Drawing class at Waterford Union High School has begun the final work for the semester… for the year! The kids are developing a TRULY collaborative set of works of art based on the ideas of Todd Mrozinski and his body of works. Starting with the ideas of a shadow, the students are going to be tracing one another’s cast shadow as well as the cast shadow from a plant (or other organic object) and hopefully, if time allows, a human made object that is important to the individual artist whose portrait is being drawn. Working then in soft or oil pastels the young artists will be choosing a color scheme to render the works up. Dealing with the ideas of the diptych or triptych the art will represent the emotions and personality of the sitter. The ideas that have been shared in the studio began with my simple introduction to Todd Mrozinski’s work (seen below – website HERE) and have grown and grown with each passing moment of studio time.
The challenges of the day NOT being sunny helped make the students think outside of the normal cast shadow ideas and being required to work together has given them one another to bounce ideas off of. My drawing class from last year worked through this idea and I am excited to see the ideas of positive and negative space as well as the thoughts of color schemes and compositional choices happen.
Enjoy the images of the first couple days of progress.
Special thanks to Todd Mrozinski and Frank Juarez for the idea and connection.
“Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.” — John Andrew Holmes
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
Looking at yesterday – Thursday – What’s happening in the IDEAS that we started? It was a lot of experimentation – what new ideas that you are thinking about using for your and your partners work? Seriously – what’s interesting and strong about the ideas in your work?
Reflection: What are you taking home this week this weekend? Why is it important to make strides and visual accomplishments in this drawing for you? TWO REASONS!
7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
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!
Reflection: 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.
4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
What are three things that you would like to SPEAK about in regards to your work? How will you talk about the work to make your ideas clear and understandable to your classmates?
Reflection: Best part of the day? Why are you making SUCCESSFUL WORK? How is it YOUR VOICE inspired byt eh work of another?
4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
We have all talked today… Let’s get things rolling so that the day is productive. What are three things that you are planning on doing to get yourself started?
“Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.” — John Andrew Holmes
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
What TWO things do you want to accomplish today? These works are small enough to take home and work on. The color schemes and materials are easy enough to work on in and out of class. How are you going to make this one of the most interesting works you have completed?
Reflection: How have you advanced? What is ONE SPECIFIC ASPECT of your drawing that demonstrates your accomplishment?
3.1P: Apply relevant criteria from traditional and contemporary cultural contexts to examine, reflect on, and plan revisions for works of art and design in progress.
Looking at your color wheel and all you’ve got done… what are your biggest challenges with color blending and painting with acrylics? 3 ideas NOW!
Reflection: Tomorrow we begin on the portrait, what do you need to do to finish the transfer? The painting process will take 2 weeks – GET READY for tomorrow!
4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
Best part of yesterday? Plans for today? how’s it coming?
Reflection: 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?
4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
Best part of yesterday? Plans for today? how’s it coming?
“Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.” — John Andrew Holmes
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
What is a color that POPS into your mind as you have spoken with and talked to your classmate? Why do you see that color as being something that represents them?
Reflection: What was ONE accomplishment you made today in the process of the drawing? How have you felt about the PROCESS and MEANING in the work?
3.1P: Apply relevant criteria from traditional and contemporary cultural contexts to examine, reflect on, and plan revisions for works of art and design in progress.
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?
Reflection: 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?
7.1Ad: Analyze how responses to art develop over time based on knowledge of and experience with art and life.
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?
Reflection: GO Get TO WORK!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?
Reflection: You had a lot to think about today… What did you take a away? Look at the ORIGINAL IDEAS and look at your NEW SERIES of works… what’s happening?
“Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.” — John Andrew Holmes
YOUR ASSIGNMENT – Team Up and have a CONVERSATION about each other – Likes / Dislikes, Favorite Colors, Favorite Hobbies (so you can have an object to bring in) types of PROFILES or Silhouettes that you may want to be working in / on / with… There is a lot that you might want to discuss BEFORE we begin the drawing process. Chose a partner – NOBODY is ALONE!
Reflection: What are three characteristics of your classmate that you think will be helpful to you in discovering a color scheme / ideas for compositions? Do you have an OBJECT that you can bring in tomorrow to be the third part of the triptych? BRING IT IN!
7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
How many squares do you need to 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?
Reflection: 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?
7.1Ad: Analyze how responses to art develop over time based on knowledge of and experience with art and life.
How has this last “concentration: challenging you? Working from OTHER’s work may be a new idea for you that is forcing you to think differently than you might have in the past. It is not JUST about your work – it is ALSO about their work.
Reflection: You had a lot to think about today… What did you take a away from the 1) conversation and then 2) WORK TIME?
7.1Ad: Analyze how responses to art develop over time based on knowledge of and experience with art and life.
How has this idea of a SERIES challenged you? Working from your own ideas may be a new idea for you as it comes to an art class in school… What is challenging? What are your FIRST IDEAS that came as we looked over the AP Concentration works yesterday?
“Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.” — John Andrew Holmes
7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
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?
Reflection: 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?
2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
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 HELP or CHALLENGE YOU?
Reflection: 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?
2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
What do you see as your strongest bit of growth over the past semester in the Advanced Drawing course? N: Read handout – look at concentration images from AP Site.
6.1Ac: Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history.
What is your reaction to the 1 works of art that is in front of you today. FIRST INITIAL REACTIONS! If you are done with your drawing – this is a day to WRAP up your written critique. If you are still drawing – you have a lot more on your plate in the critique end of things.
TODAY! We are going to 1) make photographs of the work we have RIGHT NOW and 2) go to the COMPUTER LAB (Laptops). Fill out the Google Form and then 3) insert images from today into the GOOGLE DOCUMENT.
1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
What is it that makes painting or the “slow arts” scary and intimidating and sometimes put people off from investing time and effort (signing up for class)? WHAT CAN I DO TO HELP ENCOURAGE OTHERS?
Reflection: What is working in the use of the GRID drawing? Name 2 things that are coming along EASILY for you in the process of the transfer?
2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
What do you think the skills that you currently have will help you in the process of the artwork?
Reflection: How does your drawing look in your own eyes? What are a few things that you are focusing on to be inspired by the work and not just COPY the work?
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.
How does the freedom of this work 1) put you at ease and 2) scare the heck out of you? N: Series of Artworks on your own. This is NEW and SCARY. Working on your own ENTIRELY! What can you do to start? Let’s sit and chat…
Reflection: What NEW ideas have you come up with today? What advances are you making? This is a FASTER work than you might be used to – WORK in and out of class to continue to resolve this image(s).
Communication and Collaboration – Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and to the learning of others.
What are two things that are successful in your artwork? What is one thing that you still need to work on in the drawing (or would change)? What is the color scheme you are using? Share this with your neighbor.
TODAY! We are going to 1) make photographs of the work we have RIGHT NOW and 2) go to the COMPUTER LAB (Laptops). Fill out the Google Form http://goo.gl/forms/3q3rPakz8m and then 3) insert images from today into the GOOGLE DOCUMENT.
Reflection: How do you feel that starting with a WRITTEN CRITIQUE can help you develop a stronger ORAL critique through the use of the GOOGLE FORM?
Studio Art 360: The Grid – Let’s Review…
Goals:
1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
How is BREAKING the image down to basic shapes going to make the process of creating a memorable and successful work of art easier?
Reflection: What challenges did you have today with the transferring of the portrait up to the canvas? Two struggles?
2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
Now that we are done with the AP Testing – time to move forward. Looking over the past year and the development of the works you created… what 2 skills did you develop and put into your Art Toolbox over the course of the year?
Reflection: How are you approaching the drawing in your own fashion?
4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
Having had a day or so away from the critique (and we will wrap up today I HOPE) what 1) observation and 2) Question would you like to make or receive about your work or another artist’s work?
Reflection: How will you carry the skills you have learned in this class forward as you create new and exciting works of art for yourself?
G: 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.
This is it folks – last day – Every square inch needs pastel. What’s holding you back? What has propelled you forward in the process? Alex von Jawlensky:
TOMORROW! We are going to 1) make photographs of the work we have RIGHT NOW and 2) go to the COMPUTER LAB (Laptops). Fill out the Google Form http://goo.gl/forms/3q3rPakz8m and then 3) insert images from today into the GOOGLE DOCUMENT.
Reflection: Are you taking pastels home? Where are you going to work on the drawing? What has been the HARDEST PART of the drawing?
2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
Now that we are done with the AP Testing – time to move forward. Looking over the past year and the development of the works you created… what 2 skills did you develop and put into your Art Toolbox over the course of the year?
Reflection: What FOUR works have you chosen for the AP / SENIOR Exhibition? Have you been able to get your works mounted yet? What do you need to demonstrate to others to help them along in the process?
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.
What do you have to do to complete today? What did you accomplish YESTERDAY that makes you pleased with your work and effort?
Reflection: What did you accomplish today in your work? Please take the time to write out three things that you are pleased with OR that you are struggling with – these should be things that you can or could share with Mr. Korb or your classmates.
1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.
Step back – yesterday you looked at the class work and got some feedback from them. Take a HARD LOOK AT YOUR DRAWING and determine what you need to focus on in the next 46 minutes. WRITE IT OUT!
NEXT WEEK we are going to 1) make photographs of the work we have RIGHT NOW and 2) go to the COMPUTER LAB (Laptops). Fill out the Google Form http://goo.gl/forms/3q3rPakz8m and then 3) insert images from today into the GOOGLE DOCUMENT.
Reflection: Are you taking pastels home? Where are you going to work on the drawing? What has been the HARDEST PART of the drawing?
7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
What is the emotional feeling that you are showing in your photograph / selfie? From all the color schemes, what color scheme best fits you?
Reflection: What 3 challenges do you see in the process of drawing out your face onto the tracing paper?
ASSIGNMENT FOR TODAY! – Bring in a FEW FULL FACE SELFIES – Black and White or Color – OR EMAIL them to me… This is the UPCOMING ASSIGNMENT Requirement…
4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
Share and REVIEW – EACH PERSON’S SITE and Mounted Works. What do you need to do before 7th Hour? Are you 100% Ready?
Reflection: No more reflection today. Are you done?
Advanced Drawing: Critique? Draw?
Goals:
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.
What do you have to do to complete your masterpiece drawings? How are you BEHIND? Are you up to speed?
Reflection: What did you accomplish today in your SKETCHBOOK TODAY? Are you working on your figure drawings tomorrow? What’s up? What do you need to accomplish?
Art With Korb 
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