“Good Morning: Due to the weather, schools will be closed today, Thursday, February 7, 2019. All after school activities and practices are also cancelled. Be safe!
Dr. Lynn Brown Superintendent”
Alright artists, it’s another day to hunker down and make art at home. Art Foundations, make your plans for Avant Garde works, Painters, plan things out so we are painting next time, Digital Artists… See you back in the Digital Studio for a mid critique next time.
Stay safe folks.
Here’s an inspirational TED Talk video, it’s not about snow days however..
G: 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
A: What are your thoughts and feelings about the etching you have been given back? How does this work with the plans that you have made from the beginning of the process? What are your next steps in the process?
G: What have you accomplished today? The not heat joining is important in the production of the final artwork.
Intro to Painting: Collage and Watercolors – Time to Transfer the image and PAINT.
G: 6.1Ac: Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history. 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.
A: How are you relating the ideas of making art to making art about yourself? Do you find this to be easy or difficult – WHY? What do you feel about talking aloud when it comes to other’s works? What are your thoughts about why you may be apprehensive or confident when discussing other individual’s work?
G: As you are working, what are you seeing as an area that you might need to really focus on as you continue. What were 3 things that you took away from today’s critique?
Advanced Painting: Build the canvas and LET’S GET PAINTING!
G: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.
A: What color scheme have you begun to think about? Why? how does it DESCRIBE YOUR feelings toward the SIMPLIFICATION of the SPACE / SURROUNDINGS / COLOR?
G: What have your FINAL ideas developed into? Do you have a successful idea based on the ELEMENTS and PRINCIPLES of Art? Balance? Unity? Repetition? Color? Other things? Write out your ideas as to WHY.
Click HERE to see works from the past to help get you inspired for today!
Intro to Digital Art: Welcome to YOU! Let’s look at the ideas of YOU!
G: 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
A:Working on paper is different than working on the computer. Using a collection of FONTS that you can choose (we will look at these in the Adobe Illustrator Font Collection) you will find a wide variety of fonts that you enjoy and explore many different way of joining letters into positive and negative shapes (as well as adding a geometric or organic shape or two) in creating a Logo Design for yourself” This will take some time – be ready to SKETCH and EXPLORE ideas.
G: What did you come up with today? Share these ideas with your neighbor and explain what you enjoy about the work you have created.
G: 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.
A: It is time to work on the designs in whatever program you are going to be using. Remember that we will be having a MID CRITIQUE coming up on the 31st. We will be breaking in 30 minutes to stop and look at EVERYONE else’s work so you have a feeling for what has been accomplished. Ok? Ok. WORK!
G: What are 3 things that you saw a successes in the designs of your classmates?
G: 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
A: What designs did you come up with for the BALANCE plans? Take 2 minutes to share your ideas with your neighbors and get some feedback about them. What are 3 things that are strong and successful? We begin with more CHALLENGING ideas now – More AVANT GARDE ideas. How are you going to ETCH and how are you going to RIVET? What about JUMP RINGS?
G: What are your plans for the metal? We will be etching and riveting to create a work of wearable art. What are your plans? What have you accomplished today in the planning of the work and preparation of the work? Are you ready for the next step?
Intro to Painting: Collage and Watercolors – Time to Transfer the image and PAINT.
G: 2.3Ac: Redesign an object, system, place, or design in response to contemporary issues
A: How has the gathering of images HELPED or CHALLENGED you in the creation of a composition visually and / or telling a story – about yourself? N: Images of 3 watercolor artists – storytelling? What would YOU say is happening in the images?
G: What does your composition say about you? How might others read the images you have gathered and assembled?
Advanced Painting: Build the canvas and LET’S GET PAINTING!
G: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.
A: What are the largest and most DOMINANT LINES you see in your drawing of the hallways? These are the lines that we are going to be looking at as the FOCAL POINT / DOMINANT LINES to build our next work off of.
G: How easy or difficult was it for you to begin simplifying the space and shapes of your drawings? What challenges do see as you continue? Know that the use of color in the work will be used to create a MOOD / EMOTIONAL response to the space that you are representing with your abstraction.
Click HERE to see works from the past to help get you inspired for today!
Intro to Digital Art: Welcome to YOU! Let’s look at the ideas of YOU!
G: 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
A: Of all the tools that you experimented with, what ONE did you really like using, was something that you feel will be of the most use to you perhaps? Start to create your recreation drawing of the famous work of art that uses a wide variety of shape tools and at least 5 layers (to practice the idea of Layers) in the NON-OBJECTIVE Drawing.
G: Next time we are working on this experiment and learning about the cutting and joining. What challenges did you have with the work today? Who is your artist and why are you engaged with their work?
Advanced Digital Art: Let’s REFLECT with MORE time than LAST time…
G: 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.
A: It is time to work on the designs in whatever program you are going to be using. We will be having a MID CRITIQUE coming up SOON. How are you going to start. Review the requirements for Adobe Photoshop and Resolution as well as Adobe Illustrator and size. Write out ONE question that you have for me about the programs.
G: What are 3 things that you accomplished today in the creation of the designs? What do you plan on STARTING with next time?
G: 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
A: What designs have you come up with? Take 5 minutes to share your ideas with your neighbors and get some feedback about them. What are 3 things that are strong and successful? What are 3 things that you feel needs work in the design? How are you going to ETCH and how are you going to RIVET? What about JUMP RINGS?
G: What are your plans for the metal? We will be etching and riveting to create a work of wearable art. What are your plans? What have you accomplished today in the planning of the work and preparation of the work? Are you ready for the next step?
Intro to Painting: Collage and Watercolors – Time to Transfer the image and PAINT.
G: 6.1Ac: Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history. 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.
A: How are you relating the ideas of making art to making art about yourself? Do you find this to be easy or difficult – WHY? What do you feel about talking aloud when it comes to other’s works? What are your thoughts about why you may be apprehensive or confident when discussing other individual’s work?
G: How are you making work that is important to YOU? How is the work AUTHENTICALLY your work and not someone else’s work? Are you ENGAGED and EXCITED to begin the painting process of these compositions? EXPLAIN YOUR ANSWERS (Yes and No do not cut it.)
Advanced Painting: Oils? Yes! Abstraction? Yes! Let’s try this again ALSO.
G: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.
A: What color scheme have you begun to think about? Why? how does it DESCRIBE YOUR feelings toward the SIMPLIFICATION of the SPACE / SURROUNDINGS / COLOR?
G: What have your FINAL ideas developed into? Do you have a successful idea based on the ELEMENTS and PRINCIPLES of Art? Balance? Unity? Repetition? Color? Other things? Write out your ideas as to WHY.
Click HERE to see works from the past to help get you inspired for today!
Intro to Digital Art: Welcome to YOU! Let’s look at the ideas of YOU!
G: 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
A:Working on paper is different than working on the computer. Using a collection of FONTS that you can choose (we will look at these in the Adobe Illustrator Font Collection) you will find a wide variety of fonts that you enjoy and explore many different way of joining letters into positive and negative shapes (as well as adding a geometric or organic shape or two) in creating a Logo Design for yourself” This will take some time – be ready to SKETCH and EXPLORE ideas.
G: What did you come up with today? Share these ideas with your neighbor and explain what you enjoy about the work you have created.
Advanced Digital Art: Review the Programs and the like – Then it is up to you to start.
G: 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.
A: It is time to work on the designs in whatever program you are going to be using. Remember that we will be having a MID CRITIQUE coming up on the 31st. We will be breaking in 30 minutes to stop and look at EVERYONE else’s work so you have a feeling for what has been accomplished. Ok? Ok. WORK!
G: What are 3 things that you saw a successes in the designs of your classmates?
G: 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
A: What designs have you come up with? Take 5 minutes to share your ideas with your neighbors and get some feedback about them. What are 3 things that are strong and successful? What are 3 things that you feel needs work in the design? How are you going to ETCH and how are you going to RIVET? What about JUMP RINGS?
G: What are your plans for the metal? We will be etching and riveting to create a work of wearable art. What are your plans? What have you accomplished today in the planning of the work and preparation of the work? Are you ready for the next step?
Intro to Painting: Collage and Watercolors – Time to Transfer the image and PAINT.
G: 6.1Ac: Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history. 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.
A: How are you relating the ideas of making art to making art about yourself? Do you find this to be easy or difficult – WHY? What do you feel about talking aloud when it comes to other’s works? What are your thoughts about why you may be apprehensive or confident when discussing other individual’s work?
G: How are you making work that is important to YOU? How is the work AUTHENTICALLY your work and not someone else’s work? Are you ENGAGED and EXCITED to begin the painting process of these compositions? EXPLAIN YOUR ANSWERS (Yes and No do not cut it.)
Advanced Painting: Oils? Yes! Abstraction? Yes! Let’s try this again ALSO.
G: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.
A: What color scheme have you begun to think about? Why? how does it DESCRIBE YOUR feelings toward the SIMPLIFICATION of the SPACE / SURROUNDINGS / COLOR?
G: What have your FINAL ideas developed into? Do you have a successful idea based on the ELEMENTS and PRINCIPLES of Art? Balance? Unity? Repetition? Color? Other things? Write out your ideas as to WHY.
Click HERE to see works from the past to help get you inspired for today!
Intro to Digital Art: Welcome to YOU! Let’s look at the ideas of YOU!
G: 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
A:Working on paper is different than working on the computer. Using a collection of FONTS that you can choose (we will look at these in the Adobe Illustrator Font Collection) you will find a wide variety of fonts that you enjoy and explore many different way of joining letters into positive and negative shapes (as well as adding a geometric or organic shape or two) in creating a Logo Design for yourself” This will take some time – be ready to SKETCH and EXPLORE ideas.
G: What did you come up with today? Share these ideas with your neighbor and explain what you enjoy about the work you have created.
Advanced Digital Art: Review the Programs and the like – Then it is up to you to start.
G: 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.
A: It is time to work on the designs in whatever program you are going to be using. Remember that we will be having a MID CRITIQUE coming up on the 31st. We will be breaking in 30 minutes to stop and look at EVERYONE else’s work so you have a feeling for what has been accomplished. Ok? Ok. WORK!
G: What are 3 things that you saw a successes in the designs of your classmates?
G: 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
A: How successful did you feel with your ZENTANGLE designs from last time?. What kind of balance do you find you prefer? Symmetry? Approximate Symmetry? Radial? Asymmetry? What are your plans for the metal? We will be etching and riveting to create a work of wearable art.
So… What are your plans? What do you hope to accomplish that you might not have thought of before today? Also… most importantly, what are you going to do to make it AUTHENTICALLY YOURS?
Intro to Painting: Welcome to Watercolors and Painting! Let’s try this again.
G: 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
A: What challenges did you have with the watercolors when it came to OBSERVATION of the REAL WORLD around you.
G: What 2 things did you get done today that helped you move the ideas of SOCIAL COMMENTARY forward in your design ideas? Be VERY specific in the tasks you accomplished. Develop / collect images, consider the ideas about yourself and surroundings. This is going to be a SELF-PORTRAIT of sorts – no that it is going to look like you but rather… the objects and images, surroundings, ideas will be about you.What are 5 images you gathered today that say something about you?
Advanced Painting: Oils? Yes! Abstraction? Yes! Let’s try this again ALSO.
G: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.
A: Looking back at the hallway drawings from the past two days why do they TEND to be boring? Give 2 reasons that high school hallway drawings can be boring. What are 2 things you are considering about doing to make it EXCITING and YOUR OWN?
G: How has TRANSFORMING and ABSTRACTING these drawings changed the boring into more interesting works. Give three SPECIFIC examples.
Click HERE to see works from the past to help get you inspired for today!
Intro to Digital Art: Welcome to YOU! Let’s look at the ideas of YOU!
G: 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form. A: Of all the tools that you experimented with, what ONE did you really like using, was something that you feel will be of the most use to you perhaps? Today we will work through an animal TOGETHER and PRACTICE the drawing style of illustrator. Layers. Shapes. Colors… Start to create a character drawing (person, animal, creature of YOUR own design) that uses a wide variety of shape tools and at least 5 layers (to practice the idea of Layers).
G: What struggles did you have with Illustrator so far today?
G: 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.
A: What skills and tools do you remember from Adobe PHOTOSHOP? Talk with someone who you DO NOT KNOW about the tools in Photoshop – 3 minutes… Open Adobe Illustrator and COMPARE the tools that are in Ai to PS. TALK for 3 minutes about the similarities and differences.
G: What are you planning on doing in the DESIGN of the Covers and what programs are you planning on using? Why?
Intro to Painting: Welcome to Watercolors and Painting!
G: 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
A: What challenges did you have with the watercolors when it came to OBSERVATION of the REAL WORLD around you.
G: What 2 things did you get done today that helped you move the ideas of SOCIAL COMMENTARY forward in your design ideas? Be VERY specific in the tasks you accomplished. Develop / collect images, consider the ideas about yourself and surroundings. This is going to be a SELF-PORTRAIT of sorts – no that it is going to look like you but rather… the objects and images, surroundings, ideas will be about you.What are 5 images you gathered today that say something about you?
G: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.
A: Looking back at the hallway drawings from the past two days why do they TEND to be boring? Give 2 reasons that high school hallway drawings can be boring. What are 2 things you are considering about doing to make it EXCITING and YOUR OWN?
G: How has TRANSFORMING and ABSTRACTING these drawings changed the boring into more interesting works. Give three SPECIFIC examples.
G: 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.
A: What skills and tools do you remember from Adobe PHOTOSHOP? Talk with someone who you DO NOT KNOW about the tools in Photoshop – 3 minutes… Open Adobe Illustrator and COMPARE the tools that are in Ai to PS. TALK for 3 minutes about the similarities and differences.
G: What are you planning on doing in the DESIGN of the Covers and what programs are you planning on using? Why?
“You’ve got a new voicemail from (920) 563-7800.
Transcript: This is Dr. Lynn Brown superintendent in the school district of Fort Atkinson. Due to weather we will be closed on Wednesday, January 23rd, all after-school and evening activities are cancelled. To opt out of future messages. Call 855-502-7867. Goodbye.”
“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Art Foundations: Line and Drawing
G: 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
A: Line – Using the Drawing paper in front of you and the pencils provided – let’s work through the ideas of Sol LeWitt – Sort of.
G: STICKY NOTES… What are 3 things you hope to learn in this room? END OF CLASS – Stand up – Think about what you are hoping to learn – in ONE WORD (and you cannot repeat another person’s comment) Your name and then your word.
G: 1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.
A: What techniques do you remember from your earlier classes about Acrylic Paints or/and Watercolor Paints? Take a few minutes to talk to your neighbors about the challenges you faced in the processes. What are 3 things that you are hoping to take away from this class as we move forward in the semester?
G: What sorts of ideas did you take away from the drawing in the hallways today? Thumbnails are important in the the process of making successful art. What have you done to make successful preliminary sketches of the space around you? – NOTE – If you DO NOT WANT to use the space of the building to base your abstractions on, it is ENTIRELY UP TO YOU to make the preliminary sketches and / or photographs on your own before the next time we meet. The more you can do on your own time, the more time you will have in the studio to create art! ALSO – Look into the MoMA In the Studio Series and allow yourself to get LOST in the videos!
Intro to Digital Art: Welcome to YOU! Let’s look at the ideas of YOU!
G: 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
A: What are 3 things that you hope to take away from this class? Aloud? Log into the computers FIRST and then we’ll talk.
G: What struggles did you have with Illustrator so far today?
5am till Bedtie: Daily – Mr. Korb’s Daily Routines via LOGO!
Advanced Digital Art: Review the Programs and the like – Then it is up to you to start.
G: 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
A: What are 3 things that you hope to take away from this class? A(Talk with your neighbor and write it on the sticky note). Log into the computers FIRST and then we’ll talk.
G: As you experimented and researched other schools handbook cover ideas… what were 3 design ideas that came from your research?
Art With Korb 
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