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Goals for the Day

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WELCOME TO SECOND SEMESTER! Some NEW faces, and SOME we’ve seen before! You are ALL welcome! Let’s make some AWESOME ART together!

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

I can… choose solutions to problems and describe the impact of my choices on myself and others.

We are going to look at Daily and Weekly Studio Habits as a formative and perhaps summative assessment. How one works in the studio has a huge affect on how they make their art and you are going to be aware and knowledgeable of your studio choices.

Artist Habits of Mind

More for you to explore here: https://www.artcorelearning.org/studio-habits-of-mind

Our classes begin in Google Classroom AND from the lesson plans below. To make things easier for me… I have simplified the website so that it is better for the day to day in the classroom. PLEASE feel free to visit the day to day and see what we are working on in the studio. The links SHOULD take you to the Table of Contents… find the current week to see what we are doing.

6th Grade: One Point Perspective

Link to lesson plans HERE!

7th Grade: Paper Mache and FUNCTIONAL ART

Link to lesson plans HERE!

8th Grade 2D Design: Photoshop and FIRE

Many ways to create the illusion of fire… Dig deeper than what I am going to share in studio.

Link to lesson plans HERE!

8th Grade Sculpture: Claymation – Let’s Make a MOVIE

Link to lesson plans HERE!

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ARTISTS – This is our LAST WEEK together… What Can We Accomplish In 2 Days? Monday – It’s all about TEACHERS and Encore Classes!

MONDAY!

“Being able to work cleverly with your hands is a form of intelligence in itself, and one that’s often overlooked and disregarded.”

Florian Gatsby, Potter, By My Hands: A Potter’s Apprenticeship

https://www.floriangadsby.com/book

LAUNCH: What is your favorite cup / mug to drink out of? What are two things about it that make it special to you or make it your favorite? Write these out on your sticky notes and then take 23.325 seconds to turn and share your thoughts with your neighbor.

Today we are working on HAND BUILDING Cups, Mugs, or Trees.

You will also get some demonstration AND hands on the WHEEL if you are so inclined.

HERE is our assignment for the day! You EACH will have a copy of this for your own reference… if you were a student of ours you would have it in Google Classroom. Let’s get started!

CLOSING: What is one part of the process that you felt very comfortable and / or confident with in the making of your clay work? Why?

Tuesday – Friday: We are going to CLEAN OUR LOCKERS and TAKE HOME ALL OUR WORK. Some will stay with me for an art show coming up so… be OK with that please.

I can choose solutions to problems and describe the impact of my choices on myself and others.

The classes begin in Google Classroom AND from the lesson plans below… we are simplifying the website so that it is better for the day to day in the classroom. PLEASE feel free to visit the day to day and see what we are working on in the studio. The links SHOULD take you to the Table of Contents… find the current week to see what we are doing.

6th Grade: Assessment and Photography this week!

https://www.treehugger.com/tips-for-better-macro-photography-on-your-phone-4868419

Link to lesson plans HERE!

7th Grade: Photoshop and Inspirational Posters

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/58441894

Link to lesson plans HERE!

8th Grade 2D Design: Rotoscoping I Think I’ll Leave This Post As It Is…

Link to lesson plans HERE!

8th Grade Sculpture: Claymation

Link to lesson plans HERE!

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SO MUCH TO DO and so little time to do it… Let’s Make Art!

I can use different styles of communication to express thoughts and ideas, negotiate conflicts, and resolve disagreements.

“All art is quite useless.” — Oscar Wilde: Art isn’t utilitarian, and if it is, perhaps it isn’t art. Art serves a non-practical role in our lives, but that does not mean that it is not vital or necessary. One’s individual identity and our collective identity as a culture have no clear serviceability, but they are critical to our ability to function as a society. Kit White © 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Kit White

The classes begin in Google Classroom AND from the lesson plans below… we are simplifying the website so that it is better for the day to day in the classroom. PLEASE feel free to visit the day to day and see what we are working on in the studio. The links SHOULD take you to the Table of Contents… find the current week to see what we are doing.

6th Grade: Assessment and Photography this week!

https://images.app.goo.gl/kcbH4TvdWSgYvHos9

Link to lesson plans HERE!

7th Grade: Photoshop and Inspirational Posters

https://www.art.com/products/p27435715658-sa-i7151072/quiet-moments.htm?upi=F6H7P80&sOrigID=1945

Link to lesson plans HERE!

8th Grade 2D Design: Rotoscoping

Link to lesson plans HERE!

8th Grade Sculpture: Claymation

Link to lesson plans HERE!

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WELCOME BACK and HAPPY NEW YEAR! The break was SO NEEDED and now we are in the final throws of the semester. Let’s finish up with ENERGY!

Assessment is HUGE this week: I can listen to and respond appropriately when receiving constructive feedback from others.

“There are three responses to a piece of design – yes, no, and WOW! Wow is the one to aim for.” Milton Glaser

The classes begin in Google Classroom and from the lesson plans below… we are simplifying the website so that it is better for the day to day in the classroom. PLEASE feel free to visit the day to day and see what we are working on in the studio. The links SHOULD take you to the Table of Contents… find the current week to see what we are doing.

6th Grade: Assessment and Photography this week!

Link to lesson plans HERE!

7th Grade: Photography Editing and Assembling the slides to print.

Link to lesson plans HERE!

8th Grade 2D Design: Digital Art and Photoshop – Assembling the slideshow and Assessment of the artwork.

Link to lesson plans HERE!

8th Grade Sculpture: Assessment and Presenting of the work.

Link to lesson plans HERE!

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The Winter Break is ALMOST UPON US… AND… we still have a lot of art to work on. LET US STAY FOCUSED!

I can describe the importance of building relationships between diverse groups of people.

“Each generation gets to reinvent art in its own image.”

Because art is an act of description, it is inevitable that what it describes will reflect every generation’s bias of the moment. It is not a strict reflection of a time but an interpretation rendered in a language that is always in a state of transformation. Kit White © 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Kit White

We are working in all of our studios this week. I have no images to upload to inspire you with this week… In fact… this is a week where it is all going to happen in the classroom. Please be aware that we are working hard and sometimes, after MANY YEARS of regular and consistent posts, things need to be set aside. KNOW that the week is planned (and you can see that in the links) AND nothing else is happening as I write this.

I spent HOURS in my own studio today and… this is part of me being an artist and taking care of me. Thanks.

6th Grade: GLAZING!

Link to lesson plans HERE!

7th Grade: Photography

Link to lesson plans HERE!

8th Grade 2D Design: Digital Art and Photoshop

Link to lesson plans HERE!

8th Grade Sculpture: GLAZING

Link to lesson plans HERE!

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I can express my emotions to myself and others in respectful ways. – Let’s work on this and make ART in the process.

Ansel Adams. “You don’t take a photograph, you make it”

An Ansel Adams VIEW of the valley. Check out the HORIZONTAL COMPOSITION!

We are emptying cabinets and handing back work today! Be ready to take your work home. Thanks.

6th Grade: 1 Point Perspective – The CRITIQUE and GLAZING!

This looks a lot like the KORB POTTERY glaze selection – not quite but close.

We are ASSESSING the One Point Perspective Paintings this week and THEN we are GLAZING OUR BOXES – Finally.

7th Grade: Photography

Time to wrap up the SCAVENGER HUNT and then getting into the PORTRAITS, LANDSCAPES, and FOODIE PHOTOS

8th Grade 2D Design: Digital Art and Photoshop

Be patient as will I. These computers are good AND they take some time to work with SO… LET US BE EXTRA PATIENT WITH ONE ANOTHER and work through this FIRE together.

8th Grade Sculpture: GLAZING – Finally

We are going to spend about a week and do the glazing, fire, clean things up, and then assess the work. Make sure you keep the glaze off the bottom. We have to have the bottoms cleanly sponged off so that they do NOT stick to the kiln shelves.

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Welcome back artists! Let’s get to work!

#51: Learn the basic principles of color. There are three primary colors: red, blue, and yellow. They are the building blocks of all other colors. The secondary colors are violet (blue and red), green (blue and yellow), and orange (red and yellow). They are composed by the equal mixture of two primaries. All other colors are referred to as tertiary, because they are mixtures of a primary and a secondary color. Kit White 101 Things to Learn in Art School

6th Grade: 1 Point Perspective – THE FINAL PAINTING

I’m going to leave this up here and talk about it this week. Know artists, that what we do in the 6th grade studio is what artists in the professional studio do as well… you are just at a different time in the career.

Here is what you can do with perspective as you continue to work as an artist. Pontone Gallery – London. Hwang Seonate – Korean Artist – One and Two Point Perspective Artworks / Lightboxes. Let’s take a look… Click on the image and let’s see what happens in the the ART WORLD TODAY with perspective artwork.

You are adding watercolors to your 1 Point Perspective Drawings – TAKE YOUR TIME and BE CAREFUL in your painting techniques.

Watercolor Techniques and Experiments – I will offer this to you more than in 6th grade – but we will not be doing it all…

A long time ago… 10 years?

Additional Worksheet Examples are HERE if you want to learn more about 1 point perspective.

7th Grade: Photography

When you think of PHOTOGRAPHY… what are 3 things that come to mind?

We are going to look at the cameras that we have in the department as well as the cameras that you have in your hands always. There are some skills that we are going to be working on that are different than what you use on a daily basis AND when you start thinking about the new techniques – you will make stronger photographs for yourself as well.

8th Grade 2D Design: Digital Art and Photoshop

What do you know about Adobe Photoshop?

Adobe Photoshop is a professional program that we are going to begin to explore. BE patient and PAY ATTENTION to the instructions. This is challenging and can be a lot of fun as well.

Here’s another way to do this… our instructions might be different.

8th Grade Sculpture: GLAZING – Finally

What is it you know about the positives and negatives of glazing?

We are going to spend about a week and do the glazing, fire, clean things up, and then assess the work.

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One day in the art studio this week – AND – we have a lot to do. Be ready to WORK!

Remember that we have MR. KORB created ART STUDIO EXPECTATIONS.

6th Grade: 1 Point Perspective – Worksheet and Experimenting / Learning

What skills are you learning? What are you struggling with? Know that this is a challenging assignment and that it requires SITTING and WORKING!

Here is what you can do with perspective as you continue to work as an artist. Pontone Gallery – London. Hwang Seonate – Korean Artist – One and Two Point Perspective Artworks / Lightboxes. Let’s take a look… Click on the image and let’s see what happens in the the ART WORLD TODAY with perspective artwork.

Watercolor Techniques and Experiments – I will offer this to you more than in 6th grade – but we will not be doing it all…

A long time ago… 10 years?

Additional Worksheet Examples are HERE if you want to learn more about 1 point perspective.

7th Grade: Paper Mache Sculptures

We are DONE. What are you doing with the ideas of the work? What are you doing with the idea of making art and how it fits into the rest of your life?

https://hitotsuyamastudio.com/

What we did with paper mache is something that is not limited to the art studio. Make sure that you are thinking about the use of these skills in the larger sense of your life.

8th Grade 2D Design: Landscape Acrylic Paintings – DETAILS and PAINTING!

We are DONE with the paintings and are wrapping them up.

7 things you need to know about Fauvism – Southeby’s

8th Grade Sculpture: PLASTER HAND SCULPTURES

Wrapping it up! HAHA!

Gina Gilbert – Life Casts – Professional Artist using the same techniques you learned in class. Can you make high end art? Yes! You already are.

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Art is all about PROCESS! At the MIDDLE SCHOOL we are working on that. What does PROCESS mean to you? Welcome to week 11!

Remember that we have MR. KORB created ART STUDIO EXPECTATIONS.

“Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.” Brian Tracy, Eat that Frog

6th Grade: 1 Point Perspective – Watercolors

Watercolor and techniques.. what are you aware of when it comes to WATERCOLORS?

Watercolor Techniques and Experiments – I will offer this to you more than in 6th grade – but we will not be doing it all…

A long time ago… 10 years?

Additional Worksheet Examples are HERE if you want to learn more about 1 point perspective.

We have PLANED OUR CITIES for each individual class so… be ready to see the differences!

7th Grade: Paper Mache Sculptures

We are into the stage of FINISHING THEM UP! What are you doing to get yourself to the end stage?

Not functional art but… Davis publications shares what CAN be done with the ideas and the patience and the practice. These might lead a future work for us… HEADS UP by Davis Publications

8th Grade 2D Design: Landscape Acrylic Paintings – DETAILS and PAINTING!

Planning and development of the work is DONE and we are now to the point of working out the ideas of BRUSH STROKES, COLOR, and LIGHTING… What are you doing to wrap things up? 2 days left!

Realism – at the Tate

This is a HISTORY PAINTING by Thomas Cole – 1836. A Hudson River Painter: View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm – The Oxbow (1836) by Thomas Cole; Thomas Cole, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

8th Grade Sculpture: PLASTER HAND SCULPTURES

Plaster – Ah George Segal… here is a GREAT LONG VERSION YouTube video to watch… I did! We are going to leave this here and play it during the work time this week.

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Welcome to the 2nd Quarter – Mid Week that is. Where has all the time gone? Yikes. Week 10!

NEW ART STUDIO EXPECTATIONS FOR EVERYONE!

#69: Color is not Neutral: It has an emotional component. Certain colors have specific associations and induce certain responses. Learn what they are. When you use color, try to determine and understand the accompanying emotional response and how to use it effectively. Color has a visceral impact. Kit White 101 Things I Learned in Art School

6th Grade: 1 Point Perspective

YES… This stays. Also – Check out MORE VIDEOS on YouTube from Frank Korb – OH SO MANY YEARS AGO! Before it was cool!

A long time ago… 10 years?

Additional Worksheet Examples are HERE if you want to learn more about 1 point perspective.

We have PLANED OUR CITIES for each individual class so… be ready to see the differences!

7th Grade: Paper Mache Sculptures

We are into the stage of FINISHING THEM UP! What are you doing to get yourself to the end stage?

https://www.dezeen.com/2007/07/12/paper-mache-armchair-by-majid-asif/

Time to WORK!

8th Grade 2D Design: Landscape Acrylic Paintings – DETAILS and PAINTING!

Planning and development of the work is DONE and we are now to the point of working out the ideas of BRUSH STROKES, COLOR, and LIGHTING…

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/fauv/hd_fauv.htm

HERE is a link to the planning stages because if you don’t KNOW Fauvism… how can you WORK with ANY of the movements we are looking at?

8th Grade Sculpture: PLASTER HAND SCULPTURES

Plaster – Ah George Segal… here is a GREAT LONG VERSION YouTube video to watch… I did!

Ok… Let’s get into the ideas and the making!