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Genius, Color, and Matting artwork… are you up for the challenges?

“Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.” — Julie Andrews

Art Foundations: COLOR and YOU!


Goals:

  1. 1.4 Analyse (break it down) and Define color schemes and how you use color on a daily basis.

Review with neighbors the relationships of the colors on the color wheel? QUIZ one another on the names, types and labels of the colors. What three colors can you use to mix ALL THE OTHER colors? In your GOALS SHEET…

Drawing: Genius Day (a bit longer than a day).


Goals:

  1. 1.1 Define and consider your PASSIONS through the media, techniques, and processes that you want to consider. Don’t forget about the 1.1.1 skill , 1.1.2 confidence and 1.1.3 awareness that you have and will use so that your ideas are executed well.

Working with Mr. Korb “out of the way/” Here are your “24 hours” of doing what you want with who you want in the way you want with the idea of a product being the end result and presenting being the final evaluation. What have you accomplished today and what do you need to accomplish tonight so that you can present tomorrow? The presentation is a huge factor. What did you intend to do? What did you intend to learn? Why is this a GREAT experience for you? How is having an assignment easier or harder for you? Lots to think about…

AP Studio Art: MAT YOUR WORK – Consider Duchamp


Goals:

  1. 6.3 use the principles and techniques of art with those from other discipline to PREPARE your WORK for QUALITY!

What are you doing this weekend to PREPARE for the next 1 weeks of WORKING on ONE BREADTH work based on the figure drawings that we worked on this week. How can you look at the Marcel Duchamp work of the world and resolve the image you have in front of you. Next week… resolution – Pastels, Conte, Charcoal? Whatever…

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TED says that COLOR sound beautiful!

“Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.” — Julie Andrews

Art Foundations: Artist Statement – TURN IN SELF EVAL!

GOALS:

  1. 1.4 Define visual challenges using analysis.What are the colors that we, as painters / drawers use to make all the other colors? ANSWER ME ARTISTS!

Review with neighbors the relationships of the colors on the color wheel? QUIZ one another on the names, types and relationships of the colors.

Drawing: Collaborative Work – Figure this out – TOMORROW – GENIUS DAY!

http://abc.go.com/shows/modern-family/video/PL5520993/VDKA0_lu9sqex5

GOALS:

  1. Use Google Presentation and Docs (and the lab) to resolve your self evaluation and work collaboratively to support individual learning and to the learning of others.

BEGIN PLANNING FOR TOMORROW – GENIUS DAY – ALL WEEKEND to work – PRESENT on MONDAY! ?What? Yikes!

Working with Mr. Korb “out of the way” here are your “24 hours” of doing what you want with who you want in the way you want with the idea of a product being the end result and presenting being the final evaluation. What have you accomplished today and what do you need to accomplish… the presentation day on Monday…

AP Studio Art: FIGURES… just figures.

Goals:

  1. 2.3 create artworks that solve visual challenges of a figurative nature… WHAT DO YOU WANT TO EMPHASIZE TODAY?

How did things go today? Look at everyone’s drawings and make comments about their figure drawings in their binders.

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Updates and Changes are ALWAYS happening! How is your art changing you?

“Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.” — Julie Andrews

Art Foundations: Artist Statement

How are the ideas coming with the artist statement? This is a challenging process. Stay focused on the ideas we spoke about. wpid-0325141357.jpg Goals:

  1. 4.4 evaluate and interpret your oil pastel drawing for relationships in 4.4.1 form 4.4.2 context as it related to the original photographic image from the microscope.

YOUR ARTWORKS that have been PHOTOGRAPHED

How do you feel about the paper you have written? Does it fully describe your artwork? Does it partially describe your artwork? Does it fall flat? WHY?

Drawing: WRITE – SUMMARIZE – FINISH – INSPIRE!

Drawing 5th Hour Goals:

  1. 4.4 evaluate and interpret your oil pastel drawing for relationships in 4.4.1 form 4.4.2 context as it relates to the IDEAS of Wassily Kandinsky – Can you explain it concisely?

LINKS TO WORK WITH TODAY!

How do you feel that writing this artist statement has helped you to 1) better understand your art and 2) explained it to your audience, those interested in buying your art?

AP Studio Art: Art Mounting Time

Be CAREFUL as to how you use the tools. Make your lines STRAIGHT and CLEAN! Goals:

  1. 3.2 apply subjects, symbols, and ideas in art and use skill to solve visual challenges – What are the VISUAL CHALLENGES that you are faced with in this part of the art toolbox?

Well… how did you do? What do you need to FOCUS on as you mount MORE and MORE artworks? Is this as easy as MAKING art? Would you reconsider HOW you make your work so you can skip this step?

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Critique / Evaluate / LEARN!

“Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.” — Julie Andrews

REMEMBER – Goals are a Changing – JUST A SMIDGE – It is becoming a lot more thoughtful and less VERBATIM! Read the Goal – Read my questions – Write your thoughts and reflections – Let’s  take a moment to visit the CHANGES!

Art Foundations: How’s the self-evaluation / art statement going?

Type about your art. https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/132e2-tyree20callahan20chromatic20typewriter20dbed0_o.jpg

Goals:

  1. 4.4 What are the strengths and weaknesses in your art regarding the ideas of 4.4.1 form 4.4.2 and context (ideas) and how you understand linear (and non-linear) perspective?*  

REREAD the work you have done for today. What was the best and the worst part of the work? What are you going to take into your next major artwork that you learned from this artwork?

YOUR ARTWORKS that have been PHOTOGRAPHED

Drawing: How are you coming up with the statement? Anything you need to focus on? Let’s break it up.


Goals:

  1. 4.4 What are the  relationships in 4.4.1 form 4.4.2 context and 4.4.3 meanings that you are focusing in with your Kandinsky inspired / music inspired / BAUHAUS inspired oil pastel drawing?

LINKS TO WORK WITH TODAY and TOMORROW!

 

What did your FAVORITE part of this overall DEEP and difficult project? How do you feel you have summed up your work in the FIRST EVER ARTIST STATEMENT?

AP Studio Art: No welcome back today – I tried yesterday. Figure Drawing – 2 10 minutes.


Goals:

  1. 2.3 What challenges do you feel you will need to work on today as we create figure drawings?

How did things go today? Look at everyone’s drawings and make comments about their figure drawings in their binders.

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Goals and Work… Stay on Task and Stay Focused

“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”― Martin Luther King Jr.

Art Foundations: Goals / Ch 1 / Ch 4 / Sketchbook

What are some of the lines that you see in the drawing? Do you INTERPRET anything? http://www.gageacademy.org/upload/enews/enews_Tom_Yody-a.JPG

Goals:

  1. 1.1 apply media, techniques, and processes with 1.1.3 an awareness so that your ideas are executed well
  2. 1.4 create visual challenges using 1.4.1 analysis and LINE

What were the challenges you had with the line drawing What was fun about the process? What kinds of lines were you “Drawn” to? Ha Ha Ha!

Drawing: Still Life / Sighting In / Observation / Reflection (Aesthetics – Composition) / Sketchbook

Morandi spent a CAREER working with different arrangements of boxes. What can you do with the still life in front of you? https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/952ac-gm7.jpg

Goals:

  1. (1.2) create art that demonstrates an understanding of how ideas relate to the materials (pencils)
  2. 3.2 apply subjects, symbols, and ideas in art and use skill to solve visual challenges

What are the differences with the different types of Pencils? What do YOU find useful from today’s exercise?

AP Studio Art: Organization of Of Sailors and Whales / Display of Works / Concentration work and Sharing

We are going to display your artworks and your statement… Thanks for the hard work and the written word. http://www.rentavaluecar.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/artworks-gallery-gif.gif

Goals:

  1. Work on (1.2) concentration works that demonstrate how your ideas relate to the materials and techniques that you use.
  2. Work on (2.6) creating multiple solutions to concentration works.

What bit of advice did you get from your classmates that you will be able to put to use? What bit of advice did you give that might be used elsewhere? What are your goals for the next work(s) that will show your development?

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It’s ALMOST never too late… ALMOST!

High School Art Exhibit at the 2013 River Edge Art Walk! Way to Go!
High School Art Exhibit at the 2013 River Edge Art Walk! Way to Go!

REAW Studio 107

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

—Og Mandino (Paul Mark Sutherland http://goalhabits.com/2013/10/12/goal-achievement-quote-oct-12-2013/)

It’s ALMOST too late, but not quite, for missing work… What can you do? – WEDNESDAY IS THE LAST DAY FOR MISSING ASSIGNMENTS!

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Art Foundations: Intro to Perspective and Positive / Negative Compositions

READ THIS – How do you draw blocks so they look like they are REAL 3D blocks? Give it a shot – Right Now. Open your sketchbooks and draw a cube to the best of your ability. READ THIS and FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS! Go To It!

GOALS: NOTE – these are LONG… what do they mean to you? Write them out in your OWN words if you can.

  1. 1.4 create, define, and solve visual challenges using 1.4.1 analysis (breaking up the artwork / subject matter to basic elements).
  2. 1.2 create art that demonstrates an understanding of how your ideas relate to the 1.2.3 and processes (linear perspective) you use

How do you see space? As we work in perspective, I hope you are able to understand the ideas of linear perspective and the creation of compositions.

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Advanced Drawing: Non-Objective Drawing based on REALITY!

What do you see? How can you create a NON-OBJECTIVE drawing from something that is REAL?
What do you see? How can you create a NON-OBJECTIVE drawing from something that is REAL?
How did Richard Dibenkorn create a non-objective image from reality?

GOALS:

  1. 2.6 Work on creating multiple solutions to solve visual challenges.
  2. 5.1 identify the rationale behind making art (NON-Objective from direct observation)

How did you develop the idea of the composition? Is it challenging for you to see non-objective inside the real observable objects? Is your composition interesting enough to stop someone and make them think?

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AP Studio Art: Concentration #1 and #2 – Yikes! Sketchbook Development too!

How can you use the sketchbook to REALLY develop your ideas? Can you? Do you still feel like the sketchbook is a precious object that mistakes and experiments can;t happen in?

GOALS: The BIG deal for the week(s) to come is to develop and advance the ideas for your concentration.

  1. 5.1 identify the rationale behind making art.
  2. 4.4 evaluate and interpret art for relationships in 4.4.1 form 4.4.2 context

What are your plans for the first 2 works. We are working on MULTIPLES!  What is the greatest FEAR you have regarding these works? What is your plan for tomorrow? (Due next Monday – Concentration #1).

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Work WITH and THROUGH your materials. 10 Things the Arts Teach Children.

“Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.” Agnes Martin

Agnes Martin – Subtle work, no?

10 Things the Arts do for children – Click Here for the Binder insert – go to the table of contents and click on the page.

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Advanced Drawing: MID CRIT – How is your continuous line contour drawing coming? Background, foreground? How is it?

What mediums did this artist use and are they AWARE of the materials? Are they thinking with and THROUGH the materials?

Goals:

  1. 1.1 apply media, techniques, and processes with 1.1.1 skill and 1.1.2 confidence.

What do you feel was the MAJOR aspect of the crit that YOU NEED TO WORK ON? What do you see as the benefit of the Crit. What do you see as a downfall / challenge?

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Art Foundations: PBIS Poster – CHAPTER 4 in the textbook.

Lines, Limes, Everywhere there’s line…

Goals: 

  1. 1.4 create, define, and solve visual challenges using 1.4.1 analysis (breaking up the artwork / subject matter to basic elements of LINE)

What were the challenges you have had with the PBIS poster? What was fun about the process? What kinds of lines were you “Drawn” to?

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AP Studio Art: Concentration works – how’s the progress on the mini-critique?What were the challenges you had with the line drawing What was fun about the process? What kinds of lines were you “Drawn” to?

Watercolors… how are you attempting to use the materials that are made available to you?

Goals:

  1. 1.1 apply media, techniques, and processes with (1.1.3) an awareness so that your ideas are executed well.
  2. 1.2 create art that demonstrates an understanding of how your ideas relate to the (1.2.1) materials.

What are the biggest challenges you are having? How many works have you FINISHED? 3 are DUE on Monday!

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How can YOU create a concrete representation of your most subtle feelings?

Agnes Martin in her NY Studio 1960. Photo Alexander Liberman

“Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.” – Agnes Martin

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Advanced Drawing: Take a look at the state of the work from last week.

What is the SCARY part of being critiqued?

GOALS:

  1. evaluate the effectiveness of artworks

What did you take away from the critique today? Write down what you have taken from the crit.

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Art Foundations: Talk about the importance of sketch books and work on PBIS Posters.

Art Class Teaches… ART Teaches…

10 Lessons the ARTS teach Children – Page 9 in Goals Binder

GOALS:

  1. Know about the reason behind making art (and sketchbooks)

What advancements did YOU make in the poster? How does your poster communicate the ideas of PBIS?

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AP Studio Art: Work with DIFFERENT materials in your small concentration?

What can you do with CHARCOAL?

GOALS:

  1. 1.1 apply media, techniques, and processes with (1.1.3) an awareness so that your ideas are executed well

What materials have you used today? How are the projects coming along?

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34 works of art in 50 seconds… Thanks Southampton Art Fair and Blouin Art Info for the Inspiration

It seems like I have been on a two week sabbatical… it has been busy and I am glad to be back.

Thanks to the Inspiration of Blouin Art Info‘s Southampton Art Fair (the Third and LARGEST art fair in Southampton), and the 60 works in 60 seconds video produced to publicize the show (Link Here). I present to you 34 Works of Art in 50 seconds. The video of my works (with music presented by YouTube – Thanks) I offer a brief glimpse of the works currently on display (and for sale) at Cafe LuLu in the Bay View neighborhood of Milwaukee, WI. If you happen to be in the neighborhood – please stop in and take a look. If you are in Southampton, do the same for their show!

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May 7, 2013 – Friday – No kids – Inspiration from here till August

“Not all of our best students are our “A” students. I have had “C” students who I consider excellent  students because they were so engaged into the educational process. I really don’t think it has to do with a letter grade, it has to do with enthusiasm.” – Charles Rineheimer – NPR – Talk of the Nation Interview LINK HERE: The Students That Keep Teachers Inspired

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What was the most difficult or challenging aspect of this course for you personally? Were you able to learn from this experience or gain something from it that has helped you to develop as an artist?

  • Abstract Art and I just really had to think about it.
  • Thinking through things before beginning the piece of artwork.
  • The hardest thing for me would have to be taking time to slow down when making art.