Art With Korb

Get out your handbooks!

Static images deliver the information they contain instantly. But they also have the capacity to reveal the whole process of their making, as well as the depth of their narrative, over an extended period of investigation, meditation, and analysis. Paintings are especially unique in this quality. Good art never stops revealing itself. And though the eye can take in an image in its totality in an instant, great images reveal their secrets slowly. The more complex an image, the slower the revelation. 101 Things to Learn in Art School Kit White © 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Kit White

Stained Glass: Keep working – What have you gotten done this week?

• 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork
• 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.

• How much did you accomplish this week? List three things you were very successful with this week and ONE thing that you really struggled with? Why were you successful and what was it that you held you back?

BY THE WAY: everything-stained-glass.com is a good site for your own personal research.

CIaD: Critique – ALL LATE WORK IS DUE TODAY!

• 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.

• Looking back on the week – what 3 things challenged you with Adobe Photoshop? Write out two things you notice as DIFFERENT between APS and AI… How are they similar?

Drawing: German Expressionism – Final Week – CRIT MONDAY and TUESDAY!

• 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork
• 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.

• What do you need to do over the weekend to resolve this drawing? What challenges did you overcome through this artwork? How do you see the skills that you developed here as being helpful in future works?

AP Studio Art: Concentration – How are you doing? Without work – the progress doesn’t happen.

• 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork
• 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 do you need to do this weekend to stay ahead of the game? Are you falling behind? Are you being lazy with your work?

Adv. Drawing: CRITIQUE DAY!

• 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.
• 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.

• What are you looking at that has been NEW and EXCITING for you in this ABSTRACT process? How have you learned from this process?

•  WOMEN OF AbEx…

Get out your handbooks!

Static images deliver the information they contain instantly. But they also have the capacity to reveal the whole process of their making, as well as the depth of their narrative, over an extended period of investigation, meditation, and analysis. Paintings are especially unique in this quality. Good art never stops revealing itself. And though the eye can take in an image in its totality in an instant, great images reveal their secrets slowly. The more complex an image, the slower the revelation. 101 Things to Learn in Art School Kit White © 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Kit White

Stained Glass: 10 pieces? Done? Foiled?

• 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork
• 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.

• Looking at the week ahead of you… how many pieces should you be working on resolving so that you are staying up to speed with the project? Remember that we should be shooting for 4 or five pieces a day – take the cut stuff home to wrap!

BY THE WAY: everything-stained-glass.com is a good site for your own personal research.

CIaD: Critique – Photoshop this week! ALL LATE WORK IS DUE FRIDAY!

• 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.
• 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.

• How many photographs have you brought to the process for this week? Remember that if you need to finish the Adobe Illustrator project – you need to make time to get into the computer lab (or room 123 has a couple of computers).

Drawing: German Expressionism – Final Week

• 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork
• 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.

• How did the critique from last Friday help you see the image you have in front of you in a new way? What are you hoping to do differently now that you have had a chance to look at the work from more than an arms length? What about your studio mates work did you see that will help you with your own work?

AP Studio Art: Concentration

• 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork
• 2.3Ad: Demonstrate in works of art or design how visual and material culture defines, shapes, enhances, inhibits, and/or empowers people’s lives.

• Concentration works need to be the FOCUS of the hours this week. It is important that you are on task – it you are not then the ideas of the “Artists Habits of Mind” are being missed.Page 18 in the handbook.What do you need to do this week to keep things on track?

Adv. Drawing: Abstract Drawing – Final Crit coming up!

• 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
• 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.

• We will be critiquing at the end of the week -Wednesday and Thursday – Friday if necessary. This will be a process as we need to have a large space to display them and then be able to step back and look. Wednesday we start by going outside with spray fixative and set the charcoal on the paper

•  WOMEN OF AbEx…

To END With – Get out your handbooks!

The human figure is a complex construction composed of a rigid frame overlaid with soft, rounded, elongated muscles. Its main volumes can be described with a series of interlocking ellipses. There are no straight lines in a body. And it is symmetrical. When laying out a figure drawing, try to do it with a series of interlocking ovals. This will insure that the figure maintains its dimensionality, its roundness in space. This roundness applies to most objects in nature. 101 Things to Learn in Art School Kit White © 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Kit White

Stained Glass: 10 pieces? Done? Foiled?

• 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork
• 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.

• As you worked this week what struggles with your new design have you encountered and resolved? What challenges are you still struggling with?

BY THE WAY: everything-stained-glass.com is a good site for your own personal research.

CIaD: Critique – Photoshop up coming…

• 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.

• Looking back on the week – what are you most pleased with when it comes to the art you’ve made in the first half of the semester? Let’s look at what we have upcoming and the CALENDAR. We are going to have to really change things up from this point.

Drawing: Faces and German Expressionism

• 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork
• 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

• As you looked at the work you’ve begun this week, step back and think about the problems you are having and the successes that you have had. Write out a few ideas about the specifics, what is a strong aspect of the work and what have you struggled with? Write it out – full sentences and thoughts.

AP Studio Art: Figure Drawing CRITIQUE

• 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork
• 2.3Ad: Demonstrate in works of art or design how visual and material culture defines, shapes, enhances, inhibits, and/or empowers people’s lives.

• We are BACK in the process of the CONCENTRATION…how are you utilizing the TIME like you did with the group work in the figure drawing? Are you? Please write out what you need to do in order to make these last three works the STRONGEST of your portfolio / concentration. How have you grown? How are you developing this work as an investigation of a visual challenge?

Adv. Drawing: New Abstract Drawing MID CRIT

• 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.
• 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.

• What have you accomplished this week? What skills are you developing in the process of ABSTRACTION? Are you able to see things differently? What 3 skills have you developed with your work
•  WOMEN OF AbEx…

To Start With – Get out your handbooks!

Curious about the lesson plan changes? Visit my planning pages and go to week 8. Compare it with week 7 (or before) to see the changes. A lot of info, simpler approach to the week – same quality though.

What a weekend. WAEA in Madison last Friday, 6 of our students with work at the Capitol Rotunda, I got to polka with the Lieutenant Governor of WI Rebecca Kleefisch. Then the night came around and I saw the Addams Family Musical at BHS with my family – dinner afterwards – what a great night. 3 musicals later and I now sit at the kitchen counter, Birk eating his dinner (lunch) and a curious new show on Netflix. I am almost ready to get things going for school. I mentioned that changes were going to take place with this website, and they are. I’ll be posting less frequently than daily, two or three times a week to keep everyone up to speed. I am using the Google Classroom more and I feel that there is more communication directly to the kids there with the assignments, but this is a place to stop and reflect with the handbook so we can  journey through the art semester with a better understanding as to what we are doing. Thank you for the follow, please share this around, and come back to use the resources that I have provided.

Korb

The human figure is a complex construction composed of a rigid frame overlaid with soft, rounded, elongated muscles. Its main volumes can be described with a series of interlocking ellipses. There are no straight lines in a body. And it is symmetrical. When laying out a figure drawing, try to do it with a series of interlocking ovals. This will insure that the figure maintains its dimensionality, its roundness in space. This roundness applies to most objects in nature. 101 Things to Learn in Art School Kit White © 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Kit White

Stained Glass: New Project – Preliminary work.

• 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork
• 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.

• What is the focal point of the composition that you are designing? How does the rest of the space (negative space?) support the dominant portion of the work. How many pieces are you looking at? Have a conversation with your classmates to discuss the challenges that you might be facing with this new work of art.

BY THE WAY: everything-stained-glass.com is a good site for your own personal research.

CIaD: Critique – Self and Others – Self Assessment

• 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.
• 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.

• What have you done with this work that made you particularly proud of the struggle? What new skills are you gaining? We are doing CRITIQUES this week and you will need to have a strong conversation about the process and product.

Drawing: Faces and German Expressionism

• .1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork
• 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.

• What artist / images have you chosen to work from and / or have you been inspired by? Take a few minutes to chat with your colleagues to share this information. We are going to get started with the drawings today so be ready to work in your chosen medium.

AP Studio Art: Figure Drawing CRITIQUE

• 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.
• 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork

• This is a two day critique of the figure drawings and then we hang them in the display cased outside of the room. Set things up and please write up your self assessment. What are you especially pleased with in the imagery? What are you still struggling with in the work? This is ESSENTIAL to make a part of your portfolio – and if not one of these, a figure drawing at the very least.

Adv. Drawing: New Abstract Drawing MID CRIT

• 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.
• 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.

• This is a one day mid-critique of the abstraction drawings. We have ONE MORE WEEK and then we hang them in the hallway outside of the room (and maybe elsewhere in the building) Hang your works up in the hallway and on the boards so we can look at them all – Handbooks out and write out the strengths and weaknesses of the works. What are you especially pleased with in the imagery? What are you still struggling with in the work? WOMEN OF AbEx…

Today I am in MADISON, WI celebrating the statewide accomplishments of of our young artists. Congratulations to all the kids as they have their work being exhibited in the state capitol rotunda. I look forward to seeing the strong works, the individual artists, the parents and families of the kids who are there, and being able to talk to everyone about the works they are experiencing.

Korb

“Time is an Essential Element in All Media. Time reveals itself in two critical ways: the unfolding of the form and the experience of the viewer. Real-time duration implies a narrative structure or linear path, even if abstract, and delivers information and experience in measured units (film, performance, and video). In those cases, the viewer becomes a passive receiver. Recorded media, video, film, L.E.D. word displays, and computer simulations allow for the manipulation of time and the creation of temporal illusion. Time is a dimension.” 10 Kit White 101 Things to Learn in Art School Kit White © 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Kit White

Stained Glass: Finishing up and Designing Ideas

G: 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.

• Today we are resolving the LARGE drawings and refinement of that drawing. This is the day to add color, refine, redesign, redraw, clean up, simplify, or complicate things. What are you happiest with in your design? Why are you creating this design anyway?

• Stop and talk to your neighbor about the new composition that you have designed. Tell them about the challenges, the struggles, the aspects of the work you are most proud of.

BY THE WAY: everything-stained-glass.com is a good site for your own personal research.

CIaD: Let’s Review the MODERNISM Assignment!

1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.

• This is the LAST DAY to work in class – Monday you will be assessing your own and another student’s work and then we will talk about them on Tuesday. CRIT’s are a coming!

• What skills have you learned from Adobe Illustrator? Are you ready for Adobe Photoshop?

Drawing: Faces and German Expressionism

1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.

• Talk to your table mates about the artists you chose last week and how you plan on using the ideas in the drawing. Three things you would like to really explore from your inspiration artists

• Do you feel you are ready to move forward with the ideas into the final drawing? Good paper coming up.

AP Studio Art: Figure Drawing

2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.

• Look at the work from yesterday… how have you begun to see the figure differently? Are you thinking about the the FORM in a different fashion than you had earlier?

• TODAY was the last day of the drawing process for this work. What are you doing to resolve the idea for Monday?

Adv. Drawing: New Abstract Drawing

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.

• WE DID NOT MID CRIT. YESTERDAY – Sorry. This video may not make sense entirely – oops. Good Sketchbooks Though!

• What did you accomplish this week? What are you looking at with this as a STRONG Drawing? What challenges have you overcome with it?

What a week it has been. Google testing, HUGE ARTWORKS in Advanced Drawing – Faces in Drawing – AI – new works in Stained Glass… and the list goes on! I am happy to say this has been a great week so far and I am thrilled with the journey that the artists have been on. They are not all smooth trips – but the paths are interesting to say the least.

Korb

Hello to my Stained Glass and Computer Illustration and Drawing Classes – PLAY!

“Time is an Essential Element in All Media. Time reveals itself in two critical ways: the unfolding of the form and the experience of the viewer. Real-time duration implies a narrative structure or linear path, even if abstract, and delivers information and experience in measured units (film, performance, and video). In those cases, the viewer becomes a passive receiver. Recorded media, video, film, L.E.D. word displays, and computer simulations allow for the manipulation of time and the creation of temporal illusion. Time is a dimension.” 10 Kit White 101 Things to Learn in Art School Kit White © 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Kit White

Stained Glass: Finishing up and Designing Ideas

G: 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.

• Wednesday we are working on the LARGE drawings and the thumbnails – what are the design elements in the work that are ENGAGING and (perhaps) CHALLENGING for you as you move into work #2?
• Thursday we are working on the LARGE drawings and refinement of that drawing. What do you think about the colors, patterns, movement in the work you have in front of you

Observation in Stained Glass: http://www.oaksenham.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/abstract-stained-glass-panels.jpg

Geometry in Stained Glass: https://images.custommade.com/yNlqCjwKehvO5BU-DpsphzIZqS4=/custommade-photosets/19023.165585.jpg

• Wednesday: What were the biggest challenges you faced in the design? Look things over and define a corner or a shape that you feel will be a big challenge – perhaps something that needs revision tomorrow.
• Thursday: Look back and find one area that you are going to have to work VERY hard on to be successful. What are you going to have to do to make it work?

BY THE WAY: everything-stained-glass.com is a good site for your own personal research.

CIaD: Let’s Review the MODERNISM Assignment!

1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.

• Wedensday:  What do you need to do make any changes to this something to share with your classmates – work to do to make it stronger?
• Thursday: SHORT in class Mid(ish) critique of this TODAY – big class presentation all around. FRIDAY in SMALL GROUPS with Self Assessment / Prints done.

Adobe Illustrator EYE: https://helpx.adobe.com/content/dam/help/en/mobile-apps/how-to/vector-drawing-go/_jcr_content/main-pars/image3/4948_vector-drawing-go_step-4a.jpg

Adobe Illustrator Figure:http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/zXkQag5a9QWYBVnnvpqjpJ-1200-80.jpg

• Wednesday: What skills are you developing through this project / program? You will find PHOTOSHOP having much the same.
• Thursday:What are you doing to rally challenge yourself with this assignment? If it is a DeStijl – Minimalist Modernist work – maybe have a SECOND one going that is more COMPLICATED.

Drawing: Faces and German Expressionism

1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.

• Wednesday: What is successful in your artwork? What is the mood in your achromatic drawing you are hoping to set? Share this with your neighbor.
• Thursday: What is successful in your artwork? What is the mood in your achromatic drawing you are hoping to set? Share this with your neighbor.

Kathe Kollwitz and the German Expressionists: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sKe3mO1RZT8/VCLVKgGrxcI/AAAAAAAAd74/SdWR1kvZlUo/s1600/kollwitz%2Bself-portrait%2Bat%2Bwork.jpg

Kathe Kollwitz and the German Expressionists:https://mawa.ca/images/uploads/_resized/Kollowitz_Taxes.jpg

• Wednesday: Take a look at the beginnings of this week’s work and what we did last week as demonstrations… where did you struggle the most with the idea of the portrait? Where did you succeed the most? How do you use the ideas of chiaroscuro (light to dark) to better define the ideas of form (in the face especially)?
• Thursday: What is the progress of the drawing thus far? What is your neighbor doing well? What is your neighbor not doing successfully? Share your thoughts with your neighbors.

AP Studio Art: Figure Drawing

2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.

• Wednesday:  How did you struggle with the drawing from yesterday? What do you see as TWO benefits from learning how to FIGURE DRAW?
• Thursday:  Look at the series of works from the beginning of the week and the start of yesterday… how have you begun to see the figure differently? Are you thinking about the the FORM in a different fashion than you had earlier?

Gesture Drawings – A GREAT PLACE To START with this idea of DADA Artwork… http://www.learn-to-draw-lessons.com/images/gesture-standing.gif

GESTURE! http://www.fanboy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/gesture-drawings.jpg

• Wednesday:  What strengths did you develop in your drawing today? What three things do you look at with your drawing and say – “Hey… that’s not so bad!”
• Thursday: What skills are you developing as you tackle your second drawing? More skill? More challenging? Are you still starting with the Gesture?

Adv. Drawing: New Abstract Drawing

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.

• Wednesday: What is the strongest area of your drawing and why do you say that?
• Thursday: Let’s set things up and away from us and spend some time with 3 other classmates to talk about the work we have in front of us – MID-CRITIQUE with the back of the RUBRIC.

Abstraction in Charcoal: http://78.media.tumblr.com/fae4dcdab9b10bf9ffb753a9346ce324/tumblr_op2xtmcVA71vnx0lgo7_r1_1280.png

Abstraction in Charcoal: https://mir-s3-cdn-cf.behance.net/project_modules/disp/6f7bfc22562679.56314c288dea9.jpeg

• Wednesday:  What are you struggling with in this drawing? Why? Are you stepping back and away from your work as you go?
• Thursday: What did you take away from the MID-CRIT and your classmates comments / thoughts? Write that out so you can reflect and GROW!