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#Friday and let’s stay #Warm in the #Arts

“An average person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.” – Brian Tracy

”Even talent is rarely indistinguishable, over the long run, from perseverance and lots of hard work.” Ted Orland and David Bayles – Art and Fear.

Studio Art 360: Continuous Line PORTRAITS and then…

Mono Print TOMORROW!

Goals:

  • 9.1P: Establish relevant criteria in order to evaluate a work of art or collection of works.
  • Using CRITERIA to EVALUATE a work of art can be a personal thing. Generally we use a four steps process to a well thought out critique. What are three things you would choose to use when critiquing your non-objective print? What are two things you will focus on today when working on it?

What is ONE thing you found that worked out really well for you today in class?

Painting: Continue to Paint and RESOLVE the image

Our critique will be a lot like this… but WAY BETTER! Use this link to access the ONLINE critique sheet and make sure you SHARE it with me.

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.
  • You were asked to begin thinking about the work in front of you… What DO YOU SEE IN YOUR PAINTING? That’s it.. WHAT DO YOU SEE? Take your time… look at everything you see in the work and write down all that you see.

Time to work today began with DESCRIPTION – was there anything NEW that you saw when you began writing and working today? We do not have a lot of time to work this week but… lots of time use that knowledge in your life. 

AP Studio Art – PAINT and CONCENTRATE!

One More by Frank Juarez…

Goals:

  • 4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
  • How is the online presentation coming along? What do you STILL NEED TO DO in order to get the website finished and polished?

Presentation of your current body of work is on Monday. What do you have to do in order to get the 3 works finished?

LAST NIGHT at MIDNIGHT CHAPTER 8 was due in Art and Fear Blog. 

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#MerryChristmas, #HappyHolidays, #HappyNewYear and enjoy the #BREAK!

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I wish you ALL the Merriest of Christmases and the Happiest of New Year’s.

Thank you to my students for making this an incredible, productive year of art and learning. Thanks to my fellow staff members for collaborative learning opportunities for our students and one another. Thanks to my administrators for continued support of our students and the visual and other arts. Thank you to the art club members and leaders for makingthe extra time so worthwhile asks teaching out to kids not immediately involved in an art class. Thanks to all my followers and friends in the digital platforms for the sharing of ideas and support.Thanks to all the artists of the past and present for inspiring our artists of the present and future. Most importantly, thank you to my family for all your love and support. I hope all your days are filled with JOY, HAPPINESS and AWE INSPIRING ART!

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#Mid #Week is #PAST – What #ART are you doing for the #REST of it?

“Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.” — John Andrew Holmes

LET’S TALK MISSING WORK…

All work that you have missing as of RIGHT NOW… will be DUE… DUE… DUE FRIDAY! That’s it – no more days. The end of the semester is coming up fast(?) 4 more weeks… but I cannot wait on ANYMORE late work. (BTW… progress reports go out tomorrow! SURPRISE!)

Studio Art 360 – Collage, Frottage, Grattage, and Decalcomania

LARGE GROUP Slide Show Project – Let’s SEE it HERE!

How has he created a sense of SPACE? How did YOU? http://michaeldcommunications.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/75-collage-FAther.jpg

Goals:

  • 7.1P: Hypothesize ways in which art influences perception and understanding of human experiences.
  • What are you NERVOUS about as we venture into the work of clay?

Working with the clay for ONE DAY now… what do you feel you are going to have to do to REALLY make this sculpture work? How are you going to have to balance and budget your time? 

Painting – Drawing and Painting on your canvas! Let’s hang a show too!

NEW PAINTINGS by the WUHS Painting Class – HERE!

GREAT TEXTURE! How is this different than acrylic? http://dudleyquintard100.blox.pl/resource/oil_painting_texture03.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • What challenges do you see in the use of OIL paint versus Acrylic paint? What advantages do you see in the use of oil over acrylic?

What ideas do you see coming out from others works as you took the 4 minutes to walk around today and see what others are doing? How can you see working with OTHERS in a COMMUNITY as being beneficial to the development of your art?

AP Studio Art – ONLINE and IN CLASS / Out of the Studio Too!

YESTERDAY at MIDNIGHT CHAPTER 5 was due in Art and Fear Blog.

SAM FRANCIS! Great BIG artwork! What’s the practice you are taking to COMPLETE your works? New Ideas – same techniques? MONDAY!

Goals:

  • Research and Information Fluency – Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.
  • What problems are you having with the BLOG / WordPress program – uploading? Writing? Maneuvering around the site?

What do you need to do in order to have ALL your work (made so far this year) photographed, edited, and uploaded to the website? Sam Francis Working: 

***ASSIGNMENT in ONE WEEK (NEXT Monday) Adventure Image and Still Life FOCUSING ON and being able to SPEAK ABOUT an ELEMENT and PRINCIPLE Specifically… and MONDAY (Change of HEART) – Website is DUE – Statements on your NAME PAGE, 6 Concentration Works Uploaded, How many BREADTH works do you have done? ***

ADVENTURE – This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/448/adventure

Thanks for the nod towards my thoughts on communicating with Parents, Students and the WORLD on Teach.Com. I appreciate the recognition.

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Holy #Friday Batman… The Week is Over!

“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/)

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Studio Art 360 – Color Wheel – Let’s Look at the COLOR WHEEL and PAINT!

Complementary Colors and a Product you all love? Hmmm…
What’s Warhol doing with the can of soup? http://enpundit.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Campbells-Soups-Andy-Warhol-4.jpeg

Goals:

  • 3.1P: Apply relevant criteria from traditional and contemporary cultural contexts to examine, reflect on, and plan revisions for works of art and design in progress.
  • What images have you brought in today? Why are these products important to you? How do you feel they fit into the experiences of the rest of society? Popular Culture?

What color schemes do you relate to the most? WHY? Share this with your classmate!

Painting – Color Schemes and the RESOLUTION of the ABSTRACT Compostion

This is MONDRIAN… the one we know and love! But… what about Richard Dibenkorn? http://www.theartstory.org/images20/works/mondrian_piet_4.jpg

Goals:

  • 7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
  • Looking back on the past week – what are the strongest aspects of using a REAL space to begin to develop an ABSTRACT composition? How can you see this process as being one that can help you develop NEW ideas in the development of  your OWN ideas and FUTURE artwork?

What do you especially LIKE / DISLIKE about the ideas you have created in your artwork? What do you especially LIKE or DISLIKE about the ideas of ABSTRACTING from REALITY?

AP Studio Art – Level 6 CRITIQUE – Are you UP TO IT?

Goals:

  • 6.1Ad: Curate a collection of objects, artifacts, or artwork to impact the viewer’s understanding of social, cultural, and/or political experiences.
  • Monday we begin to photograph and document the works we have started. What inspiration have you found in seeing works of other artists? In real life? Online?

What challenges do you see you begin to consider your own body of work? How are you going to approach the ideas of the CRITERIA and FOCUS? What are QUESTIONS you have about the process?

 

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#Resolution #Thursday in the #ARTROOM

“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/)

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Studio Art 360 – Color Theory – Let’s Look at the COLOR WHEEL and PAINT!

Pablo Picasso and the ROSE period – http://www.dailyartfixx.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Acr%C3%B3bata-y-joven-arlequ%C3%ADn-Pablo-Picasso-Rose-Period-1905.jpg

Goals:

  • 3.1P: Apply relevant criteria from traditional and contemporary cultural contexts to examine, reflect on, and plan revisions for works of art and design in progress.
  • Why is it important for an artist to choose colors CAREFULLY as they are developing a composition / artwork? What might the RIGHT colors do in an impage versus the “wrong” colors?  

Review with neighbors the relationships of the colors on the color wheel? When you look in your closet… what COLORS do you think you have the most of hanging? Why do you think that you have more of that color than others? Assignment – FOR FRIDAY REPEAT THE ASSIGNMENT from above… Something that is of interest to you.

REMEMBER! ASSIGNMENT FOR FRIDAY – Bring in a COUPLE of COLOR ADVERTISEMENT that demonstrates a specific use of COLOR SCHEMES and is of a PRODUCT that YOU FIND IMPORTANT IN YOUR LIFE! Like THIS or THIS

Painting – Color Schemes and the RESOLUTION of the ABSTRACT Compostion

Modrian is REALLY simplifying the images – -How about you? http://www.theartstory.org/images20/works/mondrian_piet_3.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?

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.

AP Studio Art – Level 6 Drawing – Are you UP TO IT?

Critique? – TOMORROW! Resolve ToDAY! https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/leobcrit.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.
  • As you hang up your work… consider three things are really successful about the work you have created. What is ONE thing you might change about YOUR work? What is ONE suggestion you will offer to your fellow AP Artists?

What is the body of work you feel you will be working on this year in AP Studio Art? Drawing / 2D Design? What about your Hands and Feet drawing can you speak about that would explain the relationship that you see in that type of portfolio?

 

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#WaffleWednesday = #ShortClasses = #WorkTime in #ArtClass, Let’s #Focus!

“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/)

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Studio Art 360 – Color Theory – How do colors work? WRAP up NOTECARDS! Let’s Look at the COLOR WHEEL and PAINT!

GREAT use of COLLAGE to design a color wheel. I’ve got a feeling we will do the same at the end of the Color Unit! https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/a4228-dsc01433.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
  • Review with your neighbor the relationships of color on the color wheel What are the PRIMARY Colors, SECONDARY colors, and TERTIARY Colors? WRITE THEM DOWN!

Review with neighbors the relationships of the colors on the color wheel? QUIZ one another on the names, types and relationships of the colors. What were the most CHALLENGING COLORS for you to mix? Which were the easiest to work with?

ASSIGNMENT FOR FRIDAY – Bring in a COUPLE of COLOR ADVERTISEMENT that demonstrates a specific use of COLOR SCHEMES and is of a PRODUCT that YOU FIND IMPORTANT IN YOUR LIFE! Like THIS or THIS

Painting – Color Schemes and the RESOLUTION of the ABSTRACT Compostion

Are you able to see any TREE or Landscape in this work? I believe that MODRIAN was still referencing the REAL to come up with the ABSTRACT. http://www.theartstory.org/

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 the DOMINANT element in your artwork or are you seeing other elements as coming to the forefront of the composition?

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

AP Studio Art – Level 6 Drawing – Are you UP TO IT?

What do you see as the positive space? The negative space? Push and Pull of the space. How are you playing with the ideas of space in your composition? https://www.artdoxa.com/anniehowelladams/large?page=1

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.
  • Positive and Negative Space. Line Quality. Shape and Form. Unity. Emphasis. What are the ELEMENTS / PRINCIPLES that you are seeing develop in the work? What are the Conceptual ideas about the use of objects to create an intriguing work?

After 3 days of SOLID work – After seeing a 6 (5) on the AP Rubric and reading about what it takes to “score” that high… what is ONE thing you have learned about yourself / the process / the ideas of making successful work that REVOLVE around DRAWING / 2D Design Criteria?

 

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#River’sEdgeArtWalk #Art in #Waterford – #HighSchool Art #Gallery

Waterford Union High School’s Parent Teacher Conferences were Thursday and Friday and the NEW ART GALLERY had its first REAL gallery opening! Well, the doors were open as the parents and students walked through the front door for conferences. TONIGHT however the gallery will be staffed and visitors will be visiting. The Third Annual River’s Edge Art Walk is underway Friday night from 5 – 9pm in Historic Downtown Waterford, WI. 27 (or so) artists will be sharing their inspired works with the community of Southeastern WI. Come and join us all and see the hard work the student artists of Waterford Union High School (as well as the art teachers – your’s truly included) have brought together.

  • Frank Korb, Mixed Media – Thai-Italiana Restaurant
  • Lisa Dukowitz, Photography – Marty’s Banquet Hall
  • Brett Roberts, Ceramics – Riverside Chiropractic
  • Waterford High School Students – Waterford High School Gallery (Door #1)
  • For More Information visit Absolutely Waterford’s Website – HERE

We look forward to seeing you!

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#ArtExhibition in the #Community – Get Ready for FRIDAY!

“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

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Studio Art 360 – FORMS and DRAWING – 2 Days to Go!

What has this artist done to REALLY succeed in the drawing? What is SIMILAR to your drawing? What is REALLY different – TECHNIQUE wise? http://erickjm2.blogspot.com/p/illustrations.html

COMPOSITION EXAMPLES

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 did you choose to use? What are TWO things that have changed about your composition from the THUMBNAIL STAGE.

Looking at the THUMBNAIL again and the DRAWING – What positive changes or negative changes have come from the process of drawing?

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Painting and AP Studio Art – Critique – LAST DAY? HURRY!

Charles V Distributing Awards to the Artists at the Close of the Salon of 1824 François-Joseph Heim – Salon Style Exhibition – Definition HERE!

Goals:

  • PAINTING – 4.2Ac: Analyze, select, and critique personal artwork for a collection or portfolio presentation.
  • AP Studio Art – 4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
  • What ways do you feel we should display the groupings of artworks we have in front of us? Considering BOTH classes, the GALLERY SPACE, and the display boards.

What problems do you see or did you see in the process of hanging the show? How can we work through this better? Suggestions to make this an easier process?

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#ParentTeacherConferences this week! Are you ready?

“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 Art 360 – FORMS and DRAWING – Shadows and CHIAROSCURO

COMPOSITION EXAMPLES

What is SUCCESSFUL about this drawing? Can you name three things? I can! http://artamaze.wordpress.com/category/still-life-2/page/10/

Goals:

  • 7.1P: Hypothesize ways in which art influences perception and understanding of human experiences.
  • What are THREE areas in your still life drawing that are in need of SINCERE Attention today?

Look back on the THREE areas of improvement, how did you do? Choose one and write 3 sentences about the success or failure!

Painting and AP Studio Art – Critique – LAST DAY? HURRY!

How can you be as direct, but not hurt anyone’s feeling? Thanks Sausage Chicken! http://mojopriestess.blogspot.com/2012/03/what-can-critical-writing-contribute-to.html

Goals:

  • 4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
  • As an individual, what do you still struggle with  about the idea of a Critique?

What is one thing you added to or took away from the critique this past week?

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#Friday in the #Art #Classroom – How are you doing?

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

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ALL LATE WORK DUE TODAY!

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Studio Art 360 – FORMS and DRAWING – Shadows and CHIAROSCURO

How is your drawing coming along? Let’ stalk about the values you are using… http://www.deborahboardman.com/uploaded_images/morandi-giorgio-natura-morta-stilleben-9701106-712697.jpg

COMPOSITION EXAMPLES! Let’s see how to set up a composition!

Goals:

  • 1.1P: Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.
  • Looking at the DRAWING in front of you… what ONE aspect of the drawing are you going to REALLY FOCUS ON today?

This is the third day of working on these drawings… where do you see yourself having a HIGHLIGHT in the drawing? Where do you see the CORE of the SHADOW? Where are the Midtones (lights and shadows)?

Painting and AP Studio Art – Critique – LAST DAY? HURRY!

What is it you DO Like? http://ufdigitalimaging.weebly.com/uploads/2/5/2/6/25260964/7718351_orig.gif

Goals:

  • AP Studio Art – 4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
  • Painting – 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.
  • Last Day of the Crit? Hope so… Of all the works you have seen so far, what has been the most successful aspect to that work? Be specific and thoughtful. OR Of the works you have seen what has been the weakest aspect of the work – BE SPECIFIC AND THOUGHTFUL!

What are you going to carry forward into your next work? If not the work the approach you take / habits / techniques / attitude?

What artwork, of all the artworks you saw, were you happiest with? WHY! Give specific reasons!