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January 9, 2017January 7, 2017

This is the LAST WEEK of the Semester… How have you done?

The importance of goals (and I feel reflection)

important-write-down-your-goals — Goals and Goal Setting: http://media3.popsugar-assets.com/files/2014/08/18/746/n/1922441/79c345334b05824e_Screen_Shot_2014-08-18_at_9.53.39_AMLXsU2E.xxxlarge/i/Important-Write-Down-Your-Goals.jpg

Studio Art 360: Balance and Pattern – All sorts of types

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

What kind of balance do you find you prefer? Symmetry? Approximate Symmetry? Radial? Asymmetry?

Copper Bas-Relief Plate https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/cc/3e/fb/cc3efb2250531ac2648122d83c86c4ff.jpg

What type of balance have you chosen to use? What are three reasons you chose this direction to go with?

Radial

Asymetry

Approximate Symmetry

Symmetry

Painting: Portraits and OILS

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.

You were asked to begin thinking about the work in front of you… What DO YOU SEE IN YOUR PAINTING? That’s it.. WHAT DO YOU SEE? Take your time… look at everything you see in the work and write down all that you see.

Let’s Chat for a moment… http://www.saic.edu/media/saic/gfx/academics/undergraduatedegrees/undergraduateexperience/painting_critique.jpg

Time to work today began with DESCRIPTION – was there anything NEW that you saw when you began writing and working today? We do not have a lot of time to work this week but… lots of time use that knowledge in your life.

Drawing: Contour and Printing

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

What struggles do you personally find in the making of a continuous line contour drawing? Two things you are challenged by – full sentences.

What’s your face looking like today? https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/e8/3a/f8/e83af84f67c970756dcd50b8aea8084c.jpg

Work on own – focused and directed. G: Write out all that you have accomplished today. Tomorrow – Printing Plates and Watercolor Crayons.

AP: Art and Fear

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

Art and Fear had a lot to offer. Open the book and look through the chapters… What chapter do you feel you MIGHT relate to you the most Based SOLELY on the title of the chapter (may not be fair) – and WHY?

Art and Fear http://joel.franusic.com/assets/img/art-and-fear-page-29.jpg

What chapter did you decide to use for this next piece? What is ONE of the aspects of the theme you feel you will be working through?

January 6, 2017January 6, 2017

#Oils and #Contours and #Pattern… What could be more fun in the #ArtStudio?

“If I persist, if I continue to try, if I continue to charge forward, I will succeed.” — Og Mandino

“And even if you don’t succeed… there is NOTHING wrong with failure (just get back and try again – and again – and again…).” – Frank Korb

Studio Art 360: Balance and Pattern – All sorts of types

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

What is a balance? What is a pattern? What patterns and balance are you drawn to?

1520two20birds — MC Escher Sketch of Two Birds http://www.mcescher.com/Shopmain/ShopEU/facsilimeprints/data/1000/15%20Two%20Birds.jpg

M.C. Escher’s Website and Works

Symmetry

Approximate Symmetry

Radial

Asymetry

What challenges did you have in the ideas of drawing out a pattern – repeat the simple image over and over and over?

Painting: Portraits and OILS

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.

Drawing: Contour and Faces

G: 1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.

What struggles do you have when it comes to drawing the face to begin with? What struggles do you think you might have when drawing them without being able to lift your pencil?

Contour Line Drawing FACES: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/be/32/82/be328200d1f131f9fb9471e6c8ca582b.jpg

In the end, what was the biggest challenge / success you had today in the studio?

AP: Let’s Talk Concentration

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

How does FEAR get in your way TODAY as you begin to or continue to create art?

How have you learned to work beyond fears to create work this year? Do you find that you still have fears about the work you are creating?

January 4, 2017January 3, 2017

#Wednesday #ArtAndFear Let us face our fears!

“If I persist, if I continue to try, if I continue to charge forward, I will succeed.” — Og Mandino

“And even if you don’t succeed… there is NOTHING wrong with failure (just get back and try again – and again – and again…).” – Frank Korb

Studio Art 360: Glazing Pottery

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!

photo-may-21-4-58-49-pm-1030x1030 — Shark Bait! 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?

Painting: Portraits and OILS

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

How do you FEEL about the act of oil painting again? The time away and the time returned? What did the BREAK do for the act of painting for you?

multi-coloured-oil-paints-1643908 — Let’s Paint! http://www.featurepics.com/FI/Thumb300/20100827/Multi-Coloured-Oil-Paints-1643908.jpg

What is the STRENGTH of your work that you are especially proud of?

Drawing: Critique your Portraits

1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.

What are various types of artwork that we have created this year? Let’s create a list of the different works we’ve done on the board.

What are you going to do? http://rlv.zcache.com/create_your_own_wood_wall_art-r0d1cf11ae05846ba8046d23e9580d723_jft0t_324.jpg?rlvnet=1

What are your plans? Any thoughts? Fears? Plans?

joemarinaro — Critique! http://www.thefeministwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/JOEMARINARO.jpg

AP: Let’s Talk Concentration

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

Art and Fear: http://joel.franusic.com/assets/img/art-and-fear-page-26.jpg

What chapter did you decide to use for this next piece? What is ONE of the aspects of the theme you feel you will be working through?

Critique https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5289/5213149069_c6bda1985e.jpg

What are you looking to do with the “last” / next set of three?

January 3, 2017January 2, 2017

#WelcomeBack, now let’s #MakeArt (and #Critique)

“If I persist, if I continue to try, if I continue to charge forward, I will succeed.” — Og Mandino

Failure is an OPTION! Do(n’t Qu)It https://media.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/p/5/005/096/06f/1239979.jpg

“And even if you don’t succeed… there is NOTHING wrong with failure (just get back and try again – and again – and again…).” – Frank Korb

Studio Art 360: Critique PORTRAITS and COLOR THEORY

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 strengths of your work that you are most proud of in your painting? What challenges did you struggle with the most? YELLOW STICKY NOTE!

ak-double — Alex Katz in front of his own work. Let’s see you in front of yours! https://static1.squarespace.com/static/526498c9e4b0f1fda0be61d3/t/52d4d096e4b0002632d29461/1389678743130/AK-double.jpg

Critique and prep for tomorrow’s glazing of work. G: How did the critique help you look at the skills and challenges in making art? Alex Katz: Portrait:

Painting: Portraits and OILS

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

You’ve been away for some time… take a moment and look carefully at your artwork. What stands out as STRONG? What stands out as “I need to work on this?” Write out a BRIEF statement about the work in front of you.

use-oil-paints-800x800 — Oil Painting – How do you feel about coming back to it? http://img.ehowcdn.com/615×200/ehow/images/a04/6v/40/use-oil-paints-800×800.jpg

What “discoveries” or “new insights” have you found about your work?

Drawing: Critique your Portraits

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.

As you look over the final portrait – what are the skills you found that you have that you might not have seen at the beginning of this process? ALSO – Tomorrow – you begin on your final drawing for the semester – your OWN creation – ALL YOUR OWN IDEAS.

Day of critiquing is reflection enough.

AP: Let’s Talk Concentration

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.

How are you evolving in the development of your work – your concentration of works? What are three things that you see as true growth?

What are you looking to do with the “last” / next set of three?

December 28, 2016December 28, 2016

#YouTube #Answer to ascash93 – #Pyramid #Roofs – and MORE on #Perspective in #Art

Hello All (and especially acash93) – I got an inquisitive question about roof design from acash93 on YouTube this morning (hello again) and rather than a simple reply (which they did get back from me and a redirect to here) I drew out the explanation for a better understanding. I hope this helps.

Pyramid Roof

Hipped Roof

If you are interested in seeing more explanations of drawing in perspective, please visit more of my videos on my YouTube Channel Instructional Videos HERE: https://goo.gl/8lT00x or on my website to the right of the screen near the bottom – Videos and Prezis.

One Point Perspective Handout is HERE.

Two Point Perspective Handout is HERE .

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Happy Holidays!

Frank

December 22, 2016December 22, 2016

Happy BREAK! It’s Almost here.

#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.

Studio Art 360: PORTRAITS and COLOR THEORY

What are two things that are helping you EMPHASIZING the idea of YOU as you create this self portrait?

Erased De Kooning by Robert Rauschenberg: http://yewknee.com/_img/blog/blog_eraseddekooning012.jpg

Non Erased De Kooning by Willem De Kooning http://htmlgiant.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/woman-500x584.png

Non Erased De Kooning by Willem De Kooning http://htmlgiant.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/woman-500×584.png

What is one way that you feel ART be used to discuss IMPORTANT things in culture?

Painting: Portraits and OILS

What color scheme are you hoping to focus on with this portrait? How will this help you UNIFY your composition? Are you using OTHER elements to create a sense of unity? What might that be?

Paul Squire’s Painting UP CLOSE: Look att hat TEXTURE! http://www.paulsquire.com/wp-content/uploads/bernie-2015-detail2.jpg

What are you anxious about as we begin to think about and use oil paints? Paul Squire’s Painting UP CLOSE – Look at that TEXTURE!

Drawing: Portraits and Colored Pencils

GREAT FILM to watch over break: Exit Through the Gift Shop – Graffiti, Banksy, and Dr. Brainwash. Start at 7:02 in class).

What is successful in your artwork? What is the color scheme you are using? What Graffiti Artist have you chosen to use?

image-300866-panov9free-syqo — Graffiti is out there to help you RETHINK what you might already know… or not know. http://cdn3.spiegel.de/images/image-300866-panoV9free-syqo.jpg

As you researched the world of Graffiti – it there an artist that you are particularly drawn to? Why?

AP: Not Portraits – Concentration Work (ONLINE TOO)

Best part of yesterday? Plans for today? How’s it coming?

How’s your work going? Lifelong lessons here? I think so! http://www.autumngrove.com/wp-content/uploads/DSC_0008.jpg

How are you moving forward in the process of developing a series of works based on someone else’s work? How are you keeping the images the SAME and how are you changing the ideas? What are your plans for BREAK? Website?

December 21, 2016December 21, 2016

#TwoMoreDays of #ART :(

Studio Art 360: PORTRAITS and COLOR THEORY

What are two things you think the PROCESS is going to do to help you in the creation of this artwork? How is this going to be a skill that can help you in the future with OTHER ideas and assignments (in or out of art)?

78-196-a-f_01_d02 — I LOVE Andy Warhol: http://archv.sfmoma.org/images/artwork/medium/78.196.A-F_01_D02.jpg

What is it that you especially enjoy about the image you are creating in your painting? How do the ideas and colors RELATE to you?

Painting: Portraits and OILS

Which direction have you decided to go in regarding the use of colors while using oil paints? What kind of mood / feeling do you hope to incorporate into the idea of your painting?

Elizabeth Peyton: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/cb/af/0d/cbaf0d52c8ad9d5cacdea6efd2711495.jpg

Have you decided HOW you are going to break apart the space that you are building in the painting? Are you emphasizing the new SHAPES or are you developing the LINES that you have in the portrait? Oil Painting Close Up: Elizabeth Peyton:

Drawing: Portraits and Colored Pencils

This is it folks – Second to last day – Every square inch needs color. What’s holding you back? What has propelled you forward in the process?

from-the-zoo-project-in-tunisia-by-mohamed-hanchi — Graffiti and YOU: http://d2jv9003bew7ag.cloudfront.net/uploads/From-the-Zoo-Project-in-Tunisia-by-Mohamed-Hanchi.jpg

Are you taking pencils home? Where are you going to work on the drawing? What has been the HARDEST PART of the drawing? Mohamed Hanchi

AP: Not Portraits – Concentration Work (ONLINE TOO)

DON’T LOOK AT YOUR WORK – Set it out and step back… go get it – step back… Now… turn around and LOOK! What are three things that you see as working and NOT working in the art? GO Get TO WORK!

What techniques are you looking at using? What’s NEW? https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/1a/dc/f9/1adcf98791409ae59ca55dc3f3a54719.jpg

You had a lot to think about today… What did you take a away? Look at the ORIGINAL WORK and look at your SERIES of works… what’s happening?

December 19, 2016December 19, 2016

#FourMoreDays to #BREAK

Edward Hopper “The Lighthouse at Two Lights”

Studio Art 360: Portraits in Color Schemes of Your Choice

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

What struggles are you having with this painting so far? This is DUE at the end of the week – End of Class Thursday. DO NOT RUSH.

Painting: Oils and HOW TO

What color scheme are you hoping to focus on with this portrait? How will this help you UNIFY your composition? Are you using OTHER elements to create a sense of unity? What might that be?

What are you anxious about as we begin to think about and use oil paints?

ABOVE: Oil Painting CLOSE UP: Karen Appleton

Oil Paint Characteristics

Drawing: Fauvist Faces and Graffiti

ASSIGNMENT HANDOUT HERE

Two days left… Now that you are more aware of the use of pastels and covering larger spaces faster (large to small, general to specific) how do you feel the drawing has progressed?

Step back and look over your classmates work… what has been the biggest success from you classmate?

AP Studio Art: Concentration and ONLINE PRESENCE

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 (or talking) HELP or CHALLENGE YOU?

the20migration20series-panel2060_0 — And the Migrants Kept Coming. Jacob Lawrence, 1941: http://www.phillipscollection.org/sites/default/files/styles/slideshow_image_size/public/media/The%20Migration%20Series-Panel%2060_0.jpg?itok=Ak5Vj5HH

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?

December 16, 2016December 15, 2016

#ThankGoodness it’s #Friday

#90 “You can condense, but you cannot simplify.” —Ann Lauterbach, personal conversation: The world is infinitely complex, and any attempt to simplify, which means the elimination of contradictory elements, will fail to capture that complexity. One can, however, attempt to compress or condense those elements into a more abbreviated or altered form. That is the role of metaphor. Kit White 101 Things to Learn in Art School

Studio Art 360: Grids on the Canvas and the Drawing and Transfer it up to the Canvas

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!

Marilyn Monroe – Andy Warhol: 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.

PORTRAITS are HERE!

SKETCHBOOK TUESDAY – FOR NEXT TUESDAY: Using a camera ON YOUR OWN TIME THIS WEEK – RECREATE a famous painting, sculpture, drawing… Print out the photograph that you have created and also include the famous work of art that you were inspired by. Here are a few examples: Student Examples: https://goo.gl/Tvwv4X

PAINTING: Making Plans? Got your Photo?

What do you need to do in order to be READY to transfer your image up to the canvas on MONDAY? Study Halls? After School? Before School? PROCESS! THIS IS HUGE.

selffrontal2008sm — Milwaukee Artist – Katie Musolf – Self Portrait: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nrDR7SFveHc/S3MOoZ7No7I/AAAAAAAAAMs/1XYjyXGkVyY/s1600/Selffrontal2008sm.jpg

Today – Successful in the process? Finished? What did you accomplish today and how did you help your classmate out? Katie Musolf

ASSIGNMENT Here

DRAWING: Fauvists and YOU!

What is successful in your artwork? What is the color scheme you are using? Share this with your neighbor. We are going to make photographs of the work we have RIGHT NOW

hb_1999-363-83 — Maurice de Vlamink “Andre Derain” http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/images/hb/hb_1999.363.83.jpg

After having had a chance to look at the progress of your work so far, how do you feel you are progressing? What do you feel you need to do in order to have a solid product by the end of next week?

Andre Derain by Maurice de Vlkamink

AP STUDIO ART: Concentration 3rd of 3

Letters to our AUTHORS – Put your letter in THIS DOCUMENT. I will finish the spacing and page separations. Please do this today so we can gather the info and mail it out by Friday. Thanks.

What is happening in your classmates work that you are truly glad to see happening? Write that out and then take a moment to give them encouragement and support.

What’s on your plate for the weekend? What have you got to work on? Website? Artwork? Job? Relationships? Make sure some of it is ART.

December 15, 2016December 15, 2016

#ArtExhibition – 3rd Annual K8 Feeder Schools at WUHS – December 14, 2016.

Thank you to all who joined us as we celebrated the artworks and cultural contributions of our Kindergarten – 8th Graders in the Waterford Area Schools. The turnout was spectacular. We counted over 250 people through the doors to see the drawings, paintings, prints, sculptures, assemblages, and other artworks by our young artists.

Special thanks to Representative, and senator-elect David Craig from the 83rd Assembly District and Ms. Vanessa Llanas, Senator Tammy Baldwin’s Southeastern Regional Representative for taking the time out of their busy schedules to join us. It’s support like all of yours that help the arts thrive in our schools and communities.

Our biggest word of thanks goes to our passionate and driven young artists who created the wonderful artworks in our gallery. Artists, continue to take chances, be innovators, and allow yourself to learn through trial and error that through all of this hard work, you’ll continue to make great art. Thank you artists.

Additionally, thank you Brett Roberts, one of our other Art Teachers here WUHS whose numerous phone calls and emails helped pull this exhibition together. And Lisa Dukowitz, our Digital and Photography teacher for helping install and organize our exhibit. Finally, thank you to all of our Art Teachers who work tirelessly with our young artists as they teach persistence through the difficulties, reflection on the process, envisioning new ideas, and developing skills that help build confidence. Chris Watkins from Woodfield Elementary, Sarah Gilbert from Trailside Elementary, Katie Chapman at Evergreen Elementary, Rachel Bergman from Fox River Middle School, Erin Oehlke at Washington Caldwell, Jacob Walden from North Cape and Drought, and Wendy Mueller at St. Thomas Aquinas School.