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Week 16 – Our time is running out. What can we get a lot done but we need to keep up a positive set of STUDIO HABITS

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: GLAZING and Printmaking

Link to lesson plans HERE!

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

7th Grade: PHOTOGRAPHY and Identity

Link to lesson plans HERE!

  • Know about process and art making
  • Know about use of technology and the computer and the camera
  • Know about Portraits, Landscape and Architecture, Foodie Photography
  • Know about Photoshop and Inspirational Posters and Text

Posters and Photoshop! Spot Color as well… this is NOT SPOT COLOR

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

  • Know about TIMELINE and LAYERS in Adobe Photoshop
  • Know about proper SAVING LOCATION on MAC’s in Computer Lab
  • Know about BRUSHES in Adobe Photoshop
  • Know about Frames / Second (FPS) in animation

Link to lesson plans HERE!

8th Grade Sculpture: Glazing

    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!

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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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    Week 11 – New Works are coming our way!

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

    #69: Color is not Neutral: It has an emotional component. Certain colors have specific associations and induce certain responses. Learn what they are. When you use color, try to determine and understand the accompanying emotional response and how to use it effectively. Color has a visceral impact. Kit White 101 Things I Learned in Art School

    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 couple of days)

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

    Link to lesson plans HERE!

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

    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.

    Victor Vasarely and his work with shape and design and distortion of it all!

    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 10 – Welcome to 4th Quarter

    I can choose solutions to problems and describe the impact of my choices on myself and others.

    51: Learn the basic principles of color. There are three primary colors: red, blue, and yellow. They are the building blocks of all other colors. The secondary colors are violet (blue and red), green (blue and yellow), and orange (red and yellow). They are composed by the equal mixture of two primaries. All other colors are referred to as tertiary, because they are mixtures of a primary and a secondary color. Kit White 101 Things to Learn in Art School

    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

    Lids and Feet – I hope everything stayed damp!

    7th Grade: PORTRAITS

    Artist and Teacher Kathy McMillian’s Work – Lovely – how are your works coming?

    Link to lesson plans HERE!

    8th Grade 2D Design: LANDSCAPES and 4 art movements… Last Days and CRITIQUE!

    Pierre Bonnard! What a GREAT SPRING BREAK FIELD TRIP I had!

    Link to lesson plans HERE!

    8th Grade Sculpture: WRAP IT UP – Intro to 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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    A good day to #MakeGoodImpressions and #CeramicBoxes with#LinoleumPrints

    Don’t ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it’s the only thing that ever has. – Aaron Sorkin, Writer and Producer.

    Get Out Your Handbooks – Page 16!

    Ceramics 1: Let’s continue with our boxes!

    • 7.2Ac: Evaluate the effectiveness of an image or images to influence ideas, feelings, and behaviors of specific audiences.
    • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
    • Assignment Sheet is in your GOOGLE CLASSROOM (as always) and HERE.

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    Small Ceramic Box with Lid and Feet:https://i.pinimg.com/originals/09/ac/53/09ac53130e34d0e9f1dba42d1262bff1.jpg

    • This has been a good week of work. We started with drawing out our plants, cutting into our linoleum, and resolving them for printing. We have also worked with creating successful slabs by rolling them out for today. Finally, today we took all of that information and put it all together successfully and you’ve resolved your boxes. What are three things about this process that you initially struggled with but in the end found a sense of success, accomplishment with? Write it out and then share it with your neighbor. Have a great weekend!

     

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    #Friday and #Time to #MakeArt

    The Earth Withour Art is just Eh. http://www.streetartutopia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/the-earth-without-art-is-just-eh.jpeg

    GET OUT YOUR HANDBOOKS!

    The Earth Withour Art is just Eh. http://www.streetartutopia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/the-earth-without-art-is-just-eh.jpeg
    The Earth Withour Art is just Eh. http://www.streetartutopia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/the-earth-without-art-is-just-eh.jpeg

    Drawing: Outside for ONE MORE DAY!

    2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.

    Let’s get rolling and get outside to draw from 5 – 10  feet away. One page and one drawing. That’s the goal.!

    David Hockney and LANDSCAPE! http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gfzaBwYRwf8/VJl_dKYmIUI/AAAAAAAASi0/xG5Ryp0gnqk/s1600/h2-1024x802.jpg
    David Hockney and LANDSCAPE! http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gfzaBwYRwf8/VJl_dKYmIUI/AAAAAAAASi0/xG5Ryp0gnqk/s1600/h2-1024×802.jpg

    Once again… What is your feeling about the process of drawing outside with a book that you made and a particular goal of filling it with observational drawings?

    Studio Art 360: Portraits and Glazing and Critiques!

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

    How much of your painting have you got covered? What GOALS do you have for the painting today? DO NOT RUSH – Keep an EYE on the LINES and EDGES.

    andy_warhol_strangulation
    Andy Warhol and HIMSELF: http://artknowledgenews.com/files2009b/Andy_Warhol_Strangulation.jpg

    Thick and Thin – How are the colors covering the canvas / lines / underdrawing of the the painting

    Advanced Drawing: Crit and THEN… PORTRAITS!

    2.3Ac: Redesign an object, system, place, or design in response to contemporary issues.

    When you work on PORTRAITS, what are the aspects of them that you struggle with the most?

    Edward Hopper "Hotel by a Railroad" http://uploads3.wikipaintings.org/images/edward-hopper/hotel-by-a-railroad.jpg
    Edward Hopper “Hotel by a Railroad” http://uploads3.wikipaintings.org/images/edward-hopper/hotel-by-a-railroad.jpg

    What was the most challenging way to draw? Why was this most difficult way to go? What is most important about drawing when it comes to observation?

    Student Works

    AP Studio Art: Portraits – LAST DAY – Crit Monday

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

    Based on some of your personal artistic habits of mind – what are you working towards to improve your skills and attitude in the art studio? Are you?

    8SHoM
    Studio Habits of Mind: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/0f/49/39/0f493930bf1be63318268722f7c175e4.jpg

    What are things that you need to do this weekend to resolve your image?

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    #APExam #Tuesday – I #HOPE you are ready!

    David Hockney's sketchbook unfolded: http://www.hockneypictures.com/images/3-works/2-drawings/90/large/charcoal_closer_canyon_98.jpg

    The Earth Withour Art is just Eh. http://www.streetartutopia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/the-earth-without-art-is-just-eh.jpeg
    The Earth Withour Art is just Eh. http://www.streetartutopia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/the-earth-without-art-is-just-eh.jpeg

    Drawing: Day 3 of being outside – WARM?

    2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.

    Let’s get rolling and get outside to draw from 5 – 10 feet away. One page and one drawing. That’s the goal.

    David Hockney's sketchbook unfolded: http://www.hockneypictures.com/images/3-works/2-drawings/90/large/charcoal_closer_canyon_98.jpg
    David Hockney’s sketchbook unfolded: http://www.hockneypictures.com/images/3-works/2-drawings/90/large/charcoal_closer_canyon_98.jpg

    Once again… What is your feeling about the process of drawing outside with a book that you made and a particular goal of filling it with observational drawings?

    Studio Art 360: GLAZE Day 2

    1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.

    What struggles did you have in the glazing of your work yesterday? How can you avoid that today?

    DAG Studios Glazing: http://www.dagworks.com/classes/glazing.jpg
    DAG Studios Glazing: http://www.dagworks.com/classes/glazing.jpg

    How do you feel about the sculpture / artwork as you have now finished glazing it? What do you hope to do with it when you get it back in a week?

    Advanced Drawing: Critique of the FIGURE! I’m SO Excited!

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

    What are two ideas that you have taken away from this idea of the PROCESS of drawing rather than the idea of the PRODUCT?

    Jim Dine's White Bathrobe - What do you THINK? https://assets.louisiana.dk/s3fs-public/louisiana_090704_32_1.jpg
    Jim Dine’s White Bathrobe – What do you THINK? https://assets.louisiana.dk/s3fs-public/louisiana_090704_32_1.jpg

    What is one skill that you are going to think about, keep in the mind as you move forward as successful and hard looking drawers?

    AP Studio Art: EXAM DAY is HERE! I am NERVOUS as I write this POST – 2 haven’t even BEGUN!

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

    If you are not taking the exam – you are working on your PORTRAITS or making darn sure your AP Website is up to snuff. This is a GRADE and for some it will be… well… it’s going to require a phone call.

    AP Readers READING your AP Tests. http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/assets_c/2013/06/APArt2_400%20(2)-thumb-420x236-5362.jpg
    AP Readers READING your AP Tests. http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/assets_c/2013/06/APArt2_400%20(2)-thumb-420×236-5362.jpg

    What did you need to do today to move ahead?