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#WELCOME BACK! #2017-18 Year is HERE!

Welcome back to the school year. I really look forward to all the classes and art that were going to experience together. I hope to use this website as a place for communicating ideas and talking about art as well as a place to help you know where we are in the studio. I hope you enjoy the year as much as I will. Make sure you follow this site to get the frequent updates and also follow ArtWithKorb on facebook and Twitter the #Artwithkorb. Now, let’s go make art.

What is Art? Anges Martin “Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.”

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HANDBOOK HERE

Drawing: Observation – It’s all about the Eyes

1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.

What is it that you think about when you think about what IS art? (SHARE WITH FRIEND) What is it you think about when you think about making art?

What are 3 challenges or successes you had with your first few thumbnail drawings about the STACK of BOOKS – START with Stack of CUBES and Perspective. Huge in the center of the room? THINK COMPOSITION.

Studio Art 360: What are the BUILDING blocks of Art? Line!

2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.

Line – Using the Drawing paper in front of you and the pencils provided – let’s work through the ideas of Sol LeWitt – Sort of.

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Sol LeWitt: http://a398.idata.over-blog.com/429×423/1/96/04/42/s-rie-F/LeWitt-S.-Four-Basic-Kinds-of-Straight-Lines-69.jpg

Handout is HERE.

STICKY NOTES… What are 3 things you hope to learn in this room? END OF CLASS – Stand up – Think about what you are hoping to learn – in ONE WORD (and you cannot repeat another person’s comment) Your name and then your word.

AP Studio Art: Alright Gals and Guy… We are into it NOW! GO!

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

The View… Sketchbook and Reading

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Ted Orland in the Classroom…

25 parts to this and next weeks project. What are you most comfortable with? Pencil, Charcoal, Pastel, or Paint? Why?

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Multiple Objects Drawn / Painted / Created / Studied Over and Over and Over: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3c/aa/49/3caa49cc3d612f6885eaf15fcbd77fa6.jpg

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

Let’s Look at the SYLLABUS and the YEAR. Handouts: Handbook, Syllabus, Field Trip Info, Permission Slips.

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#Taliesin, #PleinAir, and #HOMEWORK for July 10! See you on Monday at #CampWadewitz.

  1. REMEMBER – We are MEETING at Camp Wadewitz on Monday. Nobody will be at the school for access to the classroom. You need to get yourself to Wadewitz for the morning.
  2. HOMEWORK was assigned on Thursday for everyone… the three of you who were unable to go on the field trip… HERE is your copy of the assignment (I’ll have it with me on Monday too).
  3. A link to the photo album of our Taliesin Field Trip is HERE. PLEASE add your photos from our trip. This was a great day and I want as much visual to remember the visit. Your views are different than mine and I want to see what you saw too.

Ok… What’s Next?

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If you are ever in the Spring Green part of Wisconsin, or are just looking for a destination for the day, Taliesin is the place to go. (Not to be confused with the House on the Rock – which is a lovely place I am sure.) My plein air artists were treated to a beautiful and insightful tour of the house and studio of Mr. Wright in Taliesin as well as the school of architecture (and lunch) at the Hillside School (information about the school itself can be found HERE). Thank you to Caroline and Becky for the hospitality and warm welcome (again). Thanks also to the hardworking artists who were able to paint, draw, and get to meet some of the folks at Taliesin. As for Mr. Korb… I got two watercolors done (one is now in the collection of Effi Casey, an instructor at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture – Taliesin) a painting of her house on the Taliesin Grounds.

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Hello @WaterfordCC102 – We’ve Got a Day Off – Sort of… Time to Reflect.

What a wonderful first week in (out of) studio. You artists did a wonderful job. Here are some images to reflect back on the week with. Take it easy (no… go out and make more art). Thank you to all the parents and guardians who have supported and encouraged our artists to make art over the summer!

The TALIESIN Field Trip is THURSDAY. We leave at 7:30AM. I hope you all get your monies and permission slips in MONDAY. They need a final count and so do I. Forms are below:

  • Information Sheet HERE
  • Taliesin Hold Harmless Agreement HERE

 

Ok… Now the pictures.

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WUHS 2017 Graduates – Congratulations!

Happy Graduation to ALL the 2017 WUHS Graduates. I was fortunate enough to be the school photographer on Sunday and these are a sampling of the fun and excitement that was had. 4 years (13 years) goes by SO fast. Enjoy each and every day. Enjoy your accomplishments, it is a beautiful day so… Go Make Some Art!

Frank

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Capitol Conference Art Exhibition – UW – Madison / Pyle Center AND 50 Sheets of Paper – WUHS

Capitol Conference Art Exhibition – UW Madison / Pyle Center

50 Sheets of Paper – Click HERE to see the Album.

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.
Joslin Stern’s ““And she can laugh!” he said with wrath” from the 50 Sheets of Paper Assignment. Advanced Drawing – 2017.
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#MoMA #Women in #PostwarAbstraction – and #MakingArt on a #wednesday – #ArtStudio

Albert Einstein: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/3f/17/61/3f176185b7269a1576868f47e85bac7c.jpg
Albert Einstein: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/3f/17/61/3f176185b7269a1576868f47e85bac7c.jpg

Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction / MoMA Live…

Just to give a bit of art history and importance / social context of women in art history…

Drawing: Kandinsky Critique

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 were the similarities and differences in your ideas and Kandinsky’s?

Remember Helen Miren - This one is from MO=oMA: http://www.moma.org/collection_images/resized/443/w500h420/CRI_241443.jpg
Remember Helen Mirren – This one is from MO=oMA: http://www.moma.org/collection_images/resized/443/w500h420/CRI_241443.jpg

Nothing – We Self Reflected ALL hour.

Studio Art 360: Selfies and the Grid

7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.

What is the emotional feeling that you are showing in your photograph / selfie? From all the color schemes, what color scheme best fits you?

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Moving into the world of POP art! http://assets.yellowtrace.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Brillo-Box-foam-ottomans-by-Fab.com-and-The-Andy-Warhol-Foundation-Photo-by-Nick-Hughes-for-Yellowtrace-02.jpg

What 3 challenges do you see in the process of gridding the work out?

Remember our Sketches from Yesterday? Here are a few websites for you to enjoy from the artists Stephen Shanabrook and Veronika Georgieva.

Advanced Drawing: Skeleton Isolation Drawing

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 the skills that you currently have will help you in the process of the skeleton drawing?

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How are you dealing with the negative space in your skeleton? https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/de/e5/d3/dee5d33596aa1c473f97da7fc4ae3061.jpg

How does your drawing look in your own eyes? What did the process of ERASING the image in the beginning do for you?

AP Studio Art – YOUR BODY OF WORK!

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 are 3 things you have learned, researched, inquired about your ideas for your concentration so far this week? I’ve had MANY great conversations with each almost each of you… what do you take away from them?

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Alexander Clader’s Circus: http://whitney.org/image_columns/0002/4353/alexandercalderinstallview1_600_1200.jpg?1369062947

What are your questions about making your statement ONLINE? Do you have an idea how to access your ONLINE portion of the website? :

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#YAM in #WI – #YouthArtMonth #StateCelebration in #Madison

Frank Korb with some of the FANTASTIC Artists (and followers of his YouTube Channel)

Welcome to the 2017 SE WI Youth Art Month portion of the State Closing Reception. The final awards ceremony was held at the Capitol Building in Madison WI on March 31. This was a fantastic way to celebrate the final day of a fantastic month long celebration of the Youth in the Visual Arts. Thank you to all the artists, parents and guardians, family, teachers, school administrators and boards for celebrating and supporting the visual arts. Congratulations to all the young artists who participated.

… and the SE WI Regional YAM Show at the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts.

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#HolyThursday #ArtMan – Time to #DRAW

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

Drawing: Soft Pastels

1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.

Of the shapes we are using, which one is STRONG and why? Which shape describes a passive quality? Why? Are you using Impression, Improvisation, or Composition? What about the use of shapes? Melodic or Symphonic?

Wassily Kandinsky at the Milwaukee Art Museum Exhibition - not part of their permanent collection. https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5287/13570248174_0cb6714488_z.jpg
Wassily Kandinsky at the Milwaukee Art Museum Exhibition – not part of their permanent collection. https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5287/13570248174_0cb6714488_z.jpg

How are you beginning to use the ideas of color and shape to communicate your ideas from your song?

MILWAUKEE: http://mam.org/kandinsky/

 

  1. Blending ANALOGOUS colors with and without finger blending
  2. Blending COMPLEMENTS with and without finger blending
  3. Straight and Curved lines with the TIPS and with the SIDES of the pastels
  4. Filling large areas with a color and then doing smaller details over the top with another DIFFERENT color
  5. Blending with CIRCULAR marks as well as BACK AND FORTH marks
  6. Using PAPER as a masking tool
  7. Adding a WHITE HIGHLIGHT over a darker colored surface
  8. Working UPRIGHT on an easel versus on the FLAT on a table top
  9. Cleaning your pastels with paper towel
  10. Experiment on your own – use your initial images of SKETCHING for the VISUAL experiment inspiration
  11. CLEANING with SPRAY and a CLOTH RAG – that’s not an exercise but a technique that will clean a lot faster than paper towel

Studio Art 360: Character Mugs

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 Clay. Please be specific. 

Face Jars at the Milwaukee Art Museum
Face Jars at the Milwaukee Art Museum
Face Jars at the Milwaukee Art Museum
Face Jars at the Milwaukee Art Museum

 

What was the most challenging part of working with ceramics / clay as you created your mug? What are three things that working with this material challenged you with?

DUE END OF CLASS TODAY.

Advanced Drawing: Figure Drawing and the GESTURE

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?

Gesture Drawings - Side of Charcoal - FAST http://www.serenatran.com/images/2dsketchbook/gesture.jpg
Gesture Drawings – Side of Charcoal – FAST http://www.serenatran.com/images/2dsketchbook/gesture.jpg

What did taking an entire minute away from your drawings do for you? Harder? Easier? What did you have to do DIFFERENTLY? 

 

AP Studio Art: WORK on CONCENTRATION

Reflect: Learning to think and talk with others about an aspect of one’s work or working process, and learning to judge one’s own work and working process and the work of others.

What response do you have regarding your studio mate’s  works – really – that can help them see things that they might not see – things that might help them continue to learn from their own works and marks? Take 5 minutes and walk around – take a look – make some thoughts for MONDAY (the extended deadline). 

Brayden – This group of Photos is for YOU.

Paper Sculptures at the Milwaukee Art Museum
Paper Sculptures at the Milwaukee Art Museum
Paper Sculptures at the Milwaukee Art Museum
Paper Sculptures at the Milwaukee Art Museum
Paper Sculptures at the Milwaukee Art Museum
Paper Sculptures at the Milwaukee Art Museum
Paper Sculptures at the Milwaukee Art Museum

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 APRIL 3 for CRITIQUE & PRESENTATION.

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#Scholastic Art Show at #MAM – #Awards for Great #Art (Still)

Fear of Stairs: http://img2.rnkr-static.com/user_node_img/50063/1001246761/870/if-this-bothers-you-at-all-you-have-it-photo-u2.jpg

Robert Henri: “Advice about your paintings is difficult.  As I said before, I cannot interest myself in whether they will pass juries or not. More paintings have been spoiled during the process of their making, through such considerations, than the judgements of juries are worth.”

Drawing: Books and Oil Pastels – WRAP IT UP!

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 do you feel about talking aloud when it comes to other’s works? What are your thoughts about why you may be apprehensive or confident when discussing other individual’s work?

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Critique About Art: http://escapingartist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Art-School-Crit.jpg

What were 3 things that you took away from today’s critique? 

 

Studio Art 360: Pencils and Observation

2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.

Form and Value: Using what you remember about form from our earlier drawings of 2 point perspective cubes, cylinders, and pyramids? Using the objects that has been set out in front of  you and spend the hour working on drawing it to scale (1:1). Look at all the shadows, reflections, highlights and darks. Practice LOOKING. It is all about the eye! N: DEMO AGAIN – Sighting in and Searching for lines. DO NOT ERASE.

TODAY - We TALK about the process of SKETCHING and Preliminary Ideas - OBSERVATION Drawing. http://pre11.deviantart.net/4c6c/th/pre/f/2010/304/0/d/ball___cube___cylinder___ring_by_gartus-d31w5zb.jpg
TODAY – We TALK about the process of SKETCHING and Preliminary Ideas – OBSERVATION Drawing. http://pre11.deviantart.net/4c6c/th/pre/f/2010/304/0/d/ball___cube___cylinder___ring_by_gartus-d31w5zb.jpg

Challenges and struggles? Are you going to take it home and REFINE it? 

 

Advanced Drawing: Fast Food – Time to RESOLVE THIS

2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form. A: As you look back on this drawing – what is the ONE AREA you are uncertain about in the work?

Bags - McDonald's Bags https://ihabdines.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/mcdonalds-bag.jpg
Bags – McDonald’s Bags https://ihabdines.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/mcdonalds-bag.jpg

What do you FEAR about standing up in front of a class and TALKING about your art with the class of Artists? Name 3 FEARS

 

AP Studio Art: FEAR! Listen to THIS… NPR’s This American Life (again)… ASSIGNMENT HERE!

 

1.1 Ad: Visualize and hypothesize to generate plans for ideas and directions for creating art and design that can affect social change.

What are you doing outside of the studio time to make sure you are staying on top of your work? What have you done to PUSH  yourself in the process of making your art stronger, more successful? A LEVEL 6?

Fear of Stairs: http://img2.rnkr-static.com/user_node_img/50063/1001246761/870/if-this-bothers-you-at-all-you-have-it-photo-u2.jpg
Fear of Stairs: http://img2.rnkr-static.com/user_node_img/50063/1001246761/870/if-this-bothers-you-at-all-you-have-it-photo-u2.jpg

Bathmophobia – Fear of Stairs

How much progress have you made? This is a focused work week – have your new seating spaces helped? Hindered? Meh?

CHAPTER 6 Due FRIDAY at 11:59.

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Welcome to the #SecondSemester and #StudioArt!

What is Art? Agnes Martin “Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.” Art In America (p.124, 1996)

Agnes Martin at Work: https://i0.wp.com/www.guggenheim.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/gen-video-agnes-martin-video-still.jpg
Agnes Martin at Work: https://i0.wp.com/www.guggenheim.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/gen-video-agnes-martin-video-still.jpg

Drawing: Welcome to O.P.P. (Observation, Pencils, and Perspective).

1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.

What is it that you think about when you think about what IS art? (SHARE WITH FRIEND) What is it you think about when you think about making art?

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Big Stack of Books: https://img.clipartfest.com/677bd72a0fa47ab97b4bd48f10007673_the-greatest-book-of-wisdom-pictures-of-stack-of-books_1536-1024.jpeg

What are 3 challenges or successes you had with your first few thumbnail drawings about the STACK of BOOKS – Huge in the center of the room? THINK COMPOSITION.

Studio Art 360: Lines and Sol LeWitt

2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.

What kinds of lines do YOU see in this series of drawings?

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Sol LeWitt Drawing of LINES – What are we going to do? http://a398.idata.over-blog.com/429×423/1/96/04/42/s-rie-F/LeWitt-S.-Four-Basic-Kinds-of-Straight-Lines-69.jpg

STICKY NOTES… What are 3 things you hope to learn in this room? END OF CLASS – Stand up – Think about what you are hoping to learn – in ONE WORD (and you cannot repeat another person’s comment) Your name and then your word. Sol LeWitt: Line Drawings in Pencil:  Assignment Handout LINK: https://goo.gl/nZo3qY


Advanced Drawing

2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.

What are a FEW THINGS that visually stand out to you from this artwork by Janet Fish? List 3 please.

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Janet Fish – Still Life Objects – Transparency: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/9c/96/c5/9c96c5ecec44ad028dc7e5da34a52521.jpg

What are 3 things you hope to learn in this Class? END OF CLASS – Stand up in a circle – Think about what you are hoping to learn – in ONE WORD (and you cannot repeat another person’s comment) Your name and then your word. That’s it. Speak it out loud.

ASSIGNMENT FOR WEDNESDAY – Fast Food Bags and Packaging for first still life drawing.

AP Studio Art: Hands and Still Life – Photography – Let’s CRIT first!

4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.

Hand in 3D with Still Life Object: http://studioartportfolios.collegeboard.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/WKS_2015_3DBreadth_student2C_image2_opt-971×1024.jpg
AP Studio Art 2D Hand and Still Life Object Breadth: http://studioartportfolios.collegeboard.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/APC_2015_DrawingBreadth_student6A_image9_OPT.jpg

What is ONE THING you really want to explain about the work you have created regarding the Art and Fear Chapter you chose. Write this out so you have a starting place to talk when you explain your work.

What 2 things are you most pleased with regarding the works you see / made out Art and Fear? ASSIGNMENT – Symbolism and BREADTH – You need to bring in a couple of still life objects that can easily be held in your hand (which will be photographed and then printed) to practice the ideas of observation. What have you got that you can bring in that helps to really tell about yourself, your interests, your passions? The practice of the still life – observation – is a skill that readers (AP and the rest of the art viewing world) recognize as important to the building of the skills of an artist. How can you demonstrate those skills? Many drawings? One Drawing? How can you use the time to really build your BREADTH?