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?
G: 2.3Ac: Redesign an object, system, place, or design in response to contemporary issues.
How are you see geometric or organic shapes in your life? Do you relate meaning / feel moods or feelings with them? What are some shapes that are dominant in your life? As you listen to your music… what are the colors and shapes (or lines) that come to mind as you move forward? Look over the worksheet about music and work through it.
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.
What challenges did you have in getting started last week on with the clay? REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS ARTWORK: Subtractive, Additive, and Manipulation to the clay. These techniques are REQUIRED in the FINAL Mug with a face. We are DONE with this on THURSDAY.
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.
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.
What are the biggest fears that you have about the ideas of drawing a full human figure? Why do you think this is so tough?
What was the most challenging way to draw? Why was this most difficult way to go? How OFF were you from the original that you drew from your memory? What is most important about drawing when it comes to observation?
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.
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.
How does your work for this week Re-Engage the ideas you have been using in the past while ALSO provide ideas of REVISION?
I try to get you to talk to one another and reflect. Look at each other’s work today and do that. Explain, listen, WRITE DOWN THOUGHTS for your own reflections.
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?
Biggest struggle / success for today? Write it out and the WHY!
Studio Art 360 – Character Mugs – Sketchbooks and CREATE IN CLAY.
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 Mug.
Advanced Drawing – CRITOQUE DAY… did you bring a snack?
4.2Ac: Analyze, select, and critique personal artwork for a collection or portfolio presentation.
What ONE ARTISTIC SKILL from PAGE 30 of Artist Habits of Mind did you take away from the 50 Sheets of Paper? EXPLAIN
What is one thing you added to today’s critique that made the conversation truly move forward? If nothing – what is ONE THING YOU THOUGHT ABOUT!
AP Studio Art – You’ve got to SIT and WORK and FOCUS!
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.
2.2Ad: Demonstrate understanding of the importance of balancing freedom and responsibility in the use of images, materials, tools, and equipment in the creation and circulation of creative work.
How do you see the growth of your work? What are two things that you see as STRONG developments as you have moved forward?
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?
What NEW ideas do you have about COLOR and Shape in the art you are creating now that we have had some conversation and learning about the ideas of Wassily Kandinsky?
Advanced Drawing – CRITOQUE DAY… did you bring a snack?
4.2Ac: Analyze, select, and critique personal artwork for a collection or portfolio presentation.
What ONE ARTISTIC SKILL from PAGE 30 of Artist Habits of Mind did you take away from the 50 Sheets of Paper? EXPLAIN
What is one thing you added to today’s critique that made the conversation truly move forward? If nothing – what is ONE THING YOU THOUGHT ABOUT!
AP Studio Art – You’ve got to SIT and WORK and FOCUS!
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.
2.2Ad: Demonstrate understanding of the importance of balancing freedom and responsibility in the use of images, materials, tools, and equipment in the creation and circulation of creative work.
How do you see the growth of your work? What are two things that you see as STRONG developments as you have moved forward?
End of the day – one more day in class. How many more pieces do you need to get through for this batch of 3 concentration works?
2.3Ac: Redesign an object, system, place, or design in response to contemporary issues.
How are you using geometric shapes in your life? How do you relate meaning to them? What are some shapes that are dominant in your life
What NEW ideas might you have had about COLOR and Shape in the art you were creating?
Studio Art 360 – Character Mugs – Sketchbooks and DRAW.
7.1P: Hypothesize ways in which art influences perception and understanding of human experiences.
What are you NERVOUS about as we venture into the work of clay?
2 drawings that are HALF THE SIZE of the final product, one that is a full size rendering. Look at references on your devices for images. You DO NOT KNOW FACIAL FEATURES like you think you do.
Advanced Drawing – CRITOQUE DAY… did you bring a snack?
4.2Ac: Analyze, select, and critique personal artwork for a collection or portfolio presentation.
What ONE ARTISTIC SKILL from PAGE 30 of Artist Habits of Mind did you take away from the 50 Sheets of Paper? EXPLAIN
What is one thing you added to today’s critique that made the conversation truly move forward? If nothing – what is ONE THING YOU THOUGHT ABOUT!
AP Studio Art – You’ve got to SIT and WORK and FOCUS!
Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making (Students use critical thinking skills to plan and conduct research, manage projects, solve problems, and make informed decisions using appropriate digital tools and resources.)
Do you need to update your ONLINE presence? Have you updated your BREADTH site to accommodate your two most recent works?
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.
Halfway through the week and MONDAY will be with us soon. I am PROUD of the accomplishments as a whole. You should be focused with a lot of alone time. What ONE BIG things worked out for you today?
1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.
What feelings do you get from specific pieces of music? Give some examples. Rap / Country / Reggae / Bossa Nova. Listen to the music – answer the question!
What shapes did you struggle to find? What ideas did you find as you listened to the music?
Studio Art 360 – Character Mugs – DEMO DAY!
10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.
Of the different ideas of faces and mugs we looked at last week – what do you think you might want to do before we begin to research? Animal, Person? One Eye, One Nose, One Mouth. Sketch it out on paper first. – Research using YOUR DEVICES – or the Chromebooks if I have them.
Envision: Learning to picture mentally what cannot be directly observed, and imagine possible next steps in making a piece.
What are three VERY SPECIFIC things you are doing TODAY to get this gigantic undertaking done for tomorrow? How has your vision changed or been the same since the beginning of the art making process – EXPLAIN.
TOMORROW and THURSDAY we are going to HANG THEM UP and CRITRIQUE… What is ONE THING that you have seen change DRAMATICALLY in the drawing – process – product – ideas – WHAT WHY?
Art With Korb 
