Week 5: We begin perspective, photography, and CLAY!

EXPECTATIONS in the studio… Here are ours.

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

One Point Perspective Drawing / Painting Assignment

Look at your one-point perspective drawings and write out 2 things you found success in AND write out 1 thing you still saw / felt as a struggle.

Calendar

  • Day 7: Assignment Given – Cityscape, neighborhood, or an interior of a room.
  • Day 8: Continue working – Set up the cityscape or room interior with the left and right side.
  • Day 9: Dividing Sidewalks and raising them from Street level.
  • Day 10: Windows and Doors – Intro idea of PERSPECTIVE CENTER to get a double door and maybe a peaked roof.
  • Day 11: Watercolors and review the use of them – techniques – using the lid as a place to mix color – SMALL WATER IN COLORS THEMSELVES,  and proper handling of brushes – good brushes to use. Practice Worksheet with Watercolors – ONE DAY McGilton and Korbโ€™s Art Corridor – Watercolor Practice – Step by Step – 6th Grade Art
  • Day 12: Begin Watercolor – use ALL of the techniques we have learned
  • Days 13 – 15: Paint
  • Day 16: Wrap up painting, Assessment, Nametags, Mount, Displ

Lesson Plans

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

Photography Assignment


Lesson Plans

PLASTER HAND SCULPTURE ARTWORK PROJECT – Photograph and Rubric – Then CLAY!

โ€œIt doesnโ€™t matter if the story is precisely trueโ€ฆitโ€™s about you telling the story. Itโ€™s almost like going to a rock concert where the audience sings along with the performer. I want the viewerโ€™s experiences to be echoed in the work as they are reflected back in the canvases.โ€ โ€” Nir Hod

  • Day 9: Photograph, Critique, Nametags, and Turn in for assessment 

Totem Inspired Sculpture ASSIGNMENT

Wheel Thrown Assignment / Glazing

Week 4: Let’s keep PERSPECTIVE on our ROOMS, BOXES, and HANDS!

EXPECTATIONS in the studio… Here are ours.

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

One Point Perspective Drawing / Painting Assignment

Look at your one-point perspective drawings and write out 2 things you found success in AND write out 1 thing you still saw / felt as a struggle.

Calendar

  • Day 1: Worksheets and Introduction – One Point Perspective Demo (cube)
  • Day 2: Baseline: Review and Draw on your own – step by step
  • Day 3: One-day worksheet to PRACTICE the Illusion of Depth
  • Day 4: Step by Step review with Buildings and Street – Review RULES OF PERSPECTIVE.
  • Day 5: Details on Buildings – Facade and Sides
  • Day 6: Buildings or Trees on Horizon Line – Distant buildings behind the street level buildings – Illusion of Depth
  • Day 7: Assignment Given – Cityscape, neighborhood, or an interior of a room.
  • Day 8: Continue working – Set up the cityscape or room interior with the left and right side.
  • Day 9: Dividing Sidewalks and raising them from Street level.
  • Day 10: Windows and Doors – Intro idea of PERSPECTIVE CENTER to get a double door and maybe a peaked roof.
  • Day 11: Watercolors and review the use of them – techniques – using the lid as a place to mix color – SMALL WATER IN COLORS THEMSELVES,  and proper handling of brushes – good brushes to use. Practice Worksheet with Watercolors – ONE DAY McGilton and Korbโ€™s Art Corridor – Watercolor Practice – Step by Step – 6th Grade Art
  • Day 12: Begin Watercolor – use ALL of the techniques we have learned
  • Days 13 – 15: Paint
  • Day 16: Wrap up painting, Assessment, Nametags, Mount, Displ

Lesson Plans


Ceramic Cell Phone Holder Assignment

Do your measurements work for your phone?

  • Day 1 and 2: Instructions, Planning, Photograph ideas, Supplies Handed Out.
  • Day 3 – 5: 2 DAYS OF SCULPTING: Begin and continue sculpting, slab building, wrap up, set out to dry!
  • Day 6: Finish it up! Let Dry and then FIRE!
  • Day 7: Photograph and Load Kiln
  • Day 8: Unload Kiln, check for damage, cry a little maybe, photograph and begin glazing
  • Day 9: Glaze and Reload Kiln and FireDay 10: Unload Kiln, Photograph, Assess, and Display

Lesson Plans

PLASTER HAND SCULPTURE ARTWORK PROJECT

  • What do you need to do if you are the sculptor today?
  • What do you need to do if you are the sitter / model today? 
    • What is your pose going to be and what message is it communicating?
  • Think about the use of the other objects and props and decorations to the work. What are you going to do with this sculpture?

โ€œIt doesnโ€™t matter if the story is precisely trueโ€ฆitโ€™s about you telling the story. Itโ€™s almost like going to a rock concert where the audience sings along with the performer. I want the viewerโ€™s experiences to be echoed in the work as they are reflected back in the canvases.โ€ โ€” Nir Hod

Plaster Hand Sculpture Calendar

  • Day 1 and 2: Introduction and planning
  • Day 3 and 4: Collaborative work with classmates to wrap, dry, and cut off the sculpture.
  • Dat 5: Repair and begin painting / attaching bases to the work – Korb – Get some small 2 x 4โ€™s for bases
  • Day 6 – 8: Paint and Decorate and Make these PERSONAL and MOVING!
  • Day 9: Photograph, Critique, Nametags, and Turn in for assessment 

Week 3 – Drawings and Sculpture – 6 – 8th graders

EXPECTATIONS in the studio… Here are ours.

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

One Point Perspective Drawing / Painting Assignment

Look at your one-point perspective drawings and write out 2 things you found success in AND write out 1 thing you still saw / felt as a struggle.

Calendar

  • Day 1: Worksheets and Introduction – One Point Perspective Demo (cube)
  • Day 2: Baseline: Review and Draw on your own – step by step
  • Day 3: One-day worksheet to PRACTICE the Illusion of Depth
  • Day 4: Step by Step review with Buildings and Street – Review RULES OF PERSPECTIVE.
  • Day 5: Details on Buildings – Facade and Sides
  • Day 6: Buildings or Trees on Horizon Line – Distant buildings behind the street level buildings – Illusion of Depth
  • Day 7: Assignment Given – Cityscape, neighborhood, or an interior of a room.
  • Day 8: Continue working – Set up the cityscape or room interior with the left and right side.
  • Day 9: Dividing Sidewalks and raising them from Street level.
  • Day 10: Windows and Doors – Intro idea of PERSPECTIVE CENTER to get a double door and maybe a peaked roof.
  • Day 11: Watercolors and review the use of them – techniques – using the lid as a place to mix color – SMALL WATER IN COLORS THEMSELVES,  and proper handling of brushes – good brushes to use. Practice Worksheet with Watercolors – ONE DAY McGilton and Korbโ€™s Art Corridor – Watercolor Practice – Step by Step – 6th Grade Art
  • Day 12: Begin Watercolor – use ALL of the techniques we have learned
  • Days 13 – 15: Paint
  • Day 16: Wrap up painting, Assessment, Nametags, Mount, Displ

Lesson Plans


Ceramic Cell Phone Holder Assignment

Do your measurements work for your phone?

  • Day 1 and 2: Instructions, Planning, Photograph ideas, Supplies Handed Out.
  • Day 3 – 5: 2 DAYS OF SCULPTING: Begin and continue sculpting, slab building, wrap up, set out to dry!
  • Day 6: Finish it up! Let Dry and then FIRE!
  • Day 7: Photograph and Load Kiln
  • Day 8: Unload Kiln, check for damage, cry a little maybe, photograph and begin glazing
  • Day 9: Glaze and Reload Kiln and FireDay 10: Unload Kiln, Photograph, Assess, and Display

Lesson Plans

PLASTER HAND SCULPTURE ARTWORK PROJECT

  • What do you need to do if you are the sculptor today?
  • What do you need to do if you are the sitter / model today? 
    • What is your pose going to be and what message is it communicating?
  • Think about the use of the other objects and props and decorations to the work. What are you going to do with this sculpture?

โ€œIt doesnโ€™t matter if the story is precisely trueโ€ฆitโ€™s about you telling the story. Itโ€™s almost like going to a rock concert where the audience sings along with the performer. I want the viewerโ€™s experiences to be echoed in the work as they are reflected back in the canvases.โ€ โ€” Nir Hod

Plaster Hand Sculpture Calendar

  • Day 1 and 2: Introduction and planning
  • Day 3 and 4: Collaborative work with classmates to wrap, dry, and cut off the sculpture.
  • Dat 5: Repair and begin painting / attaching bases to the work – Korb – Get some small 2 x 4โ€™s for bases
  • Day 6 – 8: Paint and Decorate and Make these PERSONAL and MOVING!
  • Day 9: Photograph, Critique, Nametags, and Turn in for assessmentย 

Week 2 – Already? What happened to those first days?

EXPECTATIONS in the studio… Here are ours.

Also – and we will be going through these in studio – the Studio Habits of Mind – Thank you the art of education university. HERE are the POSTERS.

In Class Daily Reflections is going to be new this semester also… Here is the page we will be using to keep track of how we are doing daily.


Lesson Plans

Clay Assignment HERE


Lesson Plans


Lesson Plans

PLASTER HAND SCULPTURE ARTWORK PROJECT

George Segal inspired Sculpture

Week 1 – Welcome to Second Semester

EXPECTATIONS in the studio… Here are ours.

Also – and we will be going through these in studio – the Studio Habits of Mind – Thank you the art of education university. HERE are the POSTERS.

In Class Daily Reflections is going to be new this semester also… Here is the page we will be using to keep track of how we are doing daily.


Lesson Plans

Clay Assignment HERE


Lesson Plans


Lesson Plans

PLASTER HAND SCULPTURE ARTWORK PROJECT

George Segal inspired Sculpture

Week 19 – The final Days in the Art Studio!

EXPECTATIONS: As always, we need to review the studio expectations. Here are ours.

Also – and we will be going through these in studio – the Studio Habits of Mind – Thank you the art of education university. HERE are the POSTERS.


Lesson Plans

Clay Assignment HERE


Lesson Plans

What worked (or didn’t work) in the final work out of the kiln? How would you fix it if you could redo it?


Lesson Plans

PLASTER HAND SCULPTURE ARTWORK PROJECT

George Segal inspired Sculpture

Week 18 – Two More Weeks – 4 more days…

EXPECTATIONS: Sometimes we need to review the studio expectations. Here are ours.

Also – and we will be going through these in studio – the Studio Habits of Mind – Thank you the art of education university. HERE are the POSTERS.


Lesson Plans

Demo Day – What is it like to work on the potter’s wheel? Let’s find out!

What are you going to GLAZE your keepsake box like? How will that all get pulled together?

Clay Assignment HERE


Lesson Plans

What worked (or didn’t work) in the final work out of the kiln? How would you fix it if you could redo it?


Lesson Plans

PLASTER HAND SCULPTURE ARTWORK PROJECT

  • George Segal inspired Sculpture – Day 2 of sculpting and then painting. What are you going to do with the outside of it, the presentation of it, the display of it to make it work so it can STAND ON ITS OWN?

Week 17 – Happy New Year. We have a LOT of art to make.

EXPECTATIONS: Sometimes we need to review the studio expectations. Here are ours.

Also – and we will be going through these in studio – the Studio Habits of Mind – Thank you the art of education university. HERE are the POSTERS.


Lesson Plans

What is your keepsake box going to hold? How do we see that on the outside of the piece?

Clay Assignment HERE


Lesson Plans

What is your animal and how are you going to REALLY make this successful


Lesson Plans

PLASTER HAND SCULPTURE ARTWORK PROJECT

  • George Segal inspired Sculpture

Week 16 – Still Sculpting!

EXPECTATIONS: Sometimes we need to review the studio expectations. Here are ours.

Also – and we will be going through these in studio – the Studio Habits of Mind – Thank you the art of education university. HERE are the POSTERS.


Lesson Plans

What is your keepsake box going to hold? How do we see that on the outside of the piece?

Clay Assignment HERE


Lesson Plans

What is your animal and how are you going to REALLY make this successful


Lesson Plans

A day late but not a dollar short. Thanks for your patience as I ended the weekend for other things. Hope your school week and whatever else you have to do is GREAT as we all approach some sort of break!

Keep up the POSITIVE ATTITUDE and GREAT WORK!

Frank

We are done glazing and the firing has been completed. How do you feel about your work? How was it successful? what woukld you have done differently?

Coming up AFTER BREAK! – PLASTER HAND SCULPTURE ARTWORK PROJECT

  • AFTER the break… Segal inspired Sculpture for the time and talk about GLAZING…

Week 15 – Sculpting and Painting and Glazing… Oh My!

I feel like I’ve said this before. We all need to work on being good towards everyone… It starts with your choices in how you treat one another.

EXPECTATIONS: Sometimes we need to review the studio expectations. Here are ours.

Also – and we will be going through these in studio – the Studio Habits of Mind – Thank you the art of education university. HERE are the POSTERS.


Lesson Plans

The INTERNET has a lot of ideas – make sure you make your own PERSONAL – Look at these FEET and HANDLES!

Clay Assignment HERE


What is YOUR color scheme?

How could you use these ideas of SHAPE and COLOR in a digital world? This was done in Adobe Illustrator – a CAREER PROGRAM for a digital artist.

Lesson Plans

COLOR SCHEMES – HERE are examples of the 8 color schemes we are using. HERE is a better set of examples.

Experiments (below) with Watercolors are HERE. Are there MORE – Sure… this is what we start with. Work through it with WATERCOLORS!

  • Grab a WATER CUP and PAINT SET!
  • What do you know about COLOR SCHEMES?

Color Wheel HERE and ALONE

Neurographic Portrait in Watercolors – HERE


Lesson Plans

We have 3 days to GLAZE EVERYTHING and then we are going to FIRE it all. ALSO – When you finish glazing a piece, you are going to make a photograph of that work PRIOR to GLAZE firing. Spaces are set up in the fronts of the room.

PLASTER HAND SCULPTURE ARTWORK PROJECT

  • AFTER the break… Segal inspired Sculpture for the time and talk about GLAZING…