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Goals for the Day

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#AAArt… YES – Let’s TALK about your #Future!

“Aim higher in case you fall short.” ― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire – Jasper Johns:

Painting, Advanced Painting, AP Studio Art, Drawing: Ashton Gallagher from the American Academy of Art

AAA Drawing Students – http://www.aaart.edu/assets/1/7/AAA-1187.jpg

Goals: 

  • 10.1Ad: Synthesize knowledge of social, cultural, historical, and personal life with art-making approaches to create meaningful works of art or design.
  • As an art student looking to the future – what careers, uses of the skills you have developed do you think might be available to you in the future? Interested in the prospects?

Reflection / Evaluation: So… What do you think of the ideas – careers options BEYOND the high school level in the visual arts?

Studio Art 360: Sketchbook TUESDAY!

Oooo Rah Rah Korb
Goals:

  • 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • What did your classmate do to help you BEGIN the drawing? How are you going to RESOLVE this sketchbook assignmemt?

Sketchbook Assignment: (Come to class with this SELFIE MADE and PRINTED!) Using your own camera, take a selfie – your entire head needs to be in the photograph… Print out the photograph, cut out the head, and glue it to the sketchbook page. Using the photograph that has been glued down – resolve the rest of the picture with a friend. Let them begin the background and encourage them to DISREGARD to what was in the original background. HAVE FUN with this. Check out Mica Angela Hendrick’s website – see what her and her daughter can come up with. http://goo.gl/Xiihh1 Mr. Korb and his daughter’s run at this assignment HERE.

Reflection / Evaluation: Fun? Creative? What are the BIGGEST CHALLENGES you are going to have in FINISHING this up for TUESDAY?

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#Tuesday #OnTask in #Art

“Aim higher in case you fall short.” ― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire – Jasper Johns:

Painting and Advanced Painting: Painting and Color Schemes

BRICE MARDEN – He’s The MAN! http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/29/arts/600_loos.jpg

Goals: 

Reflection / Evaluation: Today – Successful in the process? What is an interesting aspect of the layering or flattening of the acrylic paints? What did you accomplish today? Which TECHNIQUES have you tried?

Studio Art 360: Sketchbook TUESDAY!

FUN! http://busymockingbird.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/img_5151.jpg?w=620&h=745

Goals:

  • 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • Sketchbooks are challenging… how have you been able to LEARN about your abilities through this weekly sketchbook practice? EXPLAIN how your skills have been developed over the weeks.

Sketchbook Assignment: (Come to class with this SELFIE MADE and PRINTED!) Using your own camera, take a selfie – your entire head needs to be in the photograph… Print out the photograph, cut out the head, and glue it to the sketchbook page. Using the photograph that has been glued down – resolve the rest of the picture with a friend. Let them begin the background and encourage them to DISREGARD to what was in the original background. HAVE FUN with this. Check out Mica Angela Hendrick’s website – see what her and her daughter can come up with. http://goo.gl/Xiihh1 Mr. Korb and his daughter’s run at this assignment HERE.

Reflection / Evaluation: Today’s work was collaborative… what did you do to help your classmate in their drawing? What did your classmate do to help you? How are you going to RESOLVE this week’s drawing to make it SPECTACULARLY SUCCESSFUL?

AP Studio Art: Figure Drawing – OPEN CANVAS CALENDAR!

How important are your interior lines? http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs5/i/2004/290/1/8/Gesture_Drawing_by_overcome.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • Another day of GESTURE DRAWINGS – We could spend a SEMESTER on them… What do you hope to figure out BETTER today than you did yesterday? I am going to EMPHASIZE using GUIDELINES and REFERENCE Lines today! Let’s see the work – just like in math.

Reflection / Evaluation:  Based on a DIRECT COMPARISON – What is more successful in today’s drawing than yesterday’s?

Drawing: MID CRIT – Look at the RUBRIC

How are you handling the EDGES of the images? Sharp lines with soft edges? http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/kandinsky/kandinsky.comp-4.jpg

Goals:

Reflection / Evaluation:  Are you successful in the communication of your ideas? Write out 3 reasons to back up your successes.

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#Monday is ALWAYS a #GoodDay in the #ARTS

“Aim higher in case you fall short.” ― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire – Jasper Johns:

Jasper Johns – TARGET: http://addictionblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Life-coaching-online-for-addiction-recovery-1.jpg

Painting and Advanced Painting: Painting and Color Schemes

Abstraction and Painting: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81CIvE3XoYL._SL1500_.jpg

Goals: 

Reflection / Evaluation: As you look back on the development of your composition, what are especially satisfied about? What are 3 things that you feel are successful compositionally?

Studio Art 360: LAST Drawing Day – Value – Composition? How’s it going?

Process over product! http://www.activefamilymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Process-Over-Product-The-Importance-of-%E2%80%9COpen-ended%E2%80%9D-Art-in-Child-Development.jpg

Goals:

  • G: 8.1P: Interpret an artwork or collection of works, supported by relevant and sufficient evidence found in the work and its various contexts.
  • What is the ONE larger SKILLS you have developed as we have drawn? What is one MINOR Skill you feel you have developed? EXPLAIN.

Reflection / Evaluation: As we discussed on earlier in conversation… we are in it for the process of MAKING ART, not necessarily worrying about the finished product. Why do you NOW see the PROCESS as an important thing for an ARTIST to worry about and the PRODUCT as important to their audience.

AP Studio Art: Figure Drawing – OPEN CANVAS CALENDAR!

Figure – Are you BEYOND THIS? http://www.learn-to-draw-lessons.com/images/gesture-standing.gif

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • What are three things that you you struggle with when it comes to the idea of the FIGURE?

Reflection / Evaluation: Of the images you drew today… what strengths did you see develop in the process today? Explain…

Drawing: MID CRIT – Look at the RUBRIC

How’s your drawing coming? http://media.smashingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/images/bauhaus/bauhaus%20art%20swinging.jpg

Goals:

Reflection / Evaluation:  SHARE YOUR THEORY AND DRAWING WITH YOUR CLASSMATE – Last 5 Minutes – CONVERSATION and write down what you have learned from your classmate.

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#TGIF – #ParentTeacherConferences

Hello All! Welcome to the END OF THE WEEK! It is YOUR DAY OFF! Yippee! Keeping that in mind… Here’s a quick video to occupy your time. EXTRA CREDIT can be yours if you hand in a well rendered and personal artwork using these ideas! Make this YOUR artwork and take it to the next level!

ALSO… If you are interested in following the development of our OPEN CANVAS project – visit the NEW site documenting the artwork right outside of room 123 HERE.

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Fri…#Thursday – #EndOfTheWeek! #TGIT

“There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.”  —Og Mandino

Painting and Advanced Painting: Painting

http://www.theartstory.org/images20/works/mondrian_piet_4.jpg

Goals: 

Reflection / Evaluation: What do you especially LIKE / DISLIKE about the ideas you have created in your artwork? What do you especially LIKE or DISLIKE about the ideas of ABSTRACTING from REALITY?

Studio Art 360: LAST Drawing Day – Value – Composition? How’s it going?

http://nicolsonartanddesign.wikispaces.com/file/view/Serena-Mignani-Imago-Orbis3.jpg/416391612/640×380/Serena-Mignani-Imago-Orbis3.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.1P: Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors. N: Draw with ONE SPECIFIC GOAL in mind.
  • This is the last day of working on these drawings… where do you see yourself having a HIGHLIGHT in the drawing? Where do you see the CORE of the SHADOW? Where are the Midtones (lights and shadows)? 

Reflection / Evaluation: Looking at the DRAWING what are you going to FOCUS ON today to resolve the drawing for Monday?

AP Studio Art: Figure Drawing – OPEN CANVAS CALENDAR!

SIMPLE and PERFECT! https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Rembrandt.fallhut.jpg

Goals:

  • 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.
  • What are your strengths when it comes to the FIGURE DRAWING? Write down three things that you see as the FOCAL POINTS and STRENGTHS of your figure drawing..
    • A gestural drawing as the basis of the work will hopefully be a good  place to see the strengths you have and HOW you develop a work about BREADTH into a work about YOU.

Reflection / Evaluation: What is it you need to focus on in the PROCESS to DEVELOP a solid DRAWING that is a bout the FIGURE and YOUR ABILITIES?

Drawing: MID CRIT – Look at the RUBRIC

 

Goals:

Reflection / Evaluation: How does your art compare with the work of “professionals” and how can you work to create a better understanding of your approach / intent / ideas?)

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#MidWeek #Wednesday

“There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.”  —Og Mandino

Painting and Advanced Painting: Painting

a TREE? Come on Mondrian… really? http://www.theartstory.org/images20/works/mondrian_piet_2.jpg

Goals: 

  • 1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design
  • What are the relationships you are seeing in the beginnings of the space you are creating? How do you see the use of color as an important part of the conceptual / idea process?

Reflection / Evaluation: Looking at the space you have created, how do you describe the FEELING / EMOTION you have begun to create? Strong sense of space? Easy to “read” ideas? Give EXAMPLES – at least two.

Studio Art 360: Drawing Day – Value – Composition? How’s it going?

wHERE HAVE WE SEEN this BEFORE? http://labrouge.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/due-inglesi-al-mambo-studio-of-giorgio-morandi-bologna-labrouge.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.1P: Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.
  • Take a LONG HARD LOOK at your composition. What is happening with the FIGURE? The GROUND? The POSITIVE SPACE? The NEGATIVE SPACE?

Reflection / Evaluation: How have you worked today on the ideas of the positive and negative space? What are you doing to RESOLVE the image for tomorrow? 

AP Studio Art: Figure Drawing – OPEN CANVAS CALENDAR!

Egon Schiele – Portrait of a woman: http://41.media.tumblr.com/22b49a4976b8db4dee3bcb8251c13c7e/tumblr_nc1alj2wTD1tf9o16o1_1280.jpg
BIOGRAPHY of Egon Schiele: Portrait of the Artist’s Wife: http://40.media.tumblr.com/222209e5906fbb499767025a6f6c6ab2/tumblr_nc1aix04ue1tf9o16o1_1280.jpg

Goals:

  • 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.
  • What challenges did you face yesterday when it came to the 5 minute drawings we did on large paper? How can you see one of these drawings as becoming the underpinnings of a final artwork?

Reflection / Evaluation: Looking at the rubric from the AP Site – how are you working / thinking about hitting the level 6 marks? What do you do SPECIFICALLY to match one of them (or not match one of them).

Drawing: Oil Pastels Kandinsky and Shapes! MID CRIT – Look at the RUBRIC

Goals:

  • 7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
  • What techniques are working for you in this work? How will you talk about the the struggles and successes you are having?

Reflection / Evaluation: What did you LEARN about your work or that of your classmates from today’s critique?

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#SketchbookTuesday is HERE! StArt360 – #Enjoy

“There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.”  —Og Mandino

Painting and Advanced Painting: Hallway Drawing / Painting

How has MONDRIAN changed his TREE over time? https://educar.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/mondrian-red-tree-s.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design
  • Does the use of LINE become a DOMINANT element in your artwork or are you seeing other elements as coming to the forefront of the composition? Explain your thoughts about the DOMINANT ideas.

Reflection / Evaluation: What color scheme have you begun to think about? Why? how does it DESCRIBE YOUR feelings toward the SIMPLIFICATION of the SPACE / SURROUNDINGS / COLOR? 

Studio Art 360: Sketchbook Day! Doodle Day and Don’t Be Dumb – Thanks Josh and Chuck!

http://cbsnews2.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/2014/01/19/98f30fc1-9cbe-4b1f-949d-79f76b6bcd83/4bee9cd5f388a27cb54d3dd31a98d0df/Andy%20Silton%20doodle%20244.jpg HIGHER PURPOSE of the DOODLE – HERE!

Goals:

  • 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • What are 3 things about your SKETCHBOOK that you are VERY PLEASED with? What are 3 things you WANT TO IMPROVE ON? How have you seen your DRAWING SKILLS improve since week 1?

Reflection / Evaluation:  How much time OUTSIDE of class do you feel you are going to need for NEXT WEEKS DUE DATE?  What DAY are you going to work on that? Maybe 5 – 10 minutes PER day? What benefits would LITTLE bits of time do versus ONE BIG HUGE TIME?

AP Studio Art: Figure Drawing and Trading Card Photographs – OPEN CANVAS CALENDAR!

Movement in the FIGURE DRAWING: https://venetianred.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/john-singer-sargent-sketch-of-a-spanish-dancer-1879.jpg

Goals:

  • 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.
  • Consider the idea of a FIGURE DRAWING… When you think about one that will represent YOU, what are the elements or principles that you feel would be best to serve the purpose of making it YOUR drawing versus simply a “project?” 

Reflection / Evaluation: Looking at the rubric from the AP Site – are you hitting the level 6 marks? What do you do SPECIFICALLY to match one of them (or not match one of them).

Drawing: Oil Pastels Kandinsky and Shapes!

Goals:

  •  7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
  • Reflect on YESTERDAY before you begin today! What worked? What didn’t? WHY?

Reflection / Evaluation:  What are your biggest struggle / success for today as we are now working with OIL PASTELS? Write it out (and the WHY!) PLEASE SHARE THESE IDEAS WITH A CLASSMATE – FINALLY!

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#Monday Already? That’s OK – Let’s Make it #mARTday instead!

“There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.”  —Og Mandino

Painting and Advanced Painting: Hallway Drawing / Painting

From REAL to ABSTRACT the Story of Piet Mondrain… http://www.theartstory.org/images20/works/mondrian_piet_1.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design
  • Looking at yesterday’s one or two simplifications, name 3 of the larger GEOMETRIC shapes that are beginning to develop in your composition. Describe HOW the idea of SPACE changing in your composition.

Reflection / Evaluation: How does the ORIGINAL image still show up in the space that you are creating? How do you feel the work is developing as a successful or unsuccessful? Give Specifics!

Studio Art 360: Value and DRAWING!

PROCESS instead of PRODUCT! https://s3.amazonaws.com/easel.ly/all_easels/45467/Process_over_Product/image.jpg

Goals:

  • 8.1P: Interpret an artwork or collection of works, supported by relevant and sufficient evidence found in the work and its various contexts.
  • As you examine this work of art, what are the larger SKILLS you have developed in the process?

Reflection / Evaluation: As artists, we are in it for the process of MAKING ART, not necessarily worrying about the finished product. How do you feel about the idea of  PROCESS versus PRODUCT?

AP Studio Art: Trading Cards – DISCUSSION

WONDERFUL ART CARDS: https://spaark.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/dsc_04262.jpg

Goals:

  • OPEN CANVAS CALENDAR!
  • G: 4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
  • As you look at your trading cards (and your larger idea of body of work) if you had to choose the Element or Principle that you feel you are the strongest with, what is it and WHY? How about the WEAKEST – Why?

Reflection / Evaluation: What NEW ideas do you have about the use of or understanding behind the elements and principles you have been faced with today?

Drawing: Kandinsky and Shapes!

Goals:

  • .1Ac: Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history.
  • What is it about the song you have chosen that really stood out to you as one worth using as the basis for an art work? This was a BIG decision on your part. Having to put it into words is important for you.  What is ONE things that STANDS OUT as that connects the two works of art?

Reflection / Evaluation:  SHARE YOUR THEORY AND DRAWING WITH YOUR CLASSMATE – Last 5 Minutes – CONVERSATION and write down what you have learned from your classmate.

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#Friday? Already? Day to #Work on #Art

“The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.” — Frank Hamilton

Painting and Advanced Painting: Hallway Drawing / Painting

Early Mondrian – We will look at how he has ABSTRACTED his works over his career. http://triviumproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Farm-near-Duivendrecht-by-Piet-Mondrian-1916-1024×807.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design
  • What are the largest and most DOMINANT LINES you see in your drawing of the hallways? These are the lines that we are going to be looking at as the FOCAL POINT / DOMINANT LINES to build our next work off of.

Reflection / Evaluation: How easy or difficult was it for you to begin simplifying the space and shapes of your drawings? What challenges do see as you continue? Know that the use of color in the work will be used to create a MOOD / EMOTIONAL response to the space that you are representing with your abstraction (not today… but WEDNESDAY).

Studio Art 360: Value and DRAWING!

Morandi’s Space and BIO.

Goals:

  • 10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.
  • Step back from your artwork and LOOK at it. What skill have you NEWLY developed as this drawing has come along? Is it VALUE? FORM? SHADING? OBSERVATION? Please explain the ideas in your new skills.

Reflection / Evaluation: Of ALL the  work on your drawing you created today, what has been the most successful thing that you’ve accomplished? EXPLAIN!

AP Studio Art: Trading Cards

https://swiftriverarts.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/atc2.jpg

Goals:

  • 6.1Ad: Curate a collection of objects, artifacts, or artwork to impact the viewer’s understanding of social, cultural, and/or political experiences.
  • Take out your 12 trading cards and the AP Rubric. As you look back on the creating of the cards – explain how you HAVE or HAVE NOT worked to attain the score of 5 or 6 on the AP RUBRIC – 3 things…

Reflection / Evaluation: Conversation about the placement of the cards. G: What are 3 things you feel you know BETTER or DIFFERENT about the ideas of the ELEMENTS and PRINCIPLES.

Drawing: Kandinsky and Shapes!

Goals:

  • 6.1Ac: Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history.
  • What songs are you using to create your artwork and what is ONE things that STANDS OUT as OBVIOUS to connect the two works of art?

Reflection / Evaluation:  SHARE YOUR THEORY AND DRAWING WITH YOUR CLASSMATE – Last 5 Minutes – CONVERSATION and write down what you have learned from your classmate.

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#Abstraction in the #Hallways, #Value in the #StillLife

“The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.” — Frank Hamilton

Painting and Advanced Painting: Hallway Drawing

http://previousexhibitions.fondationbeyeler.ch/e/images_11son/34leger/werke_03.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • Looking back at the hallway drawings from the past two days why do they TEND to be boring? What are 2 things you are considering about doing to make it EXCITING and YOUR OWN? What angles and lines are you drawn to in your thumbnails?

Reflection / Evaluation: How has TRANSFORMING and ABSTRACTING these drawings changed the boring into more interesting works. Give three SPECIFIC examples.

Studio Art 360: Value and DRAWING!

http://www.tonysmithsouthorange.org/images/imgTauEasel.jpg

Goals:

  • 7.1P: Hypothesize ways in which art influences perception and understanding of human experiences.
  • What skills do you have that will help you create a CUBE, CYLINDER, PYRAMID and LETTER in one or two point perspective that you didn’t have a few weeks ago? Describe your thoughts.

Reflection / Evaluation: Given the opportunity to SELF EVALUATE… BASED ON CRITERIA you may set up for yourself… what grade would you say you have earned? WHY!!!???

AP Studio Art: Plants and Drawing! Time to WORK!

http://niteart.com.au/wp-content/uploads/peter-davidson_001.jpg

Goals:

  • 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.
  • Consider the RUBRIC AP uses. What are you doing with the first 8 cards to push yourself and challenge yourself? Are you working to make INTRIGUING and SUCCESSFUL Artworks (even though they are VERY SMALL?)

Reflection / Evaluation: Does working on these cards give you a new understanding of what you DO NOT KNOW about the ELEMNTS and PRINCIPLES? 2 reasons / explanations… THINK!

Drawing: Kandinsky and Shapes!

http://www.kimberleyjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/K3-Wassily-Kandinsky-Concentric-Circles.jpg

Goals:

  • 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?

Reflection / Evaluation:  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?