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Week 15 – Can you believe we have FEWER than 12 days together? We have WORK TO GET DONE and we NEED to work – USE YOUR BEST STUDIO HABITS to get the work done!

This was a DAY WITH GLASSES and a strong time in my painting years… COVID and QUARANTINE too. I LOVE the Studio Habits as an artist and work to instill them in to the hands of the kiddo’s I work with. What are YOUR studio Habits?

LINK THE TO THE 8 STUDIO HABITS is HERE and as a PDF from the originators HERE

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

Link to lesson plans HERE!

7th Grade: PHOTOGRAPHY and Identity

Ted Orland – Half Car from the Glacier Point Road

Link to lesson plans HERE!

8th Grade 2D Design: Zentangle, Parabola, Line and Shape Design… A lot to think about.

Link to lesson plans HERE!

One of the BIGGEST CHALLENGES I see with 8th graders and your understanding of what art is and what it can be is that you don not have a wide view of the world of the arts. The IMAGE, the PICTURE has to be something and it has to be correct (in many of the 8th graders eyes) and sometimes it can be and should be about the mark making… the act of making art. Sol Le Witt nailed this!

Link to lesson plans HERE!

8th Grade Sculpture: Wheel Thrown and Plaster Sculptures.

  • How did you use your time in the studio to the best of your ability to make the best work you could possibly do?
  • How have you chosen to make an artwork that is PERSONAL to you?
  • What are three things about the hand sculpture that demonstrate this?

Link to lesson plans HERE!

SHORT LIST of Florian Gatsby

Florian’s List of videos – 12 Videos

Earth Nation Ceramics

Earth Nation Ceramics List of Beginner’s Videos HERE – 30 TOTAL but you don’t need them all

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Week 14 – What are POSITIVE STUDIO HABITS and how can they help you make stronger art? Use the time and space and materials in the studio well and you will make better art.

This was a DAY WITH GLASSES and a strong time in my painting years… COVID and QUARANTINE too. I LOVE the Studio Habits as an artist and work to instill them in to the hands of the kiddo’s I work with. What are YOUR studio Habits?

LINK THE TO THE 8 STUDIO HABITS is HERE and as a PDF from the originators HERE

I can communicate in positive ways to get my needs met.

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

Kathe Kollwitz – Memorial Sheet of Karl Liebknecht – AP ART HISTORY IMAGE – Look at this and you are a step ahead of college Art History!

Keepsake boxes and the final few days… what are your ideas for the surface decoration and embellishment.

Link to lesson plans HERE!

7th Grade: PHOTOGRAPHY and Identity

The Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, 1942, printed 1980
Ansel Adams, 1902–1984; born San Francisco, CA; died Monterey, CA
Gelatin silver print
x1983-166

Link to lesson plans HERE!

8th Grade 2D Design: Zentangle, Parabola, Line and Shape Design… A lot to think about.

Bridget Riley and OP ART – How can you use the Simplest of the ART ELEMENTS and make art that can cause some conversation and inquiry?

Link to lesson plans HERE!

8th Grade Sculpture: Wheel Thrown and Plaster Sculptures.

Link to lesson plans HERE!

SHORT LIST of Florian Gatsby

Florian’s List of videos – 12 Videos

Earth Nation Ceramics

Earth Nation Ceramics List of Beginner’s Videos HERE – 30 TOTAL but you don’t need them all

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Week 13 – Let us Keep Making Art with the GOAL OF BECOMING STRONGER ARTISTS!

I can communicate in positive ways to get my needs met.

“Bad as it is, the world is potentially full of good photographs. But to be good, photographs have to be full of the world.” Dorothea Lange

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

Keepsake boxes and the final few days… what are your ideas for the surface decoration and embellishment.

Link to lesson plans HERE!

7th Grade: PHOTOGRAPHY and Identity

and then PHOTOGRAPHY

How are we able to use these ideas in NEW ways… I wish I knew who did this because it is a REALLY great approach to talking the neurographic breakdown of the contours in another direction!

Link to lesson plans HERE!

8th Grade 2D Design: Zentangle, Parabola, Line and Shape Design… A lot to think about.

Link to lesson plans HERE!

8th Grade Sculpture: Wheel Thrown and Plaster Sculptures.

Link to lesson plans HERE!

SHORT LIST of Florian Gatsby

Florian’s List of videos – 12 Videos

Earth Nation Ceramics

Earth Nation Ceramics List of Beginner’s Videos HERE – 30 TOTAL but you don’t need them all

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Week 12 – New Works are coming our way!

I can communicate in positive ways to get my needs met.

A day at Expo Chicago brought back a great number of images and ideas… here is one image and then a quote from a different artist. I wish I’d have seen the name of the artist above.

“It doesn’t matter if the story is precisely true…it’s about you telling the story. It’s almost like going to a rock concert where the audience sings along with the performer. I want the viewer’s experiences to be echoed in the work as they are reflected back in the canvases.”

— Nir Hod – Artist

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: CERAMICS and KEEPSAKE Boxes (Last day) and then PHOTOGRAPHY

Keepsake boxes and the final few days… what are your ideas for the surface decoration and embellishment.

Link to lesson plans HERE!

Children hard at work at school in Iowa, 1954.

Gordon Parks The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock

7th Grade: PORTRAITS (and we wrap it up) and then PHOTOGRAPHY and Identity

and then PHOTOGRAPHY

How are we able to use these ideas in NEW ways… I wish I knew who did this because it is a REALLY great approach to talking the neurographic breakdown of the contours in another direction!

Link to lesson plans HERE!

8th Grade 2D Design: Zentangle, Parabola, Line and Shape Design… A lot to think about.

Link to lesson plans HERE!

8th Grade Sculpture: Wheel Thrown and Plaster Sculptures.

Nir Hod, Scratches of Butterfly, 2023, Marble and Butterfly Specimen, 18” x 4.5” x 3”, Michael Kohn Gallery

Link to lesson plans HERE!

SHORT LIST of Florian Gatsby

Florian’s List of videos – 12 Videos

Earth Nation Ceramics

Earth Nation Ceramics List of Beginner’s Videos HERE – 30 TOTAL but you don’t need them all

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My lunch (and art) at Cafe LuLu with my family in Bay View, Milwaukee

Once again, but with a moving twist, 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. When you happen to be in the neighborhood – please stop in and take a look. My family and I had a great lunch there and this is a short video of the works. Please, stop in and check out the works, have a GREAT MEAL, and contact me when you are interested in the works. Also… mark your calendars for September 27 when the ENTIRE BAY VIEW Neighborhood opens their artistic doors to celebrate the artwork, artists, art galleries, and art spaces that Bay View, Milwaukee has to offer. I will be at Café LuLu to talk and chat… I hope to see you, and all your friends, there!