These drawings were created by the Advanced Drawing class with two stipulations, they needed to base their drawing on a sense of observation and they needed to use 50 sheets of paper. The rest was up to them. Our artists chose from a wide range of topics and ideas – all personal to them. Using direct observation, symbolism, and abstraction, our artists have created a wide variety of images all at various skill levels and approaches for you to enjoy.
Joslin Stern’s ““And she can laugh!” he said with wrath” from the 50 Sheets of Paper Assignment. Advanced Drawing – 2017.
Shane Koyczan – TED Talk “To This Day”... for the Bullied and Beautiful… “If you can’t see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror, look a little closer, stare a little longer, because there’s something inside you that makes you keep trying despite everyone who told you to quit.”
Drawing: Nest Critiques – GRADES will be coming FAST!
9.1Ac: Determine the relevance of criteria used by others to evaluate a work of art or collection of works.
Let’s finish this critique up. Get the work up in front of us and you lead the way. KORB will sit and listen… Keep time Korb.
Studio Art 360: CLAY – Make a Slab and then a cylinder.
1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design. 10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.
Here are the ideas for Final Product in the next assignment – you will have to use the same technique but with multiple solutions to the challenges – BRIGHT COLORS and GLAZES – Multiple Ideas – Clay Cup / Mug (Pinch Pot, Coils?) Animal Sculpture (look at historical ideas – REALLY OLD sculpture – stuff), Post Modern – Neo-Pop Keith Haring and other 3D Works – Bright Colors etc…
Advanced Drawing: 50 SoP WORK
6.1Ac: Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history.
This is the LAST WEEK on this drawing – I think we are LONG past the original time it was planned for. That’s OK – BUT – WHAT DO YOU REALLY NEED TO FOCUS ON TO BE READY FOR MONDAY’S CRITIQUE? Seriously… CRIT on MONDAY!
Were you able to get 3 things accomplished today that help you see you are on the right path for completion? Is there a good amount of work to finish? STAY ON TASK
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.
How do you see the growth of your work? What are two things that you see as STRONG developments as you have moved forward?
WHAT’s the Assignment? If you need another 1, 2, or 3 concentration works – this is your assignment (one at the minimum). You will have your WEBSITE updated with 12 concentration works – PERIOD. You will rework your statements and answers to the AP Questions… ALL DUE on MARCH 30 for CRITIQUE & PRESENTATION.
Shane Koyczan – TED Talk “To This Day”... for the Bullied and Beautiful… “If you can’t see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror, look a little closer, stare a little longer, because there’s something inside you that makes you keep trying despite everyone who told you to quit.”
Drawing: Nests – ONE more day?
9.1Ac: Determine the relevance of criteria used by others to evaluate a work of art or collection of works.
Well… Grab a RUBRIC II – and begin your self evaluation – AFTER you have taken a few 15 – 20 minutes to do written evaluation of 4 works of art – make sure your written critiques use ACTIONABLE / CRITICAL / IMPROVEMENT type statements. Let’s start this critique then. Get the work up in front of us and you lead the way. KORB will sit and listen… Keep time Korb.
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?
Color: Begin by drawing out three 7” x 4” FORMAT BOXES on three pages in your sketchbook. Divide your format box up by using 7 straight or curved lines. Do the same on the next two pages. On the first page, use one color scheme (page 29 in your handbook)of watercolor paints and fill the spaces in. On the second page, choose another color scheme and do the same. Lastly, on the third page – use whatever colors you want. When they are all dry – either define the lines with black sharpie marker (thick / thin / variety) or crayons that are of similar color scheme. When you evaluate this assignment – consider the successfulness of the works that have a specific color scheme in comparison to the one without a specific color scheme.
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?
Advanced Drawing: 50 SoP WORK
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.
Why are two things yo? have learned from the beginning of this artwork (about BEING AN ARTIST – the JOB, not the act)
What are two things you have learned about the ACT of making art since the beginning of this work?
AP Studio Art: Concentration CRITIQUE (and PLAN)
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.
Let’s finish this critique up. Get the work up in front of us and you lead the way. KORB will sit and listen… Keep time Korb.
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
Last day in class (Monday is the Last Day) – do you need to make photographs? How many drawings have you got going? We are critiquing them on Monday – Get ready to TALK.
What do you need to do in order to wrap things up for Monday? Excellent job with your Observational skills. Let’s take one more day to polish up the ideas. You’ll talk about 3 of the drawings (maybe 4)… How many have you drawn?
Studio Art 360: Still Life
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?
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?
Advanced Drawing: 50 SoP
7. Stretch & Explore: Learning to reach beyond one’s capacities, to explore playfully without a preconceived plan, and to embrace the opportunity to learn from mistakes.
Last day this week… What are two things you are planning on doing TODAY to get a good deal of work planned and begun for today? How are you working in the OBSERVATION part of this requirement?
MONDAY we are going to HANG THEM UP and LOOK… do you need to try and work this weekend? EXPLAIN in 140 characters (using # to emphasize the important terms and phrases) what you are HAPPIEST WITH and WHY!
AP Studio Art: Concentration
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.
How does your work for this week Re-Engage the ideas you have been using in the past while ALSO provide ideas of REVISION?
I try to get you to talk to one another and reflect. Look at each other’s work today and do that. Explain, listen, WRITE DOWN THOUGHTS for your own reflections.
“There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.” —Og Mandino
Drawing: Nests – Mid Crit coming up!
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
Biggest things you need to work on before tomorrow’s mid crit?
Draw – Charcoal – Keep working. G:What strengths are you needing to continue to work on? Is it a technique? Is it a studio habit?
Studio Art 360: Mid Crit – Still Life
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?
Space: Using all of the knowledge you have gained from the first batch of sketches, create a drawing that emphasizes the idea of space, depth, form, perhaps perspective. Consider your understanding of Line, Shape, Form, Texture, and Color to complete this assignment.
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?
Advanced Drawing: 50SoP
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 TWO THINGS you feel that you need some FEEDBACK on? Write that down – when I come to you – ASK.
As you worked – what new ideas / new solutions / same old ideas and solutions did you come up with today? Seriously – anything inspiring? Any experimentation happen?
AP Studio Art: Concentration Mid Crit
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.
\What has this LAST batch of images helped you LEARN as an artist?
We’re going to create one more SOLID SET of CONCENTRATION BEGINNING NEXT WEEK. Think about the FIRST works you created and the LAST work we are wrapping up this week. WHERE have you TRULY GROWN in the development of your work?
What feedback would you offer and like to get about your work? This will be a YELLOW STICKY NOTE that develops into a final work sheet for critiques… Elena Ray:
Studio Art 360: TEXTURE!
2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
What do you feel is the value of practicing in a sketchbook? How can you see this as being a place that others (engineers, designers, architects, artists) might need as a valuable tool?
SKETCHBOOK TASK TODAY:Texture: Using crayons, let’s go make some Frottage (rubbings). Choose 5 different colored crayons go out and gather 10 different textures from around the first floor of the building – you have 13 minutes. When you come back we will take these frottages and create a collage. We’re doing this as a group.
Ok – What kind of FUN did you have in getting back to CRAYONS, Scissors, and Glue?
Advanced Drawing: 50 Sheets of Paper
2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
What are three different types of PAPER you can consider using or (better yet) have BROUGHT IN TODAY? AND – What sort of PERSONAL IDEAS or MEANINGS that you might be able to bring into your work of art?
This is THE PROJECT art students want – make something of my own ideas… Considering some of the boundaries presented, what ARE your ideas that you hope to convey
AP Studio Art: Record your FEAR and make Photographs of the Art.
While looking at your studio mates work, how do you see the works needing to GROW? Do you see yours growing?
“Art is the only way to run away without leaving home” Twyla Tharp – Choreographer
Where are you hoping to run away to with your work?
Drawing: CHARCOAL and White Charcoal.
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
What do you see creating a series of drawings can do for a artist that a single drawing would not allow the artist to do? We are going to be working on two different CHARCOAL Drawings with this artwork – Today – we experiment with CHARCOAL. Follow along and then experiment on your own.
Where in your drawing do you see the idea of OBSERVATION as being a skill that is worthy / in need of you focusing on? WHY? What’s the problem? What’s the challenge?
Advanced Drawing: 50 Sheets of Paper – Shhhhh Mr. Korb
7. Stretch & Explore: Learning to reach beyond one’s capacities, to explore playfully without a preconceived plan, and to embrace the opportunity to learn from mistakes.
Looking at YESTERDAY… what are 3 things you hope to accomplish with this VERY INDEPENDENT (but subtly guided) drawing? EXPLAIN!
“Art is the only way to run away without leaving home” Twyla Tharp – Choreographer
Where are you hoping to run away to with your work?
Drawing: DRAW some NESTS!
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
What is your sense of OBSERVATION regarding the Bird’s nests? What is a quality of the nest that you could see as becoming an aspect of your drawing that would be worth your while to focus on during the next week or so? 3 – 5 thumbnails today – very focused – Look at your neighbors artwork as you move along.
WHAT TO DO? Pencil and observation. Drawing techniques and mark making. We are going to look specifically at LINE and VALUE / CONTRAST in these drawings. Whites / Blacks / Greys are the focus. Use of CHARCOAL will be coming up – mark making and removal of marks with erasers. Explore the use of the variety of Pencils that we have and how they can be used. Explore the different marks and erasing that we can do with the materials. Look at the different papers that are available. Really look at the idea of THE ELEMENTS and compositions that can be used.
What element have you looked at specifically in the beginning process? What is a successful aspect of the initial drawing that you have?
Studio Art 360: Still Life
2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
How DO you draw something in 3 dimensions? What are different techniques you know? What did you do successfully yesterday that you can continue with today? What is it you need to erase, change, resolve to make the drawing today even more successful.
What is one thing you are putting into your drawing of the 3D Forms that might be related to the ELEMENTS and PRINCIPLES as the building blocks of Art – things you really need to be aware of AS you are making art.
Advanced Drawing: Wrap up Critiques of Fast Food
How do you enjoy the work of art you have created? What have you learned that will carry you forward?
AP Studio Art: FEAR NO CRITIQUE!
4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
What do you have to say about the work in front of you? How are you going to look at the experience and learn from it? What have you done to PUSH yourself in the process of making your art stronger, more successful? A LEVEL 6?
4.2Ac: Analyze, select, and critique personal artwork for a collection or portfolio presentation.
What PRINCIPLES do you SEE being used to organize the ELEMENTS of your composition when you look at your Wassily Kandinsky inspired oil pastel drawing? LIST 2 Principles and the Element(s) they support / orhganize.
Click HEREto access the Google Slideshow for our presentation
Click HEREto get your ART… can you save it to YOUR Google Folder? Hmmm…
Reflection: What are two things you need to do to finish your written critique and / or your Slide Show Statement? What are strategies you can use to make sure you are done on MONDAY?
Studio Art 360: TEXTURE – COLLAGE it BEARDEN style
10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.
What are you doing to SUCCESSFULLY create a REAL sense of SPACE in your COMPOSITION?
Let’s Look at Romare Bearden for a bit to give you a better understanding… HERE
Reflection: How have you been able to think about your artwork being something that CAN affect how someone who looks at your work and their ideas about bullying?
2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
Day two of FIGURE DRAWINGS – We could spend a SEMESTER on them… What are three things you hope to pull together in your FIGURE DRAWING inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s “Nude Descending a Staircase”? Consider EMPHASIZING GUIDELINES and REFERENCE Lines from your gesture drawings! Let’s see the work – just like in math.
Reflection: Based on a DIRECT COMPARISON – What is more successful in today’s drawing than yesterday’s?
Advanced Drawing: 50 Sheets of Paper – FINAL DAYS THIS WEEK!
6.1Ac: Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history.
Two DAYS LEFT – Mr. Korb is in CHICAGO… What 2 things are you going to REALLY REALLY focus on so you are DONE – READY TO TALK about the work on Monday – NO MORE WORK TIME – CRIT ON WEDNESDAY!
Reflection: Did you accomplish those two things? REALLY?
Shane Koyczan – TED Talk “To This Day”… for the Bullied and Beautiful… “If you can’t see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror, look a little closer, stare a little longer, because there’s something inside you that makes you keep trying despite everyone who told you to quit.”
4.4 evaluate and interpret your art for relationships in 4.4.1 form 4.4.2 context and 4.4.3 meanings showing understanding.
What were the similarities and differences in your ideas and Kandinsky’s.
Reflection: How does your art compare with the work of “professionals” and how can you work to create a better understanding of your approach / intent / ideas?)
2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
What TEXTURES do you think will be INTERESTING to make? Frottage, Grattage, or Decalocomania? WHY?
Reflection: What was your favorite way of gathering textures today? How did you use them today in the abstracted landscape COLLAGE experience based on MAX ERNST’s works.
6.1Ac: Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history.
Are you beginning a SECOND DRAWING? Do you have to focus on making TODAY’S HOUR particularly SHARP FOCUSED? What ELEMENTS or PRINCIPLES are you planning on working towards today? Color? Contrast? Balance? Something entirely different?
Reflection: Explain and ELABORATE on the drawing you have created today – creating today… EXPLAIN YOUR THOUGHTS and FOCUS. Are you looking at something in PARTICULAR here?
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