a partner and portraits
    • Know about PHOTOSHOP and LAYERS
    • Know about process and art making
    • Know about use of:
      • technology,
      • CREATIVE COMMONS imagery

    8th Grade Sculpture: WHEEL THROWING and Totem Inspired Sculpture in the round…

    Lesson Plans

    • Florian Gatsby’s List of videos – 12 Videos – Above
    • Earth Nation Ceramics List of Beginner’s Videos HERE – 30 TOTAL but you don’t need them all. – Below
    • Worksheet on Totems – HERE
    • Techniques
      • Slab
      • Coil
      • Pinch
      • Sculpt
      • Wheel
    • Clay Use
      • Covering it during work time to keep it moist
      • Recycling it at the end of the class if it is too dry – MENARDS BUCKET in back or front of studio for recycling
      • Storage in BOXES and BAGS for safekeeping between classes.
      • Foam Mats to work on – wipe them down and stack them up on BACK WORK TABLE (under the paint brush color wheel).
    • CLEANING UP
      • Wipe off all tools to remove extra clay
      • All extra clay goes in bucket or bags
      • No clay should go down the drain
      • 6 buckets and 6 sponges for washing tables are available – each table is responsible for their own work space.
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    Week 7? This quarter is truly FLYING along…

    WELCOME to ArtWithKorb.com If you want to ALWAYS SEE what is happening the SUNDAY before it happens – SUBSCRIBE. Now…

    Appreciating DiversityI can describe the importance of building relationships between diverse groups of people.

    6th Grade: Perspective and Watercolors – Time for the FINAL SUMMATIVE ARTWORK! Let’s Begin!

    Lesson Plans

    Van Gogh’s Bedroom at Arles One Point Perspective Interior

    Google Assignment One Point Perspective

    7th Grade: PHOTOSHOP and PORTRAITS and LAYERS! – We are leaving this up for the week! GREAT EXAMPLE!

    Lesson Plans

    Andy Warhol, Ethel Scull 36 Times, 1963, © 2020 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

    Portrait assignment and LAYERS are HERE.

    NEW PHOTOSHOP ASSIGNMENT – HERE

    • Know about working with a partner and portraits
    • K ow about PHOTOSHOP and LAYERS
    • Know about process and art making
    • Know about use of technology and the computer and the camera

    8th Grade Sculpture: Totem Inspired Sculpture in the round

    Lesson Plans

    • Worksheet on Totems – HERE
    • Techniques
      • Slab
      • Coil
      • Pinch
      • Sculpt
      • Wheel
    • Clay Use
      • Covering it during work time to keep it moist
      • Recycling it at the end of the class if it is too dry – MENARDS BUCKET in back or front of studio for recycling
      • Storage in BOXES and BAGS for safekeeping between classes.
      • Foam Mats to work on – wipe them down and stack them up on BACK WORK TABLE (under the paint brush color wheel).
    • CLEANING UP
      • Wipe off all tools to remove extra clay
      • All extra clay goes in bucket or bags
      • No clay should go down the drain
      • 6 buckets and 6 sponges for washing tables are available – each table is responsible for their own work space.
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    Week 6: Funny how FAST things move in the ART WORLD… Week 6 and we are just wrapping up the first artwork. Moving along…

    WELCOME to ArtWithKorb.com If you want to ALWAYS SEE what is happening the SUNDAY before it happens – SUBSCRIBE. Now…

    Accurate self-perceptionI can use self-reflection to understand how my personal values influence my decisions.

    6th Grade: Perspective and Watercolors – Time for the FINAL SUMMATIVE ARTWORK! Let’s Begin!

    Lesson Plans

    Google Assignment One Point Perspective

    7th Grade: PHOTOSHOP and PORTRAITS and LAYERS!

    Lesson Plans

    Andy Warhol, Ethel Scull 36 Times, 1963, © 2020 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

    Portrait assignment and LAYERS are HERE.

    NEW PHOTOSHOP ASSIGNMENT – HERE

      • Know about working with a partner and portraits
      • K ow about PHOTOSHOP and LAYERS
      • Know about process and art making
      • Know about use of technology and the computer and the camera

      8th Grade Sculpture: CLAYMATION and iMovie… we are almost done. We STILL need to clean up our sets.

      Lesson Plans

      Claymation and Stop Motion Photography – Let’s KEEP THIS THE SAME for one more week as we are still in the process of the photography. The uploading of the work to the computers is REALLY IMPORTANT – do not forget to stay focused and upload at the end of class.

      • Know about the process of STOP MOTION Photography and Filmmaking
      • Know about iMovie on Macintosh Computers
      • Know about GROUP WORK and RESPONSIBILITY of doing one’s share
      • Know about the use of CLAY – Create a ceramic work
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      Week 5: We are approaching the HALFWAY POINT to the first quarter. How do you feel about the making of art at this point?

      WELCOME to ArtWithKorb.com If you want to ALWAYS SEE what is happening the SUNDAY before it happens – SUBSCRIBE. Now…

      Recognizing Strengths, Self-confidence, Self-efficacy I can use my knowledge of my strengths, weaknesses and future hopes to set a goal and plan to make positive change.

      #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

      6th Grade: Perspective – Time for the FINAL SUMMATIVE ARTWORK!.

      Lesson Plans

      1. Know about rules of perspective
      2. Know about horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines

      Google Assignment One Point Perspective

      7th Grade: Photography, Composition and UPLOADING in the COMPUTER LAB – EDIT and PRINT the images! Keep thinking about COMPOSITION!

      Lesson Plans

      Photography ASSIGNMENT HERE and NEW PHOTOSHOP ASSIGNMENT – HERE

        • Know about process and art making
        • Know about use of technology and the computer and the camera
        • Know about Portraits, Landscape and Architecture, Foodie Photography

        Layers and Portraits – We will PRINT THESE and then onto more layers of Photoshop and Filters. Be patient with the process…

        8th Grade Sculpture: CLAYMATION and iMovie… we are almost done. We STILL need to clean.

        Lesson Plans

        Claymation and Stop Motion Photography – Let’s KEEP THIS THE SAME for one more week as we are still in the process of the photography. The uploading of the work to the computers is REALLY IMPORTANT – do not forget to stay focused and upload at the end of class.

        • Know about the process of STOP MOTION Photography and Filmmaking
        • Know about iMovie on Macintosh Computers
        • Know about GROUP WORK and RESPONSIBILITY of doing one’s share
        • Know about the use of CLAY – Create a ceramic work