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We have a FULL CLASS PERIOD! Let’s work HARD Today!

“Failing isn’t bad when you learn what not to do.”  — Albert Einstein

Studio Art 360 – BAS RELIEF SCULPTURE! Lincoln Monument Bas Relief. 

A DETAIL as the work is finishing up… How are YOU finishing up? We have 4 works days until break… These will sit out and DRY over break… Hamilton’s Website is HERE.

Goals:

  • 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
  • What has been your FAVORITE or LEAST FAVORITE part of working with clay. Please tell me WHY you LOVE or DON’T LOVE using this material. Please be specific.

What do you see as needing to be RESOLVED for the end of the project TOMORROW? Know that it is the LAST day to work. PAUSE 10 minutes before the end of class.

Painting – Finish the MID Crit – “I don’t want to do a mid-crit – I’m not DONE!” PAINTINGS by the WUHS Painting Class – HERE!

Eugene Delacroix and his self portrait! How’s the negative space coming in your work? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Eugene_delacroix.jpg

Goals:

  • 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.
  • How did you take FIRST HALF of the mid crit yesterday? What does the critique REALLY do to help you with your work? Stop and THINK ABOUT THIS. Do not just blow this off… why is the reflection important and helpful in the LEARNING?

What is the part of the painting that helps to UNIFY it all? Are you using LINES to unify the work? Are you using COLOR to unify it all? Are you using something else? Take a moment and look at the work from a distance and consider if it is unified? EXPLAIN.

AP Studio Art – CRIT TIME!

Tonight at MIDNIGHT CHAPTER 6 is due in Art and Fear Blog. Who’s NOT READING?

Even Vincent Van Gogh – a man head of his time – but not appreciated in his time – used a sketchbook to paint the works that seem to be so spontaneous.

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • What can you talk to Mr. Korb about regarding your new works in concentration? Take a moment and write out a brief thought. Let’s get focused.

How did / are your new ideas coming along? Any PROBLEMS that you see coming up right away? 

Thanks for the nod towards my thoughts on communicating with Parents, Students and the WORLD on Teach.Com. I appreciate the recognition.

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#WaffleWednesday is upon us. What do we do with 1/2 hour classes? The MOST we can!

“Failing isn’t bad when you learn what not to do.”  — Albert Einstein

Studio Art 360 – BAS RELIEF SCULPTURE! Lincoln Monument Bas Relief. 

A DETAIL of the Ed Hamilton work… How are you DEVELOPING yours? Ed Hamilton Website HERE!

Goals:

  • 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
  • How does working three dimensionally make you think differently about the making of art than working on the collage (2D work) did?

What are you seeing in the works of others that you find successful? What are you doing that OTHERS could learn from? PAUSE 10 minutes before the end of class. GIVE COMMENTS in one anothers RUBRIC – PAPER COPY.

Painting – Oil Painting! You Are OFF! GO PAINT!

NEW PAINTINGS by the WUHS Painting Class – HERE!

Kasmir Malevich – Portrait Time! How are you handling the imagery? how are your classmates?http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/el/mp/m00.jpg

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New Frozen Doll for sale… Make an Offer. I found this online last night and thought Mary might be interested. Should we gather our money and buy it for her?
Goals:

  • 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.
  • MID CRIT – Let’s step back and take a minute and look at the works together. Think about the time you spent working on your paintings… What are 3 things you are happy about? What are 2 things you are concerned about? What is One thing you admire about a classmates work?

Crit – Listen to one another – what has been said and what did you say? Write down one comment about YOUR WORK that you feel will help yourself with your work as you move forward. Kasmir Malevich

AP Studio Art – CRIT TIME!

Tonight at MIDNIGHT CHAPTER 6 is due in Art and Fear Blog. Who’s NOT READING?

How is your BODY of work moving forward? http://postgraffiti.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/graffiti-art-collection.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • Today – you have work time on your own. What sketches / planning do you think you plan on working through today?

What plans did you get done today? Look over your drawings and consider all that you have done. 

Thanks for the nod towards my thoughts on communicating with Parents, Students and the WORLD on Teach.Com. I appreciate the recognition.

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#Tuesday is upon us… #Sorry I missed you yesterday. How’d things go?

“Failing isn’t bad when you learn what not to do.”  — Albert Einstein

Studio Art 360 – BAS RELIEF SCULPTURE! Lincoln Monument Bas Relief. 

A preliminary state of Ed Hamilton’s Work… Let’s visit the site!

Goals:

  • 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.

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.

Painting – Oil Painting! You Are OFF! GO PAINT!

NEW PAINTINGS by the WUHS Painting Class – HERE!

Vincent van Gogh’s Self Portrait – How’s your entire COMPOSITION coming along?

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • What specifically do you dislike or like about the use of the material that oil paint is? Please explain your thoughts. It is important to reflect on the work you are doing and the lessons that the new materials teach you.

What advances are you making in your painting today? Step back and have a 3 minute CONVERSATION with a classmate (or two). Allow some REAL TIME to have a REAL CONVERSATION here. Listen to one another.

AP Studio Art – CRIT TIME!

Tonight at MIDNIGHT CHAPTER 6 is due in Art and Fear Blog. Who’s NOT READING?

Group of artworks – Concentration works are all about the body of work. https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/shoes.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.
  • Yesterday’s lack of critique went… As I write this… I do not know… How did yesterday’s class time go? What do YOU take away from the critique? I know some take things away, but what do you?

G: What have you got lined up for your next 3 CONCENTRATION Works? Write out a brief explanation of the work you feel you have lined up. What are your ideas?

Thanks for the nod towards my thoughts on communicating with Parents, Students and the WORLD on Teach.Com. I appreciate the recognition.

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Let’s #look at our #GOALS with a #renewed #appreciation

http://goalhabits.com/2014/12/14/success-quote-dec-14-2014/ Thanks Paul Mark Sutherland!

“Failing isn’t bad when you learn what not to do.”  — Albert Einstein

Studio Art 360 – BAS RELIEF SCULPTURE! Lincoln Monument Bas Relief. 

Young Abraham Lincoln – Lincoln Monument Site – Let’s visit the Ed Hamilton Website.

Goals:

  • 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.

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.

AP and Painting VIDEO from Mr. Korb

Painting – Oil Painting! You Are OFF! GO PAINT!

NEW PAINTINGS by the WUHS Painting Class – HERE!

Jan Van Eyck – 15th Century and it Still Looks NEW (not really)!

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • Step back and LOOK AT YOUR painting. It’s been a weekend. What are you seeing as being successful at this point? What are you seeing as needing attention.

How has this painting been new and worthwhile for you? What lessons have you learned about using different materials?

AP Studio Art – CRIT TIME!

Tuesday at MIDNIGHT CHAPTER 6 is due in Art and Fear Blog. Who’s NOT READING?

What can we talk about?

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.
  • Well… it has been a couple of weeks since we’ve talked. Sit for a MOMENT and think back on the past 2 weeks… What have you accomplished? Write out your accomplishments please

What did you accomplish today to be even MORE ready for tomorrow’s critique? Bring a snack and a coffee (or tea, or something to make yourself more comfortable!)

Thanks for the nod towards my thoughts on communicating with Parents, Students and the WORLD on Teach.Com. I appreciate the recognition.

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Art Room FOLDER – for those who need to REPRINT!

Insert SAD FACE HERE… Better yet – Picasso’s Tragedy from 1903

http://www.nga.gov/feature/picasso/technique.shtm 

This link is for those of you who have misplaced, lost, forgotten where you placed it, became lazy, became whatever… print out a new copy of the packet (pages 25 – end of document) and get a folder to keep it in. You have been asked to revisit the ideas of the GOALS and OPENING QUESTIONS – Let’s END THE YEAR on an UP NOTE!

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#Friday in the #ArtStudio! What #Art are you #Making?

“Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.” — John Andrew Holmes

LET’S TALK MISSING WORK…

All work that you have missing as of RIGHT NOW… will be DUE… DUE… DUE TODAY! That’s it – no more days. The end of the semester is coming up fast(?) 4 more weeks… but I cannot wait on ANYMORE late work. (BTW… progress reports go out tomorrow! SURPRISE!)

Studio Art 360 – BAS RELIEF SCULPTURE!

LARGE GROUP Slide Show Project – Let’s SEE it HERE!

And we are looking at the LAST Romare Bearden example – go look him up on your own!

Goals:

  •  7.1P: Hypothesize ways in which art influences perception and understanding of human experiences.
  • What are three textures you are going to have to interpret into your BAS – RELIEF sculpture from your collage?

How are you going to keep the clay from drying out over the weekend? What techniques are REALLY important to be using to make sure any ADDITIVE clay really HOLD TIGHT to the clay you are adding it to?

Painting – Oil Painting! You Are OFF! GO PAINT!

NEW PAINTINGS by the WUHS Painting Class – HERE!

Elizabeth Peyton? Who knows – THIN THIN THIN Oils… what are you EXPERIMENTING with?

Goals:

  • 10.1Ac: Utilize inquiry methods of observation, research, and experimentation to explore unfamiliar subjects through art-making.
  • What differences, likes, preferences do you now FEEL / HAVE about ACRYLIC Paints and OIL Paints?

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What are your thoughts about the painting as you have had a few / couple of days working on your portrait? Explain your thoughts to your classmate before you pack up today? Oil Painting Close Up: 

AP Studio Art – 2 Works Due MONDAY! Website TOO!

Tuesday at MIDNIGHT CHAPTER 5 was due in Art and Fear Blog. Who’s NOT READING?

Richard Estes at work – No Projector, No Video, Nothing but SKILL!

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • Thinking about the work that you are doing… what are the visual skills that you feels you are developing? how has this year been beneficial to you so far?
  • What is the ONE SKILL that you feel would be worth your time to continue to FOCUS and CONCENTRATE on? 

***ASSIGNMENT in ONE WEEK (NEXT Monday) Adventure Image and Still Life FOCUSING ON and being able to SPEAK ABOUT an ELEMENT and PRINCIPLE Specifically… and MONDAY (Change of HEART) – Website is DUE – Statements on your NAME PAGE, 6 Concentration Works Uploaded, How many BREADTH works do you have done? ***

ADVENTURE – This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/448/adventure

Thanks for the nod towards my thoughts on communicating with Parents, Students and the WORLD on Teach.Com. I appreciate the recognition.

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#Mid #Week is #PAST – What #ART are you doing for the #REST of it?

“Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.” — John Andrew Holmes

LET’S TALK MISSING WORK…

All work that you have missing as of RIGHT NOW… will be DUE… DUE… DUE FRIDAY! That’s it – no more days. The end of the semester is coming up fast(?) 4 more weeks… but I cannot wait on ANYMORE late work. (BTW… progress reports go out tomorrow! SURPRISE!)

Studio Art 360 – Collage, Frottage, Grattage, and Decalcomania

LARGE GROUP Slide Show Project – Let’s SEE it HERE!

How has he created a sense of SPACE? How did YOU? http://michaeldcommunications.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/75-collage-FAther.jpg

Goals:

  • 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?

Working with the clay for ONE DAY now… what do you feel you are going to have to do to REALLY make this sculpture work? How are you going to have to balance and budget your time? 

Painting – Drawing and Painting on your canvas! Let’s hang a show too!

NEW PAINTINGS by the WUHS Painting Class – HERE!

GREAT TEXTURE! How is this different than acrylic? http://dudleyquintard100.blox.pl/resource/oil_painting_texture03.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • What challenges do you see in the use of OIL paint versus Acrylic paint? What advantages do you see in the use of oil over acrylic?

What ideas do you see coming out from others works as you took the 4 minutes to walk around today and see what others are doing? How can you see working with OTHERS in a COMMUNITY as being beneficial to the development of your art?

AP Studio Art – ONLINE and IN CLASS / Out of the Studio Too!

YESTERDAY at MIDNIGHT CHAPTER 5 was due in Art and Fear Blog.

SAM FRANCIS! Great BIG artwork! What’s the practice you are taking to COMPLETE your works? New Ideas – same techniques? MONDAY!

Goals:

  • Research and Information Fluency – Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.
  • What problems are you having with the BLOG / WordPress program – uploading? Writing? Maneuvering around the site?

What do you need to do in order to have ALL your work (made so far this year) photographed, edited, and uploaded to the website? Sam Francis Working: 

***ASSIGNMENT in ONE WEEK (NEXT Monday) Adventure Image and Still Life FOCUSING ON and being able to SPEAK ABOUT an ELEMENT and PRINCIPLE Specifically… and MONDAY (Change of HEART) – Website is DUE – Statements on your NAME PAGE, 6 Concentration Works Uploaded, How many BREADTH works do you have done? ***

ADVENTURE – This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/448/adventure

Thanks for the nod towards my thoughts on communicating with Parents, Students and the WORLD on Teach.Com. I appreciate the recognition.

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#Working on #Art in #Studio is different than just being in the space… Let’s get to #WORK!

“Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.” — John Andrew Holmes

LET’S TALK MISSING WORK…

All work that you have missing as of RIGHT NOW… will be DUE… DUE… DUE FRIDAY! That’s it – no more days. The end of the semester is coming up fast(?) 4 more weeks… but I cannot wait on ANYMORE late work. (BTW… progress reports go out tomorrow! SURPRISE!)

Studio Art 360 – Collage, Frottage, Grattage, and Decalcomania

LARGE GROUP Slide Show Project – Let’s SEE it HERE!

Romare Bearden and the SOCIAL COMMENTARY of New York City.

Goals:

  • 10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.
  • What do you currently know about using CLAY? Let’s have a brief conversation…

What is the MOST SUCCESSFUL aspect to your collage in communicating your message of BULLYING?

Painting – Drawing and Painting on your canvas! Let’s hang a show too!

NEW PAINTINGS by the WUHS Painting Class – HERE!

THINK TEXTURE!

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • Which direction have you decided to go in regarding the use of colors while using oil paints? What kind of mood / feeling do you hope to incorporate into the idea of your painting?

Have you  decided HOW you are going to break apart the space that you are building in the painting? Are you emphasizing the new SHAPES or are you developing the LINES that you have in the portrait? 

AP Studio Art – ONLINE and IN CLASS / Out of the Studio Too!

YESTERDAY at MIDNIGHT CHAPTER 5 was due in Art and Fear Blog.

Anne Truitt working on her sculpture!

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.
  • How have you been able to use the skills you’ve developed this year and create a STRONG couple of BREADTH works? How are you being interested in the BREADTH work that you are creating?

Knowing that you are working on two breadth works now, what is ONE IDEA for a BREADTH work that YOU feel would be a STRONG IDEA with SKILL Building ideas? (Or what would you like to draw / make JUST TO MAKE ART TO CHALLENGE YOURSELF)?

***ASSIGNMENT in ONE WEEK (NEXT Monday) Adventure Image and Still Life FOCUSING ON and being able to SPEAK ABOUT an ELEMENT and PRINCIPLE Specifically… and MONDAY (Change of HEART) – Website is DUE – Statements on your NAME PAGE, 6 Concentration Works Uploaded, How many BREADTH works do you have done? ***

ADVENTURE – This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/448/adventure

Thanks for the nod towards my thoughts on communicating with Parents, Students and the WORLD on Teach.Com. I appreciate the recognition.

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How are #You #Affecting the #World through your #Art?

“Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.” — John Andrew Holmes

ART NEWS:

Renoirs TRUE colors – Click HERE to read more!

LET’S TALK MISSING WORK…

All work that you have missing as of RIGHT NOW… will be DUE… DUE… DUE FRIDAY! That’s it – no more days. The end of the semester is coming up fast(?) 4 more weeks… but I cannot wait on ANYMORE late work. (BTW… progress reports go out tomorrow! SURPRISE!)

Studio Art 360 – Collage, Frottage, Grattage, and Decalcomania

LARGE GROUP Slide Show Project – Let’s SEE it HERE!

Romare Bearden – BIO Here – Let’s learn a bit about him and his work.

Goals:

  • 10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.
  • What are the SPECIFICS about the SOCIAL TOPIC of BULLYING  that you and your partner came up with last week and you are RESOLVING today and tomorrow?

How do you feel translating the idea of COLLAGE to SCULPTURE is going to be challenging?

Painting – Drawing and Painting on your canvas! Let’s hang a show too!

NEW PAINTINGS by the WUHS Painting Class – HERE!

Close up of OIL PAINTS. Notice the BRUSH STROKES and color relationship? https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/c9921-nativeamericanstudy3tpadencloseupap.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • What are the first areas you feel that you will begin working on as you approach your oil painting?

What was surprising about the use of oils as you began working today? Oil Painting Close Up: 

AP Studio Art – ONLINE and IN CLASS / Out of the Studio Too!

TONIGHT at MIDNIGHT CHAPTER 5 IS due in Art and Fear Blog.

Lee Krasner in her studio! Hard at Work! https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/dee38-pollack-leekrasnerwifecubism.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.
  • Still Life is ALSO part of the body of work. Knowing that you are working with an element and principle… what are you doing to PUSH yourself? This should be better than just an EASY approach to the assignment… What ARE you doing?

How much work have you photographed, edited, and uploaded to the computer?  How can I help you?

***ASSIGNMENT in ONE WEEK (NEXT Monday) Adventure Image and Still Life FOCUSING ON and being able to SPEAK ABOUT an ELEMENT and PRINCIPLE Specifically. Friday – Website is DUE – Statements on your NAME PAGE, 6 Concentration Works Uploaded, How many BREADTH works do you have done? ***

ADVENTURE – This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/448/adventure

Thanks for the nod towards my thoughts on communicating with Parents, Students and the WORLD on Teach.Com. I appreciate the recognition.

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#Affecting the #World through your #Art

Thanks for the nod towards my thoughts on communicating with Parents, Students and the WORLD on Teach.Com. I appreciate the recognition.

“Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.” — John Andrew Holmes

ART NEWS:

Renoirs TRUE colors – Click HERE to read more!

LET’S TALK MISSING WORK…

All work that you have missing as of RIGHT NOW… will be DUE… DUE… DUE FRIDAY! That’s it – no more days. The end of the semester is coming up fast(?) 4 more weeks… but I cannot wait on ANYMORE late work. (BTW… progress reports go out tomorrow! SURPRISE!)

Studio Art 360 – Collage, Frottage, Grattage, and Decalcomania

LARGE GROUP Slide Show Project – Let’s SEE it HERE!

Romare Bearden and his FOUNDATION! https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/3b23d-6.jpg

Goals:

  •  10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.
  • What are you doing to SUCCESSFULLY create a REAL Sense of SPACE in your COMPOSITION?

How do you see your artwork as being something that CAN affect how your audience thinks about and considers their own ideas about bullying?

Painting – Drawing and Painting on your canvas! Let’s hang a show too!

A Close Up of an Oil Painting… different than acrylics?

NEW PAINTINGS by the WUHS Painting Class – HERE!

Goals:

  • 5.1Ac: Evaluate, select, and apply methods or processes appropriate to display artwork in a specific place.
  • As a group what do you think is going to be difficult about hanging your PAINTINGS in the gallery?

What are you anxious about as we begin to think about and use oil paints?

AP Studio Art – ONLINE and IN CLASS / Out of the Studio Too!

TUESDAY at MIDNIGHT CHAPTER 5 IS due in Art and Fear Blog.

Robert Rauschenberg at work in his studio!

Goals:

  • 10.1Ad: Synthesize knowledge of social, cultural, historical, and personal life with art-making approaches to create meaningful works of art or design.
  • What have you accomplished regarding the ADVENTURES story? Write out the IDEA behind your work and then SHARE the story with your classmate.

With ALL that is going on these past two weeks – and little input from me… what have you accomplished VISUALLY and / or TECHNOLOGICALLY.

***ASSIGNMENT in ONE WEEK (NEXT Monday) Adventure Image and Still Life FOCUSING ON and being able to SPEAK ABOUT an ELEMENT and PRINCIPLE Specifically. Friday – Website is DUE – Statements on your NAME PAGE, 6 Concentration Works Uploaded, How many BREADTH works do you have done? ***

ADVENTURE – This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/448/adventure