Category: Goals

Art Foundations 2D – Frank Gehry

1. 1.4 create, define, and solve visual challenges using 1.4.2 synthesis.
2. 2.2 evaluate the effectiveness of artwork.

In your Journal portion of the goal sheet, please reflect on the challenges you have had this week as we have begun to synthesize the ideas of the city-scape. What have you had the hardest time with? What has been the easiest thing for you to do.

Requirements for Cityscape Drawing:

What is the THEME to your city? Who are you and how do we read about your interests by looking at the city?

1. 5 Buildings: 1 skyscraper, 1 Frank Gehry inspired
2. Doors and windows showing the inside of them on at LEAST 2 buildings.
3. Sidewalk with squares that recede properly
4. Stairs – at least 3 steps if not more.
5. Pitched roof on 1 of the buildings – MUST have an overhang.
6. Street Signs (Stop, Yield, Kangaroo Crossing… things like that).
7. Signs on the Buildings (what kind of stores do you have?)
8. Light posts, telephone posts, things like that.
9. Means of transportation (does it HAVE to be a car?)
10. Inhabitants (do they have to be PEOPLE?)
11. Ellipses
12. Cantilevers

AP studio Art – Ted Orland – Art and Fear – Chapter to read…

1. 3.3 describe the creation of images and ideas and explain why they are of value.

What are you doing with your time in class? What are you doing with the images that you have created this week? In your Journal portion of the goals sheet – reflect on the amount of work or lack of work you have COMPLETED in the past 5 days. Where are your efforts? What are you accomplishing? REFLECT!

Drawing – Still Life – Vincent van Gogh

1. 5.3 describe meanings of artworks by analyzing 5.3.1 techniques

We have pushed the critiques and final due date into next week. The making of quality and successful art has proven that it is a challenging thing to do. In your journal portion of the goals sheet, what has been the hardest portion of the weeks worth of work? Where are you SOARING with your drawing? Where are you STRUGGLING with the work?

Art Foundations – Frank Gehry

1. 1.4 create, define, and solve visual challenges using 1.4.2 synthesis (put all the parts of a work together to form the whole.

What is the theme to your city? What did you do PERFECTLY today with NO ERRORS?

AP Studio Art – Ted Orland

1. 3.2 apply subjects, symbols, and ideas in art and use skill to solve visual challenges
2. 3.3 describe the creation of images and ideas and explain why they are of value

Images – whathave you scanned? What have you photographed? What have you edited? Tomorrow we will look at the log in and get you all set to log in and set up your accounts.

Drawing – Still Life

1. 2.2 evaluate the effectiveness of artwork
2. 1.4 create, define, and solve visual challenges using 1.4.2 synthesis (put all the parts of a work together to form the whole

What is it you need to do to WRAP UP your drawing for next week. There is no way that today could be the deadline – you worked so hard and have a bit to go in many cases. WHat do you have to do to RESOLVE your composition?

Art Foundations 2D – Frank Gehry – Interior of a Gehry Building

What is the THEME to your city?

1. 1.4 create  and solve visual challenges using 1.4.2 synthesis (put all the parts of a work together to form the whole).

Evaluating the effectiveness of your artwork is essential on a DAILY basis. What is working well in the beginning of your drawing? Where do you find your strngths SO FAR? Where do you REALLY need to refelct and rediscover the process?

AP Studio Art – Ted Orland

1. 3.2 apply subjects, symbols, and ideas in art and use skill to solve visual challenges.
2. 3.3 describe the creation of images and ideas and explain why they are of value.

Are you relying on the techniques / tools you are comfortable with? Are you advancing your approaches and trying NEW and INVENTIVE and SCARY approaches to your art works? Are you limited by your tools and techniques?

Drawing – Jim Dine Still Life of Cups

1. 2.2 evaluate the effectiveness of artwork.
2.  1.4 create, define, and solve visual challenges using 1.4.2 synthesis (put all the parts of a work together to form the whole).

What are you doing to evaluate the effectiveness of your art work? What have you noticed over the past week that has worked or not worked in the advancement / resolve to your drawing? What ELEMENTS and / or PRINCIPLES are you seeing that draw your attention and maybe your audiences attention to your work?

Art Foundations – Frank Gehry

1. 1.4 create, define, and solve visual challenges using 1.4.2 synthesis (put all the parts of a work together to form the whole.
2. 2.2 evaluate the effectiveness of artwork

Where did you FORGET aspects of 2 point linear perspective today? Did you ask Mr. Korb or your neighbors for help?

AP Studio Art – Ted Orland’s Work

1. 3.2 apply subjects, symbols, and ideas in art and use skill to solve visual challenges
2. 3.3 describe the creation of images and ideas and explain why they are of value.

Ok… How many works of concentration do you currently have? How many works of Breadth do you currently have? The clock is ticking… tick… Tick… TICK…

Drawing – Pablo Picasso Still Life

1. 3.1 reflect on how art differs and describe how it relates to history and cultures.
2. 2.2 evaluate the effectiveness of artwork.

Looking at the values of your work… where do you need to PUSH them? Where do you need to pull them? Details… what about all of those details? Cleanning up your work… smudges, fingerprints, evening out tones and values… get too it!

• Every artist was first an amateur. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art Foundations / AP Studio Art / Drawing

What sorts of jobs do you think about when you think ARTIST in 2012? What fears or concerns would you have about being an ARTIST? How are these fears the same or different than ANY OTHER JOB out there?

1. (4.4) evaluate and interpret art for relationships in (4.4.3) meanings showing understanding of the work of various art professionals.
2. (6.3) use the principles and techniques of art with those from other discipline.

What sorts of concerns would you or your parents have about going into the field of the arts as a career? What have you thought about as you have considered your future? What courses have you looked at taking to help you go in that direction (art or non-art alike)?

ART Foundations 2D – Staircases

1. 1.4Create, define, and solve visual challenges using SYNTHESIS. (All of the exercises we have worked on up to this point, we now put together into ONE cityscape.)
2. 3.1 reflect on how art differs and describe how it relates to history and cultures.

What aspect of Frank Gehry’s Arcitecture did you find most unusual to what you recognize as architecture today? What theme might you direct yourself to regarding your cityscape? How will this help us (the audience) get to know you?

AP Studio Art – Monet’s Waterlillies

3.1 Reflect on how art differs and describe how it relates to history and cultures

2.5 Defend personal evaluations

Howdoes your art differ from the other artists work in the classroom? How does it relates to history and culture that you are aware of (2012)?

Drawing – 

1. 3.4 Evaluate and defend the validity of sources for ideas
2. 5.3 describe meaning of artwork by alalyzing 5.3.1 techniques

What is the STRENGTH in your current drawing? What are the weaknesses in your drawing? What is it that is helping you move forward and advance in your work? What is it that is holding you back in the development of your work?

 

Art Foundations – Frank Gehry Building New York City

1. 1.2create art that demonstrates an understanding of how   your ideas relate to 1.2.3 the  processes you use.
2. 3.1 reflect on how art differs and describe how it relates to history and cultures.

So… Where are you with todays unique building? What did you forget? What did you help your neighbor with? What is NEW to you as you look at Frank Gehry’s architecture in comparison to what you see every day? How have you incorporated it into your drawing?

AP Studio Art – Uploads

1. 2.2 evaluate the effectiveness of artworks.
2. 2.3 create artworks that solve visual challenges.

What are the visual challenges you are facing with your current work? How effective is the work you are currently making to explain and demonstrate your upward progression of concentration?

Drawing – Fantasy Still Life

1. 1.1 apply media, techniques, and processes with 1.1.1 skill 1.1.2 confidence and 1.2.3 awareness so that your ideas are executed well.
2.  3.2 apply subjects, symbols, and ideas in art and use skill to solve visual challenges.

How are your ideas being executed well? How are you becoming more confident in the drawing process? What do you feel about the still life you are currently working on? Is there success? Are there areas of failure? What do you need to do to make it “Just so?”

Art Foundations 2D – Value Scale / Pepper

1. 1.2 create art that demonstrates an understanding of how your ideas relate to 1.2.1 materials and 1.2.3 the processes you use.
2. 3.1 reflect on how art differs and describe how it relates to history and cultures.

What do you think about the pencils you have been using? Which gave you the best darks? Which gave you the best lights? What did the Staedtler Pencils do that the “standard” pencil NOT do?

AP Studio Art – What you will be like at the end of the semester without a finished Portfolio

1. 2.2 evaluate the effectiveness of artworks
2. 2.3 create artworks that solve visual challenges

Monday is NOT that far away. What do you have to do to get done for the next two works? Where does it fit into you body of work? How are you maturing in your works? Developing in the skills / approach / ideas?

Drawing – Martin Missfeldt

1. 1.1 apply media, techniques, and processes with 1.1.1 skill 1.1.2 confidence and 1.1.3 awareness so YOUR ideas are executed well
2. 3.2 apply subjects, symbols, and ideas in art and use skill to solve visual challenges

With the effort you have been putting into your artwork, what has been working and developing for you in the process of this drawing? When you lok at your drawing, what one or two objects have really been holding you up, causing you grief?

Art Foundations – Richard Estes Perspective

1. 1.2 create art that demonstrates an understanding of how  your ideas relate to (1.2.3) the processes you use.
2. 3.1 reflect on how art differs and describe how it relates to history and cultures. (Richard Estes, Frank LLoyd Wright, Frank Ghery)

What 2 art making techniques were invented during the Renaisance? (One has to do with space, the other has to do with light and dark.)

AP Studio Art – Where are you with your Concentration Works? What do you need to do to get 2 done for Monday?

1. 2.2 evaluate the effectiveness of artworks
2. 2.3 create artworks that solve visual challenges

Drawing – Morandi

1. 1.1 apply media (pencil), techniques (chiaroscuro, contour, cross contour), and processes (observation, sighting in) with 1.1.1 skill 
2. 3.2 apply subjects, symbols, and ideas in art and use skill to solve visual challenges. (What have you chosen to use as still life and HOW is it expressing you?)

What is working successfully in your compostion? Where are you in need of spending more time working?

The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numbers exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition (understanding).

Art Foundations – Falling Water – Falling Water (Lego)

1. (1.2) create art that demonstrates an understanding of how your ideas relate to (1.2.3) the processes you use.
2. (3.1) reflect on how art differs and describe how it relates to history and cultures.

Review with neighbors the RULES of THUMB. What are the big challenges you are facing with the cantilevers / unique buildings?

AP Studio Art – Editing Link (side of this page ALSO)

1. (2.2) evaluate the effectiveness of artworks.
2. (2.3) create artworks that solve visual challenges.

What have you accomplished today? What questions do you have about the process of editing digital images?

Drawing – Jeff Hayes Still Life

1. (1.1) apply media, techniques, and processes with (1.1.1) skill.
2. (3.2) apply subjects, symbols, and ideas in art and use skill to solve visual challenges.

What do you see as the most successful aspect of your drawing? Where do you need to improve and how are you going to get there?