Today we started with ACRYLICS as well as some SELF-EVALUATION. The three different National Visual Arts Standards Based Rubrics are all focused on the different levels of abilities and skills and standards that high school art students ought to be confident in as they leave certain levels of their art making career. These have been developed over the past two years and really broken down over the first part of the summer vacation. Please enjoy them and see if there are aspects of them YOU might utilize.
Welcome to the SUMMER and to the Plein Air Art Course at WUHS! We are off to a GREAT START with 8 students taking the opportunity to get some painting and drawing in for the next 4 weeks. We talked a bit today about the process of going out and painting and then we did just that. Watercolors were the first day’s medium (and first week for that matter) and we will talk technique Tuesday – and then PAINT! Hope for NO RAIN!
After a couple of hours experimenting with watercolors…
… the group seemed tired! MORE TO PAINT!
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Welcome to summer vacation. It has been a great school year with a lot of incredible artworks being made. There was a lot of artwork left in the studio last week and, against my better judgement (or best judgement) I am going to let it all stay in the room for the weeks of the summer school painting class.
Plein Air painting is going to be a great painting activity. We are going to be doing a lot of work from Watercolors to acrylics to pastels – maybe even a print or two. NEW MATERIALS WEEKLY and then… YOU get your choice of materials! Woo Hoo! I am in the works of speaking with the Taliesin Preservation Organization in Spring Green, WI and looking forward to a long day of driving, touring, painting, drawing, and a brown bag lunch and dinner on the way home.
If you have any art questions – high minded questions, basic technique questions, purchasing of easels or anything else… let me know!
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form. A: What do you need to RESOLVE in the next few days? What skills are you pleased with in how you are completing this work? N: Continue to work and critique? A: WORK G: What are challenges you are going to TALK about and WRITE about? DO NOT FORGET TO WRITE! EXTRA CREDIT for ANYONE WHO HELPS CLEAN THE ROOM during STUDY HALLS and AFTER EXAMS!
What is ONE QUESTION that you have for me about the SEMESTER? About the FINAL EXAM
Reflection: What do you feel is an ESSENTIAL bit of information to include in your NOTE CARD for the FINAL EXAM? What other TOOLS do I allow you to use on the final?
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.
What is ONE COMMENT that you have to me about the SEMESTER? As I look at next year – what are things that were successful and were in need of restructuring?
Reflection: What do you feel is an ESSENTIAL bit of information to include in your website for the FINAL EXAM? What other IMAGES and EXTRAS do you need on the site? In the SHOW?
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
What do you need to RESOLVE in the next few days? What skills are you pleased with in how you are completing this work?
Reflection: What are challenges you are going to TALK about and WRITE about? DO NOT FORGET TO WRITE! EXTRA CREDIT for ANYONE WHO HELPS CLEAN THE ROOM during STUDY HALLS and AFTER EXAMS!
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
What have you accomplished to make this work REALLY STAND OUT in your mind? Can you resolve this image over tomorrow and this weekend?
Reflection: What are you taking home? PLEASE use the ONLINE CRITIQUE FORM that is on the side of our website to prepare your final written critique for EXAM DAY. I am NOT looking for it until EXAM DAY. If it is not there, the written portion is a zero… Know that you need to include a photograph into the Google Document that comes to you from filling out the online form.
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
What do you think of the show? What do you need to do in order to WRAP UP YOUR ONLINE presence for OUR WEBSITE – That’s part of the EXAM!
Reflection: Take the last few minutes of class, sit BACK in the gallery work and see what you see.
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
What do you need to RESOLVE in the next few days? What skills are you pleased with in how you are completing this work?
Reflection: What are challenges you are going to TALK about and WRITE about? DO NOT FORGET TO WRITE! EXTRA CREDIT for ANYONE WHO HELPS CLEAN THE ROOM during STUDY HALLS and AFTER EXAMS!
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
What TWO things do you want to accomplish today so you are REALLY ready for the finished product? Is there time to complete ONE MORE DRAWING? The Person Made Object shadow?
Reflection: What are TWO THINGS that you see as being successful in the BEGINNING of the work you and your collaborator are doing in your respective works.
Studio Art 360: The SCULPTURES! The RUBRIC! The CRITIQUE!
6.1Ad: Curate a collection of objects, artifacts, or artwork to impact the viewer’s understanding of social, cultural, and/or political experiences.
As this is a GROUP SHOW, what challenges did you seeing in the process of installing the show? What’ needs work in the visual end of it all? What do you need to do to BALANCE the show?
Reflection: Is the show hung? Are your name-tags made? Are your images shot (maybe you make photos of your section of the gallery and display them in your website.) What are your feelings – what do you stand back and look at specifically and say with pride “I made that.”
7.1Ad: Analyze how responses to art develop over time based on knowledge of and experience with art and life.
LOOK AT YOUR IDEAS and see what you are doing in the project. What are your inspirations in the world and in the project?
Reflection: You had a lot to think about today… What did you take a away? Look at the ORIGINAL IDEAS and look at your NEW SERIES of works… what’s happening?
11.1Ac: Utilize inquiry methods of observation, research, and experimentation to explore unfamiliar subjects through art-making.
What skills from all of your works of art from this year REALLY stand out in your mind that is helping you along RIGHT NOW?
Reflection: What was ONE accomplishment you made this year in the process of making art that you will be able to reflection in 10 weeks and remember? How have you felt about the PROCESS and MEANING in the making of art?
Studio Art 360: The SCULPTURES! The RUBRIC! The CRITIQUE!
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
What is one thing you accomplished last week with your drawing? TODD FEELS it is coming along well… N: Silhouette drawing and Todd Mrozinski’s work.
Reflection: 7 minutes – share your classmates work… What is one thing your classmate / partner gave you feedback on – whether or not it was a part of the conversation – think about what was said… ONLINE RUBRIC! Don’t forget to fill it out before EXAM DAY!
Studio Art 360: The SCULPTURES! The RUBRIC! The CRITIQUE!
2.2P: Explain how traditional and non-traditional materials may impact human health and the environment and demonstrate safe handling of materials, tools, and equipment.
Do you remember your sculptures? We are READY to add color to them. What was your social commentary about? Look at your sculpture and see if you can remember. What are 3 things about the sculpture you are pleased with and WHY did it work out well for you?
Reflection: How did the adding of the STAIN help your sculpture or make it less strong? Make sure you have turned in your sculpture and the NEW RUBRIC!
4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
Look back on the past two weeks of OPENING QUESTIONS and REFLECTIONS to come up with three things you can use to talk about your finished collaborative work with the Waterford Senior Living residents.
Reflection: Well… what are your thoughts about the work you have hung in the gallery? Are you ready to TALK about it tomorrow? We certainly didn’t get to it today? What else do you need to
2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
What has been YOUR largest struggle with the designing of YOUR series of works?
Reflection: How have you GROWN as an artists in the past few months to help you develop the skills you are using? ONLINE RUBRIC! Don’t forget to fill it out before EXAM DAY!
Art With Korb 
