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Happy BREAK! It’s Almost here.

#20 “Clear sight makes clear art.” Observation lies at the heart of the art process. Whether your art derives from mimicking nature or extrapolating a mental construct, your powers of observation are critical. Unless you can see what lies before you, you cannot describe it. Train yourself to eliminate preconceptions and received understandings when observing anything. Try to see what is before you, not what you think you see or want to see.  Kit White 101 Things to Learn in Art School.

Studio Art 360: PORTRAITS and COLOR THEORY

What are two things that are helping you EMPHASIZING the idea of  YOU as you create this self portrait?

Erased De Kooning by Robert Rauschenberg: http://yewknee.com/_img/blog/blog_eraseddekooning012.jpg
Non Erased De Kooning by Willem De Kooning http://htmlgiant.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/woman-500×584.png

 

What is one way that you feel ART be used to discuss IMPORTANT things in culture?

Painting: Portraits and OILS

What color scheme are you hoping to focus on with this portrait? How will this help you UNIFY your composition? Are you using OTHER elements to create a sense of unity? What might that be?

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Paul Squire’s Painting UP CLOSE: Look att hat TEXTURE! http://www.paulsquire.com/wp-content/uploads/bernie-2015-detail2.jpg

What are you anxious about as we begin to think about and use oil paints? Paul Squire’s Painting UP CLOSE – Look at that TEXTURE!

Drawing: Portraits and Colored Pencils

GREAT FILM to watch over break: Exit Through the Gift Shop – Graffiti, Banksy, and Dr. Brainwash. Start at 7:02 in class).

What is successful in your artwork? What is the color scheme you are using? What Graffiti Artist have you chosen to use?

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Graffiti is out there to help you RETHINK what you might already know… or not know. http://cdn3.spiegel.de/images/image-300866-panoV9free-syqo.jpg

As you researched the world of Graffiti – it there an artist that you are particularly drawn to? Why?

AP: Not Portraits – Concentration Work (ONLINE TOO)

Best part of yesterday? Plans for today? How’s it coming?

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How’s your work going? Lifelong lessons here? I think so! http://www.autumngrove.com/wp-content/uploads/DSC_0008.jpg

How are you moving forward in the process of developing a series of works based on someone else’s work? How are you keeping the images the SAME and how are you changing the ideas? What are your plans for BREAK? Website?

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#TwoMoreDays of #ART :(

#20 “Clear sight makes clear art.” Observation lies at the heart of the art process. Whether your art derives from mimicking nature or extrapolating a mental construct, your powers of observation are critical. Unless you can see what lies before you, you cannot describe it. Train yourself to eliminate preconceptions and received understandings when observing anything. Try to see what is before you, not what you think you see or want to see.  Kit White 101 Things to Learn in Art School.

Studio Art 360: PORTRAITS and COLOR THEORY

What are two things you think the PROCESS is going to do to help you in the creation of this artwork? How is this going to be a skill that can help you in the future with OTHER ideas and assignments (in or out of art)?

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I LOVE Andy Warhol: http://archv.sfmoma.org/images/artwork/medium/78.196.A-F_01_D02.jpg

What is it that you especially enjoy about the image you are creating in your painting? How do the ideas and colors RELATE to you? 

Painting: Portraits and OILS

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?

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Elizabeth Peyton: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/cb/af/0d/cbaf0d52c8ad9d5cacdea6efd2711495.jpg

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? Oil Painting Close Up: Elizabeth Peyton: 

Drawing: Portraits and Colored Pencils

This is it folks – Second to last day – Every square inch needs color. What’s holding you back? What has propelled you forward in the process?

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Graffiti and YOU: http://d2jv9003bew7ag.cloudfront.net/uploads/From-the-Zoo-Project-in-Tunisia-by-Mohamed-Hanchi.jpg

Are you taking pencils home? Where are you going to work on the drawing? What has been the HARDEST PART of the drawing?  Mohamed Hanchi

AP: Not Portraits – Concentration Work (ONLINE TOO)

DON’T LOOK AT YOUR WORK –  Set it out and step back… go get it – step back… Now… turn around and LOOK! What are three things that you see as working and NOT working in the art? GO Get TO WORK!

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What techniques are you looking at using? What’s NEW? https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/1a/dc/f9/1adcf98791409ae59ca55dc3f3a54719.jpg

You had a lot to think about today… What did you take a away? Look at the ORIGINAL WORK and look at your SERIES of works… what’s happening? 

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#FourMoreDays to #BREAK

#20 “Clear sight makes clear art.” Observation lies at the heart of the art process. Whether your art derives from mimicking nature or extrapolating a mental construct, your powers of observation are critical. Unless you can see what lies before you, you cannot describe it. Train yourself to eliminate preconceptions and received understandings when observing anything. Try to see what is before you, not what you think you see or want to see.  Kit White 101 Things to Learn in Art School\

Edward Hopper “The Lighthouse at Two Lights”

Studio Art 360: Portraits in Color Schemes of Your Choice

What colors are you using in this portrait? What IS your color scheme and what colors are you going to be using?

What struggles are you having with this painting so far? This is DUE at the end of the week – End of Class Thursday. DO NOT RUSH.

Painting: Oils and HOW TO

What color scheme are you hoping to focus on with this portrait? How will this help you UNIFY your composition? Are you using OTHER elements to create a sense of unity? What might that be?

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

ABOVE: Oil Painting CLOSE UP: Karen Appleton

Oil Paint Characteristics

Drawing: Fauvist Faces and Graffiti

ASSIGNMENT HANDOUT HERE

Two days left… Now that you are more aware of the use of pastels and covering larger spaces faster (large to small, general to specific) how do you feel the drawing has progressed?

Step back and look over your classmates work… what has been the biggest success from you classmate?

AP Studio Art: Concentration and ONLINE PRESENCE

What have your previous works of art been this year and how have you been planning the NEW and Important ideas out for your work based on the work of the residents of Waterford Senior Living? HOW DOES INSPIRATION FROM OTHERS WORK (or talking) HELP or CHALLENGE YOU?

 

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And the Migrants Kept Coming. Jacob Lawrence, 1941: http://www.phillipscollection.org/sites/default/files/styles/slideshow_image_size/public/media/The%20Migration%20Series-Panel%2060_0.jpg?itok=Ak5Vj5HH

What ideas have you come up with? What materials are you using that help you to challenge yourself? How does it fit into your current body of work?  How does it REACH OUT into NEW IDEAS?

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#ThankGoodness it’s #Friday

#90 “You can condense, but you cannot simplify.” —Ann Lauterbach, personal conversation: The world is infinitely complex, and any attempt to simplify, which means the elimination of contradictory elements, will fail to capture that complexity. One can, however, attempt to compress or condense those elements into a more abbreviated or altered form. That is the role of metaphor. Kit White 101 Things to Learn in Art School

Studio Art 360: Grids on the Canvas and the Drawing and Transfer it up to the Canvas

What colors are you going to be using in this portrait? What IS your color scheme and what colors are you going to be using? This is important to know as you begin – PLANNING is essential here!

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Marilyn Monroe – Andy Warhol: http://www.georgetownframeshoppe.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/m/a/marilyn36.jpg

What are your thoughts about this as the work is developing as a work of art? This is the VERY BEGINNING of the process – how do you feel about the work? 3 ideas please. 

PORTRAITS are HERE!

SKETCHBOOK TUESDAY – FOR NEXT TUESDAY: Using a camera ON YOUR OWN TIME THIS WEEK – RECREATE a famous painting, sculpture, drawing… Print out the photograph that you have created and also include the famous work of art that you were inspired by. Here are a few examples: Student Examples: https://goo.gl/Tvwv4X

PAINTING: Making Plans? Got your Photo?

What do you need to do in order to be READY to transfer your image up to the canvas on MONDAY? Study Halls? After School? Before School? PROCESS! THIS IS HUGE.

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Milwaukee Artist – Katie Musolf – Self Portrait: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nrDR7SFveHc/S3MOoZ7No7I/AAAAAAAAAMs/1XYjyXGkVyY/s1600/Selffrontal2008sm.jpg

Today – Successful in the process? Finished? What did you accomplish today and how did you help your classmate out? Katie Musolf 

 

DRAWING: Fauvists and YOU!

What is successful in your artwork? What is the color scheme you are using? Share this with your neighbor. We are going to make photographs of the work we have RIGHT NOW

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Maurice de Vlamink “Andre Derain” http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/images/hb/hb_1999.363.83.jpg

After having had a chance to look at the progress of your work so far, how do you feel you are progressing? What do you feel you need to do in order to have a solid product by the end of next week?

Andre Derain by Maurice de Vlkamink 

 

 

AP STUDIO ART: Concentration 3rd of 3

Letters to our AUTHORS – Put your letter in THIS DOCUMENT. I will finish the spacing and page separations. Please do this today so we can gather the info and mail it out by Friday. Thanks.

What is happening in your classmates work that you are truly glad to see happening? Write that out and then take a moment to give them encouragement and support.

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What’s on your plate for the weekend? What have you got to work on? Website? Artwork? Job? Relationships? Make sure some of it is ART.

 

 

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#ArtExhibition – 3rd Annual K8 Feeder Schools at WUHS – December 14, 2016.

Thank you to all who joined us as we celebrated the artworks and cultural contributions of our Kindergarten – 8th Graders in the Waterford Area Schools. The turnout was spectacular. We counted over 250 people through the doors to see the drawings, paintings, prints, sculptures, assemblages, and other artworks by our young artists.

Special thanks to Representative, and senator-elect David Craig from the 83rd Assembly District and Ms. Vanessa Llanas, Senator Tammy Baldwin’s Southeastern Regional Representative for taking the time out of their busy schedules to join us. It’s support like all of yours that help the arts thrive in our schools and communities.

Our biggest word of thanks goes to our passionate and driven young artists who created the wonderful artworks in our gallery. Artists, continue to take chances, be innovators, and allow yourself to learn through trial and error that through all of this hard work, you’ll continue to make great art. Thank you artists.

Additionally, thank you Brett Roberts, one of our other Art Teachers here WUHS whose numerous  phone calls and emails helped pull this exhibition together. And Lisa Dukowitz, our Digital and Photography teacher for helping install and organize our exhibit. Finally, thank you to all of our Art Teachers who work tirelessly with our young artists as they teach persistence through the difficulties, reflection on the process, envisioning new ideas, and developing skills that help build confidence. Chris Watkins from Woodfield Elementary, Sarah Gilbert from Trailside Elementary, Katie Chapman at Evergreen Elementary, Rachel Bergman from Fox River Middle School, Erin Oehlke at Washington Caldwell, Jacob Walden from North Cape and Drought, and Wendy Mueller at St. Thomas Aquinas School.

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#Midweek #Wednesday – #Grids and #Portraits and #Canvas and #Paint

#90 “You can condense, but you cannot simplify.” —Ann Lauterbach, personal conversation: The world is infinitely complex, and any attempt to simplify, which means the elimination of contradictory elements, will fail to capture that complexity. One can, however, attempt to compress or condense those elements into a more abbreviated or altered form. That is the role of metaphor. Kit White 101 Things to Learn in Art School

Studio Art 360: Grids on the Canvas and the Drawing and Transfer it up to the Canvas

OK – SCULPTURES – TAKE THEM HOME – Sorry… Decide who wants it. Garbage (Circle File) after today.

 Why (again) is it important for an artist to choose colors CAREFULLY as they are developing a composition / artwork? What might the RIGHT colors for YOU and your PORTRAIT be in this artwork?

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Andy Warhol – Portrait of Chairman Mao: http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/citi/images/standard/WebLarge/WebImg_000337/4396_4001158.jpg

Review with neighbors the relationships of the colors on the color wheel? When you look in your closet… what COLORS do you think you have the most of hanging? Why do you think that you have more of that color than others? Will these colors be in the portrait? 

 

OUR MEASUREMENTS for the GRID on CANVAS!

1 3/8″, 2 3/4″, 4 1/8″, 5 1/2″, 6 7/8″, 8 1/4″, 9 5/8″, 11″, 12 3/8″

PORTRAITS are HERE!

SKETCHBOOK TUESDAY – FOR NEXT TUESDAY: Using a camera ON YOUR OWN TIME THIS WEEK – RECREATE a famous painting, sculpture, drawing… Print out the photograph that you have created and also include the famous work of art that you were inspired by. Here are a few examples: Student Examples: https://goo.gl/Tvwv4X

PAINTING: Making Plans? Got your Photo?

ASSIGNED DATES ON THE SAW – You’re ALL getting a day! Canvas BUILT by Friday!

How are you coming along in the process of the painting construction? What is a benefit that you can see in learning how to build a canvas?

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Portrait from contemporary artist Zhang. http://www.whiterockgallery.com/JPEGs/Zhang/learningmoment-a-12×16-Donna_Zhang.jpg

While there are MANY advantages to the building, what is a disadvantage to the building of a canvas?

DRAWING: Fauvists and YOU!

Take a look at your previous day’s work – 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 (value) to better define the ideas of form (in the face especially)?

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What was the most challenging way to draw? Why was this most difficult way to go? What is most important about drawing when it comes to observation?  Madame Matisse: 

AP STUDIO ART: Concentration 3rd of 3

You are beginning your 3rd set of 3 today. What are you doing to move your work forward?

Letters to our AUTHORS – Put your letter in THIS DOCUMENT. I will finish the spacing and page separations. Please do this today so we can gather the info and mail it out by Friday. Thanks.

How are your WEBSITES? Still some ZERO’s out there.

Do you need to update your ONLINE presence? Have you updated your BREADTH site to accommodate your two most recent works?

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Halfway through the week and MONDAY will be with us soon. I am PROUD of the accomplishments – a lot of alone time. What ONE BIG things worked out for you today? 

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#Tuesday and #TooMuchToDo in the #ArtStudio

#90 “You can condense, but you cannot simplify.” —Ann Lauterbach, personal conversation: The world is infinitely complex, and any attempt to simplify, which means the elimination of contradictory elements, will fail to capture that complexity. One can, however, attempt to compress or condense those elements into a more abbreviated or altered form. That is the role of metaphor. Kit White 101 Things to Learn in Art School

Studio Art 360: Grids on the Canvas and the Drawing and Transfer it up to the Canvas

THE RULER GAME!

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http://www.markgreenbergphotography.com/images/warhol/andy_warhol_01.jpg

OUR MEASUREMENTS for the GRID on CANVAS!

1 3/8″, 2 3/4″, 4 1/8″, 5 1/2″, 6 7/8″, 8 1/4″, 9 5/8″, 11″, 12 3/8″

PORTRAITS are HERE!

SKETCHBOOK TUESDAY

FOR NEXT TUESDAY: Using a camera ON YOUR OWN TIME THIS WEEK – RECREATE a famous painting, sculpture, drawing… Print out the photograph that you have created and also include the famous work of art that you were inspired by. Here are a few examples: Student Examples: https://goo.gl/Tvwv4X

get done today to make REALLY GOOD PROGRESS so you are either DONE transferring the image or you have VERY LITTLE to do over the next two days at home or in study hall?

How many squares did you get transferred up to the canvas today? What are 2 things that make this an exciting for you or scary for you artwork? 

PAINTING: Making Plans? Got your Photo?

ASSIGNED DATES ON THE SAW – You’re ALL getting a day! Canvas BUILT by Friday!

What is one question you have about the process of building a canvas? Ask around and see if your classmates can help you resolve those questions before you begin to build.

What stage are you at in the process of building the canvas? How can you offer assistance in the process with your classmates.  http://ruthshively.com/

ASSIGNMENT Here

http://www.nancydusenberry.com/paintings.html

DRAWING: Fauvists and YOU!

What’s holding you back? What has propelled you forward in the process?

Are you taking pastels home? Where are you going to work on the drawing? What has been the HARDEST PART of the drawing?

AP STUDIO ART: Concentration 3rd of 3

While looking at your studiomates work, how do  you see the works needing to GROW? Do you see  yours growing?

What have you come up with? What materials are you planning on using? How does it fit into your current body of work? 

 

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9 Days until #Break! So much to do.

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Constantine Brancusi “Bird in Space” http://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ma/web-large/DT1326.jpg

#90 “You can condense, but you cannot simplify.” —Ann Lauterbach, personal conversation: The world is infinitely complex, and any attempt to simplify, which means the elimination of contradictory elements, will fail to capture that complexity. One can, however, attempt to compress or condense those elements into a more abbreviated or altered form. That is the role of metaphor. Kit White 101 Things to Learn in Art School

Studio Art 360: Grids on the Canvas and the Drawing and Transfer it up to the Canvas

THE RULER GAME!

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http://www.markgreenbergphotography.com/images/warhol/andy_warhol_01.jpg

OUR MEASUREMENTS for the GRID on CANVAS!

1 3/8″, 2 3/4″, 4 1/8″, 5 1/2″, 6 7/8″, 8 1/4″, 9 5/8″, 11″, 12 3/8″


PORTRAITS are HERE!

Looking at the portrait of yourself that you have created a tracing of, what portion of the face do you feel is going to be the most challenging to transfer ONE SQUARE AT A TIME and WHY?

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Andy Warhol: http://www.warhol.org/uploadedImages/Warhol_Site/Warhol/Content/Education/Resources_and_Lessons/Aesthetics_Unit/Images/04162012_EDU_Andy-Warhol-Self-Portrait-1964_large.jpg

How many squares did you get transferred up to the canvas today? COUNT THEM and do some math. 88 squares minus what you got done today… this is what you have left. How much more for this week? 

What part of the process of tracing and transferring the image up to the canvas did you struggle with? Name 2 things that were challenging.

PAINTING: Making Plans? Got your Photo?

ASSIGNED DATES ON THE SAW – You’re ALL getting a day! Canvas BUILT by Friday!

ASSIGNMENT Here

 

What is the color scheme you have chosen for you composition? Please explain WHY you are headed that direction and THEN explain it to a classmate.

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“Harold Pinter” Justin Mortimer: http://images.npg.org.uk/264_325/3/7/mw08237.jpg

What is the ONE big challenge you will have in the process of building a canvas? What are TWO strengths in the planning of your painting?

http://www.nancydusenberry.com/paintings.html

DRAWING: Fauvists and YOU!

 

Take a HARD LOOK AT YOUR DRAWING and determine what you need to focus on in the next 46 minutes. WRITE IT OUT!

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Alexi Von Jawlenski: Spaniard with Red Scarf: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/b3/4c/85/b34c85e0db5e975eab91b6b6d3dfd0f4.jpg

What did you accomplish with your drawing today? Are there aspects of your goal at the beginning of the hour that you accomplished? Didn’t accomplish? Why? Explain.

AP STUDIO ART: Crit – Figure Drawing then the Concentration AGAIN!

 

On your GALLERY Images: “Title,” Your Name, Height” x Width”, Medium, Year. DO THIS NOW so it is EASIER in May. I am disappointed that Friday came and went and some are NOT done. Zero’s are SET, you can earn points again later…

As you look at the work in front of you, what element / principle stands out in your ARTWORK? What have you taken away from this process of OBSERVATION and REWORKING the ideas in your drawing? How can you use these ideas as you move forward in your CONCENTRATION?

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Calvin and Hobbes Critiquing Art. http://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Calvins-artists-statement.jpg

What did working on the figure drawing do for you in the process of developing /  articulating yourself through your artwork?

 

 

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#Friday. FINALLY

/4#78 Self-portraiture has a long and storied history. It is something that most artists undertake in their training. It can yield great revelations of character and technique as in Rembrandt, van Gogh, and Bacon. It will succeed or fail based on its interest as an image. Try to judge it as an image, not as a mirror. Kit White 101 Things to Learn in Art School.

Studio Art 360: Grids on the Canvas and the Drawing

How is BREAKING the image down to basic shapes going to make the process of creating a memorable and successful work of art easier?

THE RULER GAME!

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http://www.markgreenbergphotography.com/images/warhol/andy_warhol_01.jpg

OUR MEASUREMENTS for the GRID on CANVAS!

1 3/8″, 2 3/4″, 4 1/8″, 5 1/2″, 6 7/8″, 8 1/4″, 9 5/8″, 11″, 12 3/8″

What challenges did you have today with the transferring of the portrait up to the canvas? Two struggles?
PORTRAITS are HERE!

What do you think the PROCESS is going to be in how we DUPLICATE the image over to the canvas? What colors are you considering for the portrait?

What part of the process of tracing and transferring the image up to the canvas did you struggle with? Name 2 things that were challenging.

Check out the photos from the UWM Field Trip: https://goo.gl/lmmiu9

PAINTING: Making Plans? Got your Photo?

ASSIGNMENT Here

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?

Vermeer – Details of pearls

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?

Reginald Baylor Portrait

DRAWING: Fauvists and YOU!

What is successful in your artwork? What is the color scheme you are using? Share this with your neighbor.

“Henri Matisse” Andre Derain – Fauvism

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

Copy and Paste your LETTERS to the ADVENTURE! authors in THIS DOCUMENT so I have ONE FINAL DOCUMENT. I can go through to make small changes, but make sure you COPY AND PASTE your FINAL LETTER INTO THIS DOCUMENT. Thanks.

Look at the series of works 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?

What did taking an entire minute away from your drawings do for you? Harder? Easier? What did you have to do DIFFERENTLY? 

REMEMBER -ASSIGNMENT FOR FRIDAY! THAT’S THE DUE DATE! ON YOUR OWN! NO QUESTIONS ASKED! You will have the 2 questions about your AP Concentration written – AND PROOFED by a classmate – and then pasted into the CONCENTRATION Portion of your pages. ALSO – You will have a GALLERY of 6 images FROM YOUR CONCENTRATION ITSELF uploaded to the CONCENTRATION PAGE. As a BONUS – you will have up to 6 and no fewer than 3 BREADTH works on your breadth page… I might be making some changes to these pages as we move along so… be prepared to LISTEN CAREFULLY and FOLLOW MY INSTRUCTIONS – I am hoping to streamline the process.

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#Thursday in the #ArtStudio – FUN!

#78 Self-portraiture has a long and storied history. It is something that most artists undertake in their training. It can yield great revelations of character and technique as in Rembrandt, van Gogh, and Bacon. It will succeed or fail based on its interest as an image. Try to judge it as an image, not as a mirror. Kit White 101 Things to Learn in Art School

Bell Schedule for Thurs. 12/8

1 hour          7:25 – 8:02
2 hour          8:07 –  8:46
3 hour          8:51 – 9:28
4 hour          9:33 – 10:10
Assembly    10:15- 11:10
5A lunch      11:10- 11:40
5B lunch      11:40 – 12:10
5C lunch      12:10 – 12:40
6 hour          12:45 – 1:22
7 hour          1:27 –   2:04
8 hour          2:09 –   2:46

STUDIO ART 360: PORTRAITS and HERE WE GO!

PORTRAITS are HERE!

What do you think the PROCESS is going to be in how we DUPLICATE the image over to the canvas? What colors are you considering for the portrait?

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Grid with Chuck Close – How are we doing it? Yep! http://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/portraits/chuck_close/chuck-close-working-self-portrait.jpg

What part of the process of tracing and transferring the image up to the canvas did you struggle with? Name 2 things that were challenging.

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Alex Katx: http://images.tate.org.uk/sites/default/files/images/alex_katz_self-portrait_with_sunglasses__0.jpg

Check out the photos from the UWM Field Trip last week: https://goo.gl/lmmiu9

PAINTING: Making Plans? Got your Photo?

ASSIGNMENT Here – RESEARCH today!

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?

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Details in Oil and Collage: http://www.mauradibartolo.com/uploads/2/6/1/2/26123522/4419634_orig.jpg

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?

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Jill Millward – I’m buying a work of hers! Woo Hoo! https://jillmillwardartworkdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/eowyn_lores.jpg?w=924

DRAWING: Fauvists and YOU!

Take a look at your previous week’s works – 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 and color to better define the ideas of form (in the face especially)?

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Matisse – Fauvism! http://www.craftsy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/498px-Henri_Matisse_Self-Portrait_in_a_Striped_T-shirt_1906.jpg

What was the most challenging part for you to draw that you LEARNED the most from? Why was this most difficult way to go and how do you see the LEARNING? What is most important about drawing when it comes to observation?

AP STUDIO ART: Figure Drawing

How did you struggle with the drawing from yesterday? What do you see as TWO benefits from learning how to GESTURE DRAW?

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Van Gogh: http://www.vangoghgallery.com/catalog/image/1649r/Sheet-with-Numerous-Figure-Sketches.jpg

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!” 

REMEMBER -ASSIGNMENT FOR FRIDAY! THAT’S THE DUE DATE! ON YOUR OWN! NO QUESTIONS ASKED! You will have the 2 questions about your AP Concentration written – AND PROOFED by a classmate – and then pasted into the CONCENTRATION Portion of your pages. ALSO – You will have a GALLERY of 6 images FROM YOUR CONCENTRATION ITSELF uploaded to the CONCENTRATION PAGE. As a BONUS – you will have up to 6 and no fewer than 3 BREADTH works on your breadth page… I might be making some changes to these pages as we move along so… be prepared to LISTEN CAREFULLY and FOLLOW MY INSTRUCTIONS – I am hoping to streamline the process.