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.
10.1Ad: Synthesize knowledge of social, cultural, historical, and personal life with art-making approaches to create meaningful works of art or design. NOW STOP and think about the GOAL you have for this ARTWORK – WRITE IT DOWN. Same colors Duchamp used. White, black, sanguine.
How did Marcel Duchamp CHANGE the way the WORLD saw art? How is including TIME (Cubism) changing the way you are seeing Art / Compositions?
What do you see as a CHALLENGE in this drawing? Movement? Time?
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.
Having taken the weekend to break from your drawing… What is one thing that you SEE that jumps off as either NEEDING WORK or as WORKING SUCCESSFULLY?
You LOOKED at the stairway drawing and recognized areas that needed work or were successful – what DID you DO today that was productive?
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
Take a look at your previous week’s works – where did you struggle? How do you use the ideas of chiaroscuro to better define the ideas of form? How often are you using the eraser to WORK with your drawing?
What was the most challenging part of this portrait for you to draw? Why are you struggling with the idea of using yourself (if you are) for this large scale drawing?
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.
Before you leave for the day – thank our model for the time and posing – it is a lot of work! What is the ONE THING you are most satisfied with in your drawing today? WHY?
What did it for you to WRAP THIS DRAWING UP? Share a small thought with your classmates about this process – product?
Advanced Drawing: Bauhaus Drawing – Oskar Schlemmer
7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
Of ALL the aspects of the face – what are you having the most success with and what is the most challenging? What is hardest about the most challenging part?
What was it about the FACIAL FEATURES of your chosen face that made for a SUCCESSFUL and at times CHALLENGING drawing?
Happy Youth Art Month: Art Terms 101: Evolution of Chinese Ceramics – During the Ming dynasty the Zhougan province created porcelain pottery that influenced the design and quality of our ceramics today.
“Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.” — Julie Andrews
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.
Step back from your drawing – two days left – What LEAPS out at you as needing work? Why?
Reflecting back on the answer to the question at the beginning – did you resolve this issue?
Advanced Drawing: Bauhaus Drawing – Oskar Schlemmer
7.1Ad: Analyze how responses to art develop over time based on knowledge of and experience with art and life.
How has working on the BAUHAUS drawing (in oil pastel) helped you think about the ideas of figure ground relationships (figure and the staircases) and COMPOSITION?
Considering TOMORROW is your last day (THIS WEEK) in class… what are you considering for the final day KNOWING that you have ONE MORE WEEK – 5 DAYS – to work on this?
7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
Where in society today do you think most people get PORTRAITS of themselves made? Share your thoughts with your neighbor. How do you think we might be using this idea in OUR portraits?
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.
What has been your FAVORITE or LEAST FAVORITE part of working with clay. Please tell me WHY you LOVE or DON’T LOVE using this material. Please be specific.
What do you see as needing to be RESOLVED for the end of the project TOMORROW? Know that it is the LAST day to work.
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 is the ONE thing you are learning about the figure at this point? Even though we had to rethink the idea from Monday – in order to slow down – have you thought about different materials? Gesso? Gouache? Acrylics? Watercolor? Pastel?
Have you looked at NEW materials to introduce today? Gesso? Gouache? Acrylics? Watercolor? Pastel? Why have you introduced that? What might it do for your drawing?
7.1Ad: Analyze how responses to art develop over time based on knowledge of and experience with art and life.
Looking at 3 more in class days… what specificas are you doing to consider 1) architectural drawing and 2) figurative drawing?
Take a few minutes and really look at what you are doing. What is happening that you are proud of as it comes to this drawing and the ideas of the Bauhaus?
Drawing: Online Presentation of the Images.
Google Presentation is HEREand your DRAWINGS are HERE…
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
Now that we’ve gone over ALL the facial features… let’s look at the HEAD as a whole. In your sketchbook – NO REFERENCES BESIDE A MIRROR – Draw out the GENERALIZED facial features and correct placement on a head. In your goals page – write out “REFER TO DRAWING IN SKETCHBOOK.”
What are some REALLY IMPORTANT GUIDELINES that you will be using to make ACCURATE references in the face drawings?
ASSIGNMENT FOR THURSDAY!!! Bring in a NEWSPAPER or MAGAZINE PHOTOGRAPH of a person’s ENTIRE FACE – Front on or 1/4 turn at the most!
Happy Youth Art Month: Art Terms 101: Chiarocsuro is an effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
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.
Look at YESTERDAY’s Drawing – What is working with PROPORTION and COMPOSITION? What are you going to do to IMPROVE it today?
How have you developed the accuracy? How are you focusing on the MARKS? Notice we are looking at RICHARD DIEBENKORN? Tomorrow – we take a moment and look at HIM and his ideas…
Advanced Drawing: Bauhaus Drawing – Oskar Schlemmer
1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
How are you seeing the CENTRAL IDEA of your message coming through in the BAS RELIEF so far?
Take a walk around the classroom and LOOK – REALLY LOOK – at your classmates work. What are 3 things that you feel are STRONG about the works of your classmates?
G: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.
Looking back on ALL the GESTURE drawings you worked out last week – which of them will you want to use as a BREADTH piece to demonstrate this skill? What about it stands out as successful?
How did having the ENTIRE HOUR to draw help you develop the composition of your figure?
Advanced Drawing: Bauhaus Drawing – Oskar Schlemmer
G: 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.
Look at your work from a distance FIRST – What is the first thing that POPS out as needing work?
What did the conversation about the works allow you to SEE and then FIX in the BAUHAUS drawings?
Drawing: Online Presentation of the Images.
Google Presentation is HEREand your DRAWINGS are HERE…
G: 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
Using the first 10 minutes of class you are going to draw out what you feel were the most challenging parts of the face we started with last week. In your GOALS SHEET – What part of the face did you struggle with most and WHY?
What was the most challenging aspect of the mouth today? How do you see the relationships from one part of the face to another as important? What is most important about drawing when it comes to observation?
ASSIGNMENT FOR THURSDAY!!! Bring in a NEWSPAPER or MAGAZINE PHOTOGRAPH of a person’s ENTIRE FACE – Front on or 1/4 turn at the most!
G: 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
What challenges did you have in getting started last week on Friday with the clay? REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS ARTWORK: Subtractive, Additive, and Manipulation to the clay. These techniques are REQUIRED in the FINAL Sculpture.
What was the largest success you have in today’s work? Take a look at the rest of the classes work BEFORE we clean up. PAUSE 10 minutes before the end of class.