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#VanGogh at the #ArtInstituteOfChicago – MAY 4

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Van Gogh’s Bedroom at Arles – Chicago Art Institute: http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/citi/images/standard/WebMedium/WebImg_000287/219031_3428458.jpg

Drawing, AP Studio Art, Independent Art Students, Advanced Drawing  – ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO FIELD TRIP!

  • OTHER: Cap of 45 Students
  • Where: Art Institute of Chicago
  • When: May 4, 2016
  • Why: ART- Van Gogh Bedrooms Exhibit – and Chicago!
  • Time: Leave at 7:30AM – Return around 5PM
  • Cost: $16.00 + Lunch Money and Spending Money (Entrance to Show, Cost of Bus)

Drawing: PORTRAITS!

NEW PAGE on KORB’s Website: Facial Features!

Max Pechstein: Self Portrait with Pipe and Hat: http://uploads2.wikiart.org/images/max-pechstein/self-portrait-with-pipe-and-hat-1918.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.
  • How are the colors working for you? Look carefully at the LAYERING of your colors and how you are considering the FAUVIST approach? Talk about 2 things you are LEARNING about the use of COLOR in an artwork OR 2 things you are learning about the use of SOFT PASTELS that you will remember throughout the drawing.

Reflection:  What areas are you working on? Background? Foreground? ENTIRE GROUND?

Studio Art 360: Bas Relief Sculpture / Sculpture in the Round

Ed Hamilton Sculpture: http://www.trbimg.com/img-51a55626/turbine/dp-nws-newportnews-mlk-art-0529-20130528-001/600/600×450

Goals:

  • 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
  • If today is your last day to RESOLVE your sculpture – what (SPECIFICALLY) do you have to focus on to make it YOUR BEST WORK? “TODAY I am going to focus on __________ so that my social message is crystal clear.”

Reflection: What was the biggest challenge you had with using clay and creating a three dimensional artwork. Of the different techniques (additive, subtractive, manipulation) what caused you the most challenge? 

AP Studio Art: To the Best of Our Knowledge – Listen to the Show!

Katie Musolf: https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cc406-heatheroncouch2007.jpg

Goals:

  • 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.
  • As you begin this process, what are the challenges you are facing? How are you GATHERING IMAGES / RESEARCH for this work. This week and next week.

Reflection: Three things you were challenged with today. PLEASE LIST them and then think about them… how are you going to work through the challenges?

Advanced Drawing: Skeleton – Shared Album HERE

Let’s Draw! http://i.ytimg.com/vi/R44Pe3sxDv8/maxresdefault.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • Figure Drawing is ESSENTIAL to the strong portfolio. Why do you feel that every artist should have a strong background in the world of figure drawing?

Reflection: How did your drawing challenge you today? Are you able to be focused on the figure for the period? Why do you stop short if you do?

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#MidWeek – Let’s #Work – 4 Ways To #Learn

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Van Gogh’s Bedroom at Arles – Chicago Art Institute: http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/citi/images/standard/WebMedium/WebImg_000287/219031_3428458.jpg

Drawing, AP Studio Art, Independent Art Students, Advanced Drawing  – ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO FIELD TRIP!

  • OTHER: Cap of 45 Students
  • Where: Art Institute of Chiocago
  • When: May 4, 2016
  • Why: ART- Van Gogh Bedrooms Exhibit – and Chicago!
  • Time: Leave at 7:30AM – Return around 5PM
  • Cost: $16.00 + Lunch Money and Spending Money (Entrance to Show, Cost of Bus)

Drawing: PORTRAITS!

NEW PAGE on KORB’s Website: Facial Features!

Kehinde Wiley: https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/8c85f-dee-and-ricky-by-kehinde-wiley.png

Goals:

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.
  • REVIEW the beginning stages of your portrait. What is standing out as successful? What is standing out as needing resolving COMPOSITIONALLY? Now is the time to FIX the issues.

Reflection:  What do you need to look at tomorrow and think about – fix, change, clean up? WRITE THAT DOWN and make sure you deal with that first thing tomorrow!

Studio Art 360: Sketchbook

Ed Hamilton: http://edhamiltonworks.com/bas-relief.htm  http://edhamiltonworks.com/images/from_the_other_side/confinement_series_no_1_f.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
  • What was your FAVORITE or LEAST FAVORITE part of working with clay. Please tell me WHY you LOVE or DON’T LOVE using this material. Please be specific.

Reflection: What do you see as needing to be RESOLVED for the end of the project TOMORROW? Know that it is the LAST day to work. PAUSE 10 minutes before the end of class.

AP Studio Art: To the Best of Our Knowledge – Listen to the Show!

Mike Dretzka http://www.dretzkastudio.com/images/025.jpg

Goals:

  • 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.
  • What are you thinking about in the work you are going to begin? Materials? Poses? Ideas about the work? Mug Shot? Action Shot? Portrait? Figurative Work? I am leaving this up to you! I WANT you to work on the idea of a portrait though…

Reflection: What have been your first marks – ideas you are making in the idea of the portrait?

Advanced Drawing: Skeleton – Shared Album HERE

DRAW! Figure! http://www.toa.edu.my/aboutus/gfx/facilities/life_b.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • What is it about the figure that you are still uncertain about? The Drawings are ALL ABOUT LOOKING and I expect you to be working and FOCUSED 100% of the time.  

Reflection:  What aspect of the drawing do you find successful? Why?

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#ArtInSession #FigureDrawing and #Sketchbooks!

 

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Drawing: PORTRAITS!

NEW PAGE on KORB’s Website: Facial Features!

Henri Matisse – Portrait of person in chair: http://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ma/web-large/DT1777.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.
  • Knowing that we are looking at today’s culture through the use of the photograph and the idea of the contemporary individual in society.  You may need to choose a DOMINANT COLOR Scheme to emphasize an emotion… what emotion might you choose in your drawing?

Reflection:  What was the most challenging aspect of your drawing to get done today? How are you using OBSERVATION to get your drawings set up correctly?

Studio Art 360: Sketchbook

Texture – and you thought you were done with it… https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/frottage.jpg?w=620

Goals:

  • 10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.
  • We looked at Vincent Van Gogh’s Nests last week. DID you use a REFERENCE in the process of drawing or did you “wing” it? What made using a reference helpful? 3 sentences to explain.

Reflection: What three things can you do / are you going to do to to enhance your sketchbook drawing for next week’s grade? Look at and work with image from assignment sheet!

AP Studio Art: To the Best of Our Knowledge – Listen to the Show!

Ben Slow: http://api.ning.com/files/kV4MbYiv7oQ1gfHsnmrCmFsEZg8c8*Jz8GI4Ig9pU8jSXX7nmQJU4RjUM7o5PYWWJMxoepAqsFttdoMe8gSs4Wviz0BU9Xj2/1082064526.jpeg

Goals:

  • 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.
  • Now that you have the list of questions from your contribution and your classmates – is there ONE MORE QUESTION that you feel would make the PERFECT INTERVIEW? Write it on page 22. Then onto the sheet of perfect questions.

Reflection: What NEW information did you learn about your classmate today? What are your first ideas about making a portrait of your classmate?

Advanced Drawing: Skeleton – Shared Album HERE

LOOK CAREFULLY! http://artdivision.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Drawing-Class.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • Beginning with the warm ups, how do you think MORE time to draw will make it a STRONGER drawing?  I worry that the extra time makes you slow down in the beginning of the process and thus SLOW DOWN and not get as much quality done in the END process… Explain your thoughts.

Reflection:  Look carefully at your drawing from today… what’s the STRONGEST part of it? WHY?

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@TTBOOK1 #Portriats and #Figure Drawing and #Sculpture #ART

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“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good…” Ira Glass – Radio Host, This American Life

Drawing: PORTRAITS!

NEW PAGE on KORB’s Website: Facial Features!

Kehinde Wiley and his works: http://images.nymag.com/arts/art/rules/art120430_rule6_1_560.jpg

Goals:

  • 6.1Ac: Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history.
  • What do you feel is an aspect of your composition that you might struggle with (but will resolve in your preliminary drawings?

Reflection: What was the most challenging aspect of your drawing to get done today? How are you using OBSERVATION and COMPARISON – sighting in – to get your drawings set up correctly? 

Studio Art 360: Clay

Detail of a FINISHED WORK! Ed Hamilton: http://edhamiltonworks.com/images/lincoln/bas_relief/north%20and%20south%20no.%202_detail.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
  • What portions of your sculpture do you see as ADDITIVE, SUBTRACTIVE, and MANIPULATIVE? Describe in DETAIL the areas – use imagery as descriptors. MID-CRIT with the RUBRIC.

Reflection: What was the biggest challenge you had with using clay and creating a three dimensional artwork – PAUSE 10 minutes before the end of class.

AP Studio Art: To the Best of Our Knowledge – Listen to the Show!

Molly Crabapple – Artist and topic of TTBooK: http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1793137/images/n-MOLLY-CRABAPPLE-628×314.jpg

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.
  • If you were to want to get to know someone better, what are a few questions that you would ask? Not superficial questions, but the kind of question that really helps you get to know someone… Please log onto THIS DOCUMENT and enter your question. 

Reflection: What are you thinking about after we have spent another day listening to a radio show about making art?

Advanced Drawing: Skeleton – Shared Album HERE

Edgar Degas Drawing – http://www.frenchdrawings.org/images/hpt/1950.12.659.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • What was successful in the series of drawings you did yesterday? How did the STRONGEST DRAWING stand out among the rest of them? Mark making? Line? Variation?

Reflection: Next week – LONGER FIGURE DRAWINGS – What are 3 STRENGTHS you had today? What is the BIGGEST CHALLENGE you faced today? 

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#Friday as we #MakeArt – Are you working on it this weekend? I AM

REMEMBER THIS FOLKS! http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/ij/images/imagination_einstein.gif

Drawing: PORTRAITS!

NEW PAGE on KORB’s Website: Facial Features!

Self Portrait with Cap – Andre Derain: Another Fauvist. http://uploads7.wikiart.org/images/andre-derain/self-portrait-with-a-cap.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • What is the most interesting part of your composition? WHY? What is the color scheme, based on your Henri Matisse image you are using? Share this with you neighbor and see if they agree.

Reflection: 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.

Studio Art 360: Clay

Detail of Ed Hamilton’s Sculpture. WEBSITE HERE. http://edhamiltonworks.com/images/lincoln/bas_relief/slave_10_detail.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
  • What has been, or do you see as going to be, your FAVORITE or LEAST FAVORITE part of working with clay. Please explain WHY you LOVE or DON’T LOVE using this material. Please be specific.

Reflection: What do you see as needing to be RESOLVED for the end of the project TOMORROW? Know that it is the LAST day to work. PAUSE 10 minutes before the end of class. 

AP Studio Art: Portfolio

How are you looking at the difference between the HARD WORK you are using versus the “talent” that so many others think is there? http://joel.franusic.com/assets/img/art-and-fear-page-26.jpg

Goals:

  • 4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
  • After our AP Test we are going to present an art exhibition in the gallery. We will mount 3 of the BEST works you have remaining. Please think about those works… which of them are you going to use to represent you?

Reflection: Are you ready for the AP Exam? We have spend the ENTIRE week – that’s onbly 5 hours – working on developing the quality, concentration, and breadth portfolio of works. NEXT WEEK – we MAKE art. Will you be ready for the AP Exam? How about OUR AP Webpage?

Advanced Drawing: Skeleton – Shared Album HERE

Hands and Feet: THIS WEEK – FOR NEXT WEEKS SKETCH – Finish ALL of your body part drawings… and then – do something ELSE with ONE of them to make it REALLY STRONG as a composition. http://corewalking.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/FITZ_december24_2011_grasping-at-straws-1024×510.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • Hands and feet are challenging – what is going to be challenging about these aspects to make them believable – one doesn’t want to draw mittens and socks in the place of hands and feet.

Reflection: How will you use the knowledge of the shapes and joints to help you make the proportions CORRECT? Give some technique and ideas in your answer.

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#WhatHappened? I #Failed to post on time…

REMEMBER THIS FOLKS! http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/ij/images/imagination_einstein.gif

Drawing: PORTRAITS!

NEW PAGE on KORB’s Website: Facial Features!

http://culturoid.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Andr%C3%A9-Derain-Henri-Matisse.jpeg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • What is successful in your artwork? What is the color scheme you are using? Share this with your neighbor.

Reflection: 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.

Studio Art 360: Clay

Ed Hamilton Site. http://edhamiltonworks.com/images/lincoln/bas_relief/slaves_detail.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
  • How does working in three-dimensions make you think differently about the making of art than working on the collage (2D work) did?

Reflection: What are you seeing in the works of others that you find successful? What are they doing that YOU could learn from? PAUSE 10 minutes before the end of class. GIVE COMMENTS on the sticky note in front of their work.

AP Studio Art: Portfolio

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Goals:

  • 4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
  • Choose TWO of the QUALITY works and describe differences you see in the skills you are representing.

Reflection: By choosing the 5 BEST works you have made is important in presenting your skills to an AP reading board, how do you see this as a larger life skill in presenting yourself in the best possible light? 

Advanced Drawing: Skeleton – Shared Album HERE

http://drawingacademy.com/images/drawings/Shoulder-and-Arm-16-3-by-Drawing-Academy.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • Back to the LONG BONE of the FEMUR – How can you use your understanding of the BONES of the ARMS and LEGS to help you make sure the DRAWING work – Look at the bending portions of the leg and arm… REALLY LOOK.  

Reflection: How will you use the knowledge of the shapes and joints to help you make the proportions CORRECT? Give some technique and ideas in your answer.

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#Wednesday MidWeek… #ArtStudio

REMEMBER THIS FOLKS! http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/ij/images/imagination_einstein.gif

Drawing: PORTRAITS!

NEW PAGE on KORB’s Website: Facial Features!

 

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

Goals:

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

Reflection: 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?

Studio Art 360: Clay

Early Sketches in Clay – STARTED ON PAPER! Ed Hamilton http://edhamiltonworks.com/images/lincoln/bas_relief/slave_9_whole.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
  • What challenges did you have in getting started last week on Friday with the clay? REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS ARTWORK: Subtractive, Additive, and Manipulation to the clay. These techniques are REQUIRED in the FINAL Sculpture.

Reflection: What was the largest accomplishment you have in today’s work? EXPLAIN why it was an accomplishment.

AP Studio Art: Portfolio

What are you PROCEEDING with? https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/1e2ed-b2526oquotewomat-402525.jpg

Goals:

  • 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 3 things that one of the 5 QUALITY works you’ve chosen do to represent the visual art abilities that you possess?

Reflection: When it comes to the making of art, what have you learned in the class about that part of being an artist?

Advanced Drawing: Skeleton – Shared Album HERE

Pelvis – TODAY’s Focus:  https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/a3/14/37/a31437c011c8617346bbbd7426bd52bd.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • How can you use another part of the body to help you determine the height and width of the pelvic area as you are drawing the human form? Where and how will you use measurements to help?

Reflection: When you look at the form of the figure today, how have you succeeded with the drawing of the form? What techniques / approaches have you used?

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#Tuesday in the #ArtStudio

REMEMBER THIS FOLKS! http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/ij/images/imagination_einstein.gif

Drawing: PORTRAITS!

NEW PAGE on KORB’s Website: Facial Features!

http://kehindewiley.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/KW-PA12-010-Saint-Denis.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art
  • Having looked through Matisse’s Portraits – How are you going to use the ideas of Kehinde Wiley and APPROPRIATING COMPOSITION to develop the ideas for your self portrait?

Reflection: How have you progressed with the use of photography and the Henri Matisse images to help you develop your understanding of composition and contemporary art? What do you think you are doing to develop the ideas of the late 1800’s and early 1900’s into the early 2000’s?

Studio Art 360: Clay

SKETCHBOOK DUE 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

Bird’s Nest – Van Gogh: http://www.vangoghgallery.com/catalog/image/JH0943/Bird’s-Nest.jpg

Goals:

  • G: 10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.
  • Who was your artist for this week? What did you ENJOY about the process of creating a vignette of the painting, sculpture, photograph, etc? What was CHALLENGING – HOW?. 3 – 5 sentences to explain

Reflection: What three things can you do / are you going to do to to enhance your sketchbook drawing for next week’s grade? Look at and work with image from assignment sheet!

AP Studio Art: Portfolio

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Goals:

  • 4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
  • Get out your AP question answers… What are three things that stand out in your written answers that help the reader really understand the body of work that they are looking at.

Reflection: What did you get done today? If you step back from your 5 Quality works, what stands out as “DEVELOPMENT?” 

Advanced Drawing: Skeleton – Shared Album HERE

Ah – DaVinci! https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/ac/9f/78/ac9f782791c2cbcda3790b2fa73ddb7c.jpg Reflection:

Goals:

  • 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 will be most difficult about the TORSO portion of the body to draw? Why is this so?

Reflection: On the yellow sticky notes, go through the studio and write out one aspect of your classmates drawing that seems CORRECT. Explain why too. 

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Happy #Monday – Time to #DRAW! #Preliminary #Sketches for #Sculpture

REMEMBER THIS FOLKS! http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/ij/images/imagination_einstein.gif

Drawing: PORTRAITS!

NEW PAGE on KORB’s Website: Facial Features!

http://www.artionado.com/Matisse/Images/Matisse/Matisse-Green-stripe.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • Take a look at your previous week’s works – where did you struggle? How do you use the ideas of chiaroscuro to better define the ideas of form?

Reflection: 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?

Studio Art 360: Clay

SKETCHBOOK DUE 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

Bas Relief of Abraham Lincoln: Ed Hamillton http://edhamiltonworks.com/images/lincoln/bas_relief/bas_relief_young_lincoln.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
  • What challenges did you have in getting started last week on Friday with the clay? REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS ARTWORK: Subtractive, Additive, and Manipulation to the clay. These techniques are REQUIRED in the FINAL Sculpture.
  • ALSO – Let’s Look at the DRAWINGS of Henry Moore Sculpture Ideas – HERE

Reflection: What was the largest success you have in today’s work? Take a look at the rest of the classes work BEFORE we clean up. PAUSE 10 minutes before the end of class.

AP Studio Art: Portfolio

What are you going to FILL THIS WITH? http://www.artfire.com/uploads/product/5/695/17695/5417695/5417695/large/red_rope_paper_portfolio-23_x31_x2__503c5e7a.jpg

Goals:

  • 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 the best works you have in your portfolio and how do they represent the abilities that you possess? What have you said about the works that you have uploaded as your concentration?

Reflection: As last week – what do you need to complete so that you have a complete portfolio by Friday? List the them. Online too. Please REREAD your answers to the two AP online questions and review them for tomorrow. REALLY!

Advanced Drawing: Skeleton

Jim Dine in Madison with his “Skull” how can WE use the ideas of the skeleton to make our work stronger? http://news.wisc.edu/story_images/8672/large/Chazen_sculpture14_3751.JPG?1400081186

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • What is the longest bone in the body? How can you use your understanding of the figure to HELP you figure out proportions AS you are drawing?

Reflection: What aspect of the skull did you draw today that can help you understand the drawing of the head as you move forward in the idea of figure drawing? 

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#Friday in the #ArtStudio

“Remember, all the answers you need are inside of you; you only have to become quiet enough to hear them.” — Debbie Ford

Mr Korb’s Spring Break Photographs HERE!

Drawing: PORTRAITS!

NEW PAGE on KORB’s Website: Facial Features!

Vincent Van Gogh Portrait: How’s YOUR’s going? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Vincent_Willem_van_Gogh_102.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.
  • Of ALL the features that you draw / relationships that you learned / ideas you have gained… what is something that you are still struggling with – are no LONGER struggling with – have learned… what is it and what about it? 

Reflection: How was the final drawing in the past 40 minutes? What did you accomplish successfully? What did you struggle with?

Studio Art 360: Clay

SKETCHBOOK DUE 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

http://www.kiplingerpandy.com/_Media/bas-relief_tut47.jpeg

Goals:

  • 7.1P: Hypothesize ways in which art influences perception and understanding of human experiences.
  • What are three textures you are going to have to interpret into your BAS – RELIEF sculpture from your collage?
    • Slide Show Link Here 
    • Photos of Collages HERE

Reflection: How are you going to keep the clay from drying out over the weekend? What techniques are REALLY important to be using to make sure any ADDITIVE clay really HOLD TIGHT to the clay you are adding it to?

AP Studio Art: Mounting Work

How easy is this? https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/ma6.jpg

Goals:

  • 4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
  • Choose one of the BEST works that you have in your collection… This is going to be the FIRST of your QUALITY works that we are MOUNTING for the portfolio. What is it about the work that makes it STAND OUT FROM the others as one of the BEST works?

Reflection: How does framing up the work raise the level of quality (visually) of your work? What does it to to make it more “finished?”

Advanced Drawing: Gesture

How can you use the GESTURE to create a unique and genuine drawing?  http://www.studentartguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/line-drawings-wang-tzu-ting.jpg

Goals:

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

Reflection: Next week – LONGER FIGURE DRAWINGS – Be aware of the challenges you faced today? What was the BIGGEST CHALLENGE you faced today in the drawing?