Art is an adventure into the unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take risks.” Mark Rothko
Drawing
7.2Ac: Evaluate the effectiveness of an image or images to influence ideas, feelings, and behaviors of specific audiences.
PAGE 20 in your HANDBOOK – As this work develops, how are your ideas and Kandinsky’s similar and how are they different? What might you take away from this experience? How can you share that idea with the world? Write out Two similarities and One MAJOR difference.
As this work develops, how are your ideas and Kandinsky’s similar and how are they different? WRITE this out from the beginning of the hour. Has it Changed?
Studio Art 360
Develop Craft: Learning to use tools, materials, artistic conventions; and learning to care for tools, materials, and space.
PAGE 20 in your HANDBOOK – What challenges did you have in the process of using the grid as a device to transfer the image from the photograph to the piece of paper? Explain why the process why so hard to you.
Advanced Drawing
2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
Hands and feet are challenging – what is going to be challenging about these aspects to make them believable – one doesn’t want to draw mittens and socks in the place of hands and feet.
PAGE 20 in your HANDBOOK: How will you use the knowledge of the shapes and joints to help you make the proportions CORRECT? Give some technique and ideas in your answer.
AP Studio Art
PAGE 20 in your HANDBOOK: What do you see as needing to be REALLY focusing on as NEXT WEEK comes up? I want you to be FOCUSED on the tasks at hand and get as much done next week so you have NOTHING but typing and tweaking your website over Spring Break. Make a list of things to do if you have to.
Art is an adventure into the unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take risks.”
– Mark Rothko
Drawing: MID-CRIT on Kandinsky
7.2Ac: Evaluate the effectiveness of an image or images to influence ideas, feelings, and behaviors of specific audiences.
As this develops, how are your ideas and Kandinsky’s similar and how are they different? What might you take away from this experience? How can you share that idea with the world?
As this work develops, how are your ideas and Kandinsky’s similar and how are they different? WRITE this out from the beginning of the hour. Has it Changed?
Studio Art 360: Color Scheme Worksheets and WRAP UP
7.1P: Hypothesize ways in which art influences perception and understanding of human experiences.
How do we ORGANIZE colors? What is all of this going to do to help you create more organized and unified works?
What are the three types of colors on the color wheel? What can you NOT mix? How do you mix Orange, etc…
Advanced Drawing: Arms and Legs (Bones)
2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
Back to the LONG BONE of the FEMUR – How can you use your understanding of the BONES of the ARMS and LEGS to help you make sure the DRAWING work – Look at the bending portions of the leg and arm… REALLY LOOK.
How will you use the knowledge of the shapes and joints to help you make the proportions CORRECT? Give some technique and ideas in your answer.
AP Studio Art: DEMO of MOUNTING
Reflect: Learning to think and talk with others about an aspect of one’s work or working process, and learning to judge one’s own work and working process and the work of others.
We are going to take a BREAK from the conversation and demonstrate the mounting of work. What pieces will you choose to mount? Why? What are your 5 BEST most SUCCESSFUL works?
What CHALLENGES do you see in the process of mounting your works to the boards? How long will each work take? Time to focus and WORK at it! YOU lead the crits tomorrow to wrap them up.
Biggest struggle / success for today? Write it out and the WHY!
Studio Art 360: COLOR THEORY – Let’s Talk Schemes.
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.
Review with neighbors the relationships of the colors on the color wheel? QUIZ one another on the names, types and relationships of the colors
Advanced Drawing: The Pelvis and Proportions
2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
How can you use another part of the body to help you determine the height and width of the pelvic area as you are drawing the human form? Where and how will you use measurements to help?
When you look at the form of the figure today, how have you succeeded with the drawing of the form? What techniques / approaches have you used?
AP Studio Art: Let’s Keep Talking
Reflect: Learning to think and talk with others about an aspect of one’s work or working process, and learning to judge one’s own work and working process and the work of others.
We began yesterday with a few presentations – you are now on your own. Take the period to do your presentations with one another – One of you will keep track of comments / suggestions / another will keep track of time. This is all on you – real AP Level conversations that are FOCUSED and ATTENTIVE to the tasks at hand. GO!
7.2Ac: Evaluate the effectiveness of an image or images to influence ideas, feelings, and behaviors of specific audiences.
As this develops, how are your ideas and Kandinsky’s similar and how are they different? What might you take away from this experience? How can you share that idea with the world?
As this work develops, how are your ideas and Kandinsky’s similar and how are they different? WRITE this out from the beginning of the hour. Has it Changed?
Studio Art 360: Sketchbook Tuesday
2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan. What STRUGGLES do you have with OBSERVATION? How about VALUE?
Sketchbook Assignment Page We are working on the SKETCHBOOKS today (Page 20) – Sketchbook Tuesday. WORK! Help your neighbor as you go along. ONE COLOR SCHEME – Let’s Look at Page 29 and REVIEW them all.
Grab a hammer, screwdriver, wrench, some sort of toolbox type of tool and draw it based on careful observation. Make sure that you spend some quality time looking at the object and then also consider the space in the background. What are you doing to fill that space? Please look at Jim Dine’s artworks about tools: https://goo.gl/xYYksN – Focus on the tool drawings.
How are you considering the ideas about COMPOSITION as you create your artwork? How does the imagery we saw from Jim Dine give you permission to do NEW things and NEW ideas for your composition?
Advanced Drawing: Skeletons and the TORSO
2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
What do you think will be most difficult about the TORSO portion of the body to draw? Why is this so?
How are you able to make reference to the SKULL as you are drawing the torso / ribs and abdomen?
AP Studio Art: Critique – Let’s Talk
Reflect: Learning to think and talk with others about an aspect of one’s work or working process, and learning to judge one’s own work and working process and the work of others.
We began yesterday with a few presentations – you are now on your own. Take the period to do your presentations with one another – One of you will keep track of comments / suggestions / another will keep track of time. This is all on you – real AP Level conversations that are FOCUSED and ATTENTIVE to the tasks at hand. GO!
7.2Ac: Evaluate the effectiveness of an image or images to influence ideas, feelings, and behaviors of specific audiences.
TURN TO PAGE 20 in your Handbook: Reflect on LAST WEEK before you begin today! What are your OVERALL IDEAS that you hope to communicate? What do you feel you’ll be doing with the materials that are NEW and CHALLENGING to you?
AP Studio Art: Critique Days – I hope the extra Two days were HELPFUL
Reflect: Learning to think and talk with others about an aspect of one’s work or working process, and learning to judge one’s own work and working process and the work of others.
Grab the 4 part PRE-Critique Worksheets and (on your own pacing) go for the next 28 – 20 minutes to critique one another’s work. What response do you have regarding your studio mate’s works – really – that can help them see things that they might not see – things that might help them continue to learn from their own works and marks? NO KID GLOVES.
Presentations to the studio from the website – answer the questions from AP and present the work that has been created. G: Nothing – reflected on work that was produced.
Welcome to the 2017 SE WI Youth Art Month portion of the State Closing Reception. The final awards ceremony was held at the Capitol Building in Madison WI on March 31. This was a fantastic way to celebrate the final day of a fantastic month long celebration of the Youth in the Visual Arts. Thank you to all the artists, parents and guardians, family, teachers, school administrators and boards for celebrating and supporting the visual arts. Congratulations to all the young artists who participated.
… and the SE WI Regional YAM Show at the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts.
Blending ANALOGOUS colors with and without finger blending
Blending COMPLEMENTS with and without finger blending
Straight and Curved lines with the TIPS and with the SIDES of the pastels
Filling large areas with a color and then doing smaller details over the top with another DIFFERENT color
Blending with CIRCULAR marks as well as BACK AND FORTH marks
Using PAPER as a masking tool
Adding a WHITE HIGHLIGHT over a darker colored surface
Working UPRIGHT on an easel versus on the FLAT on a table top
Cleaning your pastels with paper towel
Experiment on your own – use your initial images of SKETCHING for the VISUAL experiment inspiration
CLEANING with SPRAY and a CLOTH RAG – that’s not an exercise but a technique that will clean a lot faster than paper towel
Studio Art 360: Character Mugs and COLOR WHEEL
1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
If you ABSOLUTELY need 15 minutes to wrap up your ceramic work… take it. OTHERWISE – In your HANDBOOK – Answer the following questions: 1) What are the three PRIMARY colors? 2) What are the three SECONDARY colors? 3) List three WARM Colors. 4) List three COOL colors.
What strengths did you develop in your drawing today? What three things do you look at with your drawing and say – “Hey… that’s not so bad!”
AP Studio Art: WORK on CONCENTRATION
Reflect: Learning to think and talk with others about an aspect of one’s work or working process, and learning to judge one’s own work and working process and the work of others.
I gave you time to work yesterday and today – MAKE THE MOST OF IT. What do you need to do today?
WHAT’s the Assignment? If you need another 1, 2, or 3 concentration works – this is your assignment (one at the minimum). You will have your WEBSITE updated with 12 concentration works – PERIOD. You will rework your statements and answers to the AP Questions… ALL DUE on APRIL 3 for CRITIQUE & PRESENTATION.
“Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.” — Julie Andrews
Drawing: Soft Pastels
1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.
Of the shapes we are using, which one is STRONG and why? Which shape describes a passive quality? Why? Are you using Impression, Improvisation, or Composition? What about the use of shapes? Melodic or Symphonic?
Blending ANALOGOUS colors with and without finger blending
Blending COMPLEMENTS with and without finger blending
Straight and Curved lines with the TIPS and with the SIDES of the pastels
Filling large areas with a color and then doing smaller details over the top with another DIFFERENT color
Blending with CIRCULAR marks as well as BACK AND FORTH marks
Using PAPER as a masking tool
Adding a WHITE HIGHLIGHT over a darker colored surface
Working UPRIGHT on an easel versus on the FLAT on a table top
Cleaning your pastels with paper towel
Experiment on your own – use your initial images of SKETCHING for the VISUAL experiment inspiration
CLEANING with SPRAY and a CLOTH RAG – that’s not an exercise but a technique that will clean a lot faster than paper towel
Studio Art 360: Character Mugs
1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
What was your FAVORITE or LEAST FAVORITE part of working with clay. Please tell me WHY you LOVE or DON’T LOVE using this Clay. Please be specific.
Face Jars at the Milwaukee Art Museum
Face Jars at the Milwaukee Art Museum
Face Jars at the Milwaukee Art Museum
Face Jars at the Milwaukee Art Museum
What was the most challenging part of working with ceramics / clay as you created your mug? What are three things that working with this material challenged you with?
DUE END OF CLASS TODAY.
Advanced Drawing: Figure Drawing and the GESTURE
2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
Look at the series of works from yesterday… how have you begun to see the figure differently? Are you thinking about the the FORM in a different fashion than you had earlier?
What did taking an entire minute away from your drawings do for you? Harder? Easier? What did you have to do DIFFERENTLY?
AP Studio Art: WORK on CONCENTRATION
Reflect: Learning to think and talk with others about an aspect of one’s work or working process, and learning to judge one’s own work and working process and the work of others.
What response do you have regarding your studio mate’s works – really – that can help them see things that they might not see – things that might help them continue to learn from their own works and marks? Take 5 minutes and walk around – take a look – make some thoughts for MONDAY (the extended deadline).
Brayden – This group of Photos is for YOU.
Paper Sculptures at the Milwaukee Art Museum
Paper Sculptures at the Milwaukee Art Museum
Paper Sculptures at the Milwaukee Art Museum
Paper Sculptures at the Milwaukee Art Museum
Paper Sculptures at the Milwaukee Art Museum
Paper Sculptures at the Milwaukee Art Museum
Paper Sculptures at the Milwaukee Art Museum
WHAT’s the Assignment? If you need another 1, 2, or 3 concentration works – this is your assignment (one at the minimum). You will have your WEBSITE updated with 12 concentration works – PERIOD. You will rework your statements and answers to the AP Questions… ALL DUE on APRIL 3 for CRITIQUE & PRESENTATION.
“Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.” — Julie Andrews
Drawing: Soft Pastels
1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.
What ONE bit of theory has stuck with you as we have talked about the works and ideas of Wassily Kandinsky? Can you use any of his ideas on color and shape in your work as it is developed?
Blending ANALOGOUS colors with and without finger blending
Blending COMPLEMENTS with and without finger blending
Straight and Curved lines with the TIPS and with the SIDES of the pastels
Filling large areas with a color and then doing smaller details over the top with another DIFFERENT color
Blending with CIRCULAR marks as well as BACK AND FORTH marks
Using PAPER as a masking tool
Adding a WHITE HIGHLIGHT over a darker colored surface
Working UPRIGHT on an easel versus on the FLAT on a table top
Cleaning your pastels with paper towel
Experiment on your own – use your initial images of SKETCHING for the VISUAL experiment inspiration
CLEANING with SPRAY and a CLOTH RAG – that’s not an exercise but a technique that will clean a lot faster than paper towel
END OF CLASS TODAY – Write an answer to this on PAGE 19: What NEW ideas do you have about COLOR as you have used pastels?
Studio Art 360: Character Mugs
1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design. A: How will you use the experience of working in 3D change the way you work in 2D in the future?
END OF CLASS TODAY – Write an answer to this on PAGE 19:If you could do something in the beginning differently, what are the three things you might change? Why?
DUE END OF CLASS ON THURSDAY.
Advanced Drawing: Figure Drawing and the GESTURE
2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
Look at the series of works from yesterday… how have you begun to see the figure differently? Are you thinking about the the FORM in a different fashion than you had earlier?
END OF CLASS TODAY – Write an answer to this on PAGE 19: What were the the challenges you faced today? What was the BIGGEST CHALLENGE you faced today in the drawing? How did you SUCCEED?
AP Studio Art: WORK on CONCENTRATION
2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
What have your previous sketches been over the past months? How have you been planning the NEW and Important ideas out for your work? HOW DOES THIS HELP YOU? (Hand out the Artists pages from their websites and remind them of the expectations.)
END OF CLASS TODAY – Write an answer to this on PAGE 19: What materials and ideas are you using that are elevating your concentration? How have you demonstrated the LEARNING and GROWTH in the body of work you have produced?
WHAT’s the Assignment? If you need another 1, 2, or 3 concentration works – this is your assignment (one at the minimum). You will have your WEBSITE updated with 12 concentration works – PERIOD. You will rework your statements and answers to the AP Questions… ALL DUE on APRIL 3 for CRITIQUE & PRESENTATION.
“Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.” — Julie Andrews
Drawing: Kandinsky DEVELOPMENT and PLANNING
1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.
How do you relate the sounds and movement in your choice of music to the image that you are creating in your sketchbook? Tomorrow we begin on the larger sheets of paper. Work out the ideas in colored pencil / watercolors.
What NEW ideas might you have had about COLOR and SHAPE in the art you were creating?
Studio Art 360: Character Mugs
1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design. A: How will you use the experience of working in 3D change the way you work in 2D in the future?
If you could do something in the beginning differently, what are the three things you might change? Why?
DUE END OF CLASS ON THURSDAY.
Advanced Drawing: Figure Drawing
2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept. A: Looking at yesterday’s mannequin drawings – What did you struggle with in the process, in the final product?
What is most important about drawing when it comes to observation and proportions?
AP Studio Art: WORK
WHAT’s the Assignment? If you need another 1, 2, or 3 concentration works – this is your assignment (one at the minimum). You will have your WEBSITE updated with 12 concentration works – PERIOD. You will rework your statements and answers to the AP Questions… ALL DUE on MARCH 30 for CRITIQUE & PRESENTATION.
2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
To HELP YOU FULLY UNDERSTAND YOUR current concentration, what is the common thread that is chasing through all of your work? What do you SEE? What is the MEANING? Why is this work IMPORTANT? How are you growing in your work?
Art With Korb 
