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#Pablo #Picasso and his #LadiesOfTheNight! #WOAH

Happy Youth Art Month: Picasso’s breakthrough into Cubism Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907 spent a good portion of its early life rolled up in Picasso’s studio, largely unseen for 37 years! Now a prized part of Art History.

Les Demoiselle d’ Avignon!
Shane Koyczan – Ted Talks http://www.ted.com/talks/shane_koyczan_to_this_day_for_the_bullied_and_beautiful

AP Studio Art: Critique and then…

Critique Thyself Artists! https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/50cdc-artcritic.jpg

Goals:

  • 7.1Ad: Analyze how responses to art develop over time based on knowledge of and experience with art and life.
  • How has this last concentration worked for you? While I am a GOOD voice in the conversation – I’d like you five to do a REALLY strong CRIT of your CURRENT 3 works in DIRECT COMPARISON to your FIRST 3 works (or the earliest set you can find

You had a lot to think about today… What did you take a away?  

Advanced Drawing: Bauhaus

Bauhaus to Our House – Perhaps you remember Kandinsky? This is where he taught and the lessons you learned were used in this school. Start from ZERO! http://www.iainclaridge.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/bauhaus_dessau.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.3Ad: Demonstrate in works of art or design how visual and material culture defines, shapes, enhances, inhibits, and/or empowers people’s lives.
  • What aspects of perspective are giving you a challenge? We are going to look more carefully at the BAUHAUS and how they used design.

ASSIGNMENT TONIGHT! FIND 5 examples of BAUHAUS Architecture – Wite out 5 words for each to describe them – How will this homework  help YOU understand the ideas of BAUHAUS design?

Drawing: Oil Pastels!

How did Kandinsky get from HERE to where YOU are? http://dossierjournal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/kandinskycolorfullife.jpg

Goals:

  • 4.4 evaluate and interpret your art for relationships in 4.4.1 form 4.4.2 context and 4.4.3 meanings showing understanding
  • What were the similarities and differences in your ideas and Kandinsky’s

What are your STRONGEST successes with today’s drawing? 

By The Way… Share your STILL LIFE DRAWINGS by visiting them HERE.

Kandinsky at MAM – HERE

Studio Art 360: Romare Bearden and Social Commentary

Bearden’s collage from MoMA. http://www.moma.org/collection_images/resized/888/w500h420/CRI_210888.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
  • What are the textures you are hoping to work into your collage (remember that this will be translated into a SCULPTURE)?

How is the collage coming along? What is ONE VERY SUCCESSFUL aspect to the work SO FAR? What is one area you are having a CHALLENGE with?

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#Welcome #ClyffordStill the fish to #ArtStudio #123

Happy Youth Art Month – Do you know who really cut off Vincent Van Gogh’s Ear? His good friend and roommate, French artist Paul Gaugin.

Van Gogh and his Severed Ear! OUCH! Thanks Paul Gaugin! http://www.vangoghgallery.com/catalog/image/0529/Self-Portrait-with-Bandaged-Ear-and-Pipe.jpg Here is the Article about the NEW ideas… ABC News – Here ya go Kelsey!
Shane Koyczan – Ted Talks http://www.ted.com/talks/shane_koyczan_to_this_day_for_the_bullied_and_beautiful

Welcome to the Art Room – Clyfford Still – Our NEWLY NAMED Beta Fish!

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AP Studio Art and Advanced Drawing: Book Binding

Let’s Make a Book! http://images.melissaesplin.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/dsc_0555.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.
  • What would MAKING YOUR OWN SKETCHBOOK / JOURNAL do for you as a place to create your ideas and practice your skills? Would it matter to you in regards to the importance of the process?

What comes to mind when you KNOW that you are going to be building a book for your own use? Images / Visuals / Cover? 

Drawing: Oil Pastels!

Der Blaue Reider http://www.invisiblebooks.com/KandinskyComposition%20VIISketch913.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 has THREE DAYS off done for you to REST from the Work? NOW… Take your work out – DON’T look at it. Hang it up, step back – WRITE OUT THE FIRST THINGS THAT COME TO MIND. 3 things!

How does this work relate to 1) Kandinsky and his movements? 2) Your song? We are going to be WRITING an ARTIST STATEMENT and PHOTOGRAPHING this work Friday and NEXT WEEK (in the computer lab). Be prepared to provide writing that is DONE! ALSO – FIND YOUR SONG ON YOUTUBE!

By The Way… Share your STILL LIFE DRAWINGS by visiting them HERE.

Kandinsky at MAM – HERE

Studio Art 360: Romare Bearden and Social Commentary

Pablo Picasso “Still Life with Chair Caning.” The FIRST collage! http://nonsite.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Fig.-14.jpg Link to Khan Academy Article HERE!

Goals:

  • 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
  • What challenges do you think you will face as it comes to the idea of an INTERESTING collage?

Name 3 images you collected today that will help you communicate your message?

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#YAM #Reception at the #WI State Capitol Today AND #HappyBirthday to #Michelangelo – 540 Years Young Today!

Happy Youth Art Month – Happy Birthday to Renaissance Artist Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni 1475 – 1564 

Michelangelo’s Pieta! http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Michelangelo’s_Pieta_5450_cropncleaned_edit.jpg

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#YAM and #HappyBirthday 319th to #GiovanniBattistaTiepolo – #Rococo #Artist!

Happy Youth Art Month – Happy Birthday to Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Rococo Artist  1696 – 1770

A Vision of the Trinity http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/lowres-picturecabinet.com/120/main/1/402127.jpg

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

AP Studio Art: Did you Turn Your Application In?

Photoshopping> http://www.ufunk.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/If-I-Could-Use-Photoshop-in-Real-Life-1.jpg

Goals:

  • 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.)
  • What images have you made photographs of so far? What images have you yet to make photographs of? Why is this taking you so long?

What was the problem that you had today with the editing of the images? Can you do this on your own? Do we need one more day in the lab to work?

Advanced Drawing: Stairway Drawing.

Your Paper Bag Drawings are HERE. Copy YOUR image into YOUR document! Questions – ask me on Wednesday.

DO NOT GO UPSTAIRS TODAY! ACT Testing… Thanks.

Schlemmer – Stairway at the Bauhause. http://www.thecityreview.com/bauhaus26.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.3Ad: Demonstrate in works of art or design how visual and material culture defines, shapes, enhances, inhibits, and/or empowers people’s lives.
  • What did you accomplish two days ago to develop some ideas in the hallway.

 What was the success in today’s drawing? What was the challenge? Back out tomorrow for ROUGH drawings POLISH the Thumbnails.

Drawing: Oil Pastels!

Paul Klee and Degenerate Art – Artwork OPPOSED by the NAZI Party! Go ART!

Goals:

  • 7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
  • Looking at your classmates work – what’s the BEST Thing you see? Write it out – name and all – then at SOME POINT TODAY – go and tell them.

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?)

By The Way… Share your STILL LIFE DRAWINGS by visiting them HERE.

Kandinsky at MAM – HERE

Studio Art 360: Romare Bearden and Social Commentary

Romare Bearden and COLLAGE! http://www.allaboutjazz.com/photos/2010/RomareBearden_JamminattheSavoy.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.1P: Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.
  • How do you feel about the subject matter you are going to be working on? Do you have any personal experiences with the topic? Explain your thoughts (remember – this is JUST YOU reading this).

What images have you begun to gather that will help in your collage? What TEXTURES are you developing in the work? How have you used the ideas of GRATTAGE, FROTTAGE, and DECALCOMANIA in the progress?

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#YAM and #Artist #Birthdays #AfroBasaldella b.1912 – d.1976

Happy Youth Art Month and HAPPY 103rd BIRTHDAY to Italian Abstract Painter Afro Basaldella 1912 – 1976

Afro Basadella, “The Yellow Book” December 1952, Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY. http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=79275

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

AP Studio Art: REGISTRATION in due TODAY!!!

Turner’s Sketchbook – How are you using the preliminary ideas in the development of your work? http://www.tate.org.uk/art/images/work/D/D07/D07860_10.jpg

Goals:

  • 3.5 evaluate and defend how 3.5.1 subject matter 3.5.2 symbols are used in art 2.6 create multiple solutions to visual challenges that show understanding in relationships between composition and meaning of artwork
  • What is the common thread that is chasing through all of your work.

Thinking about the critiques from earlier this week, what are you in need of doing to make these  end of the concentration works the best? We still have TONS of time to POLISH our concentrations… what else do you do?

Advanced Drawing: Stairway Drawing.

Your  Paper Bag Drawings are HERE. Copy YOUR image into YOUR document! Questions – ask me on Wednesday.

DO NOT GO UPSTAIRS TODAY! ACT Testing… Thanks.

http://www.papermart.com/Images/Item/jpg_giftbag/Kraft-Colored-Shopping-Bags-many2_small.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.3Ad: Demonstrate in works of art or design how visual and material culture defines, shapes, enhances, inhibits, and/or empowers people’s lives.
  • From the days of critiquing, write out 3 things you have learned about yourself and the art you are making.

Looking back on the critiques, what are three things you have learned about the process of the drawings from OTHERS.

Drawing: Oil Pastels!

Goals:

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

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

By The Way… Share your STILL LIFE DRAWINGS by visiting them HERE.

Kandinsky at MAM – HERE

Studio Art 360: Romare Bearden and Social Commentary

Romare Bearden and the CONSTRUCTION of a face… a space… a collage… https://www.nga.gov/feature/bearden/images/fullscreen/170-025.jpg National Gallery: http://www.nga.gov/feature/bearden/tech3.shtm

Goals:

  • 1.1P: Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.
  • What is the SOCIAL TOPIC that you and your partner came up with yesterday? Work through the sheet to help your ideas get developed.

What imagery did you come up with that truly begins to develop the idea of the social commentary you have chosen? How does it successfully work?

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#HappyBirthday #KanoTanyu #Japanese Artist b.1602 d.1674

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Kano Tanyu b.1602 d.1674

Kano Tanyu b.1602 d. 1674 http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/hi_kanotan.htm

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

Please Play for ALL Classes.

AP and Advanced Drawing Intro Video:

AP Studio Art: REGISTRATION in due TOMORROW!!!

Ideas? What’s going on in your head?

Goals:

  • 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?

What have you come up with? What materials are you using that help you to challenge yourself? How does it fit into your current body of work?  How does it REACH OUT into NEW IDEAS?

Advanced Drawing: Stairway Drawing.

Your  Paper Bag Drawings are HERE. Copy YOUR image into YOUR document! Questions – ask me on Wednesday.

Walter Gropius’ Bauhaus Staircase – Germany. https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3080/2774825669_eb82e7df20_b.jpg

DO NOT GO UPSTAIRS TODAY! ACT Testing… Thanks.
Goals:

  • 2.3Ad: Demonstrate in works of art or design how visual and material culture defines, shapes, enhances, inhibits, and/or empowers people’s lives.
  • What type of images have you created in the past REGARDING PERSPECTIVE? What was visually successful in the composition? What was technically successful in your execution? Same with the unsuccessful aspects? Share with your neighbor. Use of (Element) to create a unified artwork.

What was the success in today’s drawing? What was the challenge? Back out Thursday for preliminary drawings.

RUBRIC LINK, but it should ALREADY be in your Google Drive. SHARE it with me...

Drawing: Oil Pastels!

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?

Biggest struggle / success for today? Write it out and the WHY!  

By The Way… Share your STILL LIFE DRAWINGS by visiting them HERE.

Kandinsky at MAM – HERE

Studio Art 360: Romare Bearden and Social Commentary

What is the Romare Bearden collage About? Why? http://lindberghschoolartspace.wikispaces.com/file/view/Romare%20Bearden%20collage.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.1P: Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.
  • Looking at the ROMARE BEARDEN collage on the screen, what do you think this work is about? WHY? Please work with your neighbor on answering this question.

What is the most challenging aspect to creating a collaborative work of art? What did you feel will be helpful in working with a classmate? What did you feel will be a challenge?

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#HappyBirthday #ArnoldNewman

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Arnold Newman

“Pablo Picasso” 1964, Arnold Newman b. March 3, 1913 d. June 6, 2006.

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

Are you LATE or TOO LATE? http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s–pW1qHAs6–/18k2kh9qqlxwrjpg.jpg

AP Studio Art: CRIT!

How are you painting, making, drawing, creating? http://www.johnlund.com/Images/10284401107.jpg

Goals:

  • 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.

Advanced Drawing: Critiquing of a PAPER BAG.

Your  Paper Bag Drawings are HERE. Copy YOUR image into YOUR document! Questions – ask me on Wednesday.

Lots of Paper Bags: https://lunchat1130.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/paper-bag-hoarding.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.3Ad: Demonstrate in works of art or design how visual and material culture defines, shapes, enhances, inhibits, and/or empowers people’s lives.
  • Looking at the SYMBOLISM that this work is SUPPOSE to have about your life, explain the thoughts and ideas you are hoping to communicate through the work. HOW are you doing that? Be SPECIFIC!

A GREAT day of drawing on Friday – Time got away from us… What worked today and HOW are you going to RESOLVE the work for Wednesday’s CRIT?

RUBRIC LINK, but it should ALREADY be in your Google Drive. SHARE it with me...

Drawing: Oil Pastels!

Kandinsky – Painting. http://www.most-famous-paintings.org/Complex-Simple.jpg

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?

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

By The Way… Share your STILL LIFE DRAWINGS by visiting them HERE.

Kandinsky at MAM – HERE

Studio Art 360: Collage and Symbolism

Ernst: http://www.artexpertswebsite.com/pages/artists/artists_a-k/ernst/Ernst_Untitled1920.JPG

Goals:

  • 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • What TEXTURES do you like best from yesterday? Why?  N: Max Ernst – Share one or more of his works – LANDSCAPES?

Write a ONE SENTENCE EXPLANATION about your work. Describe how you used Frottage, Grattage, and Decalcomania in the work.

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#FishFry #Friday – Help name the class fish!

“Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure you do things differently from everyone else.” Sara Blakely (inventor of SPANX and youngest Self Made Female BILLIONAIRE – 10 Lessons I Learned from Sarah Blakely – Forbes Magazine)
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Advanced Drawing: Paper BAg RUBRIC LINK. SHARE it with me...

Studio Art 360: LINK HERE to see your STILL LIFE Drawings!

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#Thursday but REALLY it is the #EndOfTheWeek – Woot Woot!

“Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure you do things differently from everyone else.” Sara Blakely (inventor of SPANX and youngest Self Made Female BILLIONAIRE – 10 Lessons I Learned from Sarah Blakely – Forbes Magazine)

AP Studio Art: CRIT!

Drawing and prep work for Guernica! http://www.museoreinasofia.es/sites/default/files/styles/foto_horizontal_wide/public/obras/DE00120_0.jpg?itok=YSFdDySJ

Goals:

  •  1.1 Ad: Visualize and hypothesize to generate plans for ideas and directions for creating art and design that can affect social change.
  • Looking at the ideas you came up with as a group yesterday… if your work could MAKE A CHANGE to SOCIETY – Start Conversation – Begin a REVOLUTION for CHANGE – what imagery comes up RIGHT NOW… You do not have to stick with it, but RIGHT NOW – Good ideas or not.

Well – are you going to lead the revolution? I hope so! What do you plan on doing for the weekend?  

Advanced Drawing: Critiquing of a PAPER BAG.

Let’s Talk… http://sites.moca.org/thecurve/files/2012/12/MOCA_CAS_3.jpg

Goals:

  • 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.
  • As you look at the works that are hanging on the chalkboard – what is ONE WORK that really stands out to YOU and WHY?

We are moving ahead in the artmaking process next week. While I have a process / project lined up… what are things about the making of art that you would like to work on / learn?

RUBRIC LINK, but it should ALREADY be in your Google Drive. SHARE it with me...

How did you feel about the work you presented today? If you didn’t – what did you take away from today’s crit?

Drawing: Oil Pastels!

How about THIS one? BauHause?

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?

As this work has developed, 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? 

By The Way… Share your STILL LIFE DRAWINGS by visiting them HERE.

Kandinsky at MAM – HERE

Studio Art 360: Collage and Symbolism

What is going on? Let’s deal with the idea of a LANDSCAPE using our TEXTURES! http://www.pinturayartistas.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/max+ernst/MaxErnstMondGuterDinge.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • Of the textures you have made… What TEXTURES do you find comforting? What Textures do you find discomforting?

How did you use texture to represent LANDSCAPE in your COLLAGE experience based on MAX ERNST’s works.  

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The #Week is more than #HalfOver. #Yeah!

“Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure you do things differently from everyone else.” Sara Blakely (inventor of SPANX and youngest Self Made Female BILLIONAIRE – 10 Lessons I Learned from Sarah Blakely – Forbes Magazine)

AP Studio Art: CRIT!

Picasso! Museum Site is HERE! What is the importance of Picasso’s Guernica? http://www.museoreinasofia.es/sites/default/files/styles/foto_horizontal_wide/public/obras/DE00050_0.jpg?itok=wxSeOtKR

Goals:

  • 1.1 Ad: Visualize and hypothesize to generate plans for ideas and directions for creating art and design that can affect social change.
  • This is a NEW series of 3 works. 13 – 15… you are at a point where there is MORE to the work than simply creating interesting images to look at. How can this next series of concentration works SPEAK about something MORE than just the “Ideas of my concentration are…” statement from your AP Questions? Talk to your classmates about the IMPORTANT TOPICS you have in your head and how that can become part of the larger body of your works.

Well… what are 3 things you came up with that you might use in the ideas of your works?  GUERNICA as the image. 

Advanced Drawing: Critiquing of a PAPER BAG.

Let’s write a SMIDGE then CRIT! https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/585bb-johnfostercrit_6210.jpg

Goals:

  • 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 is happening in your classmates work that you are truly glad to see happening? Find ONE work, sit down and – in THEIR GOALS PAGE – write out 3 things that you feel are VERY successful and 1 thing you feel needs attention – Follow up with the WHY of attention..

TO THE English COMPUTER LAB – Bring your Drawing. USE THIS LINK and SAVE A COPY to YOUR Google Drive. SHARE it with me...

How did you feel about the work you presented today? If you didn’t – what did you take away from today’s crit?

Drawing: Oil Pastels!

Kandinsky – it is either Der BlaueRiter or Bauhaus… Symphonic or Melodic? Impression, Improvisation, or Composition? http://uploads8.wikipaintings.org/images/wassily-kandinsky/yellow-red-blue-1925.jpg

Goals:

  • 7.2Ac: Evaluate the effectiveness of an image or images to influence ideas, feelings, and behaviors of specific audiences.
  • Reflect on YESTERDAY before you begin today! What are your OVERALL IDEAS that you hope to communicate?

Biggest struggle / success for today? Write it out and the WHY! 

By The Way… Share your STILL LIFE DRAWINGS by visiting them HERE.

Kandinsky at MAM – HERE

Studio Art 360: Collage and Symbolism

Max Ernst and his flowers… what sort of textures do you see? Frottage? Grattage? Decalcomaia? Where? http://ayay.co.uk/arts/surrealist/max_ernst/collage-of-flowers.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • What TEXTURES do you like best from yesterday? Why?

Write a ONE PARAGRAPH EXPLANATION about your work on the BACK of the collage. Describe how you are planning on using Frottage, Grattage, and Decalcomania in the work.