Art With Korb

Intro to Painting

Let’s look at Watercolor Techniques that we might have learned in Art Foundations.

Let’s ALSO take a look at the idea of COMPOSITION.

The above are REALLY IMPORTANT in what we are going to be doing this semester. The end result is yours, but we are here together to learn and know that we all have skills to develop.

The STILL LIFE is in our sights for the week – a series of still lives – from direct observation AND from photographs we have created.

Intro to Digital Art and Photography

This year is going to begin with reviewing the ideas of COMPOSITION. How do we set up an image in our picture plane to create a successful work of art and / or photograph. There are CERTAIN approaches we can focus on and we will talk about a number of them.

IF YOU ARE STRUGGLING with this project. think about how you are making images. Look at the world from a unique POINT OF VIEW. Think about the images as creating a SERIES OF IMAGES. TELL A STORY with your images. Think about STAGING your compositions. Look at finding people and make images that are CANDID. There are MILLIONS and MILLIONS of images uploaded EVERYDAY… you can add to the QUALITY of these by being focused on your composition.

• What is going on in this picture?
• What do you see that makes you say that?
• What more can you find?

• PLEASE ADD THE GETTY.EDU (at the bottom of this post) EXHIBITIONS TO YOUR LIST OF RESOURCES!
• https://www.mcnayart.org/exhibitions/current/telling-tales-contemporary-narrative-photography – Find the names and look up some of the artists.
• National Geographic Photography Website: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/
• MAM Photography Website: http://collection.mam.org/search.php?s=0&type=collection&search=643
• Getty Center – 4 exhibitions: Getty.edu
  • Mario Giocomelli
  • Expanded Landscape
  • Photo Flux: Unshuttering LA
  • In Focus Protest
• https://www.nga.gov/collection/photographs.html

Art Foundations

Let’s get into the ARTIST TRADING CARDS project. Two days and a weekend!

The Elements and Principles of art are what we are beginning with. Be ready to explore and experiment with ideas, images, colors and the like. Worry not however, this is just a dipping our toes into the waters of art making.

This is what comes up when I Googled Artist Trading Cards, start here (?) to begin some ideas? Maybe think about what you like to make art about… What do you draw? Paint? Look at for inspiration? These are ALL ABOUT YOUR INTERPRETATION of the pairing of the Elements and Principles.

HERE is a place to visit the Elements and Principles

Intro to Painting

We are going to be learning a lot about OBSERVATION and WATERCOLORS for the first work of art. Don’t worry though – you will be fine.

Still Life and Watercolor techniques. The first painting is all on your own and then we will talk techniques.

Intro to Digital Art and Photography

This year is going to begin with reviewing the ideas of COMPOSITION. How do we set up an image in our picture plane to create a successful work of art and / or photograph. There are CERTAIN approaches we can focus on and we will talk about a number of them.

Art Foundations

The Elements and Principles of art are what we are beginning with. Be ready to explore and experiment with ideas, images, colors and the like. Worry not however, this is just a dipping our toes into the waters of art making.

HERE is a place to visit the Elements and Principles

• The zombie apocalypse is coming, who are 3 people you want on your team?
• What is your most used emoji? BE CAREFUL HERE!
• If you could change one thing about school, what would it be and why?
• What was the worst haircut you ever had?
• What is the name of a famous artist that you know about?
• If you had to eat one meal everyday for the rest of your life what would it be?
• What is your absolute dream job?
• What is something you HOPE to learn in our class?
• What is something you will contribute to the class?
• What is your cellphone wallpaper?
• If you could instantly become an expert in something, what would it be?
• What is your favorite art making material?
• If you could donate a million dollars to any charity, what cause would you choose?
• What is one thing you want older generations to know about teenagers today?

Thank you to the Nihal and the Gallery NK. We had a great meeting in the gallery as I showed a number of paintings on paper and canvas and my newest sculptures. 5 works will be exhibited in a show at Gallery B at the end of April – time to frame and ship. The following 2 works will be in their space until then.

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While I may not be (I am definitely not) Giorgio Morandi, nor is the work I create in his vein, the process of looking, obsering, and drawing is essential to the practice of being a better artist. Here are some of the works that we are working through in Art Foundations.

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Below are some examples of the early stages of the student work. We are in day 2. The process is all about open or closed composition; shading, hatching and cross hatching, scumbling, and stippling; sighting in; positive and negative space; line variation; and subtleties in values.

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Hard to believe that for almost 10 years this was the place I began each and every class period. With the pandemic, and the necessity for utilizing Google Classroom on the daily, this has taken a backseat. Unfortunate. The goals of this website was to not only be that launching pad for my classes but also to be a resource for other artists, teachers, students to find information as well as gather ideas. It is still that place, but the posts are much fewer adn more far between.

What’s up recently?

I’ve looked into the Merzbau for one of my classes – one of my students specifically. The idea was to modify a lesson in watercolors and collage. Little do they know it will be as challenging as a watercolor painting alone. by using precut shapes of mat board, the idea of a random image from a magazine that will be put and pasted onto the segment of board (colors are on one side, white is on the other. The color side is left alone and the images are painted and glued onto the white side. From there that same image will be painted in watercolor on another card. Finally, when all the pieces are done, the cards will be assembled and hot glued together to create a Merzbau inspired sculpture!

Art Foundations is going to get into the ideas of Line and Value and the ideas behind Sol LeWitt’s works.

Grid Demo HERE.

Value Demo HERE.

So… Stay tuned. More ideas and images to follow.

Here is the first half of a project about using observation and real life drawing skills to look at and make changes to recognizable objects and locations. We will follow up with a painting unit in Art Foundations class – but here you go to enjoy! Thanks. – Frank

It’s been a lot of work coming up with NEW VIDEOS to help in the PANDEMIC LADEN WORLD of ART EDUCATION.

Below are THREE (3) to help the process of 1) Watercolor Techniques, 2) the Color Wheel, and 3) Color Schemes.

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Thanks and Enjoy!

Frank

Looking to take up some acrylic painting? Look at my previous post and this video for some guidance and direction.

Frank

I picked up this series of exercises a number of years ago and have been using them religiously in class. If you’ve got an interest in painting… here is what we are going to be working through. Acrylic Painting Techniques. Click on the links for further instructions.

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• Single Tone Underpainting
• Tonal Underpainting
• Wet on Wet v Distinct Brush Strokes
• Glazing
• Collage / Additive
• High Gel Relief / Impasto
• Variations on Color Shifting
• Staining
• Sgrafitto / Wipe Out / Tonking
• Scumbling

Questions, comments, concerns – drop me a line!

Frank