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#MidWeek #Wednesday

“There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.”  —Og Mandino

Painting and Advanced Painting: Painting

a TREE? Come on Mondrian… really? http://www.theartstory.org/images20/works/mondrian_piet_2.jpg

Goals: 

  • 1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design
  • What are the relationships you are seeing in the beginnings of the space you are creating? How do you see the use of color as an important part of the conceptual / idea process?

Reflection / Evaluation: Looking at the space you have created, how do you describe the FEELING / EMOTION you have begun to create? Strong sense of space? Easy to “read” ideas? Give EXAMPLES – at least two.

Studio Art 360: Drawing Day – Value – Composition? How’s it going?

wHERE HAVE WE SEEN this BEFORE? http://labrouge.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/due-inglesi-al-mambo-studio-of-giorgio-morandi-bologna-labrouge.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.1P: Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.
  • Take a LONG HARD LOOK at your composition. What is happening with the FIGURE? The GROUND? The POSITIVE SPACE? The NEGATIVE SPACE?

Reflection / Evaluation: How have you worked today on the ideas of the positive and negative space? What are you doing to RESOLVE the image for tomorrow? 

AP Studio Art: Figure Drawing – OPEN CANVAS CALENDAR!

Egon Schiele – Portrait of a woman: http://41.media.tumblr.com/22b49a4976b8db4dee3bcb8251c13c7e/tumblr_nc1alj2wTD1tf9o16o1_1280.jpg
BIOGRAPHY of Egon Schiele: Portrait of the Artist’s Wife: http://40.media.tumblr.com/222209e5906fbb499767025a6f6c6ab2/tumblr_nc1aix04ue1tf9o16o1_1280.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 challenges did you face yesterday when it came to the 5 minute drawings we did on large paper? How can you see one of these drawings as becoming the underpinnings of a final artwork?

Reflection / Evaluation: Looking at the rubric from the AP Site – how are you working / thinking about hitting the level 6 marks? What do you do SPECIFICALLY to match one of them (or not match one of them).

Drawing: Oil Pastels Kandinsky and Shapes! MID CRIT – Look at the RUBRIC

Goals:

  • 7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
  • What techniques are working for you in this work? How will you talk about the the struggles and successes you are having?

Reflection / Evaluation: What did you LEARN about your work or that of your classmates from today’s critique?

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#SketchbookTuesday is HERE! StArt360 – #Enjoy

“There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.”  —Og Mandino

Painting and Advanced Painting: Hallway Drawing / Painting

How has MONDRIAN changed his TREE over time? https://educar.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/mondrian-red-tree-s.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design
  • Does the use of LINE become a DOMINANT element in your artwork or are you seeing other elements as coming to the forefront of the composition? Explain your thoughts about the DOMINANT ideas.

Reflection / Evaluation: What color scheme have you begun to think about? Why? how does it DESCRIBE YOUR feelings toward the SIMPLIFICATION of the SPACE / SURROUNDINGS / COLOR? 

Studio Art 360: Sketchbook Day! Doodle Day and Don’t Be Dumb – Thanks Josh and Chuck!

http://cbsnews2.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/2014/01/19/98f30fc1-9cbe-4b1f-949d-79f76b6bcd83/4bee9cd5f388a27cb54d3dd31a98d0df/Andy%20Silton%20doodle%20244.jpg HIGHER PURPOSE of the DOODLE – HERE!

Goals:

  • 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • What are 3 things about your SKETCHBOOK that you are VERY PLEASED with? What are 3 things you WANT TO IMPROVE ON? How have you seen your DRAWING SKILLS improve since week 1?

Reflection / Evaluation:  How much time OUTSIDE of class do you feel you are going to need for NEXT WEEKS DUE DATE?  What DAY are you going to work on that? Maybe 5 – 10 minutes PER day? What benefits would LITTLE bits of time do versus ONE BIG HUGE TIME?

AP Studio Art: Figure Drawing and Trading Card Photographs – OPEN CANVAS CALENDAR!

Movement in the FIGURE DRAWING: https://venetianred.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/john-singer-sargent-sketch-of-a-spanish-dancer-1879.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.
  • Consider the idea of a FIGURE DRAWING… When you think about one that will represent YOU, what are the elements or principles that you feel would be best to serve the purpose of making it YOUR drawing versus simply a “project?” 

Reflection / Evaluation: Looking at the rubric from the AP Site – are you hitting the level 6 marks? What do you do SPECIFICALLY to match one of them (or not match one of them).

Drawing: Oil Pastels Kandinsky and Shapes!

Goals:

  •  7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
  • Reflect on YESTERDAY before you begin today! What worked? What didn’t? WHY?

Reflection / Evaluation:  What are your biggest struggle / success for today as we are now working with OIL PASTELS? Write it out (and the WHY!) PLEASE SHARE THESE IDEAS WITH A CLASSMATE – FINALLY!

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#Monday Already? That’s OK – Let’s Make it #mARTday instead!

“There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.”  —Og Mandino

Painting and Advanced Painting: Hallway Drawing / Painting

From REAL to ABSTRACT the Story of Piet Mondrain… http://www.theartstory.org/images20/works/mondrian_piet_1.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design
  • Looking at yesterday’s one or two simplifications, name 3 of the larger GEOMETRIC shapes that are beginning to develop in your composition. Describe HOW the idea of SPACE changing in your composition.

Reflection / Evaluation: How does the ORIGINAL image still show up in the space that you are creating? How do you feel the work is developing as a successful or unsuccessful? Give Specifics!

Studio Art 360: Value and DRAWING!

PROCESS instead of PRODUCT! https://s3.amazonaws.com/easel.ly/all_easels/45467/Process_over_Product/image.jpg

Goals:

  • 8.1P: Interpret an artwork or collection of works, supported by relevant and sufficient evidence found in the work and its various contexts.
  • As you examine this work of art, what are the larger SKILLS you have developed in the process?

Reflection / Evaluation: As artists, we are in it for the process of MAKING ART, not necessarily worrying about the finished product. How do you feel about the idea of  PROCESS versus PRODUCT?

AP Studio Art: Trading Cards – DISCUSSION

WONDERFUL ART CARDS: https://spaark.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/dsc_04262.jpg

Goals:

  • OPEN CANVAS CALENDAR!
  • G: 4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
  • As you look at your trading cards (and your larger idea of body of work) if you had to choose the Element or Principle that you feel you are the strongest with, what is it and WHY? How about the WEAKEST – Why?

Reflection / Evaluation: What NEW ideas do you have about the use of or understanding behind the elements and principles you have been faced with today?

Drawing: Kandinsky and Shapes!

Goals:

  • .1Ac: Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history.
  • What is it about the song you have chosen that really stood out to you as one worth using as the basis for an art work? This was a BIG decision on your part. Having to put it into words is important for you.  What is ONE things that STANDS OUT as that connects the two works of art?

Reflection / Evaluation:  SHARE YOUR THEORY AND DRAWING WITH YOUR CLASSMATE – Last 5 Minutes – CONVERSATION and write down what you have learned from your classmate.

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#Friday? Already? Day to #Work on #Art

“The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.” — Frank Hamilton

Painting and Advanced Painting: Hallway Drawing / Painting

Early Mondrian – We will look at how he has ABSTRACTED his works over his career. http://triviumproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Farm-near-Duivendrecht-by-Piet-Mondrian-1916-1024×807.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design
  • What are the largest and most DOMINANT LINES you see in your drawing of the hallways? These are the lines that we are going to be looking at as the FOCAL POINT / DOMINANT LINES to build our next work off of.

Reflection / Evaluation: How easy or difficult was it for you to begin simplifying the space and shapes of your drawings? What challenges do see as you continue? Know that the use of color in the work will be used to create a MOOD / EMOTIONAL response to the space that you are representing with your abstraction (not today… but WEDNESDAY).

Studio Art 360: Value and DRAWING!

Morandi’s Space and BIO.

Goals:

  • 10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.
  • Step back from your artwork and LOOK at it. What skill have you NEWLY developed as this drawing has come along? Is it VALUE? FORM? SHADING? OBSERVATION? Please explain the ideas in your new skills.

Reflection / Evaluation: Of ALL the  work on your drawing you created today, what has been the most successful thing that you’ve accomplished? EXPLAIN!

AP Studio Art: Trading Cards

https://swiftriverarts.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/atc2.jpg

Goals:

  • 6.1Ad: Curate a collection of objects, artifacts, or artwork to impact the viewer’s understanding of social, cultural, and/or political experiences.
  • Take out your 12 trading cards and the AP Rubric. As you look back on the creating of the cards – explain how you HAVE or HAVE NOT worked to attain the score of 5 or 6 on the AP RUBRIC – 3 things…

Reflection / Evaluation: Conversation about the placement of the cards. G: What are 3 things you feel you know BETTER or DIFFERENT about the ideas of the ELEMENTS and PRINCIPLES.

Drawing: Kandinsky and Shapes!

Goals:

  • 6.1Ac: Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history.
  • What songs are you using to create your artwork and what is ONE things that STANDS OUT as OBVIOUS to connect the two works of art?

Reflection / Evaluation:  SHARE YOUR THEORY AND DRAWING WITH YOUR CLASSMATE – Last 5 Minutes – CONVERSATION and write down what you have learned from your classmate.

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#Abstraction in the #Hallways, #Value in the #StillLife

“The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.” — Frank Hamilton

Painting and Advanced Painting: Hallway Drawing

http://previousexhibitions.fondationbeyeler.ch/e/images_11son/34leger/werke_03.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • Looking back at the hallway drawings from the past two days why do they TEND to be boring? What are 2 things you are considering about doing to make it EXCITING and YOUR OWN? What angles and lines are you drawn to in your thumbnails?

Reflection / Evaluation: How has TRANSFORMING and ABSTRACTING these drawings changed the boring into more interesting works. Give three SPECIFIC examples.

Studio Art 360: Value and DRAWING!

http://www.tonysmithsouthorange.org/images/imgTauEasel.jpg

Goals:

  • 7.1P: Hypothesize ways in which art influences perception and understanding of human experiences.
  • What skills do you have that will help you create a CUBE, CYLINDER, PYRAMID and LETTER in one or two point perspective that you didn’t have a few weeks ago? Describe your thoughts.

Reflection / Evaluation: Given the opportunity to SELF EVALUATE… BASED ON CRITERIA you may set up for yourself… what grade would you say you have earned? WHY!!!???

AP Studio Art: Plants and Drawing! Time to WORK!

http://niteart.com.au/wp-content/uploads/peter-davidson_001.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.
  • Consider the RUBRIC AP uses. What are you doing with the first 8 cards to push yourself and challenge yourself? Are you working to make INTRIGUING and SUCCESSFUL Artworks (even though they are VERY SMALL?)

Reflection / Evaluation: Does working on these cards give you a new understanding of what you DO NOT KNOW about the ELEMNTS and PRINCIPLES? 2 reasons / explanations… THINK!

Drawing: Kandinsky and Shapes!

http://www.kimberleyjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/K3-Wassily-Kandinsky-Concentric-Circles.jpg

Goals:

  • 7.2Ac: Evaluate the effectiveness of an image or images to influence ideas, feelings, and behaviors of specific audiences.
  • As this develops, how are your ideas and Kandinsky’s similar and how are they different? What might you take away from this experience? How can you share that idea with the world?

Reflection / Evaluation:  As this work develops, how are your ideas and Kandinsky’s similar and how are they different? WRITE this out from the beginning of the hour. Has it Changed?

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#WorkDay in the #ArtStudio – #Geometric Paintings, #Critique, #Value

“The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.” — Frank Hamilton

STUDIO VISITS – Thanks Carson Bragg for the Site. Great to see where others (the MASTERS) made their art. Check it out HERE!

Painting and Advanced Painting: Hallway Drawing

Boring? How to make it into ABSTRACT? To Come… That is to come… http://artroomanecdotes.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/img_44421.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • What aspects of yesterday’s drawings are successful? Why? What is NOT VERY EXCITING? How can you look at the hallways and SEE an INTERESTING series of LINES that can be made into more interesting lines LATER?

Reflection / Evaluation: What about today’s drawing makes for a successful drawing? Three reasons please.

Studio Art 360: Value and DRAWING!

WOAH! You can do this! https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/02227-still_life_charcoal.jpg

Goals:

  • 10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.
  • Look back at Monday’s thumbnails and decide which one is the most interesting and WHY. Please take a few minutes to discuss the success of the thumbnail as a drawing with your neighbor and write down 2 things they have contributed to the conversation.

Reflection / Evaluation: In 140 characters, describe your artistic GROWTH through this process of DIRECT OBSERVATION #’s are acceptable.

AP Studio Art: Plants and Drawing! Time to WORK!

FUZZY! http://mayang.com/textures/Nature/images/Fur%20and%20Skin/rabbit_fur_9291372.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.
  • Think about the 4 images you came up with yesterday… What was each of them about? Describe the card and explain. Write that information in pencil on the back of the cards. Write CARD REFLECTION on the goals page.

Reflection / Evaluation: How did working on 4 more of these cards go for you today? Write 2 things that can help defend your explanation and ideas about the ELEMENTS and PRINCIPLES. 12 due on FIRDAY!

Drawing: Kandinsky and Shapes!

http://uploads8.wikipaintings.org/images/wassily-kandinsky/yellow-red-blue-1925.jpg

Goals:

  • 7.2Ac: Evaluate the effectiveness of an image or images to influence ideas, feelings, and behaviors of specific audiences.
  • Reflect on YESTERDAY before you begin today! What are your OVERALL IDEAS that you hope to communicate?

Reflection / Evaluation:  Biggest struggle / success for today? Write it out and the WHY!

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Field Trip #Tuesday – A+ Effort and Attitude Again! Thank you!

“The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.” — Frank Hamilton

STUDIO VISITS – Thanks Carson Bragg for the Site. Great to see where others (the MASTERS) made their art. Check it out HERE!

Painting and Advanced Painting: Hallway Drawing

This is a STARTING POINT! Use Sighting In – ANGLES!!! http://artroomanecdotes.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/img_44421.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • Change of plans so we can get all the different materials done this year… What are two things that you think are going to be challenging in creating a SUCCESSFUL and INTERESTING image of the high school hallways? 

Reflection / Evaluation: What about today’s thumbnails makes for a successful compositions? Three reasons please.

Studio Art 360: Value and DRAWING!

What can you do with COLOR, SHAPE, PATTERN, REPETITION? http://www.beveragedaily.com/var/plain_site/storage/images/publications/food-beverage-nutrition/beveragedaily.com/processing-packaging/perrier-goes-pop-art-with-andy-warhol-bottles/8391874-3-eng-GB/Perrier-goes-pop-art-with-Andy-Warhol-bottles_strict_xxl.png

Goals:

  • 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • FOUR weeks into sketchbooks – what are you accomplishing with the TOOLS of drawing that you have struggled on in the previous sketches – or what are you doing better in this week’s class work that you can put into your sketchbook assignment

Reflection / Evaluation: How can you look at the CAN or BOTTLE to really make it your own? 2 things… What are 2 things you can do? DON’T JUST COPY IT! Do you have to continue working on it so that it is FINISHED for NEXT TUESDAY?

PS: HOLD ONTO YOUR SKETCHBOOKS UNTIL TOMORROW! Thanks

AP Studio Art: Plants and Drawing! Time to WORK!

What are the ELEMENTS and PRINCIPLES that this artist was thinking about? WHY http://cdn.playbuzz.com/cdn/f3670bb4-1ccf-4ad7-9501-785ed5accb8a/f3a85d80-8028-486d-8262-4a0dddbaec13.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.
  • What do you think of when I ask you about the ELEMENTS of Art? What about when you are asked about the Principles of Design? Write out 3 things you think in your GOALS page. NOW… when done… one member of the class at the board – What ARE the ELEMENTS? What ARE the PRINCIPLES? Write them out on the Chalkboard. Are there OTHER things you think of when it comes to ART? 3 columns…

Reflection / Evaluation: What was so difficult about SIMPLIFYING the ideas down to ONE ELEMENT and ONE PRINCIPLE? 2 or 3 ideas about why it was so difficult.

Drawing: Kandinsky and Shapes!

I have SEEN THIS ONE IN THE BUILDING! http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/kandinsky/kandinsky.comp-4.jpg

Goals:

  • 8.1Ac: Identify types of contextual information useful in the process of constructing interpretations of an artwork or collection of works.
  • Describe to your neighbor how YOUR WORK OF ART reflects the music you are inspired by? As you develop the ideas of KANDINSKY – Are you approaching your work as a der blaue reiter or as a member of the BAUHAUS? Explain! How would you label this work by Kandinsky? Simple / Melodic? Impression? Improvisation? Composition? der Blaue Reiter? Bauhaus?

Reflection / Evaluation:  Are you successful in the communication of your ideas? Write out 3 reasons to back up your successes.

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#Monday in the #ArtStudio – Make #Art

“The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.” — Frank Hamilton

STUDIO VISITS – Thanks Carson Bragg for the Site. Great to see where others (the MASTERS) made their art. Check it out HERE!

Painting and Advanced Painting: Crit in the Gallery!

Cookie Critique… YUM!

Goals:

  • 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.
  • Critique with the AP Studio Art Class – As an individual, what do you think you are going to struggle with the most in today’s Critique. Think about ALL we have ALREADY spoken about – or not spoken about…

Reflection / Evaluation: What one thing did you add to the critique that nobody else did? What ONE thing did you LEARN about that nobody else did?

Studio Art 360: Value and DRAWING!

https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/c9d89-composition-threeplanes.jpg website http://erickjm2.blogspot.com/p/illustrations.html

Goals:

  • 10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.
  • Look back at your THUMBNAIL drawings… Which type of composition do you feel you are going to use? What are TWO things that have changed about your composition from the THUMBNAIL STAGE. N: Reflection on the PROCESS of the drawings.

Reflection / Evaluation: Looking at the THUMBNAIL again and the DRAWING – What positive changes or negative changes have come from the process of drawing? DRINK FOR TOMORROW’S SKETCHBOOK ASSIGNMENT – Don’t forget!

AP Studio Art: Plants and Drawing! Time to WORK!

Let’s Crit! http://www.edwardsamuels.com/illustratedstory/chapter%206/MorseLouvre.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 challenges we still see in the gallery space? What are your thoughts and feelings about the space we have begun to fill? Take a moment to reflect on your thoughts of this FORMAL SPACE to present your work. 

Reflection / Evaluation: What 2 things are you most pleased with regarding the watercolors / collage / artworks you are presenting to the public?

Drawing: Kandinsky and Shapes!

What’s the style? What’s the Composition? http://media.smashingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/images/bauhaus/bauhaus%20art%20swinging.jpg

Goals:

Reflection / Evaluation: SHARE YOUR THEORY AND DRAWING WITH YOUR CLASSMATE – Last 5 Minutes – CONVERSATION and write down what you have learned from your classmate.

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#FinallyFriday – What a #FastWeek

“Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.” —Robert H. Schuller

Painting and Advanced Painting: Crit in the Gallery!

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Goals:

  • 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 challenges did you see in yesterday’s drawings of the cityscapes? Discuss this with a neighbor and WRITE DOWN the struggles you shared. (2 of them).

Reflection / Evaluation: How do you see the discussion of the works as adding to the process of CREATING the artwork? If you do NOT see the benefit of an oral critique… WHY? If you do… WHY TOO?

Studio Art 360: Value and DRAWING!

Here they are again… Let’s Talk today. http://labrouge.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/due-inglesi-al-mambo-studio-of-giorgio-morandi-bologna-labrouge.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.1P: Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.
  • QUIETLY go to the gallery and bring your sculpture back to the classroom – then sit down in complete silence. 1 minute! Take a LONG HARD LOOK at your object in front of you. What is happening with the FIGURE? The GROUND? The POSITIVE SPACE? The NEGATIVE SPACE?

Reflection / Evaluation: How did the THUMBNAILS go today? What do you see yourself doing VERY WELL in this composition? 3 things to talk about – Give yourself 3 examples.

AP Studio Art: Plants and Drawing! Time to WORK!

http://unearthedcomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Unearthed-CritiquingCookie-1311-1-web.jpg

Goals:

  • 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.
  • REFLECT ON THE FOLLOWING and WRITE UP A 7 MINUTE RESPONSE: What are the Ideas / Concept / Content? What’s it about? What’s it look like you are talking about? What is the Imagery and  Subject Matter? What are the Techniques / Process you went through? How did your sketchbook or PAST DRAWING / MARK MAKING / ART MAKING EXPERIENCES help you? What is the reference and how did you USE IT? What’s it look like?

Reflection / Evaluation: What did you take away from the critique today? Write down what you have taken from the oral crit.?

Drawing: Kandinsky and Shapes!

Wassily Kandinsky (Russian, 1866 – 1944) On White II (Auf Weiss II), 1923 Oil on canvas 41 5/16 × 38 9/16 in. Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris Gift of Mrs. Nina Kandinsky in 1976 AM 1976-855 © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/ Georges Meguerditchian / Dist.RMN-GP © 2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Goals:

  • 1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.
  • Come up to the carpet – ALL OF YOU! Sit and listen to my reading and while I am speaking – draw out the ideas of SIMPLE and COMPLEX compositions – illustrate the ideas Kandinsky was writing about. Which COMPOSITION idea are you sticking to? Are you going with the SIMPLE (Melodic) or COMPLEX (Symphonic) idea? Explain how you are doing this. 

Reflection / Evaluation: What is the DOMINANT SHAPE / FORM / COLOR you are using in the work? How is this HELPING?

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#Thursday in the #ArtRoom – #Values

“Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.” —Robert H. Schuller

Painting and Advanced Painting: Crit in the Gallery!

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Goals:

  • 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 was helpful about 1) seeing your work from a distance and 2) hearing what others thought about the work you created?

Reflection / Evaluation: How do you see the discussion of the works as adding to the process of CREATING the artwork? If you do NOT see the benefit of an oral critique… WHY? If you do… WHY TOO?

Studio Art 360: Value and DRAWING!

Mrs. Davis… Please share this video with each class… I hope this works.

Love the ACTUAL OBJECTS! http://labrouge.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/due-inglesi-al-mambo-studio-of-giorgio-morandi-bologna-labrouge.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.1P: Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.
  • Take a LONG HARD LOOK at your VALUES and then onto the grid drawing… What is happening with the FIGURE? The GROUND? The POSITIVE SPACE? The NEGATIVE SPACE? How does dealing with the background HELP the entire COMPOSITION?

Reflection / Evaluation: What SKILLS have you developed that will HELP you create a SUCCESSFUL drawing from your sculpture? Give 3 NEW or NEWLY REFINED skills and EXPLAIN!

AP Studio Art: Plants and Drawing! Time to WORK!

Jim Dine PLANTS – What’s similar to yours? What’s REALLY different? How’s he activated the background? http://loh.loswego.k12.or.us/brinkk/images/drawing%20and%20painting/jimedineplant/149_4922.JPG

Goals:

Reflection / Evaluation: What did you take away from the feedback from your classmates today? Write down 1 or two things your classmates gave you that is BENEFICIAL and helps you REFLECT on your ARTWORK.

Drawing: Kandinsky and Shapes!

Kandinsky and his work http://newintelligentsia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Avantgardefound-kandinsky-1915-Objective-Composition-503.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.
  • What color schemes are you considering using n this work? What colors seems to fit the SONG you are thinking of? What shapes are you thinking of?

Reflection / Evaluation:  What NEW ideas can you EXPRESS about COLOR and SHAPE in the art you created today? TOMORROW – SONGS! Come to class PREPARED with your MUSIC and HEADPHONES in HAND (ear).