Category: Visual Examples

Examples from the board or from the class.

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Friday Without the likes of #MrKorb. #SAD.

Sphere and Polyhedron Value Changes Chiaroscuro

Robert Henri: “Advice about your paintings is difficult.  As I said before, I cannot interest myself in whether they will pass juries or not. More paintings have been spoiled during the process of their making, through such considerations, than the judgements of juries are worth.”

Winter Spirit Week Pep Assembly Schedule
1st                 7:25 – 8:05
2nd                8:10 – 8:52 (+2 minutes for announcements)
3rd                8:57 – 9:37
4th                9:42 – 10:22
6th                10:27 – 11:07
5A   Class      11:12 – 11:35
5AB Class      11:12 – 12:03
5BC Class      11:40 – 12:31
5C   Class      12:08 – 12:31
7th                12:36 – 1:16
8th                1:21 – 2:01
Pep               2:06 – 2:46

5A  Lunch      11:07 – 11:35
5B  Lunch      11:35 – 12:03
5C  Lunch      12:03 – 12:31

Drawing: Books and Oil Pastels – LAST DAY OF CRITIQUE!

3.1Ac: Engage in constructive critique with peers, then reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art and design in response to personal artistic vision.

What do you feel about talking aloud when it comes to other’s works? What are your thoughts about why you may be apprehensive or confident when discussing other individual’s work?

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Critique About Art: http://escapingartist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Art-School-Crit.jpg

What were 3 things that you took away from today’s critique? 

Studio Art 360: Drawing Pencils – The many levels of GREY.

G: 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.

What do you see about the use of thumbnail drawings as a strong starting point for the artist as they develop their initial ideas? Why more than one? Why more than 2?

Sphere and Polyhedron Value Changes Chiaroscuro
Sphere and Polyhedron Value Changes Chiaroscuro

How are you moving forward as you are developing the preliminary drawings as you consider the final drawings.

Advanced Drawing: Fast Food – Time to REVISIT this or SKETCHBOOKS – MASTERPIECES!

7.2Ad: Determine the commonalities within a group of artists or visual images attributed to a particular type of art, timeframe, or culture.

Today – I am gone. You are going to have an opportunity to work on your BIG BOOK OF SKETCHES or RESOLVE ANY ISSUES in your FAST FOOD DRAWING you may have. Which drawing from the packet are you focusing on today? Why this one in particular?

Richard Diebenkorn : Seated Woman: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/82/c3/b8/82c3b86979c9e4a7889907a12c741de8.jpg
Richard Diebenkorn : Seated Woman: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/82/c3/b8/82c3b86979c9e4a7889907a12c741de8.jpg

What part of your drawing worked out really well for you today? What did you struggle with in your drawing?

AP Studio Art: FEAR! CRITIQUE on MONDAY.

Ergophobia: Fear of Deadlines:

FEAR of DEADLINES! https://cdn.meme.am/instances/500x/54611559.jpg
FEAR of DEADLINES! https://cdn.meme.am/instances/500x/54611559.jpg

 

CHAPTER 6 Due FRIDAY at 11:59.

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Robert Henri: “Advice about your paintings is difficult.  As I said before, I cannot interest myself in whether they will pass juries or not. More paintings have been spoiled during the process of their making, through such considerations, than the judgements of juries are worth.”

Drawing: Books and Oil Pastels – WRAP IT UP!

3.1Ac: Engage in constructive critique with peers, then reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art and design in response to personal artistic vision.

What do you feel about talking aloud when it comes to other’s works? What are your thoughts about why you may be apprehensive or confident when discussing other individual’s work?

art-school-crit
Critique About Art: http://escapingartist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Art-School-Crit.jpg

What were 3 things that you took away from today’s critique? 

Studio Art 360: Pencils and Observation

 

2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan. A: What was the biggest challenge you found as you began to draw your objects yesterday?

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Dennis Mogelgaard Still Life https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/15/2d/bd/152dbd9e1ced4bbccf1bb4e83805cc96.jpg

What are 2 difficulties that you had in beginning your drawing today? Remember – DRAWING IS A CHALLENGE – let it be!

Advanced Drawing: Fast Food – Time to RESOLVE THIS

3.1Ac: Engage in constructive critique with peers, then reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art and design in response to personal artistic vision.

Looking at the still life you have drawn, what are aspects that you would talk about if you were critiquing the work as being successful or unsuccessful?

CRITIQUE: Look Carefully at your Artwork and SEE what you still need to do with it. http://fineartscomm.lamar.edu/_files/images/dishman/dishman-homepage-slideshow/Patron%20looking%20at%20art.jpg
CRITIQUE: Look Carefully at your Artwork and SEE what you still need to do with it. http://fineartscomm.lamar.edu/_files/images/dishman/dishman-homepage-slideshow/Patron%20looking%20at%20art.jpg

What are your thoughts about the idea of the composition / white objects as subject matter? WRITE THAT IN YOUR GOAL SHEETS. Why do you feel this is worthy / unworthy / simple / complicated? What is working? What can you take forward to the next assignment?

 

AP Studio Art: FEAR! Listen to THIS… NPR’s This American Life (again)… ASSIGNMENT HERE!

1.1 Ad: Visualize and hypothesize to generate plans for ideas and directions for creating art and design that can affect social change.

New materials – fear of materials – how are you facing that fear?

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Fear of Crowds: https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.smartertravel.com/uploads/2012/08/stm503398530053220120821.jpg

Are you remaining focused on the tasks at hand? What are 3 things you find successful in this work?

 

Enochlophobia: Fear of crowds:

 

CHAPTER 6 Due FRIDAY at 11:59.

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Fear of Stairs: http://img2.rnkr-static.com/user_node_img/50063/1001246761/870/if-this-bothers-you-at-all-you-have-it-photo-u2.jpg

Robert Henri: “Advice about your paintings is difficult.  As I said before, I cannot interest myself in whether they will pass juries or not. More paintings have been spoiled during the process of their making, through such considerations, than the judgements of juries are worth.”

Drawing: Books and Oil Pastels – WRAP IT UP!

3.1Ac: Engage in constructive critique with peers, then reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art and design in response to personal artistic vision.

What do you feel about talking aloud when it comes to other’s works? What are your thoughts about why you may be apprehensive or confident when discussing other individual’s work?

art-school-crit
Critique About Art: http://escapingartist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Art-School-Crit.jpg

What were 3 things that you took away from today’s critique? 

 

Studio Art 360: Pencils and Observation

2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.

Form and Value: Using what you remember about form from our earlier drawings of 2 point perspective cubes, cylinders, and pyramids? Using the objects that has been set out in front of  you and spend the hour working on drawing it to scale (1:1). Look at all the shadows, reflections, highlights and darks. Practice LOOKING. It is all about the eye! N: DEMO AGAIN – Sighting in and Searching for lines. DO NOT ERASE.

TODAY - We TALK about the process of SKETCHING and Preliminary Ideas - OBSERVATION Drawing. http://pre11.deviantart.net/4c6c/th/pre/f/2010/304/0/d/ball___cube___cylinder___ring_by_gartus-d31w5zb.jpg
TODAY – We TALK about the process of SKETCHING and Preliminary Ideas – OBSERVATION Drawing. http://pre11.deviantart.net/4c6c/th/pre/f/2010/304/0/d/ball___cube___cylinder___ring_by_gartus-d31w5zb.jpg

Challenges and struggles? Are you going to take it home and REFINE it? 

 

Advanced Drawing: Fast Food – Time to RESOLVE THIS

2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form. A: As you look back on this drawing – what is the ONE AREA you are uncertain about in the work?

Bags - McDonald's Bags https://ihabdines.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/mcdonalds-bag.jpg
Bags – McDonald’s Bags https://ihabdines.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/mcdonalds-bag.jpg

What do you FEAR about standing up in front of a class and TALKING about your art with the class of Artists? Name 3 FEARS

 

AP Studio Art: FEAR! Listen to THIS… NPR’s This American Life (again)… ASSIGNMENT HERE!

 

1.1 Ad: Visualize and hypothesize to generate plans for ideas and directions for creating art and design that can affect social change.

What are you doing outside of the studio time to make sure you are staying on top of your work? What have you done to PUSH  yourself in the process of making your art stronger, more successful? A LEVEL 6?

Fear of Stairs: http://img2.rnkr-static.com/user_node_img/50063/1001246761/870/if-this-bothers-you-at-all-you-have-it-photo-u2.jpg
Fear of Stairs: http://img2.rnkr-static.com/user_node_img/50063/1001246761/870/if-this-bothers-you-at-all-you-have-it-photo-u2.jpg

Bathmophobia – Fear of Stairs

How much progress have you made? This is a focused work week – have your new seating spaces helped? Hindered? Meh?

CHAPTER 6 Due FRIDAY at 11:59.

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Fear of Heights: http://vkool.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/fear-of-heights-%E2%80%93-acrophobia.jpg

 

Robert Henri: “Advice about your paintings is difficult.  As I said before, I cannot interest myself in whether they will pass juries or not. More paintings have been spoiled during the process of their making, through such considerations, than the judgements of juries are worth.”

Robert Henri Painting: http://www.hopesingssobeautiful.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Intro.Henri_.4.jpg
Robert Henri Painting: http://www.hopesingssobeautiful.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Intro.Henri_.4.jpg

Drawing: Books and Oil Pastels – WRAP IT UP!

Develop Craft: Learning to use tools, materials, artistic conventions; and learning to care for tools, materials, and space.

Today you resolve the drawings. What challenges do you still have in front of you?

Alselm Kiefer: http://www.blogs.erg.be/art2/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/anselm-kiefer-volkszc3a4hlung.jpg
Alselm Kiefer: http://www.blogs.erg.be/art2/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/anselm-kiefer-volkszc3a4hlung.jpg

What do you need to do TONIGHT or TODAY to finalize your work?

 

Studio Art 360: Pencils and Observation

2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.

What technique have you learned when it comes to draw something in 3 dimensions? What are different techniques you know?

OBSERVATION and DRAWING: Details and Value. Simple yet elegant: https://mir-s3-cdn-cf.behance.net/project_modules/disp/c17b4f21223835.562fd965af475.jpg
OBSERVATION and DRAWING: Details and Value. Simple yet elegant: https://mir-s3-cdn-cf.behance.net/project_modules/disp/c17b4f21223835.562fd965af475.jpg

Dennis Møgelgaard is a visual artist who was born in 1959.

What is ONE thing you are CERTAIN you did successfully with your drawing today? What is ONE THING you are CERTAIN you need to focus on in order to create a more realistic / successfully accurate observation drawith tomorrow?

 

Advanced Drawing: Fast Food – Time to RESOLVE THIS

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.

How did last week’s MID CRIT critique help you or challenge you as you looked at it from that distance and heard from Mr. Korb or your fellow artists?

Paper Bag Drawing: http://www.utdallas.edu/~mel024000/pages/2D_Design/PaperBagDrawing/paperbagdraw.jpg
Paper Bag Drawing: http://www.utdallas.edu/~mel024000/pages/2D_Design/PaperBagDrawing/paperbagdraw.jpg

Talk to your neighbor / partner about the potential meaning behind your work. Write those thoughts down PLEASE?

 

AP Studio Art: FEAR! Listen to THIS… NPR’s This American Life (again)… ASSIGNMENT HERE!

1.1 Ad: Visualize and hypothesize to generate plans for ideas and directions for creating art and design that can affect social change.

What are you AFRAID of? What is the topic for your artwork and how do you see moving forward? Today – Go into the GALLERY and REMOVE your SHOW – New Works going up TOMORROW from Other Classes. I will be coming around to talk to you individually – NEW SEATING SPACES – Time to MIX THINGS UP!

Fear of Heights: http://vkool.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/fear-of-heights-%E2%80%93-acrophobia.jpg
Fear of Heights: http://vkool.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/fear-of-heights-%E2%80%93-acrophobia.jpg

What did you accomplish today? FINAL WORK DUE MONDAY! ACROPHOBIA – Fear of Heights: 

CHAPTER 6 Due FRIDAY at 11:59.

 

 

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AP STUDIO ART… Hands holding an object. 

The AP Studio Artists are working on their breadth in Studio. Concentration of one’s visual ideas is a part of the Advanced Placement process / portfolio, but so is the idea that “I can do a lot of different works and here are my skills.” Here are some of their skills. Check out the gallery link to see more of the works.

Jenny’s Hand.

Emily’s Hand.

Brayden’s Hand.

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#Friday and #Fun in the #ArtStudio – #MakeStuff with #Creativity!

Jerry Saltz – Advice to Art Students (A NEW ONE EACH DAY!)

10) Demons will speak to you till you start working. Then you have newer demons. Work with them. Work. Just work. Or don’t and…

Drawing: Books and Oil Pastels

2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.

What do you need to do TODAY? Hurry to get it done – BUT WELL! Can you add color, texture, images to the book pages?

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How are you working over the paper? http://2ea76t2ceqpofydxo230lcolv7.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Mixed-Media-Beeswax-Collage-2-of-6-600×400.jpg

What needs doing? Passes? Come in to finish? Take home?

Studio Art 360: BALANCE and Organic Objects

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.

Final thoughts on the metal bas-relief work you have created. Work through the lower portion of the self-evaluation and then the front of the rubric.

Great details in the copper plate work... how are you doing? https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/ec/8a/84/ec8a84e699814a84e589602b826359b1.jpg
Great details in the copper plate work… how are you doing? https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/ec/8a/84/ec8a84e699814a84e589602b826359b1.jpg

What is the most successful aspect of your bas relief copper plate?

Advanced Drawing: Fast Food

1.1 Ad: Visualize and hypothesize to generate plans for ideas and directions for creating art and design that can affect social change.

What skills do you feel you are able to be falling back onto as you move into this drawing?

Paper Bags Still Life http://www.micahsparker.com/images/mannequin.jpg
Paper Bags Still Life http://www.micahsparker.com/images/mannequin.jpg

What has been your most successful are of this drawing today?

AP Studio Art: FEAR! Listen to THIS… NPR’s This American Life (again)… ASSIGNMENT HERE!

CHAPTER 5 Due TONIGHT at 11:59 – Some of you have not even TOUCHED the book.

1.1 Ad: Visualize and hypothesize to generate plans for ideas and directions for creating art and design that can affect social change.

BOO! What are you considering when it comes to your fears? What materials? What imagery.

BOO! Clowns Terrify me... https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/42/29/ee/4229ee29f60c0220534e5bb94a989f21.gif
BOO! Clowns Terrify me… https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/42/29/ee/4229ee29f60c0220534e5bb94a989f21.gif

What can you work on this weekend?

DUE MONDAY of the FOLLOWING week – not Monday of this coming week but of the FOLLOWING one…

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Fear of Sleep - BOO: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/1a/ec/6c/1aec6cdb74e289b7051d3d85265b268e.jpg

Jerry Saltz – Advice to Art Students (A NEW ONE EACH DAY!)

7) Be in contact with artists all the time. If you don’t, your work will die because you will wake up one day and think you know it all.

Drawing: Books and Oil Pastels

1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design

Biggest struggles with the ideas of collage? What are they? Has this changed your outlook on making art?

How are your BOOKS coming along? https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/ac/c7/bc/acc7bcd334d23c7b7c82c5683bcbd682.jpg
How are your BOOKS coming along? https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/ac/c7/bc/acc7bcd334d23c7b7c82c5683bcbd682.jpg

New thoughts on TODAY’s progress. Give 2 and SHARE THEM with your classmates.

Studio Art 360: BALANCE and Organic Objects

1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.

What do you feel you need to do to FINISH  the work you are creating today? Adding a stain tomorrow to make the color help the relief more visible.

Copper Bas-Relief: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/17/f3/24/17f3242446fc9dcbedf64b767222bc0b.jpg
Copper Bas-Relief: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/17/f3/24/17f3242446fc9dcbedf64b767222bc0b.jpg

Did you have any struggles today? What are things that you might use in the process that you see as helpful in the idea of making art in the future? What about skills you have developed this year that will help outside of the art room?

Advanced Drawing: Fast Food

2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.

What did you do yesterday to prepare yourself for in the design and execution of this still life / commentary work?

How's the space?  https://i0.wp.com/farm3.staticflickr.com/2642/3764370966_44a34b404c.jpg
How’s the space?  http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2642/3764370966_44a34b404c.jpg

What did you take away from the drawing today? What are you succeeding with?. (1, 3, 5).

 

AP Studio Art: FEAR! Listen to THIS… NPR’s This American Life (again)… ASSIGNMENT HERE!

1.1 Ad: Visualize and hypothesize to generate plans for ideas and directions for creating art and design that can affect social change.

What are  you AFRAID of? We looked at Art and Fear – now we are going to look at yourself and fear.

BOO! https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/1a/ec/6c/1aec6cdb74e289b7051d3d85265b268e.jpg
BOO! https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/1a/ec/6c/1aec6cdb74e289b7051d3d85265b268e.jpg

What are you thinking about when it comes to FEAR?  SHORT ARTWORK WEEK – DUE NEXT WEEK THURSDAY. 

 

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Jerry Saltz – Advice to Art Students (A NEW ONE EACH DAY!)

9) Everyone is sincere. Even Jeff Koons. He’s kinda weird and speaks like a Teletubby but even he’s capable of creating the flower Puppy that made me so incredibly happy. It was like The Beatles.

Drawing: Books and Oil Pastels

1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.

How are you working the background differently than you might if it were the same paper you originally drew on?

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Using the pages to draw on: Cool! http://www.freshcharacters.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/DRAWINGS_IN_BOOKS_7.jpg

What are skill syou might carry into the next artwork – or artworks down the road? 

Studio Art 360: BALANCE and Organic Objects

1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.

What do you feel you need to do in order to be focused and intentional in the work you are creating? One aspect of this work is to know that the marks you are making are permanent – cannot be taken out – one and done. How do you work with the mistakes that you might make?

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Approximate Symmetry: Ink to add values: http://media.liveauctiongroup.net/i/10637/11194167_1.jpg?v=8CE421DAF848100

How do you feel about the process that you went through today in the making of you bas-relief metal work? 

Advanced Drawing: Fast Food

2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.

Where do you see the ideas of preliminary works as being a strong help in the making of your art?

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Paper Bag Drawings http://www.utdallas.edu/~mel024000/pages/2D_Design/PaperBagDrawing/paperbagdraw.jpg

Talk to your neighbor / partner about the potential meaning behind your work. What SKILLS are you hoping to develop in this drawing? What types of bags are you hoping to bring in and use to communicate a message through this work with? 

AP Studio Art: Crit – HANDS and Object

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?

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AP Art / Ind. Art

Halfway through the week and MONDAY will be with us soon. I am PROUD of the accomplishments – a lot of alone time. What ONE BIG things worked out for you today? 

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Jerry Saltz – Advice to Art Students (A NEW ONE EACH DAY!)

7) Be in contact with artists all the time. If you don’t, your work will die because you will wake up one day and think you know it all.

Frank and Jerry
Thank you Jerry for the Visit – I’d love to meet again for the first time.

Drawing: Books and Oil 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 ideas are you looking to use as the idea of collage, drawing, text, texture, and books are brought together?

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Paper BAckground? How are you moving forward? https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6n6BiZ4N6JM/maxresdefault.jpg

Have you improved your ART MAKING skills over the first artwork?

Studio Art 360: BALANCE and Organic Objects

2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.

START HERE Artists!

Open your Sketchbook! Use a ruler (or not) and demonstrate your understanding of using a VANISHING POINT, HORIZON LINE, and SHAPES to create a sense of SPACE by drawing a CUBE on a horizon line… below or above – however you need to demonstrate what you know. Ok? Ok. Now – GO!

After a 10 minute SELF DRIVEN run through the ideas of perspective… Watch this video and PAUSE as you need. This is a HUGE Skill that you need to learn and become MASTERFUL with.

What are the challenges you have with drawing in perspective?

Advanced Drawing: Fast Food

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. A: What are aspects of your drawing that is successful? What are aspects of the drawing that you?

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Paper BAg and VALUE: http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium/paper-bag-danielle-giglia.jpg

What did you see in your neighbor’s drawings that were successful / needed work? Why do you feel the POP artists chose to pursue the EVERYDAY object to base their body of work on? Share your thoughts with the class.

AP Studio Art: Crit – HANDS and Object

CRIT TODAY!

4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.

What do you have to say about the work in front of you? How are you going to look at the experience and learn from it? What have you done to PUSH  yourself in the process of making your art stronger, more successful? A LEVEL 6?

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CRIT: https://artmatters.ca/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/A-1162321-640×444.jpg

Nothing – we critiqued today. 

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Jerry Saltz – Advice to Art Students (A NEW ONE EACH DAY!)

4) You have to have doubts. It’s okay if you look at a Rembrandt and go, “It’s kinda brown.”

Frank and Jerry
Thank you Jerry for the Visit – I’d love to meet again for the first time.

Drawing: Books and Oil Pastels

Develop Craft: Learning to use tools, materials, artistic conventions; and learning to care for tools, materials, and space. A:How are you going to move forward with the work in front of you? What sorts of ideas are you going to use to resolve as a collage?

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Anselm Kieffert: https://d1inegp6v2yuxm.cloudfront.net/royal-academy/image/upload/c_limit,f_auto,w_1200/g7q5smgvt1e8os2i1kvd.jpg

What is the progression forward with the work? How did you LEARN from the critique last Friday?

Studio Art 360: BALANCE and Organic Objects

1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.

How satisfied are you with your 5” x 5” design? Do you see new and unique ways to make lines and be more aware of the marks that you are making in the art that you are making?

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Copper Texture – This is what were doing NOW! https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/copper-relief-10029926.jpg

Wednesday and Thursday we are wrapping up the pressing of the design and then the inking / painting / staining of the final work. Two things you are struggling with… why? 

Let’s Look at LINE use and PATTERNS

Advanced Drawing: Fast Food

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.

What was the successful part of the drawing for you? What will you carry forward as you make more art?

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I’m Lovin’ It: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/03/23/04/26E90AEB00000578-0-He_wants_to_seedetailed_ingredients_lists_on_fast_food_packaging-m-55_1427084675296.jpg

How did doing the visit with your classmates open your ears to what was said? How did it open your eyes to what you saw?

AP Studio Art: Crit – HANDS and Object

CRIT TODAY!

4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.

What do you have to say about the work in front of you? How are you going to look at the experience and learn from it? What have you done to PUSH  yourself in the process of making your art stronger, more successful? A LEVEL 6?

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Nothing – we critiqued today.