I count 4 weeks and 10 classes – YIKES!


Studio Expectations are Here.


Lesson Plans

Look at the LIDS and the HANDLES – What are you going to do with your lid and handle?

Additive, Subtractive, Carving, Sgraffito, Modeling / Sculpting – ALL of these are required!

Carol Long Pottery

Ceramic Keepsake Box Assignment


Lesson Plans

Andy Warhol, The Complete Athlete Series, 1978.

Andy Warhol, The Complete Athlete Series, 1978. (O.J. Simpson, Dorothy Hamill, Pelรฉ, Jack Nicklaus, Rod Gilbert, Muhammad Ali, Tom Seaver, Willie Shoemaker, Chris Evert, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)

Photoshop and Filters? Color Changes? Repetition and Emotion? Let’s see how much fun you can have with this work.

POP Portraits Assignment HERE


Lesson Plans

We are GLAZING for the next 5 days.

4 more weeks. Who’s counting?


Studio Expectations are Here.


Lesson Plans

Look at the LIDS and the HANDLES – What are you going to do with your lid and handle?

Ceramic Keepsake Box Assignment


Lesson Plans

Andy Warhol,ย Ethel Scull 36 Times, 1963, ยฉ 2020 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

POP Portraits Assignment HERE


Lesson Plans

Claymation Assignment HERE.

  • One day left of editing and then it is time to view them all!
  • Work as a team but on your own version of the movie.
  • Good job on the PHOTOGRAPHY – let us hope they all work out!

Week 14? That means only 5 more to go – YIKES!


Ok… WE HAVE to reel in the rules and expectations… and… As Always… Studio Expectations are Here.


Lesson Plans

Printmaking Art Assignment

Ceramic Keepsake Box Assignment

The MET – Woodcut Demo Page – This is GOOD! – Check it out.


Neurographic Line Portrait Assignment HERE

Watercolor Technique DEMO – NO PORTRAIT WORK this week (unless we get through it all on the FIRST DAY!


Lesson Plans

Claymation Assignment HERE.

  • One week of editing and then it is time to view them all! Work as a team but on your own version of the movie. Good job on the PHOTOGRAPHY – let us hope they all work out!

Welcome to Week 13! Ceramic Keepsake Boxes, Neurographic Portraits and Watercolors, Stop Motion Photography! 6 – 8 grade keeps making STRONG ART!


As Always… Studio Expectations are Here.


Lesson Plans

What is it that you ALREADY KNOW or PERSONALLY HAVE FEELINGS about regarding CLAY? Here we GO!

Printmaking Art Assignment

Ceramic Keepsake Box Assignment

The MET – Woodcut Demo Page – This is GOOD! – Check it out.


Neurographic Line Portrait Assignment HERE

Watercolor Technique DEMO – NO PORTRAIT WORK this week (unless we get through it all on the FIRST DAY!


Lesson Plans

Claymation Assignment HERE.

  • One week of editing and then it is time to view them all! Work as a team but on your own version of the movie. Good job on the PHOTOGRAPHY – let us hope they all work out!

Welcome to Week 12! Printing – again, Painting, and 2 Days of Photographs in Stop Motion Photography


As Always… Studio Expectations are Here.


Lesson Plans

https://www.nga.gov/features/slideshows/mary-cassatt-selected-color-prints.html#slide_9

Printmaking Art Assignment

The MET – Woodcut Demo Page – This is GOOD! – Check it out.


Neurographic Line Portrait Assignment HERE

Watercolor Technique DEMO – NO PORTRAIT WORK this week (unless we get through it all on the FIRST DAY!

  • https://youtu.be/qSZM0WpFY4k
  • On the BACK of your COLOR SCHEME PAINTINGS – Draw out 8 Squares… Use the mat board squares provided…
  • Looking at the portraitsโ€ฆ
    • What is ONE GOAL – ONE measurable goal – something you can look back on at the end of the hour and see if you hit it or not – that you can set for yourself today?

Lesson Plans

Onto CLAYMATION! Claymation Assignment HERE.

  • 2 MORE DAYS TO MAKE PHOTOS!
  • PLEASE GET YOUR WORK OUT and be at a GROUP TABLE.
  • Cameras and tripods are READY TO GO at the table.
  • You are going to set things up and make a LOT of photographs today. 12 photos per secondโ€ฆ 10 seconds – 120 photographs
  • WHAT ARE YOU going to do in order to make a very successful team project SO THAT you can upload the images and make a movie next time?

Welcome to Week 11! Printing, Portraits, and Stop Motion Photography


As Always… Studio Expectations are Here.


Lesson Plans

https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2025/elizabeth-catlett-black-revolutionary-artist.html

The MET – Woodcut Demo Page – This is GOOD! – Check it out.

Printmaking Art Assignment


Neurographic Line Portrait Assignment HERE


Lesson Plans

Onto CLAYMATION! Claymation Assignment HERE.

Welcome to Week 10! Welcome to 4th QUARTER! Whoa that went fast!


As Always… Studio Expectations are Here.


Lesson Plans

Sister Mary Corita Kent’s work at the National Gallery – she was a print maker! I love her studio expectations as well… do you remember them?

The MET – Woodcut Demo Page – This is GOOD! – Check it out.

Printmaking Art Assignment


David Najib Kasir – Milwaukee Artist in the line of PORTRAITS!

Neurographic Line Portrait Assignment HERE


Lesson Plans

Being at the National Indian Museum in Washington DC over spring break… I saw a number of works that were pertinent to what we’ve been doing.

Onto CLAYMATION! Claymation Assignment HERE.

Welcome to Week 9! The last week of the QUARTER – GRADES will be done soon.

I made it past the FIRST ROUND… Is Frank Korb America’s Favorite Teacher? Please help a teacher out… You Decide: https://americasfavteacher.org/2025/frank-korb


Studio Expectations are Here.

THIS WEEK! the Studio Habits of Mind – Thank you the art of education university. HERE are the POSTERS.

In Class Daily Reflections – Welcome to the page that will serve as our guide for this exciting journey. Keep track of how we are doing daily.


Lesson Plans

Head a young woman facing the viewer, from the portfolio ‘Los pequeรฑos grabadores en madera, alumnos de la Escuela Preparatoria de Jalisco‘ (Guadalajara, Mexico 1925).
Marรญa Marรญn de Orozco Mexican, ca. 1924
The MET

The MET – Woodcut Demo Page – This is GOOD! – Check it out.

Printmaking Art Assignment


We are GLAZING – How many coats do you need?


Lesson Plans

Totem, Ettore Sottsass, Italian, born Austria, 1966, The MET – Not on View

CLAY and Totem Inspired Works – and the wheel!

Totem Inspired Sculpture ASSIGNMENT

Wheel Thrown Assignment / Glazing

Week 19 – Here we are – Final Week of 8th, 7th, and 6th Grade.

Respect for Others: I can identify examples of discrimination based on perceived differences.


Our classes begin in Google Classroom AND from the lesson plans below. PLEASE feel free to visit the day to day and see what we are working on in the studio. The links will take you to the Table of Contents… find the current week to see what we are doing.

6th Grade: Letter Writing and CLEANING

Link to lesson plans HERE!

  • Know about different techniques and processes in ART MAKING
  • K ow about how to write a letter
    • Make it Personal
    • Make a CONNECTION
    • Work on PENMANSHIP
  • Know about personal connections in the art
  • Know about Artists and Art History

We did a lot of printing. As 6th graders, it is a bit simpler than how others make prints… Great Work To You ALL!

7th Grade: Photoshop and Portraits

Link to lesson plans HERE!

  • Know about process and art making
  • Know about use of technology and the computer and the camera
  • Know about Photoshop and Inspirational Posters and Text

8th Grade 2D Design: Still Life in Pencil – From 21st Century Technology to the 18th Century Technology – Morandi is a GREAT reference – Watch some of the videos below.

  • Know about OBSERVATION in Drawing
  • Know about using LAYERS with SHADING
  • Know about setting up a STILL LIFE
  • Know about using PHOTOGRAPHY and Strong LIGHTING

Link to lesson plans HERE!

8th Grade Sculpture: Photography and Assessment and CLEANING – That is ALL…

Link to lesson plans HERE!

  • Know about ALL the different techniques and processes
  • Know about personal connections in the art
  • Know about Artists and Art History

Week 18- We are almost

Respect for Others: I can identify examples of discrimination based on perceived differences.


Our classes begin in Google Classroom AND from the lesson plans below. PLEASE feel free to visit the day to day and see what we are working on in the studio. The links will take you to the Table of Contents… find the current week to see what we are doing.

6th Grade: Printmaking and Assessment

Link to lesson plans HERE!

  • Know about different techniques and processes in PRINTMAKING
  • Know about personal connections in the art
  • Know about Artists and Art History

We are doing a lot of different printing. As 6th graders, it is a bit simpler than how others make prints… Mary Cassatt was a phenomenal print maker and the one American in the French Impressionist movement.

SO MUCH ART HISTORY!

7th Grade: Inspirational Posters and Photoshop! Can we focus enough to get the job done?

Link to lesson plans HERE!

  • Know about process and art making
  • Know about use of technology and the computer and the camera
  • Know about Photoshop and Inspirational Posters and Text

Posters and Photoshop! Spot Color as well… this is SPOT COLOR

8th Grade 2D Design: Still Life in Pencil – From 21st Century Technology to the 18th Century Technology – Morandi is a GREAT reference – Watch some of the videos below.

  • Know about OBSERVATION in Drawing
  • Know about using LAYERS with SHADING
  • Know about setting up a STILL LIFE
  • Know about using PHOTOGRAPHY and Strong LIGHTING
  • Know about how art history influences what contemporary artists
  • Reflect on personal ideas and resolve the challenges you have faced.
  • Know about and work through the ideas of making drawings through observation as well as the techniques that are involved.

Link to lesson plans HERE!

8th Grade Sculpture: Photography and Assessment and CLEANING – That is ALL…

Link to lesson plans HERE!

  • Know about the use of GLAZE
  • Techniques and Process
  • Rationale for techniques and process

I hope all is going well as you are ending your school year! Keep positive and Keep Working! 4, 3 more studio days with most of my awesome artists… how about you?