Author: fjkorb

Husband, Dad, Artist and Educator. I love making art, talking art, seeing art, and running.
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#Workday #Wednesday #Still Life too.

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

Drawing: Thumbnails and Composition!

Morandi: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/aUkktG0wzs4/hqdefault.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? Thumbnails from MONDAY help prepare ideas for more solutions and ideas
  • Page 31 and 32 in Folder – Go over this with kids – Read aloud.

Reflection: In your compositions, IDENTIFY and WRITE DOWN the Transparent, Opaque, Translucent, and Metallic Objects you have chosen? Looking at your thumbnails, what compositional styles have you chosen to focus on?

Studio Art 360: STILL LIFE and PERSPECTIVE!

Robert Indiana: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2277/1750965577_f7ee03962d.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • Think about YESTERDAY’s Sketchbook Beginning… How do YOU draw something in 3 dimensions? What are different techniques you know?
  • REVIEW the HABITS of an Artist Page 30 in the Folder.
  • Let’s Look at EXAMPLES of PREVIOUS year’s work…

Reflection: What is ONE thing you noticed about the different drawing pencils you experimented with today?

AP Studio Art: Art and Fear – DUE THURSDAY!

Art and Fear? I’m a bit freaked out. http://www.likesharetweet.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/girlsonwall-Optimized.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.3Ad: Demonstrate in works of art or design how visual and material culture defines, shapes, enhances, inhibits, and/or empowers people’s lives.
  • Last day in class to work on this breadth piece is today. As you look at the work in front of you, what is it you need to do SPECIFICALLY to resolve this image? What is in need of FINE TUNING and REVISION?

Reflection: What is the MOST successful aspect of your work about Art and Fear? WHY? Can you explain any sense of artistic growth or development in this work?

This one is creepy too: http://www.ago.net/assets/images/554/FearStill-594.jpg

Advanced Drawing: Fast Food Nation.

Janet Fish: Still Life in Pencil. http://www.moma.org/media/W1siZiIsIjI2Nzk3MyJdLFsicCIsImNvbnZlcnQiLCItcmVzaXplIDUxMng1MTJcdTAwM0UiXV0.jpg?sha=c88e1477e390418e

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • Looking over your ideas from yesterday – which ONE stands out as successful and WHY? What type of composition (looking at the handout from today) would you say it is most like?

Reflection: What have you done to begin your final composition today? What ARTIST HABIT OF MIND are you thinking about – or maybe you are considering the levels in the rubric as you continue to develop your artistic skills?

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#Sketchbook #Tuesday in the #Art #Studio (#Perspective)

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

Drawing: Thumbnails and Composition!

Boxes and Objects – perspective, sighting in – Insode Outside Space… http://payload132.cargocollective.com/1/8/267741/4958137/06%20Drawing%20on%20Paper%20-%20Boxes_905.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?

Reflection: What skills, tools, ideas, compositional ideas do you hope to come up with this year in Drawing? What do you feel you will be able to improve on regarding the skills you have currently? 

Studio Art 360: Sketchbook!

Tony Smith Sculpture at the Matthew Marks Gallery. NYC. http://1vze7o2h8a2b2tyahl3i0t68.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Smith_2015-NYC_Installs_01.jpg INTERVIEW from ARTnews.

Goals:

  • 10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.
  • What is the difference between shape and form? There are a FEW OTHER terms we are going to cover in the book – terms that help up TALK about art. 

Reflection: What is the benefit of taking the time to KNOW about 1 and 2 point perspective as an Artist?

AP Studio Art: Art and Fear – DUE THURSDAY!

FEAR your ART! AAARGHHHH! http://cdnstatic.visualizeus.com/thumbs/7b/c5/art,fear,horror,photography,baby,atmosphere-7bc5d916aaa91183f908487153e43575_h.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • Step back from your work and examine it from a distance. What is SUCCESSFUL about the composition? N: Reflect on deepening your ideas about the work. 

Reflection: Look at page 30 in your folder. What are you doing as an ARTIST (use the Habits of an artist) to make your work strong?

Advanced Drawing: Fast Food Nation.

Audrey Flack – REALISM – For you? Maybe not yet. http://www.audreyflack.com/af/photorealism/2.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • What has been the hardest part of using values for you? Share this with your neighbor and write your struggles in your goals page.

Reflection: How is the progress of the thumbnails going thus far? What are you doing successfully? Where are you struggling? Have you come up with a composition that you can GLUE DOWN on the WHITE ILLUSTRATION BOARD so the ideas are the same tomorrow?

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#MondayMonday – Let’s have an #ARTattack in #Week2

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

http://goalhabits.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/ten_things.jpg?w=584&h=826

Drawing: Crit and SELF EVALUATION!

Let’s CRITIQUE some Art. https://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/~/media/ArtsEdge/Images/Articles/Educators/how-tos/tipsheets/art_critique16X9.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.
  • Of all the elements or principles you have illustrated / created a visual representation of, which one do you feel is the most successful and WHY?  

Reflection: What 2 things are you most pleased with regarding the works you made regarding the Visual Art Elements and Principles?

Studio Art 360: Crit and SELF EVALUATION!

Artist Trading Cards SWAP – End of the Semester – So SAVE your cards! http://www.milliande.com/images/atc-swap-artist-trading-card-theme-sticks-and-stones-set-milliande-1.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.
  • Of all the elements or principles you have illustrated / created a visual representation of, which one do you feel is the most successful and WHY?  

Reflection: What 2 things are you most pleased with regarding the works you made regarding the Visual Art Elements and Principles?

AP Studio Art: Art and Fear – DUE THURSDAY!

Jerry – What do you think about THIS work of Art? http://www.1stdibs.com/introspective-magazine/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Rohatyn_workofart.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 really want to explain about the work you have created regarding 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 are you most pleased with regarding the works you see / made out Art and Fear

Advanced Drawing: Crit your Art Trading Cards.

Time for some SELF REFLECTION. http://www.artlimited.net/user/0/0/1/6/3/5/6/artlimited_img349632.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.
  • Of all the elements or principles you have illustrated / created a visual representation of, which one do you feel is the most successful and WHY?  

Reflection: What 2 things are you most pleased with regarding the works you made regarding the Visual Art Elements and Principles?

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#Friday in the #ArtStudio – #3Reflections and #13Rules

What is Art? “Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.” Agnes Martin – Art In America (p.124, 1996)

Drawing: Trading Cards DUE MONDAY!

Edgar Degas: Dancer: http://www.frenchdrawings.org/images/hpt/1950.12.659.jpg

Goals:

  • 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.
  • How have you considered the ideas of EXECUTION, COMPOSITION, and CHARACTER in the process of making your art? List how you have thought of ONE of them as you have made your trading cards? If you HAVEN’T… maybe you should consider them as you are making your art.

Reflection: Looking at the artworks by various artists throughout this week – what styles do you prefer? Real, abstract, somewhere in between?

Studio Art 360: Trading Cards DUE MONDAY!

Broadway Boogie Woogie – Piet MOndrian: http://uploads2.wikiart.org/images/piet-mondrian/broadway-boogie-woogie-1943.jpg!Blog.jpg

Goals:

  • 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.
  • How have you considered the ideas of EXECUTION, COMPOSITION, and CHARACTER in the process of making your art? List how you have thought of ONE of them as you have made your trading cards? If you HAVEN’T… maybe you should consider them as you are making your art.

Reflection: Looking at the artworks by PIET MONDRIAN from this week – what do you think about the fact that the ABSTRACT WORK we saw was made by the same man that could draw realistically, and expressionistically?

AP Studio Art: Art and Fear – DUE THURSDAY! Chapter 1 – TONIGHT at MIDNIGHT!

http://www.fotowok.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/fotowok_ArtFear-004.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.3Ad: Demonstrate in works of art or design how visual and material culture defines, shapes, enhances, inhibits, and/or empowers people’s lives.
  • Last day THIS WEEK to work on this breadth piece. How has it felt to be NOT working on your CONCENTRATION works this week? Give yourself a few sentences to reflect.

Reflection: What are you going to be working on this weekend to resolve your work?

Advanced Drawing: PAGE 28 – HOMEWORK FOR THE WEEKEND!

Richard Diebenkorn: https://mhsart2m.wikispaces.com/file/view/klein10-29-10.jpg/241261721/378×460/klein10-29-10.jpg

Goals:

  • 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.
  • How have you considered the ideas of EXECUTION, COMPOSITION, and CHARACTER in the process of making your art? List how you have thought of ONE of them as you have made your trading cards? If you HAVEN’T… maybe you should consider them as you are making your art.

Reflection: Looking at the artworks by Richard Dibenkorn from this week – what do you think about the fact that the WORK we saw was made by the same man that could draw realistically, and expressionistically?

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#Thursday and #9ThingsToMakeAStrongArtWork – get’s one thinking.


What is Art? “Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.” Agnes Martin – Art In America (p.124, 1996)

Drawing: Elements and Principles

Georgia O’Keefe – Abstraction and Charcoal: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/eb/Georgia_O’Keeffe,_1915.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • What is ONE QUESTION that you have about this class, the projects, this department, or Mr. Korb?
  • SECONDLY – Look at your TRADING CARDS and answer – What are you doing in your composition to FULLY ACTIVATE the small space? Are you filling the background and taking the composition all the way to the edges, to the corners? How are you thinking about that part of the image? Allow yourself to EXPERIMENT!

Page 30 in FOLDER – Habits of Mind.

Reflection: What is the strongest card you have made so far this week? WHY? Use the ART TERMS you know – USE THE BOOKS

Studio Art 360:

Piet Mondrian: Self Portrait – LONG before de Stijl (the Style). http://uploads1.wikiart.org/images/piet-mondrian.jpg!Portrait.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • What is ONE QUESTION that you have about this class, the projects, this department, or Mr. Korb?
  • SECONDLY – Look at your TRADING CARDS and answer – What are you doing in your composition to FULLY ACTIVATE the small space? Are you filling the background and taking the composition all the way to the edges, to the corners? How are you thinking about that part of the image? Allow yourself to EXPERIMENT!

Page 30 in FOLDER – Habits of Mind.

Reflection: What is the strongest card you have made so far this week? WHY? Use the ART TERMS you know – USE THE BOOKS

AP Studio Art:

What is YOUR operating manual? https://shelbyfunez.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/artist-dont-quit.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • Look through your chapter in the the book again – is there anything else in the chapter that is standing out to you? Is there a way you can work a second or third idea into the current work – cover more topics?

Reflection: REVIEW The ideas with your classmates that you are working on. How do you see the ideas growing from your initial ideas? 

Advanced Drawing:

Richard Dibenkorn: Abstracted Landscape Print. https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/d0238-richard_diebenkorn.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • What is ONE QUESTION that you have about this class, the projects, this department, or Mr. Korb?
  • SECONDLY – Look at your TRADING CARDS and answer – What are you doing in your composition to FULLY ACTIVATE the small space? Are you filling the background and taking the composition all the way to the edges, to the corners? How are you thinking about that part of the image? Allow yourself to EXPERIMENT!

Page 30 in FOLDER – Habits of Mind.

Reflection: What is the strongest card you have made so far this week? WHY? Use the ART TERMS you know – USE THE BOOKS!

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#MidWeek #Wednesday ALREADY? Yes. #Art in the First Week.

  • What is Art?

“Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.” Agnes Martin – Art In America (p.124, 1996)

Drawing: Elements and Principles

Egon Schiele: Ceramics: http://uploads5.wikiart.org/images/egon-schiele/ceramics-1918.jpg!Blog.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • What materials did you use yesterday that you have used in the past? What materials can you TRY to use today that you have NOT USED in the past.

Reflection: What is ONE question that you have about the course, projects, department, or me?

Studio Art 360:

Girl Writing: Piet Mondrian: http://uploads1.wikiart.org/images/piet-mondrian/girl-writing-1895.jpg!Blog.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • What materials did you use yesterday that you have used in the past? What materials can you TRY to use today that you have NOT USED in the past

Reflection: What is ONE question that you have about the course, projects, department, or me?

AP Studio Art:

Simply Put: https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/1e2ed-b2526oquotewomat-402525.jpg

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Goals:

  • 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?

Reflection: 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? 

Advanced Drawing:

Richard Diebenkorn – Still Life: https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/b7ef6-meghann.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • What materials did you use yesterday that you have used in the past? What materials can you TRY to use today that you have NOT USED in the past.

Reflection: What is ONE question that you have about the course, projects, department, or me?

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#2ndSemester is HERE and #ArtMaking is already begun!

  • What is Art?

“Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.” Agnes Martin – Art In America (p.124, 1996)

Drawing: Elements and Principles

Kathe Kollwitz: Drawing: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/c7/67/6c/c7676cd48ff781d971f96058ff34294e.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 came up with ideas yesterday? What ELEMENT or PRINCIPLE did you begin with? How many did you get finished / started?

Reflection: What are 2 skills you have already that are going to make your experiences in Drawing easier?

Studio Art 360:

Piet Mondrian: Texture and Shape Form Space? http://uploads6.wikiart.org/images/piet-mondrian/avond-evening-the-red-tree-1910.jpg!Blog.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 came up with ideas yesterday? What ELEMENT or PRINCIPLE did you begin with? How many did you get finished / started?

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

AP Studio Art:

Art and Fear QUOTE: http://thesilverspool.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/pain-of-not-working.png

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
  • Using the idea of Art and Fear as your next breadth work – what ideas do you find yourself leaning towards when it comes to the imagery for your next work? Why do you see yourself headed in that direction? How are you going to make the ideas CLEAR and READABLE in your artwork?

Reflection: What are the challenges from working through an ENTIRE CHAPTER? Explain what your biggest challenges might be about this work. 

Advanced Drawing:

Richard Diebenkorb DRAWING: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/july/images/14101-gifts_Diebenkorn_8601.6.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 came up with ideas yesterday? What ELEMENT or PRINCIPLE did you begin with? How many did you get finished / started?

Reflection: What are 2 skills you have already that are going to make your experiences in Advanced Drawing easier?

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#Welcome to the #NewSemester and #Classes

What is Art? “Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.” Agnes Martin – Art In America (p.124, 1996)

Agnes Martin: https://classconnection.s3.amazonaws.com/48/flashcards/1897048/png/9-13E9563092A7A8358AE.png

Drawing: Elements and Principles

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http://curkovicartunits.pbworks.com/f/Van%20Gogh%20Line%20Drawing%20example.png

Goals:

  • 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • What are a FEW THINGS that visually stand out to you from this painting by Vincent Van Gogh? List 3 please.

Reflection: What are 3 things you hope to learn in this room? END OF CLASS – Stand up in a circle – Think about what you are hoping to learn – in ONE WORD (and you cannot repeat another person’s comment) Your name and then your word. That’s it. Speak it out loud.

Studio Art 360:

Composition A – Piet Mondrian: http://uploads2.wikiart.org/images/piet-mondrian/composition-a-1923.jpg!Blog.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • What are a FEW THINGS that visually stand out to you from this painting by Piet Mondrian? List 3 please.

Reflection: What are 3 things you hope to learn in this room? END OF CLASS – Stand up in a circle – Think about what you are hoping to learn – in ONE WORD (and you cannot repeat another person’s comment) Your name and then your word. That’s it. Speak it out loud.

AP Studio Art:

http://skinnyartist.com/pin/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/ArtAndFear-ImageQuote.png

Goals:

  • 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?

Reflection: 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?

Advanced Drawing:

https://drawingowu.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/aa077439.jpg Silverware… Richard Dibenkorn

Goals:

  • 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • What are a FEW THINGS that visually stand out to you from this work by Richard Diebenkorn? List 3 please.

Reflection: What are 3 things you hope to learn in this Class? END OF CLASS – Stand up in a circle – Think about what you are hoping to learn – in ONE WORD (and you cannot repeat another person’s comment) Your name and then your word. That’s it. Speak it out loud.

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#Exams #Art Here

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

  • 8th Hour: 7:25 – 8:55
  • 7th Hour 9:05 – 10:35 (announcements at 10:30)
  • 6th Hour: 10:45 – 12:15
    • Buses Leave at 12:25
    • Detentions start at 12:30 in room 114
    • Cafeteria is closed after the last test hour

Thursday, January 14, 2016

  • 5th Hour: 7:25 – 8:55
  • 4th Hour 9:05 – 10:35 (announcements at 10:30)
  • 3rd Hour: 10:45 – 12:15
    • Buses Leave at 12:25
    • Detentions start at 12:30 in room 114
    • Cafeteria is closed after the last test hour

Friday, January 15, 2016

  • 2nd Hour: 7:25 – 8:55
  • 1st Hour 9:05 – 10:35 (announcements at 10:30)
    • Buses Leave at 12:25
    • Detentions start at 12:30 in room 114
    • Cafeteria is closed after the last test hour

EXTRA CREDIT SURVEY

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#FinalDay of the Semester… I will miss you… until #ExamDay

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.jpgg

“If you reflect on your goals, evaluate and revise your plans, your chances for improvement will increase.” Frank Korb

Dawoud Bey – Advice to a Young Artist… https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/ea/92/a5/ea92a5b04c909e050e53003fcc54171c.jpg

Homoire Daumier: Advice to a Young Artist http://uploads0.wikiart.org/images/honore-daumier/advice-to-a-young-artist.jpg

Painting and Advanced Painting: Clean and Crit

Goals: 

  • 2.2Ac: Demonstrate awareness of ethical implications of making and distributing creative work.
  • Read over the Advice to a young artist… Advice to a young artist – page  Homoire Daumier: Advice to a Young Artist (page 31 Folder)
  • SNACKS FOR EXAM DAY!
  • Sorry about the issues with the CRIT. Changes are going to be coming for next semester.

Reflection: Page 29 in your folder… Write out one thing you are unsure of about the final critique on a notecard. Make sure you are thoughtful when it comes to the conversation about the oral critique.  

Studio Art 360

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.
  • Read over the Advice to a young artist…

Reflection: What are three things have you learned about the process of working on ART? What are TWO  thing that you have taken from the SEMESTER of working on your art? What is ONE  strength have you gained that you do not feel you had before you started this course?

AP Studio Art

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.
  • Once Again… VISUALLY – what is the common thread that is connecting your different pieces in your body of work together?

Reflection: What is ONE thing you need to do to finish up your website? What is REQUIRED on the EXAM? Do you know?

Drawing

Goals:

  • 2.2Ac: Demonstrate awareness of ethical implications of making and distributing creative work.
  • Read over the Advice to a young artist… Advice to a young artist – (page 31 Folder)
  • SNACKS FOR EXAM DAY!
  • Sorry about the issues with the CRIT. Changes are going to be coming for next semester.

Reflection: Page 29 in your folder… Write out one thing you are unsure of about the final critique on a notecard. Make sure you are thoughtful when it comes to the conversation about the oral critique.