It is SO GREAT to have you here today at the start of the 2022 – 2023 school year! (I can hardly accept that those are real years.) This is going to be a spectacular year for ART MAKING, LEARNING ABOUT ART, SEEING OTHER’S ART (and all that other academic stuff…).
What questions about ANYTHING do you have about our art class?
HOW can I help you feel ready for the year in our studio space?
What are your initial CONCERNS or FEARS about your time in this studio?
What SKILLS and SUCCESSES are you bringing to the class?
Take these answers and thoughts and share them with your NEW STUDIOMATE!
Look at ONE of the questions that your partner answered and then Let’s share some thoughts in the 10 minutes we have together (if we have time).
Welcome to the Fort Atkinson High School Art Studio!
I can hardly believe those are real numbers for years. Where has all the time gone? This begins my 28th year as an educator… almost half my life in a classroom (on the other side of the desk from the students). More years teaching than as a learner (although I am always learning). I look forward to new artists, new artworks, and new experiences. This is going to be a GREAT year.
Here is a quiet little view of my studio so that you can all see where I work as an artist. Enjoy the visit. If you are interested in seeing my artworks, visit http://www.FrankKorb.com.
Go out and get a BRANCH from the ground (or two) and let’s look a little deeper into the IDEAS of the POSITIVE and NEGATIVE spaces we all interact with (and more often than not) often miss. CLICK HERE for your activity!
Thank you to EVERYONE for working so hard and focused at becoming stronger and stronger artists. I know that I can challenge you to really think about the work you are making. Challenge you with techniques and ideas that are a little outside of your comfort zone. Push the ideas of self reflection and assessment until you are to the point of wanting to just make “pretty pictures.” But these are things we do as artists. SO… GREAT JOB!
Today we made EXQUISITE CORPSES. Below are out images from the day and below that is the video that started us off from the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Thanks again and enjoy the art and the summer!
While I have tried to teach you many techniques and ideas and rules… these are 10 that I personally feel are ESSENTIAL to put into your practice. Thank you Sister Mary Corita Kent for the guidance.
We are going to CRITIQUE and REFLECT and SURVEY in all the classes. I hope that this final semester was fulfilling and productive for you all.
Please keep in mind the 7 parts of our standards and how you have been aware and practicing them. These are how we, as artists, continue to become stronger artists in our studios and our practices – no matter what we do are where they are.
Planning / Ideation
Concept
Technique
Composition
Craftsmanship
Studio Habits
Critique
Keep making art. Make art over the summer. Make art for yourself about yourself and about the things that are important to you. Thank you all.
Advanced Painting: Critique and Cleaning
Advanced Digital Art: Photography Book Critique and Clean your Drive.
Art Foundations: Collage and Poetry – self assess!
Intro to Painting: Cleaning and Survey.
Intro to Digital Art: Survey and Clean your Drives.
What can we say about the rest of the year. Below I will simply tell you what is on the horizon. That is all. Thank you for the INCREDIBLE WORK this year. The struggles in art are real BUT… it is all about showing up and getting the work done. Rule #7 is a FOCAL POINT of it ALL – The ONLY rule is WORK!
Advanced Digital Art and Photography: Handbook Cover Design – then we finish the PHOTO BOOKS
HANDBOOK COVER – this week we are cranking up our working habits and pushing to a fast deadline – welcome to the world of graphic design and deadlines – HARD AND FAST DEADLINES.
It feels lik eMondrian made a huge impact on the DESIGN WORLD as well as the painting world.
HERE is the larger Photography Book assignment – Let’s talk about the process and the layout ideas.
Art Foundations: Collage (and Poetry)
We are beginning to work on our COLLAGES! This is a FUN activity that allows one to play with the SPACE and FORM in a way that is loose and free (or tight and specific). Let’s learn about Romare Bearden and Della Wells in the process.
Thank you Della Wells for filling the space with SO MUCH to look at and take in. Collage and CONTEXT!
The making of one’s own hand bound book can be a lot of fun and very rewarding so… be attentive to the process we are going to be teaching and work at making this a worthwhile project.
Watercolor or drawing paper is up to you.
Intro to Digital Art and Photography: MONEY comes next… I mean LOGO Design Comes Next!
LOGO Design is the final project. We are finishing this up and presenting on WEDNESDAY. What to do with the remainder of the year? We will find out soon.
Some online artist selling their fast and fast logos… It is NOT that easy… But good on them for making money and a living. Gotta hustle!
What FRUSTRATES me about the idea of ONLINE LOGO DESIGN services is that they make it seem so instant, so easy. The REAL design takes time and thought and introspection as well as revision and revision and revision… It takes an ARTIST to do the work. This is not STRONG logo design… your designs are!
Just so you are aware… the process of the figurative work has taken a lot longer than anticipated and we are going to continue this through the rest of the term. The figure is HARD. The canvases we built were CHALLENGING and the ideas that you are communicating are PERSONAL.
Make USE of the class period and studio time.
NO EXCUSES!
Doron Langburg “Daniel Reading” 2019
Last week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast deals specifically with an exhibition about the figure and HERE IT IS! Remember that we are listening and seeing artwork that is dealing with contemporary issues and you are in the Advanced levels of making art.
Advanced Digital Art and Photography: Handbook Cover Design – then we finish the PHOTO BOOKS
HE HANDBOOK COVER – this week we are cranking up our working habits and pushing to a fast deadline – welcome to the world of graphic design and deadlines – HARD AND FAST DEADLINES.
We are not in LIVERPOOL but… look at how the Mondrian Approach can be used!
While we do not live in Liverpool, the ideas of a layout are consistent wherever you live. Are you working:
HERE is the larger photography assignment – Let’s talk about the process and the layout ideas.
Art Foundations: Collage – YEAH – and Poetry
We are beginning to work on our COLLAGES! This is a FUN activity that allows one to play with the SPACE and FORM in a way that is loose and free (or tight and specific). Let’s learn about Romare Bearden and Della Wells in the process.
Intro to Painting: Plein Air art – We wrap up LANDSCAPE and WATERCOLORSand begin HAND BINDING BOOKS!
WIDEWALLS article on Plein Air and how it has advanced what we do as artists.
Japanese Stab Bound Books – We are going to be working in this direction so be ready to PAY ATTENTION!
The making of one’s own hand bound book can be a lot of fun and very rewarding so… be attentive to the process we are going to be teaching and work at making this a worthwhile project.
Watercolor or drawing paper is up to you.
Intro to Digital Art and Photography: MONEY comes next… I mean LOGO Design Comes Next!
Logo Design this week That is what we are doing. What are your initial sketches?
Let’s look at the ideas that Paul Rand has about the creation of a strong logo and continue from there.
Paul Rand’s most famous and lasting designs (some of them)
“A logo derives meaning from the quality of the thing it symbolizes, not the other way around.”
“The only mandate in logo design is that they be distinctive, memorable and clear.”
“Presentation is key.”
“Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.”
LOGO Design is next and we have a commission – this is a first. If you are interested in earning $40 – put your best foot forward (and I will try to get a little more out of the deal for 2nd and 3rd place).
What have you begun with the figurative work? This is the most challenging genre to work with – the figure. We all have one. We have all drawn / painted one. We know when things look right and we know when things look wrong. Make use of your time… we have about 5 sessions left with one another… make good use of the time.
Do you want something to listen to? This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast deals specifically with an exhibition about the figure and HERE IT IS! Remember that we are listening and seeing artwork that is dealing with contemporary issues and you are in the Advanced levels of making art.
Aubrey Levinthal, Antiques Enthusiast, 2018.
What are you doing with your figure?
How has your visit with the Degas and the Van Gogh Scholastic Arts Magazines challenged your thinking on what you can do?
How will you use DETAILS or GESTURES to construct your composition?
What are you going to do to FOCUS on MARK MAKING?
How are you thinking about the Figurative imagery that you are going to be placing in the unique shapes?
Advanced Digital Art and Photography: Books and InDesign – Let’s look at the process of BUILDING our books.
This is the last week we have with this work. BE prepared to pull it all together by the end of the week. We are going to look at the FINAL project – THE HANDBOOK COVER – this week so that you can begin planning out your ideas.
Ted Orland – “Blizzard Trees”
Page Numbers?
Titles (front of book and pages)?
Name on the pages?
Use of MASTER (Parent) Pages and then the pages in the body of the book?
HERE is the larger photography assignment – Let’s talk about the process and the layout ideas.
Art Foundations: Metals and Jewelry – Etching, Jump Rings, Rivets
What are your FAVORITE plans – the most successful ones in the planning stages? Let’s look at the RUBRIC and assess our planning straight away and then we will move into the DEMO of the etching process.
Intro to Painting: Plein Air art – We continue to work with LANDSCAPE and WATERCOLORS!
BIG TO SMALL – GENERAL TO DETAIL – WASHES TO SPECIFICS
David Hockney and his Plein Air Oil Painting
WIDEWALLS article on Plein Air and how it has advanced what we do as artists.
Be sure to be:
LOOKING at the trees and landscape
Working from that OBSERVATION and SEEING what you are looking at.
PAINT what you SEE and NOT what you think. The brain is a liar and the EYES are the truth tellers
Outside this week to draw and paint
Dress appropriately!
Intro to Digital Art and Photography: MONEY comes next… I mean LOGO Design Comes Next!
We are CRITIQUING the Literature Straight away and then we are going to get into the LOGO PROJECT! There is a lot to go through and we have a limited amount of time so… BE PREPARED TO WORK!
5 tips – these are good – to improving your logo designs… and the first SHOULD be PLAN REALLY WELL with a lot of ideas and modifications to the ideas – and… as much as color matters – so does your FONT choice…
LOGO Design is next and we have a commission – this is a first. If you are interested in earning $40 – put your best foot forward (and I will try to get a little more out of the deal for 2nd and 3rd place).
So you know that I spent some time working on becoming a better artist and teacher – here are my photographs from the Hirshhorn Art Museum in Washington DC. I saw some of my favorites and some I was unfamiliar with… as you should ALWAYS do.
Marcel Duchamp’s L.H.O.O.Q. Click on the image to see the other paintings, drawings, installations, videos, and sculptures. It was an incredible visit.https://photos.app.goo.gl/n2bacT83phSLWQwdA
Advanced Painting: Canvas Buildingand Figurative Work
Construction on the Canvases continues Tuesday and the ideas of the Figurative work move forward as well.
What are you doing with your figure?
How has your visit with the Degas and the Van Gogh Scholastic Arts Magazines challenged your thinking on what you can do?
How will you use DETAILS or GESTURES to construct your composition?
What are you going to do to FOCUS on MARK MAKING?
How are you thinking about the Figurative imagery that you are going to be placing in the unique shapes?
Advanced Digital Art and Photography: Books and InDesign – Let’s look at the process of BUILDING our books.
How is your PLANNING on the construction of the BOOKS and the LAYOUT working? Have you thought about:
Page Numbers?
Titles (front of book and pages)?
Name on the pages?
Use of MASTER (Parent) Pages and then the pages in the body of the book?
Not Exactly a BOOK per say buy Marcel Duchamp went through the layout of miniature works of his in a similar fashion and created a BOX SET of these pieces. What do you see him having done to make sure the LAYOUT was unified throughout? And he DIDN’T have InDesign to work with.
HERE is the larger photography assignment – Let’s talk about the process and the layout ideas.
Art Foundations: The Still Life and the Critique! Welcome to the final artworks!
Today we are CRITIQUING and then we are working into the ideas of METALS!
From and artists hands and eyes is a GREAT example of EXACTLY what you will be doing with SHARPIE and METAL and TAPE. If you need a chain you will have to get that yourself. https://www.pinterest.com/bcainoconnor/stencilsetching/ is a pinterest page for IDEAS – NO COPYING!
With the DRAWINGS (and in the end the next work as well) As we have been talking about previously, keep in mind:
Intro to Painting: The LANDSCAPE and WATERCOLORS! Time for a WALKING FIELD TRIP – REMEMBER TO BRING A COAT – it might be cold!
From my Hotel Window – Day 1
REMEMBER the TECHNIQUES we learned as Art Foundations artists
Be sure to be:
LOOKING at the trees and landscape
Working from that OBSERVATION and SEEING what you are looking at.
PAINT what you SEE and NOT what you think. The brain is a liar and the EYES are the truth tellers
Outside this week to draw and paint\
Dress appropriately!
Intro to Digital Art and Photography: We are REALLY WRAPPING up the Literature work this week. MONEY comes next… I mean LOGOS!
LITERATURE ASSIGNMENT – Let’s share the ideas that you have developed so far! Pull your images up, make a screen shot and then we can talk about the images. Ok? Once we are done with our MID-CRIT – it is back to work. This week we work – Monday is your last day in class to WRAP THINGS UP – turn it in on Wednesday.
5 tips – these are good – to improving your logo designs… and the first SHOULD be PLAN REALLY WELL with a lot of ideas and modifications to the ideas – and… as much as color matters – so doeeyour FONT choice…
LOGO Design is next and we have a commission – this is a first. If you are interested in earning $40 – put your best foot forward (and I will try to get a little more out of the deal for 2nd and 3rd place).
Mark Tansey inspired narrative paintings critique on Monday and then we construct our unique shaped canvases.
Set your paintings up in the front of the classroom on the easels and let’s CRITIQUE!
How are you thinking about the Figurative imagery that you are going to be placing in the unique shapes?
While we build and construct… Let’s listen in on the ideas of one of America’s foremost figurative artists Alice Neel. Remember where we are headed – Figurative Art! Be ready to PLAN and PAINT. BE PREPARED TO WORK! PLAN PLAN PLAN!
Advanced Digital Art and Photography: Books and InDesign – Let’s look at the process of BUILDING our books.
Thank you Ted for your friendship and inspiration…
How are the PHOTOGRAPHS you are making turning out? Wednesday we will look at the current ones you have started. 5 should be your goal for Wednesday. Friday is a WORK DAY as I will be in DC!
This week we are working. Tuesday of NEXT WEEK we are CRITIQUING and TURNING THEM IN! We are also going to ASSESS and CRITIQUE our CERAMICS works Wednesday so we can get them in the grade book – and more importantly reflect on the skills we are learning and developing.
Intro to Painting: The LANDSCAPE and WATERCOLORS! Time for a WALKING FIELD TRIP – Make sure you bring a coat – it might be cold!
We experimented with watercolors to review the TECHNIQUES we learned as Art Foundations artists… This week we are going to go outside and 1) DRAW a tree and then 2) Paint a tree. The most important part of this is the LOOKING at the tree and working from that OBSERVATION. Outside Tuesday to draw and paint and then on THURSDAY to make photographs to develop our compositions. Dress appropriately!
Intro to Digital Art and Photography: We are WRAPPING up the Literature work this week and then onto the idea of TEXT and LOGOS – this is a paid competition this time… MONEY!
LITERATURE ASSIGNMENT – Let’s share the ideas that you have developed so far! Pull your images up, make a screen shot and then we can talk about the images. Ok? Once we are done with our MID-CRIT – it is back to work. This week we work – Monday is your last day in class to WRAP THINGS UP – turn it in and CRITIQUE next Wednesday.
Art With Korb 