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Husband, Dad, Artist and Educator. I love making art, talking art, seeing art, and running.
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4 1/2 Days Left – Ok – Let’s Make #ART

#20 “Clear sight makes clear art.” Observation lies at the heart of the art process. Whether your art derives from mimicking nature or extrapolating a mental construct, your powers of observation are critical. Unless you can see what lies before you, you cannot describe it. Train yourself to eliminate preconceptions and received understandings when observing anything. Try to see what is before you, not what you think you see or want to see.  Kit White 101 Things to Learn in Art School

Edward Hopper Chop Suey: Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9254357
Edward Hopper Chop Suey: Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9254357

Drawing: CRIT!

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.

Looking at the still life in front of you, what is the one aspect of it that you are most pleased with? Why are you so pleased with how you handled the materials and composition? What do you need to TOUCH UP TODAY! Crit Tomorrow!

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Time To Critique: http://www.artic.edu/sites/default/files/styles/slideshow_scale/public/cal_TP_crit_360.png?itok=AhqbYJZS

What was it that you took away from today’s critique? How did you contribute to the success of the conversation?

Studio Art 360: Paint – Let’s get this thing done this week!

7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.

What colors are you going to be using in this portrait? What IS your color scheme and what colors are you going to be using? This is important to know as you begin – PLANNING is essential here!

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Andy Warhol and Marilyn: http://www.georgetownframeshoppe.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/m/a/marilyn36.jpg

What are your thoughts about this as the work is developing as a work of art? This is the VERY BEGINNING of the process – how do you feel about the work? 3 ideas please.

AP Studio Art: Let’s INDIVIDUALLY LOOK at your pages.

2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.

What have your previous works of art been this year and how have you been planning the NEW and Important ideas out for your work based on the work of the residents of Waterford Senior Living? HOW DOES INSPIRATION FROM OTHERS WORK HELP or CHALLENGE YOU?

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Strong Student AP Concentration Work: http://www.ichenartacademy.com/uploads/9/1/6/7/9167260/phoebe-concentration_1_orig.png

What ideas have you come up with? What materials are you using that help you to challenge yourself? How does it fit into your current body of work?  How does it REACH OUT into NEW IDEAS? Strong Student Work:

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#Friday already? Woah – Where did the #StudioTime go?

If you don’t like change, you’ll like irrelevance even less” General Eric Shinseki

Drawing: This is IT folks – Last day of DRAWING for the STILL LIFE

2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.

Last day in class – do you need to make photographs of your objects to help you work over the weekend? How many drawings have you got going? We are critiquing them on Monday – Get ready to TALK.

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Coffee, Spoon, Tomato – Fred Bell: https://i.pinimg.com/236x/15/50/fd/1550fd03f1720b49da4353aea07e2fa5–coffee-spoon-tomatoes.jpg

What do you need to do in order to wrap things up for Monday? Excellent job with your Observational skills. Let’s take one more day to polish up the ideas. You’ll talk about 3 of the drawings (maybe 4)… How many have you drawn?

Studio Art 360: Let the PAINTING continue! CLEAN UP THOSE BRUSHES!

7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environment.

How much of your drawing have you got covered? What GOALS do you have for the drawing today? DO NOT RUSH – Keep an EYE on the LINES and EDGES. I suggest taking it home to finish the lines for MONDAY.

Andy Warhol and HIMSELF: http://artknowledgenews.com/files2009b/Andy_Warhol_Strangulation.jpg
Andy Warhol and HIMSELF: http://artknowledgenews.com/files2009b/Andy_Warhol_Strangulation.jpg

Thick and Thin – How are the lines covering the canvas as an underdrawing of the the painting?

AP Studio Art: What can I do to HELP you with your WEBSITES / PHOTOGRAPHS?

Research and Information Fluency – Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.

What problems are you having with the BLOG / WordPress program – uploading? Writing? Maneuvering around the site?

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Frank Gehry in the Studio LOOKING and THINKING about the work in front of him… how are you doing with that? https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/55e7/004d/4d8d/5d0b/c000/1305/large_jpg/facebook-new-campus-frank-gehry_04everett-katigbak-facebook.jpg?1441202245

What do you need to do in order to have ALL your work (made so far this year) photographed, edited, and uploaded to the website?

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Thursday is a #GoodDay to #MakeArt in the #Studio

If you don’t like change, you’ll like irrelevance even less” General Eric Shinseki

Drawing: 2 Days Left

2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.

How did the critique from LAST WEEK FRIDAY help you see your work in a new way? What are you doing to FULLY ACTIVATE THE BACKGROUND?

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Cherries – Fred Bell: https://i.pinimg.com/236x/f6/2f/5b/f62f5b81138be08b46c4167c35d7fdd7–fred-leveon-bell.jpg

What do you WANT to do to tie these works together? YOUR VOICE? Is it coming through?

Studio Art 360: Paint (and finish the glaze)

7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.

What colors are you THINKING about using in this portrait? What will your color scheme be and what colors are you going to be using?

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Warhol and the Portrait of Marilyn: http://www.que.es/archivos/201208/4745013w-640x640x80.jpg

What struggles are you having with this drawing / beginning of the painting so far? This is DUE at the end of NEXT week. DO NOT RUSH.

AP Studio Art: Computer Work? Photography? Website? Finish the Concentration from LAST WEEK?

Research and Information Fluency – Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.

How have you been able to use the NEW skills you’ve developed this year and create a STRONG BODY of CONCENTRATION works? How are you being interested in the CONCENTRATION work that you are creating? How do you see your works as a whole as you are photographing and uploading your images?

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Helen Frankenthaller: http://www.raneytown.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/3455854_slideshow.jpeg

Knowing that you are working on your concentration works and STRONG IDEAS with SKILL Building ideas, how are you advancing the ideas of the ARTIST’S JOB? (Or would you like to draw / make JUST TO MAKE ART TO CHALLENGE YOURSELF)?

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#LateStart #Wednesday – HALF THE TIME – TWICE THE WORK

If you don’t like change, you’ll like irrelevance even less” General Eric Shinseki

Drawing: WORK for a HALF HOUR – WORK!

2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.

Final Crit MONDAY – What skills are you looking to develop?

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FRED BELL tomatoes: https://i.pinimg.com/236x/a1/61/05/a161050a5a3643b8599ba3abe031c239–fred-tomatoes.jpg

What feedback did you take away from Friday’s MID CRIT that you see being put to use today? Critique?

Studio Art 360: Glaze and DIP Glaze too. Portraits! Color Schemes.

1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.

What struggles did you have in the glazing of your work yesterday? How can you avoid that today?

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Dipping for the final coat of glaze – CLEAR coat and COLORED Coats: https://s3.amazonaws.com/amacobrent/projects/images/169/large_Screen_Shot_2015-09-01_at_9.03.11_PM.png?1441155817

How do you feel about the sculpture / artwork as you have now finished glazing it? What do you hope to do with it when you get it back in a week?

AP Studio Art: Work and Work and WORK some more!

Research and Information Fluency – Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.

Looking at the AP Rubric and Standards – how are you using traditional (or better) BREAKING contemporary art making practices? Please give 2 specifics.

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Keith Haring (He’s Coming Up in the near future with Scholastic Arts). https://d2jv9003bew7ag.cloudfront.net/uploads/Keith-Haring-via-artreport-com.jpg

While we HAVE NOT EMPHASIZED this… How much work have you photographed, edited, and uploaded to the computer?  How can I help you?

 

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#Working in the #Studio – #StillLife, #Glazing, #Critique

If you don’t like change, you’ll like irrelevance even less” General Eric Shinseki

Drawing: 4 days to work in class

2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.

Biggest things you need to work on before MONDAY and TUESDAY’s FINAL crit?

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Fred Bell and his MULTIPLE OBJECTS in the still life. https://saimg-a.akamaihd.net/saatchi/13404/art/3946714/additional_0a5b90189af2fb3a04aff952190e791896652dcd-7.jpg

Draw – Colored Pencil – Keep working. G:What strengths are you needing to continue to work on? Is it a technique? Is it a studio habit?

Studio Art 360: Under-glazes 3 coats – WORK! We Have Got To Get It DONE!

1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.

What struggles did you have in the glazing of your work yesterday? How can you avoid that today?

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Dag Studios: http://www.dagworks.com/classes/glazing.jpg

How do you feel about the sculpture / artwork as you have now finished glazing it? What do you hope to do with it when you get it back in a week?

AP Studio Art: Crit Day 2

4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.

What are you doing to move your artwork FORWARD and develop a sense of investigation? Concentration?

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AP Readers “reading the QUALITY” portion of the portfolio: http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/assets_c/2013/06/APArt2_400%20(2)-thumb-420×236-5362.jpg

No more reflection today. Are you done with your uploads? Are you done with your artist statement and modifying it to be written with the newest works to comment on? Are you ready to make photographs of the breadth work and other concentration works? 

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#Monday of Week 15 – The #Holiday’s Art Coming!

If you don’t like change, you’ll like irrelevance even less” General Eric Shinseki

Drawing: Week of DRAWING your objects!

2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.

Look at your series – What are your thoughts about your techniques / compositions?

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Fred Bell – PEAR! https://fredbell.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/image2.jpeg?w=616

What are you happiest with in regard to your drawings? What are the lessons learned as you create a series of works versus one at a time?

Studio Art 360: Glaze and Finish the Ceramics Work

1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.

How do you feel about the ceramic work of art in front of you? Name on the rubric – begin to evaluate the sculpting process – hand in the rubric to begin to glaze the work – DEMO TIME TOO

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Glazing your FACE! http://www.glazedexpectations.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Photo-May-21-4-58-49-PM-1030×1030.jpg

What went well today? What was a struggle?

AP Studio Art: CRIT!

4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.

What are your answers to your AP Online uploads? Are they concise? Are they thorough? Do they answer the questions effectively?

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Are you developing your body of work? How so? http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EVF4LtJ7qyA/T6xHtPpJFII/AAAAAAAAEoQ/xHQWFnaKQKc/s1600/110520122437.jpg

Are you ready for TUESDAY? Both online and on mounting boards?

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#Friday? #What! Yes… It is Friday.

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good…” Ira Glass

Drawing: Mid Critique

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.

What are 3 things you would like to hear about your work that you feel would help you with your drawing(s).

Get your handbooks and turn to p23. As the artist:

  1. Speak about your objects and why you chose them.
  2. Speak about 2 challenges you are having currently and WHY you are struggling.
  3. Speak about 2 successes that are new to you in this drawing series.

Listen to each person and write down, in full sentences, the comments they make about your work. As a critic:

  1. Speak about the areas of their work that are successful and WHY you see it as a success.
  2. Speak about the an area of their work that you see is in need of attention and HOW they might be able to overcome the issue or WHY you feel there is a struggle in the work.

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Crit. G: What are 3 things that you took away from the critique today? Write it out as to help yourself move forward.

Studio Art 360:

3.1P: Apply relevant criteria from traditional and contemporary cultural contexts to examine, reflect on, and plan revisions for works of art and design in progress.

What are the biggest challenges that you see facing you today in the process of enlarging the photographs? Are you about ready to begin the painting process?

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What challenges did you face today in the gridding out of the portrait? Are you ready to begin the painting part of the process?

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AP Studio Art: Monday – CRITIQUE / Helen Frankenthaller / Photography this coming week.

2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.

Thinking about the work that you are doing… what are the visual skills that you feels you are developing? how has this year been beneficial to you so far?

 

Richard Estes in his Studio: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4gF6YuGUwVM/TM3EJh44G_I/AAAAAAAAP6g/TUh2l6hbE_w/s320/rich+estes+port.jpg

What is the ONE SKILL that you feel would be worth your time to continue to FOCUS and CONCENTRATE on? CRITIQUE on MONDAY! Richard Estes Working:

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#Making #Art as the #Week #Ends – #Thursday in the #Studio

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good…” Ira Glass

Drawing: Tomorrow – MID CRIT – What do you have to show?

2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.

What skills do you want to demonstrate as we prepare for the mid-crit for tomorrow.

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Fred Bell : https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wSxmce88u2Y/WBP1-gWb0zI/AAAAAAAAEVk/KarrZZchi-InsTs3WASwutM7pEEs91KBgCPcB/s1600/IMG_1288.JPG

Take a look at the FIRST portion of the back of the rubric and fill out the EXECUTION portion of it.

Studio Art 360: The GRID and your CANVAS

3.1P: Apply relevant criteria from traditional and contemporary cultural contexts to examine, reflect on, and plan revisions for works of art and design in progress.

What challenges did you have in the finding of SHAPE in the portrait? Talk for 2.67 minutes to your table about the process.

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Alex Katz’s Ted Barrigan. Portrait: https://assets.paddle8.com/media/editorial/entry/1452526259-alex-katz-ted-berrigan.jpeg

How have you begun to transfer the images to the canvas? Success? Not as much? Why? Explain.

AP Studio Art: Concentration – Mid Crit on Monday? Sketchbook Looks on Friday.

Research and Information Fluency – Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.

What problems are you having with the BLOG / WordPress program – uploading? Writing? Maneuvering around the site?

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Sam Francis in the studio – Look at ALL THE WORKS! http://www.samfrancis.com/images/samfrancis/Portraits/Zoom/sam_francis_untitled_1992cf.jpg

What do you need to do in order to have ALL your work (made so far this year) photographed, edited, and uploaded to the website?

 

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#Wednesday and we’ve got a lot of #ART to make. #Grids #StillLife #Concentration

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good…” Ira Glass

Drawing: Fred Bell and YOU

2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.

How is the work developing? REMEMBER – Friday of THIS WEEK as a MID-CRIT! N: Mark making and process over product. Emphasize the ideas of the mark making and observation.

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Fred Bell Still Life – Small group of fruit: https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yo1W3evh5u0/WV_3KI2LOiI/AAAAAAAAF0w/Wj8M58Q98jED4eodd4wev_7y_2utn9ACACLcBGAs/s1600/315%2B2%2BRed%252C%2BOne%2BYellow.jpg

Progress? 3 points of progress please.

Studio Art 360: CHUCK CLOSE and the GRID

1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.

How is BREAKING the image down to basic shapes going to make the process of creating a memorable and successful work of art easier?

 

 

What challenges did you have today with the transferring of the portrait up to the canvas? Two struggles?

AP Studio Art: CONCENTRATE – Really concentrate on the work.

1.2Ad: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices, following or breaking established conventions, to plan the making of multiple works of art and design based on a theme, idea, or concept.

Scholastic Assignment

How have you been able to use the NEW skills you’ve developed this year and create a STRONG BODY of CONCENTRATION works? How are you being interested in the CONCENTRATION work that you are creating?

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Anne Truit Working in her Studio: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/0a/9f/14/0a9f141ebe665bf14ad9cd47fcae4723–anne-washington-dc.jpg

 

Knowing that you are working on your concentration works and STRONG IDEAS with SKILL Building ideas, how are you advancing the ideas of the ARTIST’S JOB? (Or would you like to draw / make JUST TO MAKE ART TO CHALLENGE YOURSELF)?

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#Tuesday in the #ArtStudio

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good…” Ira Glass and then lead into the video.

Drawing: Still Life Work Time

2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.

How is the work developing? Let’s look at FRIDAY of THIS WEEK as a small group student led MID-CRIT! Make sure you prep your second / third / fourth board today so that it is ready to roll tomorrow. A skill to develop is to have multiple works at the same time. Good artist skill to learn and work on.

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Fred Bell FOUR OBJECTS ONE piece of PAPER: https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-po7P8yJjkCo/WXgGxsl9M3I/AAAAAAAAF2k/KvycvIW8qcgYNAq4uJ8DllC0072zK9XMACK4BGAYYCw/s1600/DK1.jpg

Progress? 3 points of progress please.

Studio Art 360: Sketchbooks – Let’s TALK!

7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.

What do you think the PROCESS is going to be in how we DUPLICATE the image over to the canvas?

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Roy Lichtenstein: WHAAM! https://youtu.be/V0xS6z5FvEg

Andy Warhol at MoMA.

Andy Warhol and Color Schemes: http://www.moma.org/wp/moma_learning/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Warhol.-Self-Portrait-393x395.jpg

Andy Warhol and Color Schemes: http://www.moma.org/wp/moma_learning/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Warhol.-Self-Portrait-393×395.jpg

What part of the process of tracing and transferring the image up to the canvas did you struggle with? Name 2 things that were challenging.

AP Studio Art: Concentration – GET TO IT!

1.2Ad: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices, following or breaking established conventions, to plan the making of multiple works of art and design based on a theme, idea, or concept.

Looking at the NATIONAL STANDARDS (above) how are you using traditional (or better) BREAKING contemporary art making practices? Please give 2 specifics.

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Lee Krasner at Work in HER studio: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SbAKEDgYZVI/T_-hh9LUU1I/AAAAAAAAAD8/L4Ap3GDHKNE/s1600/pollack-lee+krasner+wife+cubism.jp

While we HAVE NOT EMPHASIZED this… How much work have you photographed, edited, and uploaded to the computer? How can I help you