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Week 18 – Two More Weeks – 4 more days…

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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.

6th Grade: Ceramic Keepsake Boxes

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

7th Grade: Sculptural and Functional Ceramic Phone Holder / Speakers!

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?

8th Grade Sculpture: Sculpting like George Segal

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

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

THANK YOU to all of you who made the first part of the 2024 – 2025 school year so great! Thanks also for the WONDERFUL and THOUGHTFUL GIFTS you gave me before we all left for the well deserved and needed vacation. I appreciate all of them and all of you.

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.

6th Grade: Ceramic Keepsake Boxes… What will YOUR BOX hold?

Lesson Plans

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

Clay Assignment HERE

7th Grade: Sculptural and Functional Ceramic Phone Holder / Speakers!

Lesson Plans

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

8th Grade Sculpture: Glazing for the Holidays… HAND THROWN WORKS (for most).

Lesson Plans

PLASTER HAND SCULPTURE ARTWORK PROJECT

  • George Segal inspired Sculpture
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Week 16 – Still Sculpting!

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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.

6th Grade: Ceramic Keepsake Boxes… What will YOUR BOX hold?

Lesson Plans

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

Clay Assignment HERE

7th Grade: Sculptural and Functional Ceramic Phone Holder / Speakers!

Lesson Plans

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

8th Grade Sculpture: Glazing for the Holidays… HAND THROWN WORKS (for most).

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

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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.

6th Grade: Ceramic Keepsake Boxes… What will YOUR BOX hold?

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

7th Grade: Neurographic Portraits – Color Schemes and Watercolor Techniques!

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

8th Grade Sculpture: Glazing for the Holidays… HAND THROWN WORKS (for most).

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…
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Week 14 – Welcome Back! We HAVE to get back to work…

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Impulse controlI can use multiple strategies to manage my emotions across settings

6th Grade: Ceramic Keepsake Boxes… What will YOUR BOX hold?

Lesson Plans

Clay Assignment HERE

Jennifer Alexander – Wisconsin Ceramicist – makes these WONDERFUL hand crafted boxes. What goes in them is entirely up to you. What are you going to put into YOUR keepsake box? We are planning this out today!

7th Grade: Neurographic Portraits – Color Schemes and Watercolor Techniques!

Henri Matisse. Portrait of Madame Matisse. (The green line). 1905. 40.5 x 32.5 cm. Oil and tempera on canvas. Statens Museum for Kunst.

What is YOUR color scheme going to be?

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

8th Grade Sculpture: Glazing for the Holidays… HAND THROWN WORKS (for most).

Lesson Plans

PLASTER HAND SCULPTURE ARTWORK PROJECT

  • Let’s pause from the Segal inspired Sculpture for the time and talk about GLAZING…
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Week 13 and Thanksgiving BREAK is this week so it’s a SHORT ONE.

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Impulse controlI can use multiple strategies to manage my emotions across settings

6th Grade: Ceramic Keepsake Boxes… What will YOUR BOX hold?

Lesson Plans

Clay Assignment HERE

Jennifer Alexander – Wisconsin Ceramicist – makes these WONDERFUL hand crafted boxes. What goes in them is entirely up to you. What are you going to put into YOUR keepsake box? We are planning this out today!

7th Grade: Neurographic Portraits – Color Schemes and Watercolor Techniques!

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

8th Grade Sculpture: George Segal and Plaster Sculpture – PREP WORK and PLANNING

Lesson Plans

PLASTER HAND SCULPTURE ARTWORK PROJECT

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    Week 12 and the making of GREAT ART continues – DO NOT LOSE STEAM!

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    Accurate self-perceptionI can use my knowledge of my strengths, weaknesses and future hopes to set a goal and plan to make positive change.

    6th Grade: What are you doing with PHOTOGRAPHY differently now than when we first started this project? How has it changed your approach?

    Lesson Plans

    Cindy Sherman – An American Photographer FAMOUS for recreating famous works of art, movie scenes, and using herself in costume as the focal point.

    Photography Assignment HERE

    Clay Assignment HERE

    7th Grade: Neurographic Portraits – Color Schemes and Watercolor Techniques!

    Lesson Plans

    COLOR SCHEMES – HERE are examples of the 5 color schemes we are using. HERE is a better set of examples.

    PRINT THIS Mr. KORB and 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

    8th Grade Sculpture: Assessment TIME for the WHEEL!

    Lesson Plans

    Kiln Guardian Lesson – 2 Day Work to allow for finishing up for others AND to protect the firings in the kiln.

    • Florian Gatsby’s List of videos – 12 Videos – Above
    • Earth Nation Ceramics List of Beginner’s Videos HERE – 30 TOTAL but you don’t need them all. – Below
    • Worksheet on Totems – HERE
    • Techniques
      • Slab
      • Coil
      • Pinch
      • Sculpt
      • Wheel
    • Clay Use
      • Covering it during work time to keep it moist
      • Recycling it at the end of the class if it is too dry – MENARDS BUCKET in back or front of studio for recycling
      • Storage in BOXES and BAGS for safekeeping between classes.
      • Foam Mats to work on – wipe them down and stack them up on BACK WORK TABLE (under the paint brush color wheel).
    • CLEANING UP
      • Wipe off all tools to remove extra clay
      • All extra clay goes in bucket or bags
      • No clay should go down the drain
      • 6 buckets and 6 sponges for washing tables are available – each table is responsible for their own work space.
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    11 weeks in… 8 more to go! SO MUCH TO DO!

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    Recognizing Strengths, Self-confidence, Self-efficacyI can use my knowledge of my strengths, weaknesses and future hopes to set a goal and plan to make positive change.

    6th Grade: Photos are a part of our DAILY existence. We make more photos in a day that were made… well it seems like ever. Let’s learn to make them STRONGER photos and BETTER images.

    Lesson Plans

    Somehow, I don’t think Anakin would have even pushed Luke or Leia on a swing. Unless it was made of light sabers!

    Photography Assignment HERE

    7th Grade: Neurographic Portraits – Let us work with the FACE and the SELF and see what we can come up with!

    Lesson Plans

    What is happening in this portrait by David Najib Kasir that is the SAME as the ideas that a CONTINUOUS LINE portrait would use?

    Neurographic Portrait in Watercolors – HERE

    8th Grade Sculpture: Kiln Guardians and WRAPPING UP the Wheel and Totem Inspired Sculptures.

    Lesson Plans

    Kiln Guardian Lesson – 2 Day Work to allow for finishing up for others AND to protect the firings in the kiln.

    Who wouldn’t want a little extra protection in the kiln? Let us try and follow some specific guidelines and make our OWN kiln guardians! Just for fun of course (or is it?). Image from Martie Geiger-Ho PhD’s The Worship of Kiln Gods: From the Temples of China to the Studios of Western Potters – Available on Amazon HERE and a PDF Article HERE and another one HERE.

    Your tools and the wheel should look like this when you BEGIN and are DONE

    • Florian Gatsby’s List of videos – 12 Videos – Above
    • Earth Nation Ceramics List of Beginner’s Videos HERE – 30 TOTAL but you don’t need them all. – Below
    • Worksheet on Totems – HERE
    • Techniques
      • Slab
      • Coil
      • Pinch
      • Sculpt
      • Wheel
    • Clay Use
      • Covering it during work time to keep it moist
      • Recycling it at the end of the class if it is too dry – MENARDS BUCKET in back or front of studio for recycling
      • Storage in BOXES and BAGS for safekeeping between classes.
      • Foam Mats to work on – wipe them down and stack them up on BACK WORK TABLE (under the paint brush color wheel).
    • CLEANING UP
      • Wipe off all tools to remove extra clay
      • All extra clay goes in bucket or bags
      • No clay should go down the drain
      • 6 buckets and 6 sponges for washing tables are available – each table is responsible for their own work space.
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    Welcome to 2nd Quarter – Where did the first 9 weeks go?

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    Recognizing Strengths, Self-confidence, Self-efficacyI can use my knowledge of my strengths, weaknesses and future hopes to set a goal and plan to make positive change.

    6th Grade: Photography – We are going to speed things up QUITE a bit – What is a photo that you think of when STRONG photography comes to mind?

    Lesson Plans

    Photography Assignment HERE

    Steve McCurry took this famous photograph during a trip to Afghanistan in 1984 to document the migration of Afghan refugees. This picture of 17-year-old Sharbat Gula was taken in the refugee camp of Nasir Bagh. It became the symbol of the Afghan struggle and was featured on the front page of the National Geographic newspaper in June 1985.

    7th Grade: Resolve the Inspirational Posters

    Lesson Plans

    You have researched messages you would like to hear yourself and messages you would offer up to a friend. This is the beginning!

    PHOTOSHOP ASSIGNMENT – HERE

    • Know about working with a partner and portraits
    • Know about PHOTOSHOP and LAYERS
    • Know about process and art making
    • Know about use of:
      • technology,
      • CREATIVE COMMONS imagery

    8th Grade Sculpture: Resolve the Totem Inspired Sculpture in the round. One more week on the WHEEL and… more to come…

    Lesson Plans

    Your tools and the wheel should look like this when you BEGIN and are DONE

    • Florian Gatsby’s List of videos – 12 Videos – Above
    • Earth Nation Ceramics List of Beginner’s Videos HERE – 30 TOTAL but you don’t need them all. – Below
    • Worksheet on Totems – HERE
    • Techniques
      • Slab
      • Coil
      • Pinch
      • Sculpt
      • Wheel
    • Clay Use
      • Covering it during work time to keep it moist
      • Recycling it at the end of the class if it is too dry – MENARDS BUCKET in back or front of studio for recycling
      • Storage in BOXES and BAGS for safekeeping between classes.
      • Foam Mats to work on – wipe them down and stack them up on BACK WORK TABLE (under the paint brush color wheel).
    • CLEANING UP
      • Wipe off all tools to remove extra clay
      • All extra clay goes in bucket or bags
      • No clay should go down the drain
      • 6 buckets and 6 sponges for washing tables are available – each table is responsible for their own work space.
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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!