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#Working on #Art in #Studio is different than just being in the space… Let’s get to #WORK!

“Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.” — John Andrew Holmes

LET’S TALK MISSING WORK…

All work that you have missing as of RIGHT NOW… will be DUE… DUE… DUE FRIDAY! That’s it – no more days. The end of the semester is coming up fast(?) 4 more weeks… but I cannot wait on ANYMORE late work. (BTW… progress reports go out tomorrow! SURPRISE!)

Studio Art 360 – Collage, Frottage, Grattage, and Decalcomania

LARGE GROUP Slide Show Project – Let’s SEE it HERE!

Romare Bearden and the SOCIAL COMMENTARY of New York City.

Goals:

  • 10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.
  • What do you currently know about using CLAY? Let’s have a brief conversation…

What is the MOST SUCCESSFUL aspect to your collage in communicating your message of BULLYING?

Painting – Drawing and Painting on your canvas! Let’s hang a show too!

NEW PAINTINGS by the WUHS Painting Class – HERE!

THINK TEXTURE!

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • Which direction have you decided to go in regarding the use of colors while using oil paints? What kind of mood / feeling do you hope to incorporate into the idea of your painting?

Have you  decided HOW you are going to break apart the space that you are building in the painting? Are you emphasizing the new SHAPES or are you developing the LINES that you have in the portrait? 

AP Studio Art – ONLINE and IN CLASS / Out of the Studio Too!

YESTERDAY at MIDNIGHT CHAPTER 5 was due in Art and Fear Blog.

Anne Truitt working on her sculpture!

Goals:

  • 1.2Ad: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices, following or breaking established conventions, to plan the making of multiple works of art and design based on a theme, idea, or concept.
  • How have you been able to use the skills you’ve developed this year and create a STRONG couple of BREADTH works? How are you being interested in the BREADTH work that you are creating?

Knowing that you are working on two breadth works now, what is ONE IDEA for a BREADTH work that YOU feel would be a STRONG IDEA with SKILL Building ideas? (Or what would you like to draw / make JUST TO MAKE ART TO CHALLENGE YOURSELF)?

***ASSIGNMENT in ONE WEEK (NEXT Monday) Adventure Image and Still Life FOCUSING ON and being able to SPEAK ABOUT an ELEMENT and PRINCIPLE Specifically… and MONDAY (Change of HEART) – Website is DUE – Statements on your NAME PAGE, 6 Concentration Works Uploaded, How many BREADTH works do you have done? ***

ADVENTURE – This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/448/adventure

Thanks for the nod towards my thoughts on communicating with Parents, Students and the WORLD on Teach.Com. I appreciate the recognition.

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How are #You #Affecting the #World through your #Art?

“Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.” — John Andrew Holmes

ART NEWS:

Renoirs TRUE colors – Click HERE to read more!

LET’S TALK MISSING WORK…

All work that you have missing as of RIGHT NOW… will be DUE… DUE… DUE FRIDAY! That’s it – no more days. The end of the semester is coming up fast(?) 4 more weeks… but I cannot wait on ANYMORE late work. (BTW… progress reports go out tomorrow! SURPRISE!)

Studio Art 360 – Collage, Frottage, Grattage, and Decalcomania

LARGE GROUP Slide Show Project – Let’s SEE it HERE!

Romare Bearden – BIO Here – Let’s learn a bit about him and his work.

Goals:

  • 10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.
  • What are the SPECIFICS about the SOCIAL TOPIC of BULLYING  that you and your partner came up with last week and you are RESOLVING today and tomorrow?

How do you feel translating the idea of COLLAGE to SCULPTURE is going to be challenging?

Painting – Drawing and Painting on your canvas! Let’s hang a show too!

NEW PAINTINGS by the WUHS Painting Class – HERE!

Close up of OIL PAINTS. Notice the BRUSH STROKES and color relationship? https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/c9921-nativeamericanstudy3tpadencloseupap.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • What are the first areas you feel that you will begin working on as you approach your oil painting?

What was surprising about the use of oils as you began working today? Oil Painting Close Up: 

AP Studio Art – ONLINE and IN CLASS / Out of the Studio Too!

TONIGHT at MIDNIGHT CHAPTER 5 IS due in Art and Fear Blog.

Lee Krasner in her studio! Hard at Work! https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/dee38-pollack-leekrasnerwifecubism.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.2Ad: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices, following or breaking established conventions, to plan the making of multiple works of art and design based on a theme, idea, or concept.
  • Still Life is ALSO part of the body of work. Knowing that you are working with an element and principle… what are you doing to PUSH yourself? This should be better than just an EASY approach to the assignment… What ARE you doing?

How much work have you photographed, edited, and uploaded to the computer?  How can I help you?

***ASSIGNMENT in ONE WEEK (NEXT Monday) Adventure Image and Still Life FOCUSING ON and being able to SPEAK ABOUT an ELEMENT and PRINCIPLE Specifically. Friday – Website is DUE – Statements on your NAME PAGE, 6 Concentration Works Uploaded, How many BREADTH works do you have done? ***

ADVENTURE – This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/448/adventure

Thanks for the nod towards my thoughts on communicating with Parents, Students and the WORLD on Teach.Com. I appreciate the recognition.

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#Affecting the #World through your #Art

Thanks for the nod towards my thoughts on communicating with Parents, Students and the WORLD on Teach.Com. I appreciate the recognition.

“Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.” — John Andrew Holmes

ART NEWS:

Renoirs TRUE colors – Click HERE to read more!

LET’S TALK MISSING WORK…

All work that you have missing as of RIGHT NOW… will be DUE… DUE… DUE FRIDAY! That’s it – no more days. The end of the semester is coming up fast(?) 4 more weeks… but I cannot wait on ANYMORE late work. (BTW… progress reports go out tomorrow! SURPRISE!)

Studio Art 360 – Collage, Frottage, Grattage, and Decalcomania

LARGE GROUP Slide Show Project – Let’s SEE it HERE!

Romare Bearden and his FOUNDATION! https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/3b23d-6.jpg

Goals:

  •  10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.
  • What are you doing to SUCCESSFULLY create a REAL Sense of SPACE in your COMPOSITION?

How do you see your artwork as being something that CAN affect how your audience thinks about and considers their own ideas about bullying?

Painting – Drawing and Painting on your canvas! Let’s hang a show too!

A Close Up of an Oil Painting… different than acrylics?

NEW PAINTINGS by the WUHS Painting Class – HERE!

Goals:

  • 5.1Ac: Evaluate, select, and apply methods or processes appropriate to display artwork in a specific place.
  • As a group what do you think is going to be difficult about hanging your PAINTINGS in the gallery?

What are you anxious about as we begin to think about and use oil paints?

AP Studio Art – ONLINE and IN CLASS / Out of the Studio Too!

TUESDAY at MIDNIGHT CHAPTER 5 IS due in Art and Fear Blog.

Robert Rauschenberg at work in his studio!

Goals:

  • 10.1Ad: Synthesize knowledge of social, cultural, historical, and personal life with art-making approaches to create meaningful works of art or design.
  • What have you accomplished regarding the ADVENTURES story? Write out the IDEA behind your work and then SHARE the story with your classmate.

With ALL that is going on these past two weeks – and little input from me… what have you accomplished VISUALLY and / or TECHNOLOGICALLY.

***ASSIGNMENT in ONE WEEK (NEXT Monday) Adventure Image and Still Life FOCUSING ON and being able to SPEAK ABOUT an ELEMENT and PRINCIPLE Specifically. Friday – Website is DUE – Statements on your NAME PAGE, 6 Concentration Works Uploaded, How many BREADTH works do you have done? ***

ADVENTURE – This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/448/adventure

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#Communicating with #Parents and #Students through the #Arts

Thanks for the nod towards my thoughts on communicating with Parents, Students and the WORLD on Teach.Com. I appreciate the recognition.

~~~ “When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.” — Zig Ziglar

Studio Art 360 – Collage, Frottage, Grattage, and Decalcomania

LARGE GROUP Slide Show Project – Let’s SEE it HERE!

Bas Relief on a LONG scale… https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/c5867-6-farm-truck-television-2.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
  • What are the MAJOR textures you are hoping to work into your BAS – RELIEF sculpture? How will they help create the idea of SPACE in a somewhat flat (low-relief) picture plane?

What was successful in the design and creation of your collage today? Where are you struggling? 

Romare Bearden COLLAGE. Link to his FOUNDATION HERE!

Painting – Build your CANVASES! Consider the Continuous Line Contour Drawings for the PAINTING!

NEW PAINTINGS by the WUHS Painting Class – HERE!

Alice Neel and a Continuous Line Drawing – How are you going to approach YOURS? https://d1ycxz9plii3tb.cloudfront.net/additional_images/52fbd3077622ddb3300001c1/large.jpg

Goals:

  • 5.1Ac: Evaluate, select, and apply methods or processes appropriate to display artwork in a specific place.
  • What differences do you know about ACRYLIC Paints and OIL Paints? Today we are DEMONSTRATING the differences. We NEED to be AWARE of STORING THEM in the YELLOW RACK – Safer in there than on the TOPS OF THE LOCKERS.
  • What differences do you NOW KNOW about acrylic paint and oil paint? 

AP Studio Art – ONLINE!

TUESDAY at MIDNIGHT CHAPTER 4 was due in Art and Fear Blog.

Make sure you photograph your work WELL! http://www.larry-bolch.com/ephemeral/PhotographingPaintings.jpg

Goals:

  • Research and Information Fluency – Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.
  • Three days of NON ART MAKING time in class… what have you gotten done on your OWN? This is challenging – time is precious and you need to recognize that.

What do you feel about seeing your work ONLINE? How do you feel this can be HELPFUL to an artist? 

***ASSIGNMENT in TWO WEEKS (Two Mondays from LAST Monday: Adventure Image and Still Life FOCUSING ON and being able to SPEAK ABOUT an ELEMENT and PRINCIPLE Specifically.***

ADVENTURE – This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/448/adventure

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#Bullies the #Bullied – How to #StopTheBully through #Art

“When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.” — Zig Ziglar

Feeling overwhelmed? I can relate!

Studio Art 360 – BAS RELIEF SCULPTURE (Collage, Frottage, Grattage, and Decalcomania)

LARGE GROUP Slide Show Project – Let’s SEE it HERE!

Bas Relief or a head… https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/2e0f2-blogkelly27s1hour_basrelief_of_eloiesekrabbenhoft_2003mar19.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.1P: Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.
  • How do you feel about the subject matter of BULLYING that we are going to be working on? Do you have any personal experiences with the topic (as the bullied or the bully?) Explain your thoughts (remember – this is JUST YOU reading this.

What progress as a team have you made in the development of the collage idea? What TEXTURES are you developing in the work? How have you used the ideas of GRATTAGE, FROTTAGE, and DECALCOMANIA in the progress? 

Painting – Build your CANVASES! Consider the Continuous Line Contour Drawings for the PAINTING!

NEW PAINTINGS by the WUHS Painting Class – HERE!

Pablo Picasso – How are YOU going to use the ideas of a CONTINUOUS LINE CONTOUR DRAWING in your FIRST EVER Oil PAINTING? http://watercolorjournal.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/inverted-drawing-of-portrait-of-igor-stravinsky-pablo-picasso.jpg

Goals:

  • 5.1Ac: Evaluate, select, and apply methods or processes appropriate to display artwork in a specific place.
  • Knowing you have the options of REALISM in colors or going out on your own in choices of colors… what do you see as advantages of the direction you are NOT planning on going?

How do you see the plans you are developing as being successful? What ELEMENT are you focusing on? Line, Color, Texture, Value?

AP Studio Art – ONLINE!

TUESDAY at MIDNIGHT CHAPTER 4 was due in Art and Fear Blog.

What is the difference in the KEYSTONED image and the CORRECTED one? How can you use this idea in your photography of YOUR art? http://www.photographymad.com/files/images/lens-correction-keystone-6.jpg

Goals:

  • Research and Information Fluency – Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.  
  • In 3 minutes – tell me EVERYTHING you know about making photographs for use ONLINE.

What are the differences you see in the PHOTOGRAPH and the ORIGINAL WORK? How do you feel you can make adjustments (minor) that will make the work more EXACT to the original? 

***ASSIGNMENT in TWO WEEKS (Two Mondays from LAST Monday: Adventure Image and Still Life FOCUSING ON and being able to SPEAK ABOUT an ELEMENT and PRINCIPLE Specifically.***

This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/448/adventure

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Using #ContinuousLines to create a #Successful #Portrait! Let’s see this happen!

“When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.” — Zig Ziglar

Feeling overwhelmed? I can relate!

Studio Art 360 – BAS RELIEF SCULPTURE, Collage, Frottage, Grattage, and Decalcomania

If you are NOT done with your Photography CRITIQUE – Get it FINISHED!

LARGE GROUP Slide Show Project – Let’s SEE it HERE!

FINAL PHOTO CRITIQUE DUE DATE… THURSDAY, December 4. I will be grading the critiques before then (2nd hour has been worked through) but NOTHING is in the books until AFTER December 4. If you have made changes to your document AFTER I have commented but BEFORE I enter the grades – NOTIFY COLLABORATORS through your Google Document (under File: EMail Collaborators…).

Texture in the SCULPTURE! https://ericwedwards.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/36787.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.1P: Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.
  • 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
  • What are you interested in when it comes to the use of CLAY? Please explain your ideas and excitement about the work? AND 
  • What is the PARTICULAR of the social topic – BULLYING – that you and your partner came up with yesterday? 

What imagery did you come up with that truly begins to develop the idea of the social commentary on BULLYING? How does it successfully work? AND –  How do you feel your composition successfully uses the GOLDEN MEAN and imagery to explain the ideas of bullying – how to deal with it, fix it, stop it, educate about it? THINK and EXPLAIN your answers.

Painting – Build your CANVASES! Consider the Continuous Line Contour Drawings for the PAINTING!

NEW PAINTINGS by the WUHS Painting Class – HERE!

I LOVE Egon Schiele’s drawings… http://www.urchinmovement.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/egon-schiele-7.jpg

Goals:

  • 5.1Ac: Evaluate, select, and apply methods or processes appropriate to display artwork in a specific place.
  • Knowing you have the options of REALISM in colors or going out on your own in choices of colors… what do you see as advantages of the direction you are planning on going? I want you to think about both approaches.

What ideas do you see coming out from others as you develop your own ideas? How can you see working with OTHERS in a COMMUNITY as being beneficial to the development of your art?

AP Studio Art – ONLINE!

YESTERDAY at MIDNIGHT CHAPTER 4 is due in Art and Fear Blog.

This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/448/adventure

Photography and your art… http://www.markmortensen.com/photoblog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/DSC_6535.jpg

Goals:

  • Research and Information Fluency – Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.
  • What experiences have you had with WORDPRESS? Please list ALL that you have done with THAT Blogging program (not other programs).

***ASSIGNMENT in TWO WEEKS (Two Mondays from LAST Monday: Adventure Image and Still Life FOCUSING ON and being able to SPEAK ABOUT an ELEMENT and PRINCIPLE Specifically.***

What do you need to do in order to have ALL your work (made so far this year) photographed, edited, and uploaded to the website?

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#Surrealism and your #Art… How can you use #Texture to #Create? No #Photography!

There’s no retirement for an artist, it’s your way of living so there’s no end to it. – Henry Moore

Studio Art 360 – Collage, Frottage, Grattage, and Decalcomania

If you are NOT done with your Photography CRITIQUE – Get it FINISHED!

LARGE GROUP Slide Show Project – Let’s SEE it HERE!

FINAL PHOTO CRITIQUE DUE DATE… Tuesday, December 2. I will be grading the critiques before then (2nd hour has been worked through) but NOTHING is in the books until AFTER December 2. If you have made changes to your document AFTER I have commented but BEFORE I enter the grades – NOTIFY COLLABORATORS through your Google Document (under File: EMail Collaborators…).

Goals:

  • 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • What TEXTURES do you like best from yesterday? Why?

Without having had much time to think about the work or make plans for the work today… what did you find most difficult about the COLLAGE process today?

Painting – CRITIQUE Today!

What do you get? http://www.vanseodesign.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/critique.jpg

Goals:

  • 3.1Ac: Engage in constructive critique with peers, then reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art and design in response to personal artistic vision.
  • Last Day of the Crit? Hope so… Of all the works you have seen so far, what has been the most successful aspect to that work? OR – Of the works you have seen what has been the weakest aspect of the work – BE SPECIFIC AND THOUGHTFUL!

What are you going to carry forward into your next work? If not the work the approach you take / habits / techniques / attitude?

AP Studio Art – Concentration! REVIEW the COOKIE with the painters. Then onto the hallway and HANG YOUR WORK in the CASES and CRITIQUE!

YESTERDAY at MIDNIGHT CHAPTER 3 was due in Art and Fear Blog.

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • What are your plans for the next 3 concentration works? Use the 4 days to begin planning them out. ALSO Make sure you are up to speed with the Art and Fear Chapters – 3 Chapters have been read and there are a lot of ZEROS in the book. I DO NOT ASSIGN busy work – you do not deserve the busy work.

What are you taking home this weekend? BE ready with your work on MONDAY – we are going to talk about photography and website building today. IMAGE: IN THE GOOGLE DRIVE as an UPLOAD – AP WEBSITE IMAGE.

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#WOLVERINES GO Wolverines – U-Rah-Rah!

Welcome to Homecoming Week – goooOOO TEAM!

A SELFIE by the #1 Cheerleader!
Go WOLVERINES!
Mrs. Smith is TRULY the prettier sister! Mom always liked her better.
Hello WORLD – This is what the kids will remember!
So many good memories are going to be had at WUHS!
gooOOO ART CLASS!
Hello to you ALL!

FRIDAY – Our NEW art gallery will be having it’s RIBBON CUTTING! Bring your family! Bring your FRIENDS! Bring your passion for the ARTS!

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TODAY’s Schedule!

Schedule for Pep Assembly – Sept. 26
1st hour
7:25 – 8:00
2nd hour
8:05 – 8:40
3rd hour
8:45 – 9:20
4th hour
9:25 – 10:00
6th hour
10:05 – 10:40
5AB hour
10:45 – 11:40
 
5BC hour
11:15 – 12:10
5AC hour
10:45 – 11:10 / 11:45 – 12:10
A Lunch
10:40 – 11:10
B Lunch
11:10 – 11:40
C Lunch
11:40 – 12:10
7th hour
12:15 – 12:50
8th hour
12:55 – 1:30

Chuck Close: What difference does it make whether you’re looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.

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Studio Art 360 – CRITIQUE the PAPER MACHE Forms. Pencil Drawing of these FORMS!

What can you do to CREATE a drawing like this? OBSERVATION and PATIENCE!!! http://www.lucialiao.com/web/sites/default/files/gallery/drawing2009-03.jpg

Goals:

  • 7.2P: Analyze how one’s understanding of the world is affected by experiencing visual imagery.
  • Other than using perspective… what other technique(s) do you feel one could use to create a believable sense of FORM on a 2 dimensional picture plane?

What habits are you having a hard time shaking as you begin to work with the forms that are outlined on the worksheet?  Share the changes you are finding with these new techniques.

AP Studio Art: 1 week Magazine Article Assignment TODAY!

Can you tell a story? How does OBSERVATION translate into your work? http://www.tfaoi.com/cm/4cm/4cm561.jpg

Goals:

  • 3.1Ad: Reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art or design considering relevant traditional and contemporary criteria as well as personal artistic vision.
  • Take a FEW MOMENTS and think about the work you have in front of you – your work. Like yesterday – write a brief self critique about your work, using the art terms at the top of the page. When you have made your comments – go to work and try to resolve the images.

What did you take away from the brief SELF critique today? Write down what you have taken from the crit. ON YOUR written SELF-CRIT from the beginning of class.

Painting: Painting this week – DUE on MONDAY!

A Landscape – I LOVE her colors! http://www.okeeffemuseum.org/uploads/5/7/4/1/5741005/_____9303518_orig.jpg

Goals:

  • 3.1Ac: Engage in constructive critique with peers, then reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art and design in response to personal artistic vision.
  • How is this collage / painting using traditional and contemporary ideas in the 1) Composition and 2) Techniques? – 5 Minute SELF – EVALUATION today… this will / can be used to FURTHER your thoughts on MONDAY and TUESDAY!

Monday Crit – Plan on spending time cutting the work out from the board and mounting it to a frame. Do you have work to do this weekend? WHAT and WHEN? Make plans for the weekend. LASTLY – – – What stood out with O’Keefe’s work as you looked them over this week? Anything stand out? Anything (art terms) that you really liked or disliked?

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#LateStart on #WaffleWednesday – #Work is #FASTandFURIOUS today

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“Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.” Brian Tracy

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Studio Art 360 – Paper Mache – Finish your FORMS in cardboard!

From TUBES and CUBES to buildings and overhangs! http://www.likecool.com/Gear/Projects/Abu%20Dhabi%20Art%20Pavilion%20made%20from%20cardboard%20tubes/Abu-Dhabi-Art-Pavilion-made-from-cardboard-tubes.jpg

Goals:

  • 9.1P: Establish relevant criteria in order to evaluate a work of art or collection of works.
  • What are TWO IDEAS of PERSONAL criteria that you might set up for yourself as you work on an artwork?

Based on your initial thoughts about personal criteria, are you matching, exceeding, or just barely hitting the standards you would set up for yourself? WHY?

AP Studio Art: 1 week Magazine Article Assignment, Plants and Flowers – BEGIN ON THE LARGER WORK!

I LOVE this plant… Here is MINE below…

Expression Plant

Goals:

  • 10.1Ad: Synthesize knowledge of social, cultural, historical, and personal life with art-making approaches to create meaningful works of art or design.
  • Not knowing what your thoughts are about plants / flowers, know that they have been and will be a large and important image in art. Working to make sure you have a REAL connection with the images you make, what are your personal connections to the art or the making of the art?

What materials have you used today? What were the focal points of the drawings for the day. What are you enjoying / hating about the ideas of drawing based on observation?

Jim Dine – Plants and Trees: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/- AND THEN: Bring up an image from the Alan Cristea Gallery: http://www.alancristea.com/collection-41-109-Plants-Andamp%3B-Trees

 

Painting: Collage and Painting Critique!

TECHNIQUES and YOU! Come up with a VARIETY of TECHNIQUES to strengthen ALL of your painting skills – good day or bad day. https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ed539-demo000.jpg

Goals:

  • 3.1Ac: Engage in constructive critique with peers, then reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art and design in response to personal artistic vision.
  • What do you feel about talking aloud when it comes to other’s works? What are your thoughts about why you may be apprehensive or confident when discussing other individual’s work?

What were 3 things that you took away from today’s critique? How will you apply that information as you move forward?

REMEMBER! Create a ONE PAGE PAPER (double spaced, 11 or 12 point Times New Roman, Palatino – Serif-ed type font) that discusses the artists and their works. Use ideas about the work as to what drew you to the work, what styles did you like, what techniques do you appreciate? A small history of the artist and personal reflection. How will you use similar ideas in your work as they did in theirs? Here are the artists to research: Winslow Homer, Charles Demuth, Thomas Eakins, Edward Hopper, Dong Kingman, Reginald Marsh, Charles Sheeler, J.M.W. Turner, Thomas Moran, Georgia O’Keefe, James Whistler, or Andrew Wyeth. PAPER IS DUE ON Friday, September 19, 2014.

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#Process over #Product – Art is NOT about the FINAL PRODUCT

Art Classes Teach
What are you learning in your art class? What do you WANT to learn?

 “Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.” – Anges Martin, Art In America (p.124, 1996)

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Follow along with the http://WHSoc20.WordPress.com 30 Day Blog Challenge – Mr. Korb’s Online discussion group.

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Studio Art 360 – Critique Sketches, Demo Cardboard Constructions, National Visual Arts Standards

Ok – Now that the F’s are becoming A’s – How do you make it a 3D form rather than a flat shape? http://www.superiorlabels.com/images/black_whiteclipart/monograms/capital_letters/grey/4063266.jpg

Goals:

  • 10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.
  • What is the difference in the shape and form? There are a FEW OTHER terms we are going to cover in the book – terms that help up TALK about art. Let’s focus on Shape and Form today.

How much of your letter did you get done? One shape? two shapes? Gluing / Taping sides? What helped you get work done? What got in your way?

AP Studio Art: 1 week Magazine Article Assignment, 1 week concentration work

How are you using OR NOT USING pastels? http://www.artistsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/64-uart-paper.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.2Ad: Demonstrate understanding of the importance of balancing freedom and responsibility in the use of images, materials, tools, and equipment in the creation and circulation of creative work.
  • What materials are you NOT using yet? Make sure that in the body of work you are making (about 1 object) you try things you are not comfortable with.

What mediums are you afraid of using. If not afraid – haven’t used because you are not used in the past?

Painting: Collage, Critique, Sketch, Research…

Charles Demuth – Different than ANDREW WYETH – What style are YOU going to use? http://www.tfaoi.com/newsm1/n1m327.htm

GOALS:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • What did TAPING the paper down to the board help with last week? How will THIS NEW APPROACH to Stretching watercolor paper help?

What did you get done today? Be VERY specific in the tasks you accomplished.Collage? Built?

Create a ONE PAGE PAPER (double spaced, 11 or 12 point Times New Roman, Palatino – Serif-ed type font) that discusses the artists and their works. Use ideas about the work as to what drew you to the work, what styles did you like, what techniques do you appreciate? A small history of the artist and personal reflection. How will you use similar ideas in your work as they did in theirs? Here are the artists to research: Winslow Homer, Charles Demuth, Thomas Eakins, Edward Hopper, Dong Kingman, Reginald Marsh, Charles Sheeler, J.M.W. Turner, Thomas Moran, Georgia O’Keefe, James Whistler, or Andrew Wyeth. PAPER IS DUE ON MONDAY, September 15, 2014.

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Sketchbooks Due:

  • 1st Hour: Tuesday
  • 2nd Hour: Friday
  • 3rd Hour: Thursday
  • 4th Hour: Wednesday
  • 6th Hour: Monday