2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
Beginning with a general idea of the figure and a reference with the mannequin – students will draw out the proportions and stance of the models for a few minutes and then transition to the human form.
What was the most challenging part of drawing a GESTURE DRAWING? What were you unable to focus on with the idea of GESTURE? What did you have to focus on when it comes to the GESTURE?
7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
What is the PRODUCT Advertisement that you brought in today and how does that company use color to represent it? What is the OPPOSITE of that color Scheme?
What 4 color schemes do you think you are going to use for your composition?
7.2Ad: Determine the commonalities within a group of artists or visual images attributed to a particular type of art, timeframe, or culture.
Take a few minutes and write out a positive comment about EACH of your classmates work – full sentence with EVIDENCE – 10 minutes to do this… THEN wrap up your drawings. We CRITIQUE on Mondat.
What do you walk away with from the brief written critique? How do you see the GROWTH in your own ideas of art and how the MASTERS of the past influence us today?
7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
What is the PRODUCT Advertisement that you brought in today and how does that company use color to represent it? What is the OPPOSITE of that color Scheme?
What 4 color schemes do you think you are going to use for your composition?
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.
What are the color schemes that we studied this week so far? Can you write all 4 down without looking at your notes or asking your neighbors?
QUIZ on the names, types and relationships of the colors. Open up to page 21… READY… HERE COME THE QUESTIONS… Identify the following types of COLOR SCHEMES…
1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.
What VISUAL IDEAS are you using to demonstrate the ideas of your social commentary?
What is the progress of the drawing thus far? What is your neighbor doing well? What is your neighbor not doing successfully? Share your thoughts with your neighbors.
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.
Why is it important for an artist to choose colors CAREFULLY as they are developing a composition / artwork? What might the RIGHT colors do in an image versus the “wrong” colors?
Review with neighbors the relationships of the colors on the color wheel? When you look in your closet… what COLORS do you think you have the most of hanging? Why do you think that you have more of that color than others?
What color scheme does this advertisement use and WHY?
7.2Ad: Determine the commonalities within a group of artists or visual images attributed to a particular type of art, timeframe, or culture.
What are the COMMONALITIES of ALL your work? Write out three COMMON IDEAS you see throughout.
What are three things YOU CONTRIBUTED to the conversation today – If your’s was spoken about – what are 3 things you heard about yours that you didn’t see earlier?
1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.
Take a look at your previous week’s works – where did you struggle the most with the idea of the portrait? Where did you succeed the most? How do you use the ideas of chiaroscuro and color to better define the ideas of form (in the face especially)?
What was the most challenging way to draw? Why was this most difficult way to go? What is most important about drawing when it comes to observation? Previous works from past classes.
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.
What images have you brought in today or are you thinking about using for this project? Why are these products important to you? How do you feel they fit into the experiences of the rest of society? Popular Culture?
What color scheme does this advertisement use and WHY?
10.1Ad: Synthesize knowledge of social, cultural, historical, and personal life with art-making approaches to create meaningful works of art or design.
STOP and think about a GOAL you have for this ARTWORK. What are a FEW things that you would like to accomplish with this drawing? WRITE them DOWN. Same colors Duchamp used. White, black, sanguine.
As you have looked at the idea of a personal goal… how have you accomplihed or not begun to accomplish this goal?
Goals: ONLINE CRIT HERE. Due Monday of RETURN from SPRING BREAK!
5.1Ad: Investigate, compare, and contrast methods for preserving and protecting art.
What were you able to do to WRAP this work up over break? How does MATTING the work preserve /protect / present your work more professionally?
What are your OVERALL thoughts about your work and your classmates work? Write out ONE OVERALL comment about the larger body of work and one comment about a SPECIFIC work of art.
Drawing: Graffiti and Fauvism
Goals:
1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.
Take a look at your previous week’s works – where did you struggle the most with the idea of the portrait? Where did you succeed the most? How do you use the ideas of chiaroscuro to better define the ideas of form (in the face especially)?
What was the most challenging way to draw? Why was this most difficult way to go? What is most important about drawing when it comes to observation?
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.
What do you mix to get a TINT? What do you mix to get a SHADE? What do you mix to get a TONE?
Review with neighbors the relationships of the colors on the color wheel? When you look in your closet… what COLORS do you think you have the most of hanging? Why do you think that you have more of that color than others? Assignment – FOR FRIDAY REPEAT THE ASSIGNMENT from above… Something that is of interest to you.
Drawing: Graffiti and Street Art Research DUE upon return!
HERE is your WORKSHEET for RESEARCH on STREETART and GRAFFITI for over SPRING BREAK! Do not forget to do your work. It will be hard to get started without some QUALITY WORK and RESEARCH in.
7.2Ad: Determine the commonalities within a group of artists or visual images attributed to a particular type of art, timeframe, or culture.
What was the MOST FUN about taking your figure drawing(s) from LAST week and incorporating them all into ONE drawing for this week? How do you see this as being a part of the LARGER ART MAKING PROCESS?
What was the most CHALLENGING Part of this week? What would you do differently? What would you suggest be DONE differently? Hang Work
8.1Ad: Analyze differing interpretations of an artwork or collection of works in order to select and defend a plausible critical analysis.
This is it – FAST Goal today… What three things are you going to really focus on today in order to be DONE with the work? That’s it – GET TO IT!
How many hours do you need to finish this work for presentations on MONDAY after break? REMEMBER that the WRITTEN CRITIQUE is DUE on the MONDAY we get back – Photograph is ONLINE at the end of the day – you can upload it from the website from TOMORROW’s Posting. Questions over break – EMAIL me!
PHOTO FOLDER IS HERE: Use this over BREAK OR / AND update your images with your own camera!
Drawing: Faces and Fauvism.
HERE is your WORKSHEET for RESEARCH on STREET ART and GRAFFITI for over SPRING BREAK! Do not forget to do your work. It will be hard to get started without some QUALITY WORK and RESEARCH in.
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
What is successful in your artwork? What is the color scheme you are using? Share this with your neighbor.
What is the progress of the drawing thus far? What is your neighbor doing well? What is your neighbor not doing successfully? Share your thoughts with your neighbors.
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.
Why is it important for an artist to choose colors CAREFULLY as they are developing a composition / artwork? What might the RIGHT colors do in an image versus the “wrong” colors?
Review with neighbors the relationships of the colors on the color wheel? When you look in your closet… what COLORS do you think you have the most of hanging? Why do you think that you have more of that color than others? Assignment for MONDAY WHEN WE GET BACK… Bring in a LOGO of a PRODUCT from something that is of interest to you.
8.1Ad: Analyze differing interpretations of an artwork or collection of works in order to select and defend a plausible critical analysis.
How have the solutions been coming along? Are you able to stay focused on the GOALS you are hoping to accomplish with this drawing? How is it going?
Are you in a resolution stage or still a LEARNING stage for this artwork? How are you dealing with the NEGATIVE space in addition to the positive space?
8.1Ad: Analyze differing interpretations of an artwork or collection of works in order to select and defend a plausible critical analysis.
Two days – today and tomorrow! I am making photographs at some point on Thursday of your images and will put them online for you to reference over break. What challenges do you see as being those worth overcoming in the next 92 minutes? How will you achieve those results?
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form
What was MOST successful in your portrait? Please sit back and LOOK at the drawing and refresh your idea about WHAT YOU LEARNED? How can you defend what you learned?
What is the progress of the drawing thus far? What is your neighbor doing well? What is your neighbor not doing successfully? Share your thoughts with your neighbors.
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 and mixing of the colors on the color wheel. Write out how you mix the THREE SECONDARY COLORS in your GOALS page.
What were the most CHALLENGING COLORS for you to mix? Which were the easiest to work with?
THIS is what it SHOULD look like!
Thanks Sean S. for helping me Rick Roll all my classes!
Are you in a resolution stage for this artwork or did one day of drawing help you get a good start? Are you struggling with it? How are you dealing with the NEGATIVE space?
ALL ABOUT THE REFLECTION THIS WEEK: 8.1Ad: Analyze differing interpretations of an artwork or collection of works in order to select and defend a plausible critical analysis.
Three class periods to work – What about your drawing – SPECIFICALLY – do you see as being the LARGEST CHANGE from the ACTUAL high school hallway? How is it successfully tied into the idea of the Bauhaus or DeStijl Movement?
Two days to continue – Are you needing to be taking this home to make strong advances? Do you need to utilize lunch periods, study halls, before or after school?
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
Where are you succeeding most in the drawing of the face? These skills WILL help you in the larger scale drawing that we are going to be dealing with in soft pastel.
What was the most challenging part for you to draw that you LEARNED the most from? Why was this most difficult way to go and how do you see the LEARNING? What is most important about drawing when it comes to observation?
G: 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’s RIGHT or WRONG with the color wheel above? Write this in your GOALS portion for today.
Review with neighbors the relationships of the colors on the color wheel? QUIZ one another on the names, types and relationships of the colors.