Author: fjkorb

Husband, Dad, Artist and Educator. I love making art, talking art, seeing art, and running.
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#Thursday and #OneMoreDay of #Art

 Shane Koyczan – TED Talk “To This Day”… for the Bullied and Beautiful… “If you can’t see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror, look a little closer, stare a little longer, because there’s something inside you that makes you keep trying despite everyone who told you to quit.”

Drawing: MUSIC and ART!

Wassily Kandisnky: http://totallyhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/composition-vi-1913.jpg

Goals:

  • 4.4 evaluate and interpret your art for relationships in 4.4.1 form 4.4.2 context and 4.4.3 meanings showing understanding.
  • What were the similarities and differences in your ideas and Kandinsky’s. 

Reflection:  How does your art compare with the work of “professionals” and how can you work to create a better understanding of your approach / intent / ideas?) 

Studio Art 360: TEXTURE – Let’s Make Some

Max Ernst : Tecture http://www.pinturayartistas.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/max+ernst/MaxErnstMondGuterDinge.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • What TEXTURES do you think will be INTERESTING to make? Frottage, Grattage, or Decalocomania? WHY?

Reflection: What was your favorite way of gathering textures today? How did you use them today in the abstracted landscape COLLAGE experience based on MAX ERNST’s works. 

AP Studio Art: Pencils…

Pencil Story on FREAKONOMICS – LISTEN HERE: http://www.wnyc.org/widgets/ondemand_player/freakonomics/#file=json/576159

Sharp as a pencil! https://cdn2.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/zz4oh-LzrR4gLuhbZix-WMKz8lU=/800×0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/4360863/pencilofmonthclub.0.jpg

Goals:

  • 6.1Ac: Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history.
  • Are you beginning a SECOND DRAWING? Do you have to focus on making TODAY’S HOUR particularly SHARP FOCUSED?  What ELEMENTS or PRINCIPLES are you planning on working towards today? Color? Contrast? Balance? Something entirely different?

Reflection: Explain and ELABORATE on the drawing you have created today – creating today… EXPLAIN YOUR THOUGHTS and FOCUS. Are you looking at something in PARTICULAR here?

Advanced Drawing: 50 Sheets of Paper!

50 Sheets of Paper: Clever! https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/b7ce3-post-it-art-at-giant-robot-lot-of-good-art.jpg

Goals:

  • 6.1Ac: Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history.
  • Two Plus weeks on this drawing – What have you learned about the idea of having ALL THE FREEDOM to do WHAT YOU WANT with a drawing? 

Reflection: Explain 3 things that you are struggling with and HOPE that a day off will let your brain solve tonight? 3 things… 

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#LateStart #MidWeek #HumpDay #ArtDay

 Shane Koyczan – TED Talk “To This Day”… for the Bullied and Beautiful… “If you can’t see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror, look a little closer, stare a little longer, because there’s something inside you that makes you keep trying despite everyone who told you to quit.”

Drawing: MUSIC and ART!

What kind of Kandinsky are YOU? http://b.vimeocdn.com/ts/142/541/142541478_640.jpg

Goals:

  • Reflect: Learning to think and talk with others about an aspect of one’s work or working process, and learning to judge one’s own work and working process and the work of others.
  • What are the BEST things you have  come up with in this artwork?

Reflection: What did your FAVORITE part of this overall DEEP and difficult project? 

Studio Art 360: TEXTURE and COLLAGE! Let’s GO!

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Max Ernst: Collage withg Flowers: 

Goals:

  • 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • Think about your sketchbook drawing from yesterday… If you could include TEXTURE into the drawing – how do you feel you could? Where in the drawing CAN you? Where in the drawing WILL you?

Reflection: Write a ONE PARAGRAPH EXPLANATION about your work on the BACK of the collage. Describe how you used Frottage, Grattage, and Decalcomania in the work. 

AP Studio Art: Pencils…

Pencil Story on FREAKONOMICS – LISTEN HERE: http://www.wnyc.org/widgets/ondemand_player/freakonomics/#file=json/576159

 

Ooooo… PENCILS! https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/e6/de/20/e6de20b914b7217bc6ad431f9531a7d7.jpg

Goals:

  • 6.1Ac: Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history.
  • What is your NUMBER ONE PERSONAL GOAL for this drawing. Look at page 29 in your folder – do you want to think about habits of mind? 

Reflection: TWO DAYS LEFT – CRITIQUE and LETTER WRITING MONDAY – Huh? Yep. What was successful – 2 things that worked out – Think Elelments and Principles…

Advanced Drawing: 50 Sheets of Paper!

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

Goals:

  • 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 it… List 5 things – one thing you are doing well.

Reflection: How are you stretching yourself with this drawing? What are 3 things you doing outside of your comfort zone? EXPLAIN!

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#Sketchbook #Tuesday in #360 – Work for the rest of you.

 Shane Koyczan – TED Talk “To This Day”… for the Bullied and Beautiful… “If you can’t see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror, look a little closer, stare a little longer, because there’s something inside you that makes you keep trying despite everyone who told you to quit.”

Drawing: MUSIC and ART!

Kandinsky in the EARLY DAYS… http://dossierjournal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/kandinskycolorfullife.jpg

Goals:

  • .2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.
  • What were the similarities and differences in your ideas and Kandinsky’s N: Peer review of the images and statements.  

Reflection: How does your art compare with the work of “professionals” and how can you work to create a better understanding of your approach / intent / ideas?)

Studio Art 360: Sketchbook Tuesday – Self Portraits?

What are YOU going to be doing with your sketch? This is a good example from a PROFESSIONAL ARTIST – Her website is HERE! http://busymockingbird.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/img_5151.jpg?w=620&h=745

Goals:

  • 10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.
  • Last week – WEEPING WILLOW was your prompt. Please explain your thoughts about WHY you did WHAT you did with your sketchbook and resolving the idea of WEEPING WILLOW. 3 – 5 sentences to explain. 

Reflection: What three things can you do / are you going to do to to enhance your sketchbook drawing for next week’s grade? Look at and work with image from assignment sheet! 

AP Studio Art: Pencils…

Goals:

  • 6.1Ac: Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history.
  • Yesterday you listened to Freakonomics — “How Can This Possibly Be True?” What are three things that came to mind – were interesting – gave you visual ideas in your head as you listened to the story? ANYTHING? Today – With your FAVORITE PENCIL IN HAND and WHATEVER DRAWING materials you want (on the 11” x 8.5” paper) you are going to OBSERVE and DRAW this pencil – that’s it – straight up – DRAW THIS PENCIL… OBSERVATION and INTERPRETATION – Skill here. DUE MONDAY! ONE DRAWING – GO! BTW… The Pencil you are DRAWING (and maybe drawing with) will be included in the final artwork – attached to the drawing. 

Pencil Story on FREAKONOMICS – LISTEN HERE: http://www.wnyc.org/widgets/ondemand_player/freakonomics/#file=json/576159

Reflection: Well… what have you accomplished? Are FOUR DAYS too many? Not enough? 3 things you are PLANNING for this drawing. IMPRESS ME tomorrow! 

Advanced Drawing: 50 Sheets of Paper!

http://www.artsconnected.org/cgi-bin/iipsrv.fcgi?FIF=/var/www/ace2/zoom/media/9b/a1/16a00cd4ef1a61cbee13bace3a03/scale.tif&qlt=85&jtl=0,0

Goals:

  • 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.  

Reflection:  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?

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Happy #YouthArtMonth – Week TWO!

 

Shane Koyczan – TED Talk “To This Day”… for the Bullied and Beautiful… “If you can’t see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror, look a little closer, stare a little longer, because there’s something inside you that makes you keep trying despite everyone who told you to quit.”

Drawing: MUSIC and ART!

What would you cay this STYLE is? Movement? https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/bc/16/9b/bc169bf090e690ab2e5b20a060a5e307.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.
  • What has THREE DAYS off done for you to REST from the Work? NOW… Take your work out – DON’T look at it. Hang it up, step back – WRITE OUT THE FIRST THINGS THAT COME TO MIND. 3 things!

Reflection: How does this work relate to 1) Kandinsky and his movements? 2) Your song? We are going to be WRITING an ARTIST STATEMENT and PHOTOGRAPHING this work Friday and NEXT WEEK (in the computer lab). Be prepared to provide writing that is DONE! ALSO – FIND YOUR SONG ON YOUTUBE! 

Studio Art 360: Sculpture Critique / Color

Max Ernst: . http://uploads0.wikipaintings.org/images/max-ernst/the-entire-city-1935.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • What TEXTURES do you find comforting? What Textures do you find discomforting?

Reflection: From the topics YOU wrote down… what 3 topics do you feel are most worth your while is pursuing as an artwork? Why?

 FOR TOMORROW! BRING IN A PHOTOGRAPH OF YOUR HEAD / FACE or that of a FRIEND / FAMILY MEMBER that you can CUT UP and GLUE DOWN! If you don’t you will be unprepared for the assignment and will have to choose a BORING FACE from a magazine

AP Studio Art: 

http://www.wnyc.org/widgets/ondemand_player/freakonomics/#file=json/576159

Goals:

  • Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • Please describe the last time you SERIOUSLY sat down and took the time to HANDWRITE a LETTER to someone. Who was it to? What was it about? How was your handwriting? We are going to take today to listen about the most basic tool we use… the pencil. Get a sketchbook and a note pad to make notes in… Freakonomics.

LISTEN HERE: http://www.wnyc.org/widgets/ondemand_player/freakonomics/#file=json/576159

Reflection: Well… what are your ideas? Tomorrow – bring in your favorite pencil and an 11” x 8.5” piece of paper – YOUR CHOICE. Spiral bound, loose leaf, printer paper, Stationery… YOUR CHOICE. information tomorrow!

Advanced Drawing: 50 Sheets of Paper!

PAPER and PAPER! https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/e1954-dscf1535.jpg

Goals:

  • 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.

Reflection: 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. 

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#Friday for you. #Thursday for me. Hope to see you at #ParentTecher Conferences

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

Happy Youth Art Month:

Happy Birthday to Alexander-Gabriel Decamps (March 3, 1803 – 1860)

Self-Portrait: http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/wcm/connect/a9346c6e-ae82-4972-a323-91ab04fb6464/WOA_IMAGE_1.jpg?MOD=AJPERES&CACHEID=050f5b88-58e9-4e29-8062-35e576761023

Drawing: MUSIC and ART!

Paul Klee: Let’s READ ALOUD and then let you decide about Deviant Art? You Decide… https://d3l2rivt3pqnj2.cloudfront.net/i/prints/lg/1/6/163099.jpg  AND http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/3/13/1394725009303/Paul-Klee-1879-1940-The-A-001.jpg

Goals:

  • 7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
  • Look at YESTERDAY’s beginning goal… write down what you wrote YESTERDAY and ELABORATE on your idea.
    • THEN… STICKY NOTE TIME: Looking at your classmates work – what’s the BEST Thing you see? Write it out – name and all – then at SOME POINT TODAY – go and tell them.

Reflection: 

What does reflecting on a daily basis about this (or other artworks) do for YOU? NOT FOR ME, but for you? Give 3 ideas you  will carry forward in your Artist Habits.

How does your art compare with the work of “professionals” and how can you work to create a better understanding of your approach / intent / ideas?)

Studio Art 360: Sculpture Critique / Color

Sculpture by Senkang: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Sengkang_Sculpture_Park_6,_Nov_05.JPG

Goals:

  • 9.1P: Establish relevant criteria in order to evaluate a work of art or collection of works.
  • Look at YESTERDAY’s beginning goal… write down what you wrote YESTERDAY and ELABORATE on your idea.
    • Looking at the forms you created – what is the STRONGEST / MOST SUCCESSFUL aspect of these four objects? What is the WEAKEST / LEAST SUCCESSFUL aspect of these four objects? 

Reflection: 

What does reflecting on a daily basis about this (or other artworks) do for YOU? NOT FOR ME, but for you? Give 3 ideas you  will carry forward in your Artist Habits.

What form was the most challenging for you to create with the DRAWING or the CARDBOARD? Why do you feel that was the biggest challenge? Use the ART TERMS that you know (Form, Shape, Effort, Execution…). How can you use the IDEAS, TECHNIQUES, PROCESS that we went through in ART CLASS in another part of your life / school?

AP Studio Art: 

Edit this cry out of the baby’s face: http://www.ufunk.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/If-I-Could-Use-Photoshop-in-Real-Life-1.jpg

Goals:

  • Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making (Students use critical thinking skills to plan and conduct research, manage projects, solve problems, and make informed decisions using appropriate digital tools and resources.)
  • Look at YESTERDAY’s beginning goal… write down what you wrote YESTERDAY and ELABORATE on your idea.
    • What images have you made photographs of so far? What images have you yet to make photographs of? Why is this taking you so long? What issues are you having?

Reflection: What was the problem that you had today with the editing of the images? Can you do this on your own? Do you need help in the process of making the needed updates to your website? Questions? WHAT? Plan on beginning a NEW CONCENTRATION next week. ALSO begin to look through some BREADTH possibilities from PAST CLASSES… Should we do a couple of BREADTH WORKS instead on MONDAY?

Advanced Drawing: 50 Sheets of Paper!

Anselm Kiefer: Midgard: http://collection.mam.org/vmedia/tms768/r_m1987_1.jpg

Goals:

  • 6.1Ac: Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history.
  • Look at YESTERDAY’s beginning goal… write down what you wrote YESTERDAY and ELABORATE on your idea.
    • What pages are you using to satisfy the 50 pages? What is your imagery? Why are you using what you are using?  WHAT IS THE MESSAGE / RATIONALE / PERSONAL  / SOCIETAL meaning you are working to COMMUNICATE?

Reflection: What does reflecting on a daily basis about this (or other artworks) do for YOU? NOT FOR ME, but for you? Give 3 ideas you  will carry forward in your Artist Habits.

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#MidWeek #Wednesday… One More Day! Weekend in sight!

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

Happy Youth Art Month:

Happy Birthday to Robert Williams: March 2, 1943

http://sourharvest.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Robert-Williams.jpg

Drawing: MUSIC and ART!

Goals:

  • 7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
  • What techniques are working for you in this work? How will you talk about the the struggles and successes you are having?

Reflection: As you worked today, what are the major successes you found in your approach to the oil pastels today? How do you see this as being a drawing that can help you understand compositional relationships?

Studio Art 360: Sculpture WRAP – UP

CARDBOARD SCULPTURE – What can you think of doing with your new skills? https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ab287-deerblogphotos25282of92529.jpg

Goals:

  • 10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated.
  • These forms may not be your MASTERPIECE of all time, but they did require focus, work, and attention to detail. Looking at ALL the FORMS you created, how you assembled the work, how you wrapped it up with color choices… explain 3 things that you feel were important about what you learned in the ease or difficulty about creating a work of art? TOMORROW WE ARE CRITIQUING! Make sure you are FOCUSED TODAY!

Reflection: If you are NOT done with the paper mache forms, what could you / should you have done over that past 2 weeks to make sure you DID get them finished by the end of the period? How do you see that you are going to be ready for the critique tomorrow?

AP Studio Art: 

JWM Turner’s Sketchbook. How are you using YOUR sketchbook? http://www.tate.org.uk/art/images/work/D/D07/D07860_10.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • To HELP YOU FULLY UNDERSTAND YOUR current concentration, what is the common thread that is chasing through all of your work? What do you SEE? What is the MEANING? Why is this work IMPORTANT?

Reflection: Thinking about the critiques from earlier this week, what are you in need of doing to make these  end of the concentration works the best? We still have TONS of time to POLISH our concentrations… what else do you do? 

Advanced Drawing: 50 Sheets of Paper!

Working over the top of the paper? Is the text important? http://www.johwey.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/2010-0516-04.jpg

Goals:

  • 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.
  • TWO MORE DAYS this week… What are two things you are planning on doing TODAY to get a good deal of work done today? EXPLAIN IN DETAIL how you are working OBSERVATION into this drawing?

Reflection: Think about the conversation from Monday… what are THREE THINGS you heard about OTHER artists works that 1) Stuck with you and 2) are beneficial to you about your work?

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#NoArtTeacher in the #Studio – NO WORRIES – #WorkHard

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

Happy Youth Art Month:

Happy Birthday to Oskar Kokoshka: March 1, 1886 – 1922

Oskar Kokoshka: Self Portrait: http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/citi/images/standard/WebLarge/WebImg_000266/202004_3184914.jpg

Drawing: MUSIC and ART!

Goals:

  • 7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
  • Reflect on YESTERDAY before you begin today! What worked with the new materials? What didn’t? Explain your answers…

Reflection: As you worked with oil pastels today, what were two things that the paper and colors did to help you better create the messages behind your work? FULL SENTENCES! Explain WHY!  

Studio Art 360: Sketchbook Assignments

Weeping Willow by Edouard Manet: https://www.kimbellart.org/sites/default/files/styles/large_800/public/tms/AP1996_02_MAIN1.jpg?itok=XVIFfILT

Goals:

  •  10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.
  • What is the strength of your soda can / drink compositions from last week? What have you developed as a real strength in your drawings? You are going to work today on THIS WEEK’s NEW sketch and I will look QUICKLY at THIS and LAST week’s sketches NEXT week. If you need to polish the cans up for next week – take the time to do that.This Week Prompt: Weeping Willows! Where are you going to take this?

Reflection: What three things can you do / are you going to do to to enhance your sketchbook drawing for next week’s grade? 

AP Studio Art: 

What’s happening in your ideas, your imagery? http://room13international.org/wp-content/themes/room13/assets/images/bg-sketchbook-open.jpg

Goals:

  • 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 sketches been over the past months? How have you been planning the NEW and Important ideas out for your work? HOW DOES THIS HELP YOU?
    • Sitting down with your sketchbooks and your statements from the AP Questions… look back at your entire body of work and consider the next works. How can you move forward successfully?

Reflection: What have you come up / accomplished with today? 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? How can you use that conversation / reflection to add to your ARTIST STATEMENT online?

Advanced Drawing: 50 Sheets of Paper!

50 Sheets of Paper… Ekaterina Panikanova: http://beautifuldecay.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Ekaterina-Panikanova-painting1.jpg

Goals:

  • 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 need FEEDBACK on from your classmates about your work today as we do a REAL MID CRIT? WRITE THAT OUT and ASK during the crit.

Reflection: What 2 things did you accomplish today that is making you stronger in the concepts of drawing?

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#WorkWeek is HUGE Now – #LateWork?

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

What are you missing? Thursday is a good day to get it all in… http://enactusmans.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/too-late-1.jpg

Happy Youth Art Month:

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Happy Birthday BALTHUS. Februsary 29, 1908 http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/citi/images/standard/WebMedium/WebImg_000255/189088_3040483.jpg

Drawing: MUSIC and ART!

Goals:

  • G: 6.1Ac: Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history.
  • What songs are you using to create your artwork and what is ONE things that STANDS OUT as OBVIOUS to connect the two works of art? 

Reflection: SHARE YOUR THEORY AND DRAWING WITH YOUR CLASSMATE – Last 5 Minutes – CONVERSATION and write down what you have learned from your classmate.

Studio Art 360: Sculpture and PAINT

A very different type of sculpture than we are working on. Cardboard nonetheless. http://www.evolo.us/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/ICON_5.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.1P: Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.
  • What more do you need to do in order to be done with the sculpting of the form and then resolve the form to add the paper mache for Wednesday (might be a work day)? 

Reflection: How do you feel the adding of the paper mache and color ENHANCES or MAKES THE WORK STRONGER than it was when it was just cardboard?  Use your art terms from the back wall or on page 29 in the folder.

AP Studio Art: 

Your Concentration… http://www.johnlund.com/Images/10284401107.jpg

Goals:

  • 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 does your work for this week Re-Engage the ideas you have been using in the past while ALSO provide ideas of REVISION?.

Reflection: I try to get you to talk to one another and reflect. Look at each other’s work today and do that. Explain, listen, WRITE DOWN THOUGHTS for your own reflections. 

Advanced Drawing: 50 Sheets of Paper!

paper paper paper: https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/5876c-dscf7064.jpg

Goals:

  • 6.1Ac: Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history.
  • What pages are you using to satisfy the 50 pages? What is your imagery? Why are you using what you are using?

Reflection: What did your discussions during the first part of class do for you as you discussed and explained your ideas for 50 pages of paper? Give 3 ideas you shared and will carry forward. 

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#Friday on a Friday – I am STILL HERE but not yet a #Billionaire

I may not make a billion dollars in my lifetime, but here are the final thoughts aobut how YOU can. Thanks Sarah Blakely for your advice! Congratulations on your success! http://static02.mediaite.com/themarysue/uploads/2012/03/SaraBlakely-412×550.jpg

Here are the top 10 lessons learned from Sara’s Blakely’s journey from fax machine saleswoman to entrepreneurial superstar:

9)      Don’t worry about the outer “stuff” until the time is right. Sara worked tirelessly from her apartment creating her product, avoiding investing in outside office space or other marketing and business tools until the product had taken off.  She didn’t have a formal website until she made it on the Oprah show and needed one.  Anything that wasn’t essential to building the product and getting the name out there simply wasn’t a priority.

10)   Breaking the mold is a good thing.  When Sara began to research undergarments for women and how they’d been made for the last 50 years, she was astonished.  From the absurd sizing protocols (only one average waist measure was used on all the products, regardless of the size of the garment), to how products were tested (on manikins not real people), Sara saw that the undergarment industry needed a female perspective – insights from a real woman wearing these items to shape the product development direction so the products were useful, effective, and as comfortable as possible.  She broke the mold, and developed a completely new approach to developing women’s undergarments.

Sara’s most important tip:

“Believe in your idea, trust your instincts, and don’t be afraid to fail. It took me two years from the time I had the idea for Spanx until the time I had a product in hand ready to sell into stores. I must have heard the word “no” a thousand times. If you believe in your idea 100%, don’t let anyone stop you! Not being afraid to fail is a key part of the success of Spanx.”

http://WWW.FORBES.COM/SITES/KATHYCAPRINO/2012/05/23/10-LESSONS-I-LEARNED-FROM-SARA-BLAKELY-THAT-YOU-WONT-HEAR-IN-BUSINESS-SCHOOL/#B7B88B174429

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#Friday on a #Thursday #YEAH! What are you working on this #Weekend?

Here are the top 10 lessons learned from Sara’s Blakely’s journey from fax machine saleswoman to entrepreneurial superstar:

7)      You CAN figure it out – you have the ability.  Sara knew absolutely nothing about women’s undergarments, patenting a new product, manufacturing, marketing, product development, website development, online commerce, and more.  But that didn’t stop her. She researched what she needed to, hired out what she couldn’t do, and marched forward with undying commitment and energy. Don’t stop yourself from pursuing an idea because you don’t think you have what it takes.

8)      You can build a billion dollar business starting with $5,000.  Sara had only $5,000 in savings on that fateful day when she cut the feet off of her stockings in order to wear them under her white pants for a more flattering look (and thus, realized the world needed a new undergarment product that would be comfortable yet flattering to the female form).  From that $5,000 she embarked on designing a prototype, securing a manufacturer, naming the product, legally protecting her product, and getting the word out to potential buyers.  You don’t have to be rich to move forward with your fabulous new idea.

 

 

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kathycaprino/2012/05/23/10-lessons-i-learned-from-sara-blakely-that-you-wont-hear-in-business-school/#b7b88b174429

Drawing: MUSIC and ART!

Guggenheim in NYC! Send me photographs of your weekend visit! http://media.guggenheim.org/content/New_York/exhibitions/2011/decisiverose_490x235.jpg

Goals:

  • 7.2Ac: Evaluate the effectiveness of an image or images to influence ideas, feelings, and behaviors of specific audiences.
  • As this develops, how are your ideas and Kandinsky’s similar and how are they different? What might you take away from this experience? How can you share that idea with the world?  

Reflection: From the conversation you had… what are things you HEARD from others that might help you get rolling on a SOLID and SUCCESSFUL image on Monday? If you need to RESOLVE your image over the weekend… do so.

Studio Art 360: Sculpture – WRAP IT UP!

Anne Truit – What are you doing with COLOR? http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/ED-AK645_truitt_DV_20091209170159.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.2P: Explain how traditional and non-traditional materials may impact human health and the environment and demonstrate safe handling of materials, tools, and equipment.
  • Final day to work. Ready to focus? This has been a fast week – what is ONE THING you need to do today to GET YOUR SCULPTURE COMPLETED TODAY? Monday we will WORK and then MOVE ONTO the NEXT WORK.

Reflection: What do you need to do this weekend to wrap up your sculpture? If you are done – hopefully you are – What is are two things you would do differently that would better enhance your sculpture?

AP Studio Art: 

Guernica – Sketches! http://www.museoreinasofia.es/sites/default/files/styles/foto_horizontal_wide/public/obras/DE00120_0.jpg?itok=YSFdDySJ

Goals:

  • 1.1 Ad: Visualize and hypothesize to generate plans for ideas and directions for creating art and design that can affect social change.
  • Looking at the ideas you came up with as a group yesterday… if your work could MAKE A CHANGE to SOCIETY – Start Conversation – Begin a REVOLUTION for CHANGE – what imagery comes up RIGHT NOW… You do not have to stick with it, but RIGHT NOW – Good ideas or not.

Reflection: Well – are you going to lead the revolution? I hope so! What do you plan on doing for the weekend

Advanced Drawing: 50 Sheets of Paper!

Sol Le Witt MANY panels! http://www.baeditions.com/sol-lewitt-artwork/sol-lewitt-color-grids-installed.jpg

Goals:

  • 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.
  • 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? How are you working in the OBSERVATION part of this requirement?

Reflection: Having 4 days this week to get into the process, plus one day of a critique, DESCRIBE ALL THAT YOU HAVE ACCOMPLISHED. As an outside VIEWER – what progress would we see.