Author: fjkorb

Husband, Dad, Artist and Educator. I love making art, talking art, seeing art, and running.
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TWO DAYS of SOLID #ArtMaking in #Studio123

Morandi Still Life: http://labrouge.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/due-inglesi-al-mambo-studio-of-giorgio-morandi-bologna-labrouge.jpg

Woah – I am GONE. You are really going to be working today. Watch my video and get yourself focused on the task at hand.

Drawing: Nests

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

What skills are you looking to further develop based on the conversation from the Mid-Crit Yesterday?

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Nests: http://www.juliahargreaves.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Birds-Nest-3-1024×682.jpg

What feedback did you take away from today’s critique? How will you put that forth as you continue tomorrow?

Studio Art 360: Still Life

1.1P: Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.

Take a LONG HARD LOOK at your composition. What is happening with the FIGURE? The GROUND? The POSITIVE SPACE? The NEGATIVE SPACE?

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Morandi Still Life: http://labrouge.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/due-inglesi-al-mambo-studio-of-giorgio-morandi-bologna-labrouge.jpg

How have you worked today on the ideas of the positive and negative space? What are you doing to RESOLVE the image for Friday / Monday?

Advanced Drawing: 50 SoP

7. Stretch & Explore: Learning to reach beyond one’s capacities, to explore playfully without a preconceived plan, and to embrace the opportunity to learn from mistakes.

Step back and LOOK – that’s it – LOOK… Wait… Wait… What do you see? WRITE DOWN WHAT YOU SEE. List.

Anselm Kiefet: http://images.hallartfoundation.org/www_hallartfoundation_org/2013_Mass_MoCA_Anselm_Kiefer_Hall_Art_Foundation_052_copy0.jpg
Anselm Kiefet: http://images.hallartfoundation.org/www_hallartfoundation_org/2013_Mass_MoCA_Anselm_Kiefer_Hall_Art_Foundation_052_copy0.jpg

How are you stretching yourself with this drawing? What are you doing outside of your comfort zone?

AP Studio Art: Concentration

1.1 Ad: Visualize and hypothesize to generate plans for ideas and directions for creating art and design that can affect social change.

Talk to your classmates about the IMPORTANT TOPICS you have in your head and how that can become part of the larger body of your works.

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Guernica: http://www.museoreinasofia.es/sites/default/files/styles/foto_horizontal_wide/public/obras/DE00050_0.jpg?itok=wxSeOtKR

Well… what are 3 things you came up with that you might use in the ideas of your works?  GUERNICA as the image. 

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#Arts in #Studio – Questions? I’ll be gone for TWO DAYS – so ask your questions NOW!

Pablo Picasso's Webpage - What do you do in yours? http://juddtully.net/wp-content/uploads/picasso_sb_2.jpg

“There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.”  —Og Mandino

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Drawing: Nests – Mid Crit coming up!

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 tomorrow’s mid crit?

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Draw – Charcoal – 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: Mid Crit – Still Life

2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.

 What are 3 things about your SKETCHBOOK that you are VERY PLEASED with? What are 3 things you WANT TO IMPROVE ON?

Space: Using all of the knowledge you have gained from the first batch of sketches, create a drawing that emphasizes the idea of space, depth, form, perhaps perspective. Consider your understanding of Line, Shape, Form, Texture, and Color to complete this assignment.

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How much time OUTSIDE of class do you feel you are going to need for NEXT WEEKS DUE DATE?  What DAY are you going to work on that? Maybe 5 – 10 minutes PER day? What benefits would LITTLE bits of time do versus ONE BIG HUGE TIME?

 

Advanced Drawing: 50SoP

2.2Ad: Demonstrate understanding of the importance of balancing freedom and responsibility in the use of images, materials, tools, and equipment in the creation and circulation of creative work.

What are TWO THINGS you feel that you need some FEEDBACK on? Write that down – when I come to you – ASK.

50 Sheets of Paper: Charles Bronson made from a lot of papers: https://mir-s3-cdn-cf.behance.net/project_modules/1400/70e4023385345.563ef784ed5d6.jpg
50 Sheets of Paper: Charles Bronson made from a lot of papers: https://mir-s3-cdn-cf.behance.net/project_modules/1400/70e4023385345.563ef784ed5d6.jpg

As you worked – what new ideas / new solutions / same old ideas and solutions did you come up with today? Seriously – anything inspiring? Any experimentation happen? 

 

AP Studio Art: Concentration Mid Crit

3.1Ad: Reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art or design considering relevant traditional and contemporary criteria as well as personal artistic vision.

\What has this LAST batch of images helped you LEARN as an artist?

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Pablo Picasso’s Webpage – What do you do in yours? http://juddtully.net/wp-content/uploads/picasso_sb_2.jpg

We’re going to create one more SOLID SET of CONCENTRATION BEGINNING NEXT WEEK. Think about the FIRST works you created and the LAST work we are wrapping up this week. WHERE have you TRULY GROWN in the development of your work?

 

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#Welcome Back #Artists! Happy #Monday.

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Drawing: Nests – Mid Crit coming up!

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

Look at your pair of drawings – What are your thoughts about your techniques / compositions?

The warmth of a birds nest! http://unschoolrules.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/found-bird-nest.jpg
The warmth of a birds nest! http://unschoolrules.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/found-bird-nest.jpg

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: Mid Crit – Still Life.

G: 8.1P: Interpret an artwork or collection of works, supported by relevant and sufficient evidence found in the work and its various contexts.

As you examine this work of art, what are the larger SKILLS you have developed in the process?

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Process over Product: https://s3.amazonaws.com/easel.ly/all_easels/45467/Process_over_Product/image.jpg

As artists, we are in it for the process of MAKING ART, not necessarily worrying about the finished product. How do you feel about the idea of  PROCESS versus PRODUCT? 

Advanced Drawing: 50SoP

G: 6.1Ac: Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history.

What did the three days away for this drawing do for you when you step back and LOOK at your drawing? Write out and ELABORATE on your drawing as a FIRST IMPULSE.

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Many Sheets of Paper – 50 Sheets of PAper? First Thoughts? http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cQv0HSOeTp0/Ugd2QyKwNOI/AAAAAAAAC1g/6-N49wXTSF4/s1600/DSCF1535.JPG

REVIEW your group conversation notes from last week thursday – What is something that stood out to you today and you were able to focus on? Elaborate on the thought.

 

AP Studio Art: Concentration Mid Crit

G: 3.1Ad: Reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art or design considering relevant traditional and contemporary criteria as well as personal artistic vision.

What makes these NEW and INNOVATIVE? Give yourself a 3 bullet point list for the works.

AP Concentration:
AP Concentration:

You have been working ON YOUR OWN with NEW CONCENTRATION works – how have you help these works have demonstrated your sense of GROWTH? THIS WEEK – ASSIGNMENT – YOU will address your two questions about the concentration AND make sure that BY MONDAY your website is up to speed with 1) Questions Answered with NEW works in mind and 2) Images are uploaded – Art and Fear images AND the Outsider Art Images. Lots to do – Edit and Make Professional!

 

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#KikiSmith at .@UWW Monday March 6 at 7:00pm

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#Thursday become #Friday and we will see you and your #Parents at #P/TConferences!

What is WORKING? What are you STRUGGLING with? mhttp://i0.wp.com/thejadedress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/6a0115721817bb970b0120a5c1a1d0970c-800wi1.jpg
Kiki Smith Advertisement for UWW
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Drawing: Nests

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

How is the work developing? REMEMBER – Wednesday of NEXT 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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What is WORKING? What are you STRUGGLING with? mhttp://i0.wp.com/thejadedress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/6a0115721817bb970b0120a5c1a1d0970c-800wi1.jpg

Progress? 3 points of progress please.

Studio Art 360: Still Life – Nothing but a WORK DAY!

10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.

What challenges have you found in the process of drawing your still life from OBSERVATION?

Great Still Life Example: Value - Contrast - Proportion: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/26/a2/57/26a257a172cf5aee46850231a619a3af.jpg
Great Still Life Example: Value – Contrast – Proportion: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/26/a2/57/26a257a172cf5aee46850231a619a3af.jpg

Where can you see the idea of OBSERVATION as being a skill that is worthy of you focusing on?   

Advanced Drawing: RUBRICS get handed back – FINALLY

2.2Ad: Demonstrate understanding of the importance of balancing freedom and responsibility in the use of images, materials, tools, and equipment in the creation and circulation of creative work.

Last day this week… What are two things you are planning on doing TODAY to get a good deal of work planned and begun for today?

50 Sheets of Paper - Portrait! http://40.media.tumblr.com/deeb9adc0b6b03ea516d6229b355a556/tumblr_o2d1bs2b2j1s2djs8o1_1280.jpg
50 Sheets of Paper – Portrait! http://40.media.tumblr.com/deeb9adc0b6b03ea516d6229b355a556/tumblr_o2d1bs2b2j1s2djs8o1_1280.jpg

Having has 4 days to get into the process. DESCRIBE ALL THAT YOU HAVE ACCOMPLISHED in the past 4 days. As a VIEWER – what progress would we see.

AP Studio Art: Concentration

2.2Ad: Demonstrate understanding of the importance of balancing freedom and responsibility in the use of images, materials, tools, and equipment in the creation and circulation of creative work.

How do you see the growth of your work? What are two things that you see as STRONG developments as you have moved forward

AP Concentration:
AP Concentration:

End of the day – one more day in class. How many more pieces do you need to get through for this batch of 3 concentration works? 

 

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#KikiSmith @UWW on March 6 at 7:00pm

Kiki Smith Installation: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8gtgVi-ln-8/U5Tof6RQw3I/AAAAAAAAAVI/O_BWC1xrDP4/s1600/image034.png

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Kiki Smith Installation: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8gtgVi-ln-8/U5Tof6RQw3I/AAAAAAAAAVI/O_BWC1xrDP4/s1600/image034.png

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#Tuesday in an #ArtMakingDay in the Studio – #Texture for #360

Elena Ray - Nests! What are you doing at this point? https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/8c/93/3c/8c933c98529e7fdc5399a3370640ed44.jpg

 

Drawing: CHARCOAL and White Charcoal.

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

As you are developing compositions, what skills are you looking to develop?

Elena Ray - Nests! What are you doing at this point? https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/8c/93/3c/8c933c98529e7fdc5399a3370640ed44.jpg
Elena Ray – Nests! What are you doing at this point? https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/8c/93/3c/8c933c98529e7fdc5399a3370640ed44.jpg

What feedback would you offer and like to get about your work? This will be a YELLOW STICKY NOTE that develops into a final work sheet for critiques…  Elena Ray: 

Studio Art 360: TEXTURE!

2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.

What do you feel is the value of practicing in a sketchbook? How can you see this as being a place that others (engineers, designers, architects, artists) might need as a valuable tool?

SKETCHBOOK TASK TODAY:Texture: Using crayons, let’s go make some Frottage (rubbings). Choose 5 different colored crayons go out and gather 10 different textures from around the first floor of the building – you have 13 minutes. When you come back we will take these frottages and create a collage. We’re doing this as a group.

Max Ernst - Collage - Frottage, Grattage, Decalcomania: http://study.com/cimages/multimages/16/max_ernsts_the_wood.jpg
Max Ernst – Collage – Frottage, Grattage, Decalcomania: http://study.com/cimages/multimages/16/max_ernsts_the_wood.jpg

Ok – What kind of FUN did you have in getting back to CRAYONS, Scissors, and Glue?

 

Advanced Drawing: 50 Sheets of Paper

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

What are three different types of PAPER you can consider using or (better yet) have BROUGHT IN TODAY? AND – What sort of PERSONAL IDEAS or MEANINGS that you might be able to bring into your work of art?

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David Hockney – MANY Cnavases for LARGE Painting: http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/IMG_5985.jpg

This is THE PROJECT art students want – make something of my own ideas… Considering some of the boundaries presented, what ARE your ideas that you hope to convey

AP Studio Art: Record your FEAR and make Photographs of the Art.

While looking at your studio mates work, how do  you see the works needing to GROW? Do you see  yours growing?

What's going on in your SKETCHBOOK to help you deal with your concentration? http://www.studentartguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/as-art-sketchbook.jpg
What’s going on in your SKETCHBOOK to help you deal with your concentration? http://www.studentartguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/as-art-sketchbook.jpg

What have you come up with? What materials are you planning on using? How does it fit into your current body of work?

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Welcome to another #4DayWeek in the #ArtStudio

AP Level 6 on Google

Drawing: CHARCOAL and White Charcoal.

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

How are your compositions beginning?

Ah the birds nest of Vincent Van Gogh: http://66.media.tumblr.com/980f8013c2c35c3e845bade1721c5f82/tumblr_nj8rr2Oxuz1slb5k6o2_1280.jpg
Ah the birds nest of Vincent Van Gogh: http://66.media.tumblr.com/980f8013c2c35c3e845bade1721c5f82/tumblr_nj8rr2Oxuz1slb5k6o2_1280.jpg

As you look at your beginning drawings what are the strengths of the drawings are moving forward?

Studio Art 360: Still Life DRAWING – DAY 3!

2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.

What was the biggest challenge you found as you began to draw your objects yesterday?

Georgio Morandi Still Life - How are you beginning? http://ahuskofmeaning.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/1956-2.jpg
Georgio Morandi Still Life – How are you beginning? http://ahuskofmeaning.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/1956-2.jpg

What are 2 difficulties that you had in beginning your drawing today? Remember – DRAWING IS A CHALLENGE – let it be!

Advanced Drawing: 50 Sheets of Paper

3. Envision: Learning to picture mentally what cannot be directly observed, and imagine possible next steps in making a piece.

What are the GOALS that you’d like to accomplish with this self-driven assignment? Teach me.

Joseph Piccillo - Not a lot of paper - but PERSONAL drawings: http://www.chaseyounggallery.com/Artist_Profiles/Piccillo_extra/JP42009.jpg
Joseph Piccillo – Not a lot of paper – but PERSONAL drawings: http://www.chaseyounggallery.com/Artist_Profiles/Piccillo_extra/JP42009.jpg

Of all the conversation, materials, messages, and ideas that came to mind… what are your FIRST ideas about how you can MOVE FORWARD? 14 “hours” on this drawing – it will be due in 2.5 weeks… How will you know when you have gotten to your final goals? How will you know that you are learning in the process? Let’s keep your personal goals in mind as you are working through the art process.

AP Studio Art: Record your FEAR and make Photographs of the Art.

2.2Ad: Demonstrate understanding of the importance of balancing freedom and responsibility in the use of images, materials, tools, and equipment in the creation and circulation of creative work.

What has been your biggest challenge from the past week worth of making art.  Today – get together for 10 minutes and talk with one another about the current work.

AP Level 6 on Google
AP Level 6 on Google

As you look back on the bast 2.5 quarters of work, what are 3 of your biggest impressions from your studio mates works?

 

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It’s Essentially #Friday (for you)

How are you using your 50 sheets of paper? Here is a Jennifer Bartlett - This is how she used a lot of sections of paper (canvas perhaps... board...) https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.collageplatform.com.prod/image_cache/600x345_fit/558176bf278e1af86c88ecaf/e18793c7e3a92b23f6abe463082d793a.jpeg

“Art is the only way to run away without leaving home” Twyla Tharp – Choreographer

Where are you hoping to run away to with your work?

Drawing: CHARCOAL and White Charcoal.

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

What do you see creating a series of drawings can do for a artist that a single drawing would not allow the artist to do? We are going to be working on two different CHARCOAL Drawings with this artwork – Today – we experiment with CHARCOAL. Follow along and then experiment on your own.

Vincent Van Gogh's BEAUTIFUL Nests: http://66.media.tumblr.com/980f8013c2c35c3e845bade1721c5f82/tumblr_nj8rr2Oxuz1slb5k6o2_1280.jpg
Vincent Van Gogh’s BEAUTIFUL Nests: http://66.media.tumblr.com/980f8013c2c35c3e845bade1721c5f82/tumblr_nj8rr2Oxuz1slb5k6o2_1280.jpg

As you look at your FUN with the charcoal, what are the strengths in the materials that you are seeing as you move forward?

 

Studio Art 360: Still Life DRAWING – DAY 2!

10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.

What challenges have you found in the process of drawing your still life from OBSERVATION?

Janet Fish - Look at this sense of GLASS and TRANSPARENCY - How's the relationships? http://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ma/web-large/DT7486.jpg
Janet Fish – Look at this sense of GLASS and TRANSPARENCY – How’s the relationships? http://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ma/web-large/DT7486.jpg

Where in your drawing do you see the idea of OBSERVATION as being a skill that is worthy / in need of you focusing on? WHY? What’s the problem? What’s the challenge?

 

Advanced Drawing: 50 Sheets of Paper – Shhhhh Mr. Korb

 7. Stretch & Explore: Learning to reach beyond one’s capacities, to explore playfully without a preconceived plan, and to embrace the opportunity to learn from mistakes.

Looking at YESTERDAY… what are 3 things you hope to accomplish with this VERY INDEPENDENT (but subtly guided) drawing? EXPLAIN!

How are you using your 50 sheets of paper? Here is a Jennifer Bartlett - This is how she used a lot of sections of paper (canvas perhaps... board...) https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.collageplatform.com.prod/image_cache/600x345_fit/558176bf278e1af86c88ecaf/e18793c7e3a92b23f6abe463082d793a.jpeg
How are you using your 50 sheets of paper? Here is a Jennifer Bartlett – This is how she used a lot of sections of paper (canvas perhaps… board…) https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.collageplatform.com.prod/image_cache/600x345_fit/558176bf278e1af86c88ecaf/e18793c7e3a92b23f6abe463082d793a.jpeg

What is working for you in this drawing SO FAR? List 3 things that you see as positive attributes to your drawing today. 

AP Studio Art: Record your FEAR and make Photographs of the Art.

2.6 create multiple solutions to visual challenges that show understanding in relationships between composition and meaning of artwork.

While looking at your studiomates work, how do  you see the works needing to GROW? Do you see  yours growing?

What's going on in your SKETCHBOOK to help you deal with your concentration? http://www.studentartguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/as-art-sketchbook.jpg
What’s going on in your SKETCHBOOK to help you deal with your concentration? http://www.studentartguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/as-art-sketchbook.jpg

What have you come up with? What materials are you planning on using? How does it fit into your current body of work? 

 

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MidWeek? #Tomorrow is the #EndOfTheWeek! #FAST!

“Art is the only way to run away without leaving home” Twyla Tharp – Choreographer

Where are you hoping to run away to with your work?

Drawing: Talk about the materials. CHARCOAL and White Charcoal.

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

What do you see about the use of thumbnail drawings as a strong starting point for the artist as they develop their initial ideas? Why more than one? Why more than 2?

Love the BIRD’S NESTS! http://unschoolrules.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/found-bird-nest.jpg

How are you moving forward as you are developing the preliminary drawings as well as the final drawings.

Studio Art 360: Still Life DRAWING!

2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan. A: What skills do you see in yourself that are coming out in the drawing SO FAR? What strengths do you see in your drawing?  

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Audrey Flack “Marilyn” http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/uama/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/30034738/flack_marilyn.jpg

What are 2 skills you have already that are going to make your experiences in Studio Art 360 easier?

Advanced Drawing: 50 Sheets of Paper

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

What are three different types of PAPER you can consider using or (better yet have BROUGHT IN TODAY)? AND – What sort of PERSONAL IDEAS or MEANINGS that you might be able to bring into your work of art?

50 Sheets of Paper: http://www.drawingforum.net/uploads/1/3/8/8/13882322/6249955_orig.jpg?228
50 Sheets of Paper: http://www.drawingforum.net/uploads/1/3/8/8/13882322/6249955_orig.jpg?228

This is THE PROJECT art students want – make something of my own ideas… Considering some of the boundaries presented, what ARE your ideas that you hope to convey? 

AP Studio Art: C’Mon – Let’s FINISH this already. FEAR NO CRITIQUE!

 

2.2Ad: Demonstrate understanding of the importance of balancing freedom and responsibility in the use of images, materials, tools, and equipment in the creation and circulation of creative work.

What has been your biggest challenge from the past week worth of making art.  Today – get together for 10 minutes and talk with one another about the current work.

Have you gotten any positive FEEDBACK / Critique from your class mate? http://blog-imgs-50.fc2.com/a/f/g/afg2/The-critique-Group.jpg
Have you gotten any positive FEEDBACK / Critique from your class mate? http://blog-imgs-50.fc2.com/a/f/g/afg2/The-critique-Group.jpg

As you look back on the past 2.5 quarters of work, what are 3 of your biggest impressions from your studio mates works? What can you do to move forward with your work based on the feedback and comments you’ve gotten from the studio critiques?