Author: fjkorb

Husband, Dad, Artist and Educator. I love making art, talking art, seeing art, and running.
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#StretchBig – Halfway through the week!

http://sagharboronline.com/sagharborexpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/web-jerry-saltz.jpg

What has Jerry Saltz got to say to Art Students today?

5. Follow your obsessions. If you love the Cubs that much, maybe they need to be in your work.

6. Don’t take other people’s ideas of skill. Do brain surgery with an axe.

Drawing: CRIT!

Looking, looking, looking… http://fineartscomm.lamar.edu/_files/images/dishman/dishman-homepage-slideshow/Patron%20looking%20at%20art.jpg

Goals:

  • 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 you have drawn, what are aspects that you would talk about if you were critiquing the work as being successful or unsuccessful?
  • Let’s START CLASS WITH THIS… Episode 1 – Work of Art – CRITIQUE – Start at 27:00  and run a few minutes to see a critique.
  • Things to think about – back page of your RUBRIC and HERE – Questions to ask when writing about art.

Reflection: What are your thoughts about the idea of the composition / white objects as subject matter? WRITE THAT IN YOUR GOAL SHEETS. Why do you feel this is worthy / unworthy / simple / complicated? What is working? What can you take forward to the next assignment? 

Studio Art 360: Still Life CRIT and Matt…

What’s More Important? https://s3.amazonaws.com/easel.ly/all_easels/45467/Process_over_Product/image.jpg

Goals:

Reflection: 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? How do you feel you have DEVELOPED as an ARTIST – that’s what you are you know.

AP Studio Art: TODAY is the LAST DAY to Work of Art 

http://www.chrisjordan.com/img/gallery/katrina/reddoor.jpg Chris Jordan’s Website.

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • What did you accomplish yesterday? What are you planning on for today?

Reflection: Share with your neighbor a few thoughts about the MEANING of this particular Work of Art.

Advanced Drawing: RESOLVE the DRAWING!

Looking, Looking, Looking – SAM FRANCIS?! http://cdn.playbuzz.com/cdn/2de27b42-604e-444d-93bd-b70e9196d7a0/ac631740-c9ed-452d-8651-6a86265b2c98.jpg

Goals:

  • 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 you have drawn, what are aspects that you would talk about if you were critiquing the work as being successful or unsuccessful?
  • Let’s START CLASS WITH THIS… Episode 1 – Work of Art – CRITIQUE – Start at 27:00  and run a few minutes to see a critique.
  • Things to think about – back page of your RUBRIC and HERE – Questions to ask when writing about art.

Reflection: What are your thoughts about the idea of the composition / white objects as subject matter? WRITE THAT IN YOUR GOAL SHEETS. Why do you feel this is worthy / unworthy / simple / complicated? What is working? What can you take forward to the next assignment? 

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#Resolution #Tuesday in the #Studio

What has Jerry Saltz got to say to Art Students today?

  1. Stay up late with each other after all the professors go to sleep. Support one another.
  2. You can’t think your way through an art problem. As John Cage said, “Work comes from work.”

Drawing: What do you STILL have to do?

How can you use your developed skills from this drawing and move forward to your NEXT drawing? https://whatiamlearningnow.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/wp-1396177324724.jpg

Goals:

  • G: 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • As you look back on this drawing – what is the ONE AREA you are uncertain about in the work?
  • Let’s END CLASS WITH THIS… Episode 1 – Work of Art – CRITIQUE – Start at 27:00  and run a few minutes to see a critique.
  • Things to think about – back page of your RUBRIC and HERE – Questions to ask when writing about art.

Reflection: What do you FEAR about standing up in front of a class and TALKING about your art with the class of Artists? Name 3 FEARS…

Studio Art 360: Sketchbook

Cardboard Maquettes: Tony Smith’s Ideas: http://www.nashersculpturecenter.org/Images/Objects/yttztojo/1266-0-1976-Tony-Smith-One-Two-Three.jpg

Goals:

  • 10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.
  • How can you use the skills you learn in CLASS from ONE Project help you develop skills that you can use in OTHER Projects – In THIS class, but more importantly – in OTHER aspects of your life? Give two examples. 

Reflection: From ALL the sketched you created, thinking about cubes, cylinders, pyramids – which ideas do you think are the strongst COMPOSITIONALLY – this is going to be 3D.

AP Studio Art: LAST DAY to Work on your Work of Art inspired by Work Of Art! 

Art as a MOUNTAIN! WOW! http://www.agnesdenesstudio.com/img/works4/works4.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • Where are you struggling with ideas as you resolve your artwork and plan your next two concentration works? What is it about FINDING YOUR VOICE? What did you take away from yesterday’s crit?

Reflection: What bit of advice did you get from your classmates that you will be able to put to use? What bit of advice did you give that might be used elsewhere? What are your goals for the next work(s) that will show your development?

Advanced Drawing: RESOLVE the DRAWING!

YUM YUM Yuck: https://ihabdines.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/mcdonalds-bag.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • As you look back on this drawing – what is the ONE AREA you are uncertain about in the work?
  • Let’s END CLASS WITH THIS… Episode 1 – Work of Art – CRITIQUE – Start at 27:00  and run a few minutes to see a critique.
  • Things to think about – back page of your RUBRIC and HERE – Questions to ask when writing about art.

Reflection: What do you ENJOY, as ADVANCED DRAWING ARTISTS about standing up in front of a class and TALKING / LISTENING about your art with the class of Artists? Name 3 LESSONS / LIKES…

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#Monday withOUT #MrKorb in #Art – What WILL you DO?

Start With THIS video… then onto YOUR CLASSES:

What has Jerry Saltz got to say to Art Students? Let’s hear it from Mr. Korb:

1. Go to an art school that doesn’t cost too much. Those who go to Yale and Columbia might get a nine-month career bump right after graduation, but you’ll all be back on the same level in a year, and you won’t be in as much debt.

2. Envy will eat you alive.

Drawing: 2 Days to DRAW in CLASS

Morandi SIMPLIFIED! http://uploads3.wikiart.org/images/giorgio-morandi/natura-morta-1(1).jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • How have you changed in the process since you have begun? How are you drawing DIFFERENTLY than you did PRIOR to this Drawing?

Reflection: Have you improved your drawings skills over the past project?  What is the biggest success you have accomplished with this work? Where are you struggling still? EXPLAIN – Sentence… not just a word.

Studio Art 360: One solid day to FOCUS on the DRAWING

Morandi – http://www.artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight/op_inc_253_gra.gif

Goals:

  • 10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.
  • What are you nervous, apprehensive, afraid of when it comes to drawing in perspective? I mean… what do you struggle with?

Reflection: Of ALL the parts of your drawing – SINCE DAY ONE – what are you happiest with and what caused you the biggest problem? WHY?

AP Studio Art: Work on your Work of Art inspired by Work Of Art! 

Nils Udo – Sacred Ecology: http://sacredecologyfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Sacred_Ecology_Nils_Udo_02.jpg

Goals:

  • 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.
  • What has been successful for your outdoor work? What has FAILED you? Where do you need to go from here?

Reflection: With this OUT OF THE BOX (out of the doors) assignment… What struggles are you facing? What New ideas and  skills do you see developing?

Advanced Drawing: 

Are your paperbags a bit more challenging? I think so. http://www.utdallas.edu/~mel024000/pages/2D_Design/PaperBagDrawing/paperbagdraw.jpg

Goals:

  • 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.
  • How did last week’s critique help you or challenge you as you looked at it from that distance and heard from Mr. Korb or your fellow artists?

Reflection: Talk to your neighbor / partner about the potential meaning behind your work. Write those thoughts down PLEASE?

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#FinallyFriday and #MakeArt Time

What you must express in your drawing is not “what model you had,” but “what were your sensations,” and you select from what is visual of the model the traits that best express you. – Robert Henri

Drawing: Get to WORK – DRAW – FOCUS

A Different look at Gorgio Morandi’s Work: http://www.moma.org/collection_images/resized/193/w500h420/CRI_151193.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.
  • How have you changed in your personal drawing process since you have begun this drawing? How are you drawing DIFFERENTLY than you did PRIOR to this Drawing?

Reflection: Have you improved your drawings skills over the past few days?  What is the biggest success you have accomplished this week? Where are you struggling?

Studio Art 360: FORM and EXAMPLES!

Still Life you can work towards…  http://img05.deviantart.net/353a/i/2013/211/c/6/boxes_still_life_by_spattergroits-d6fy7xj.jpg

Goals:

  • 9.1P: Establish relevant criteria in order to evaluate a work of art or collection of works.
  • What did you do to make the BEST USE of the materials, composition, CHARACTER in your artwork? Get out your RUBRICS from the beginning of the work and let’s look over what you have done well, need work on, learned.

Reflection: What did looking back on your ARTWORK do to help you understand your activity as an artist? Skills? Process? Anything else?  Use the ART TERMS you know.

AP Studio Art: Work Of Art! 

Nils-Udo – Art IN nature and FROM nature: https://jmmathenyblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/robinia-leaf-swing.jpg

Goals:

  • 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.
  • What has been successful for your outdoor work? What has FAILED you? Where do you need to go from here?

Reflection: With this OUT OF THE BOX (out of the doors) assignment… What struggles are you facing? Where are  you falling in the snow? What are your challenges?

Advanced Drawing: 

How is this working like YOUR drawing? http://chriseddins.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/paperbagstilllife-300×225.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.1 Ad: Visualize and hypothesize to generate plans for ideas and directions for creating art and design that can affect social change.
  • What skills do you feel you are using that you came to class with – skills you rely on ALWAYS as you move into this drawing?

Reflection:  What has been your most successful are of this drawing today? Any NEW techniques, approaches, ideas you have learned with this?

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This Week is going by #SoFast

What you must express in your drawing is not “what model you had,” but “what were your sensations,” and you select from what is visual of the model the traits that best express you. – Robert Henri

Drawing: Get to WORK – DRAW – FOCUS

Morandi – http://www.moma.org/collection_images/resized/698/w500h420/CRI_167698.jpg

Goals:

  •  7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
  • What do you hope to take / hear /  learn from the MID – CRIT from Friday? How do your thumbnails help you out? What problems have come up that you did not see when you did the thumbnails? Identify with your neighbor the absolute black, absolute white, and 3 different levels of grey.

Reflection: hat have you learned today about how to push / pull space with value? What have you accomplished with pencil? What is SUCCESSFUL?

Studio Art 360: FORM and EXAMPLES!

Boxes – but use MORE VALUE! https://m2.behance.net/rendition/pm/20520265/disp/6f2be349ecc83fd7c0cefabcfe01e80a.jpg

Goals:

  • 10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.
  • What is the difference between shape and form? Please be descriptive in your definition.How are you SEEING the differences as you have BEGUN to DRAW?

Reflection: What do you envision as the biggest challenge with your letter? If you see this as the problem… how do you feel you might be able to solve that challenge?

AP Studio Art: Work Of Art! 

Walter de Maria – Lighning Field: http://www.ballardian.com/wp-content/uploads/lightning_field.jp

Goals:

  • 1.1 Ad: Visualize and hypothesize to generate plans for ideas and directions for creating art and design that can affect social change.
  • What have you learned, thought about, experienced, been terrified by from working outside of the box? Outside of your comfort zone?

Reflection: What were the biggest impressions you had from going outside for ideas? What were the most difficult things you felt as you presented your work? Conversation between classmates about the 2 questions for your exam. How does this work relate to your concentration?

Advanced Drawing: 

VALUE! http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2642/3764370966_44a34b404c.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • What did you do yesterday to prepare yourself for in the design and execution of this still life / commentary work?

Reflection:  What did you take away from the drawing today? What are you succeeding with?

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#MidWeek #ArtDay – Let’s #MAKEART

Do you remember YOUR Freshman Open House? We have it again TONIGHT! The ART DEPARTMENT could use your help in promoting itself. Come DRAW, PAINT, WORK in the studio tonight from 5:30 – 8:00pm. Let Mr. Korb Know when you will be here. Sign up HERE!

What you must express in your drawing is not “what model you had,” but “what were your sensations,” and you select from what is visual of the model the traits that best express you. – Robert Henri

Drawing: Get to WORK – DRAW – FOCUS

TRANSPARENCY! http://tasupperschoolart.com/gallery/2011/drawing/105520/artwork/transparent_big.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.
  • How are you ACTIVATING or THINKING about the background – negative space? As you have worked… what pencil have you been drawn to? Why? What has been easy about this project? More importantly – what was challenging? 

Reflection: What are three differences in your drawing techniques / skills you are finding as you are using DRAWING Pencils versus MECHANICAL or STANDARD #2 pencils?

Studio Art 360: FORM and EXAMPLES!

Hope and ART: https://rosenbaumcontemporary.com/imgs/exhibitions/Robert-Indiana-Exhibit-2.jpg

Goals:

  • 9.1P: Establish relevant criteria in order to evaluate a work of art or collection of works.
  • What are you doing in your composition to FULLY ACTIVATE the background? Shapes, Texture, Color, Lines, Circles? Allow yourself to EXPERIMENT!

Reflection: What is the strongest part of your artwork that you created this week? Use the ART TERMS you know

AP Studio Art: Work Of Art! 

OUTSIDE AS ART… James Turrell “Sky Space”…  http://skyspace.rice.edu/site_media/media/cache/2f/98/2f98a170074f3e2a60d93038c289dbed.png

Goals:

  • 7.2Ad: Determine the commonalities within a group of artists or visual images attributed to a particular type of art, timeframe, or culture.
  • What have you been doing to try and create a work of art inspired by the outside? Where do you see this drawing / artwork going? How are you using the materials from outside to make GREAT ART?

Reflection: What have you accomplished in this day of work? What do you need to get accomplished for FRIDAY when your CURRENT BREADTH work is due online?

Advanced Drawing: 

http://www.utdallas.edu/~mel024000/pages/2D_Design/PaperBagDrawing/paperbagdraw.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • Where do you see the ideas of preliminary works as being a strong help in the making of your art?
  • SARAH GRAHAM Website.

Reflection: Talk to your neighbor / partner about the potential meaning behind your work. What SKILLS are you hoping to / developing in this drawing? 

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#SketchbookTuesday #StudioArt360 #StillLife Otherwise

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What you must express in your drawing is not “what model you had,” but “what were your sensations,” and you select from what is visual of the model the traits that best express you. – Robert Henri

Drawing: Get to WORK – DRAW – FOCUS

Morandi: https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/gm1.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
  • How are you defining the edges of forms DIFFERENTLY now than you have in the past (value changes vs outlines)?

Reflection: What do you see in your fellow studio artist’s work that you feel might be beneficial for you to put into your art making toolbox? Be specific.

Studio Art 360: SKETCHBOOKS and Jim Dine!

Jim Dine and TOOLS – Why Tools? Who cares? Work toward COMPOSITION. http://prod-images.exhibit-e.com/www_richardgraygallery_com/5d1dbc50.jpg

Goals:

  • G: 10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.
  • How can you BEGIN a sketchbook idea? Thumbnail drawings? YES! Let’s start with 5 – 10 minutes of THUMBNAILS to develop a strong COMPOSITION and then move forward from there.

Reflection: What is the benefit of taking the time to KNOW about a strong composition?

AP Studio Art: Work Of Art! 

Andy Goldsworthy – Art from OUTSIDE! https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/52eda-img_8869_aaaa_bbbb_tonemapped.jpg

Goals:

  •  7.1Ad: Analyze how responses to art develop over time based on knowledge of and experience with art and life.
  • Where are you struggling with ideas as you progress forward? What is it about FINDING YOUR VOICE? What did you take away from yesterday’s crit?
  • Work of Art

Reflection: What are your initial ideas about how you might begin with your NATURAL MATERIALS? What will you do?

Advanced Drawing: Draw with your IDEAS in mind.

Bags and Bags and bags… http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium/paper-bag-danielle-giglia.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.
  • What are aspects of your preliminary drawings that are successful? What are aspects of the preliminary drawings that are NOT successful? Where do you see the preliminary works as being a strong help in the making of your art?
  • BEFORE YOU RETURN TO DRAWING… SARAH GRAHAM Website.

Reflection: What did you see in your neighbor’s drawings that were successful / needed work? Why do you feel the POP artists chose to pursue the EVERYDAY object to base their body of work on? Share your thoughts with the class.

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#MondayMonday #Week3 of Art. Let’s think about #RobertHenri

What you must express in your drawing is not “what model you had,” but “what were your sensations,” and you select from what is visual of the model the traits that best express you. – Robert Henri

Drawing: MidCrit Open up to page 2 of the RUBRIC!

What are you doing with the ELEMENT of VALUE? http://www.moma.org/collection_images/resized/526/w500h420/CRI_167526.jpg

Goals:

  • 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 are your biggest accomplishments as you worked last week? Where are the three successful aspects of the still life? What are the aspects that are not successful yet? Identify with your neighbor the absolute black, absolute white, and 3 different levels of grey.

Reflection: What have you learned today about how to push / pull / create space with value or ANOTHER Element? What have you accomplished with pencil? What is SUCCESSFUL that a CLASSMATE showed you about your work?

Studio Art 360: Still Life – FORMS and RELATIONSHIPS

Robert Indiana making a presence with LOVE: http://www.imamuseum.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/LOVE_ri.jpg

Goals:

  • SIT BACK and let’s see a COMPOSITION DEMONSTRATION by Mr. Korb. How can you RELATE to these “SIMPLE” Objects?
  • 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 came up with ideas / skills in VALUE last week?

Reflection: What are 2 DRAWING skills you have already OR are in need of that will make your experiences in Studio Art 360 successful?

AP Studio Art: Work Of Art! 

Going OUTSIDE to INVEST TIME in inspiration and MAKING ART. https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/andy2bgoldsworthy.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.
  • As you look back on the body of works you have created so far, what are TWO things that you are seeing as falling short of AP Level work?  
  • Work of Art

Reflection:  What were the biggest impressions you had from the WORK OF ART artists going outside for ideas? BRING A WARM COAT TOMORROW

Advanced Drawing: MidCrit – Open to Page 2 of your RUBRIC

Let’s TALK for a minute. http://www.ccad.edu/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/8122933986_eb348e195f.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.
  • What was the successful part of the drawing for you? What will you carry forward as you make more art?
  • BEFORE YOU RETURN TO DRAWING… SARAH GRAHAM Website.

Reflection: How did doing the critique open your ears to what was said? How did it open your eyes to what you saw?

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#Friday ALREADY? 4 Classes you MUST attend.

Ten Things You MUST Give Up To Move Forward – Stephen Covey

Drawing: Thumbnails and Composition!

Thumbnails and Drawing – What’s interesting to you? https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/6a64c-esplin1.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • Most young artists work with their FIRST idea and that’s it. What might the benefit be to begin with MORE ideas? When you sketch in your binders / homework… where do you mostly get your ideas from?  How do you define OBSERVATION?

Reflection: As you drew today, how have you begun to break the shapes and forms down into more bite sized, more manageable pieces? Do you need to LIGHTEN UP your initial drawing? Do you need to get the WHOLE COMPOSITION figured in first? Are you really OBSERVING?

Studio Art 360: VALUE SCALES!

HOPE – How does Indiana use the same idea with different words? http://media.trb.com/media/photo/2011-11/159353720-03073954.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • What did you do successfully yesterday with VALUES that you can continue with today? What is it you need to erase, change, resolve to make the drawing today even more successful.

Reflection: What is one thing you are putting into your drawing of the 3D Forms and VALUE in the worksheets that you demonstrated and / or learned about in your Artist Trading Cards from last week? Make sure you are really need to be aware of the Elements and Principles as you are making art.

AP Studio Art: CRIT TODAY! 

How’s the critique Jerry? https://abiggerworldyet.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/20100610_art_560x375.jpg

Goals:

  • 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 TWO THINGS you took away from YESTERDAY’s Critique that you can see as helping you become a stronger artist? 

Reflection:  Look at the List of Habits of an Artist on page 30 in your folder. What is one area that you feel you may need to look at strongly as you move forward into the next artwork?

Advanced Drawing: Fast Food Nation.

Janet Fish, Beer and Brandy Glasses, http://images.dcmooregallery.com/www_dcmooregallery_com/Beer_and_Brandy_Glasses_03578.jpg

Goals:

  • 4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
  • Step back from your drawing and write out two things you see that are in need of attention FIRST! WRITE them down and then write down the WHY they need attention.

Reflection: Turn to the second set of pages in your rubric packet and get together with a friend / fellow artist and consider this a PRE-mid critique (sort of) and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the work you have in front of you. In the space provided in the RUBRIC write out your thoughts about the good, the bad, and the ugly WITH EXPLANATION. Are you STRONG, GOOD, BASIC, WEAK, or POOR – WHY? Execution, Composition, and Character – all

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#Thursday and #MakingArt – #StopWeek #TooFast

Ten Things You MUST Give Up To Move Forward – Stephen Covey

Drawing: Thumbnails and Composition!

Morandi was a drawer, painter and print maker too. http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Observer/Pix/pictures/2013/1/10/1357823154138/morandi-still-life-five-o-023.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • What did you accomplished yesterday? What are the differences in drawing materials – in your own words

Reflection: TODAY you should have a start in your FINAL DRAWING. This is DUE at the END OF NEXT WEEK (next Friday is the LAST DAY IN CLASS – That is 6 hours  of drawing time plus whatever else you do outside of class). What is SUCCESSFUL about the composition you decided to use as yours?

Studio Art 360: STILL LIFE and PERSPECTIVE!

Robert Indiana LOVE: http://whitecubediaries.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/3923768734_6b16394256_z.jpg

Goals:

  • 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 as THUMBNAILS?

Reflection: What are 2 difficulties that you had in the idea of SHADING? What is ONE thing you did successfully? Remember – DRAWING IS A CHALLENGE – let it be!

AP Studio Art: Art and Fear – DUE THURSDAY!

“Work of Art” CRITICS judge and critique the works of art in “Work of Art.” http://designobserver.com/media/images/bravo_judges_525.jpg

Goals:

  • 4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
  • What is ONE THING you struggled with or sailed with in connecting the work you have created to the Art and Fear Chapter you chose? Write this out so you have a starting place to talk when you explain your work.

Reflection: What 2 things you took away from our class crit about the Art and Fear work? 

Advanced Drawing: Fast Food Nation.

Audrey Flack and DETAILS – REALISM – Crayons: http://www.audreyflack.com/af/photorealism/1.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • Compositionally – what is the GREATEST STRENGTH you see in how you have arranged your objects on the matt board? Why is it working visually?

Reflection: Biggest struggle today – What was it in 144 characters or less? Use # to give examples of the key words or phrases.