Category: Art in the Community

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#ComputerLab and #Art #Paperwork today…

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

Folder: Everyone – Page 8. Let’s talk about Sketchbooks.

Painting and Advanced Painting: English Computer Lab

J.M.W. Turner BIO: http://www.biography.com/people/jmw-turner-40806 Turner Norham Castle on the River Tweed: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/images/work/D/D18/D18148_9.jpg – TATE MODERN

Goals:

  • 1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.
  • Are there aspects of painting that you are hoping to develop? What do you really hope to learn / experience in the making of the watercolors

Reflection / Evaluation: What are two things did you see yourself struggle with when it comes to painting?

Studio Art 360:

  • 3rd Social Studies Computer Lab
  • 6th English Computer Lab
ROBERT INDIANA: Art: http://uploads2.wikiart.org/images/robert-indiana/art-1977.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • What art materials are you REALLY interested in working with this year? Pencils? Paints? Camera? Clay? Collage? Something else? Explain your answer.

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

AP Studio Art: English Computer Lab

Wayne Thiebauld: Doughnuts yum!

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 are topics / images that you frequently go to in YOUR collection of images as you draw / paint for yourself and NOT for class?

Reflection / Evaluation: What new materials are you exploring or looking to explore? What techniques are you attempting that are new to you?

Assignment ONLINE – Google Document – SHARE WITH ME at fkorb@waterforduhs.k12.wi.us! DUE ON MONDAY. CLICK HERE FOR A GOOD EXAMPLE. READ THE BRIEF BLOG POST! Where do you see yourself artistically now, where in 5 Years? 

Drawing: Social Studies Computer Lab

http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/images/4/2011/11/fada22005fda2e24ff498b74554b5f92.jpg Morandi: https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/952ac-gm7.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.

Reflection / Evaluation: What are the differences with the different types of Pencils? What do YOU find useful from today’s exercise?

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#Day2, Let’s make some #ART and get through some #Philosophy

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

I Could do that

Folder: Everyone – Page 7. Let’s talk about 10 Lessons the Arts Teach Children (everyone).

Painting and Advanced Painting: Preliminary ideas and exercises

Turner Norham Castle at Sunrise: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/images/work/N/N01/N01981_9.jpg – TATE MODERN

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 made it challenging to put that first mark on your paper? Unless you had no problems – then what was it that gives you confidence in painting?

Reflection / Evaluation: What three things did you succeed with today in  your painting? AT THIS MOMENT?

Studio Art 360: Observation Anyone?

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 coming up with ideas and drawing your cube, cylinder, or pyramid yesterday?

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

AP Studio Art: Bag of Ideas?

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.
  • Where / when in your past have you used the ideas of the repetition of single object in a SERIES of drawings, paintings, artworks… something else?

Reflection / Evaluation: g been successful in TODAY’s beginnings of a CONCENTRATION?

Assignment ONLINE – Google Document – SHARE WITH ME at fkorb@waterforduhs.k12.wi.us! DUE ON MONDAY. CLICK HERE FOR A GOOD EXAMPLE. READ THE BRIEF BLOG POST! Where do you see yourself artistically now, where in 5 Years? 

Drawing: Observation and Pencils?

Boxes, Objects, COMPOSITION!

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 sketchbooks / artworks… where do you mostly get your ideas from?  How do you define OBSERVATION?

Reflection / Evaluation: What skills do you hope to develop this year in Drawing? What do you feel you will be able to improve on regarding the skills you have currently?

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Featured in the Spring 2015 Issue of the Wisconsin Art Education Association’s e-ArtTimes

Featured in the Spring 2015 Issue of the Wisconsin Art Education Association’s e-ArtTimes.

Take some time to read about my friend Frank Juarez and his art as an educator. Great guy. Great art.

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#Tuesday – 5 Days Left – Let’s make #ArtWork

“Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.” —Norman Vincent Peal

Seeds and Trees: http://turkeysong.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/buckeye-seed-and-buckeye-trees1.jpg?w=640&h=480

AP Studio Art: GALLERY TIME – Really

Let’s hang a show! https://osuma.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/casey-and-canyon.jpg
  • 6.1Ad: Curate a collection of objects, artifacts, or artwork to impact the viewer’s understanding of social, cultural, and/or political experiences.
  • Of all the works you still have in your possession, what are 5 that you will insert into your AP Exhibition? These are the works that you are hanging today. I hope that you have considered these before today.

What work do you need to hang? Nametags? Artist statement?

Advanced Drawing: Self-Portrait

Chuck Close’s First Self-Portrait: http://25.media.tumblr.com/504e4ae315264b1e7a19ce4a3be1beda/tumblr_mt75jfBXdu1rx60a3o1_1280.jpg
  • 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.
  • You MUST have an artist that you are basing your work on… WHO IS IT and WHAT IS THE REASON? What  images are you using as REFERENCE? THINK about the use of COMPOSITION from the artist you have chosen.

What aspects of the artist you have chosen are you incorporating into your own self portrait? Do you feel you have used that approach in your work up to this point or are you stretching for new ideas?

Drawing: Partner Drawing

Todd Mrozinski plants and windows: https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/f3516-window6.jpg
  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • What is one thing you accomplished last week with your drawing?

What is one thing your classmate / partner gave you feedback on – whether or not it was a part of the conversation – think about what was said…

http://toddmrozinski.com/  (Show the video AGAIN) 

Studio Art 360: TREES!

Jim Dine and his tree drawings: http://cdn0.walkerart.org/public/collections-thumbs/wac_5035/340×438.jpeg
  • 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • Look at last week’s drawing from FRIDAY. What is one thing that you did well on? What are two things you would like to improve on?

What was your biggest challenge in the drawing from observation? What are 2 things that were a challenge as you were looking at a REAL object?

… Drawing and Studio Art 360: Clean Room!

Let’s CLEAN this room. Maybe not QUITE as clean as this but… http://www.modularcleanrooms.com/assets/images/hardwall_cleanroom_interior_1_full.jpg
  • 11.1Ac: Utilize inquiry methods of observation, research, and experimentation to explore unfamiliar subjects through art-making.
  • What works of art from this year REALLY stand out in your mind from this past year? What about it stand out.

What was ONE accomplishment you made this year in the process of making art that you will be able to reflection in 10 weeks and remember? How have you felt about the PROCESS and MEANING in the making of art? 

EXTRA CREDIT SURVEY

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#WAEA #YAM #ArtShow #Capitol Building #Madison

“Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure you do things differently from everyone else.” Sara Blakely (inventor of SPANX and youngest Self Made Female BILLIONAIRE – 10 Lessons I Learned from Sarah Blakely – Forbes Magazine)

Sad day in the Art Studio – Anne Truit Died. : (

AP Studio Art: CRIT!

What’s a CONCENTRATION say about your abilities? What does is say about your ideas? http://www.theloop.com.au/app/serve/view_file/L21udC9zaXRlX2RhdGEvcHJvamVjdHMvaW1hZ2VzLzM4MDIxNi1sLmpwZywxNDE0NjEzNzEwLGltYWdlL2pwZw

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

How did you feel about the work you presented today? If you didn’t – what did you take away from today’s crit? 

Advanced Drawing: 2 more days… Composition and Meaning of a PAPER BAG.

Open up… let’s see what your paper bag can hold! http://impacthiringsolutions.com/careerblog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/BrownPaperBag_thumb.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.
  • Looking at the SYMBOLISM that this work is SUPPOSE to have about your life, explain the thoughts and ideas you are hoping to communicate through the work. HOW are you doing that? Be SPECIFIC!

A GREAT day of drawing on Friday – Time got away from us… What worked today and HOW are you going to RESOLVE the work for Wednesday’s CRIT? 

Drawing: Oils… Let’s get to it!

der Blau Reiter? Bauhaus? WHY http://media.smashingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/images/bauhaus/bauhaus%20art%20swinging.jpg

Goals:

  • 8.1Ac: Identify types of contextual information useful in the process of constructing interpretations of an artwork or collection of works.
  • What songs are you using to create your artwork? What are aspects of your thumbnail and rough that you can IMMEDIATELY relate to the ideas of the music?

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

By The Way… Share your STILL LIFE DRAWINGS by visiting them HERE.

Kandinsky at MAM – HERE

Studio Art 360: Critiquing of a Still Life

Process over Product – What does THAT mean? https://s3.amazonaws.com/easel.ly/all_easels/45467/Process_over_Product/image.jpg

Goals:

  • 8.1P: Interpret an artwork or collection of works, supported by relevant and sufficient evidence found in the work and its various contexts.
  • As you examine this work of art, what are the larger SKILLS you have developed in the process? 

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?

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#MakingPhotographs in #StudioArt 360 – and #DEFENDING YOUR #ARTWORK!

 “Power will accomplish much, but perseverance more.”  —William Scott Downey

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Studio Art 360 – Let’s Talk Photography and the In’s and Out’s

Walker Evans (American, 1903–1975). Tenant Farmer Wife (Allie Mae Burroughs), 1936.

Goals:

  • 1.1P: Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.
  • What do you think about making visual choices as you make photographs versus taking pictures? Does this mean anything to you?

What was the biggest success you found in MAKING a photograph versus TAKING a picture? Anything? Explain your thoughts.

POP ART GALLERY IMAGES HERE.

AP Studio Art – Concentration – 3 new works – PLAN and DEVELOP! Investigate!

Michael Berryhill: http://www.brooklynrail.org/2014/05/art/whats-more-real8232a-dead-tree-or-a-drawing-of-a-dead-treemichael-berryhill-with-nathlie-provosty

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • Considering the ideas you are developing… how are you trying to tie the art works together? I am REALLY Emphasizing the unifying approach here…

Imagine yourself in front of the AP BOARD… how would you, in 30 seconds, defend your body of work so far?

MONDAY – CHAPTER 2 in Art and Fear Responses DUE on the BLOG.

Painting – Mid Crit TODAY! FINAL Crit. Wednesday – Friday of NEXT WEEK!

Sean Scully in the Studio TALKING about the work! CRIT!

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.
  • MID-CRIT – What do you HOPE to see / learn / take away from the experience today?

Well… what did you take away from the critique today? Did you see anything in your classmates work that you can put into your own work?

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#Thursday? What happened to the REST of the WEEK? #MakeArtToday!

“Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.” – Og Mandino

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Studio Art 360 – Color Schemes and POP Art

Mark Rothko in the STUDIO. What a GREAT BIG CANVAS! http://cloud.lomography.com/576/435/8b/70e4bf5f5f752f84ecd8eae677822dd43e790c.jpg

Goals:

  • G: 1.1P: Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.
  • How do you feel using MULTIPLE APPROACHES to the creative process helped you or challenged you in coming up with your compositions?

Do you feel going through a PROCESS is a STRONG way to begin an artwork (or anything else) or  simply a waste of time – you have a “just do it” sort of approach. Explain your answer. 

Painting – CANVAS CONSTRUCTION! Color Schemes and the RESOLUTION of the ABSTRACT Composition!

Here we are DRAWING with INK on a LARGE SHEET OF PAPER – Thanks Brice Marden! ABSTRACTION! http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81CIvE3XoYL._SL1500_.jpg

Goals:

  •  2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • Consider the layering and transparency of the images / colors… what does this visually do for you, the painter? What does it do visually for the audience?

As you look back on the construction of the canvas, what are especially happy about as you built your own?

AP Studio Art – Concentration Time!

Calder and his CIRCUS! What a GREAT idea to CONCENTRATE on! Fun! http://whitney.org/image_columns/0002/4353/alexandercalderinstallview1_600_1200.jpg?1369062947

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.
  • Have you DISCOVERED ANYTHING new about your ideas for your concentration today, this week, as you have been working. I’ve had MANY great conversations with each almost each of you… what do you take away from them?

What are your questions about making your statement ONLINE? Do you have an idea how to access your ONLINE portion of the website?

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#Working #Wednesday and Staying on top of the #Artwork.

“Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.” – Og Mandino

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Studio Art 360 – Color Schemes and POP Art

ALL LATE SKETCHES DUE THIS WEEK BY WEDNESDAY! THAT’S IT!

The scale of the works is impressive. The work in REAL Life is impressive. http://thevelvetrocket.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/mark-rothko-no-14-1960.jpg

Goals:

  •  G: 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
  • What do you feel REPEATING an image over and over, each time with a different color scheme do for your audience?

What did you enjoy about the process of the painting today? What are the challenges? Are you using the correct size brushes?  

Painting – CANVAS CONSTRUCTION! Color Schemes and the RESOLUTION of the ABSTRACT Composition!

Brice Marden and his techniques in the making of the artwork. How can you see the building of the work? http://ranchoreubidoux.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/brice-marden_1.jpeg

Goals:

  •  7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
  • What are your concerns about transferring the ideas and images up to the canvas? Does it have to be EXACT? Why or Why Not?

How is approaching the canvas ALL OVER going to be different than focusing on ONE SECTION at a time? What will it allow you to see early?

AP Studio Art – Concentration Time!

What does your concentration look like NOW? Do not worry about the next three works… worry about the current 3 pieces… Robert Arneson – BIO. http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_484_822284_robert-arneson.jpg

GOALS:

  • NETS: Use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively
  • What are your FEARS as you begin to come to the end of the first three works? What are your FEARS about the AP Process?

Ask 2 probing questions about the work of one of your classmates – NOT the one you spoke to yesterday.

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#WaffleWednesday = #ShortClasses = #WorkTime in #ArtClass, Let’s #Focus!

“There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.”
—Og Mandino (Paul Mark Sutherland http://goalhabits.com/2013/10/12/goal-achievement-quote-oct-12-2013/)

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Studio Art 360 – Color Theory – How do colors work? WRAP up NOTECARDS! Let’s Look at the COLOR WHEEL and PAINT!

GREAT use of COLLAGE to design a color wheel. I’ve got a feeling we will do the same at the end of the Color Unit! https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/a4228-dsc01433.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
  • Review with your neighbor the relationships of color on the color wheel What are the PRIMARY Colors, SECONDARY colors, and TERTIARY Colors? WRITE THEM DOWN!

Review with neighbors the relationships of the colors on the color wheel? QUIZ one another on the names, types and relationships of the colors. What were the most CHALLENGING COLORS for you to mix? Which were the easiest to work with?

ASSIGNMENT FOR FRIDAY – Bring in a COUPLE of COLOR ADVERTISEMENT that demonstrates a specific use of COLOR SCHEMES and is of a PRODUCT that YOU FIND IMPORTANT IN YOUR LIFE! Like THIS or THIS

Painting – Color Schemes and the RESOLUTION of the ABSTRACT Compostion

Are you able to see any TREE or Landscape in this work? I believe that MODRIAN was still referencing the REAL to come up with the ABSTRACT. http://www.theartstory.org/

Goals:

  • 1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.
  • Does the use of LINE become the DOMINANT element in your artwork or are you seeing other elements as coming to the forefront of the composition?

What color scheme have you begun to think about? Why? how does it DESCRIBE YOUR feelings toward the SIMPLIFICATION of the SPACE / SURROUNDINGS?

AP Studio Art – Level 6 Drawing – Are you UP TO IT?

What do you see as the positive space? The negative space? Push and Pull of the space. How are you playing with the ideas of space in your composition? https://www.artdoxa.com/anniehowelladams/large?page=1

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.
  • Positive and Negative Space. Line Quality. Shape and Form. Unity. Emphasis. What are the ELEMENTS / PRINCIPLES that you are seeing develop in the work? What are the Conceptual ideas about the use of objects to create an intriguing work?

After 3 days of SOLID work – After seeing a 6 (5) on the AP Rubric and reading about what it takes to “score” that high… what is ONE thing you have learned about yourself / the process / the ideas of making successful work that REVOLVE around DRAWING / 2D Design Criteria?

 

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#River’sEdgeArtWalk #Art in #Waterford – #HighSchool Art #Gallery

Waterford Union High School’s Parent Teacher Conferences were Thursday and Friday and the NEW ART GALLERY had its first REAL gallery opening! Well, the doors were open as the parents and students walked through the front door for conferences. TONIGHT however the gallery will be staffed and visitors will be visiting. The Third Annual River’s Edge Art Walk is underway Friday night from 5 – 9pm in Historic Downtown Waterford, WI. 27 (or so) artists will be sharing their inspired works with the community of Southeastern WI. Come and join us all and see the hard work the student artists of Waterford Union High School (as well as the art teachers – your’s truly included) have brought together.

  • Frank Korb, Mixed Media – Thai-Italiana Restaurant
  • Lisa Dukowitz, Photography – Marty’s Banquet Hall
  • Brett Roberts, Ceramics – Riverside Chiropractic
  • Waterford High School Students – Waterford High School Gallery (Door #1)
  • For More Information visit Absolutely Waterford’s Website – HERE

We look forward to seeing you!