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#WorkdayFriday without #Frank (#Mr.Korb)

What has Jerry Saltz got to say to Art Students today?

9. Don’t worry about getting enough sleep. Worry about your work.

10. Be delusional. It’s okay to tell yourself you’re a genius sometimes.

Pep Assembly Schedule
1st 7:25 – 8:05
2nd 8:10 – 8:50
3rd 8:55 – 9:30
4th 9:35 – 10:15
6th 10:20 – 11:00
5A 11:05 – 11:35
5B 11:35 – 12:05
5C 12:05 – 12:35
7th 12:40 – 1:20
8th1:25 – 2:00
Assembly 2:05 – 2:46

Drawing: MUSIC BREAK!

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Kandinsky inspired by MUSIC! You Too! http://www.booooooom.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/booooooom_kandinsky_04.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.
  • What feelings do you get from specific pieces of music? Give some examples. Rap / Country / Reggae / ROCK and ROLL (i.e.: When I listen to country music, the shapes that flow through my mind are…)

  • Know that Mary Heebsh is going to be helping you out today with the music and ideas. She’s able to answer a lot of your questions about this project and the larger ideas behind it. That said, don’t worry too much about it. As long as you are trying, you are succeeding. This is a GREAT project that can affect your art making experience for years. RELAX and ENJOY!

Reflection: Looking back on your drawings from today, what shapes, lines, forms did you draw out and find? What ideas came to mind as you listened to the very different music?

Studio Art 360: Sculpture and SAFETY

Richard Serra – NOT Tony Smith… http://www.moma.org/collection_images/resized/091/w500h420/CRI_63091.jpg

Goals:

  • 7.1P: Hypothesize ways in which art influences perception and understanding of human experiences.
  • As a NON-ART person, what are 2 things one might think about a sculpture made up of cubes, cylinders, or pyramids? NON ART APPROACH? 

Reflection: What is ONE things that you, as an ARTIST, might think if you saw a grouping of cylinders, cubes, and pyramids all grouped together.

AP Studio Art: DISPLAY and EXHIBIT – Design THANKS!

Plans for your CONCENTRATION? How are things coming? http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3121/3175394436_db29a51079.jpg?v=0

Goals:

  • 2.6 create multiple solutions to visual challenges that show understanding in relationships between composition and meaning of artwork.
  • What have your previous sketches been over the past months? Are you still thinking about your CONCENTRATION? How have you been planning the NEW ideas out for your work?
  • TODAY YOU ARE HANGING WORKS AND CLEANING YOUR SPACE AND THE LIKE!
    • THANKS! Korb.

  • DO NOT FORGET that your CHAPTER 4 statements are due TONIGHT at midnight. Thanks to ALL who are already done.

Reflection: What have you come up with? What materials are you planning on using? How does it fit into your current body of work

Advanced Drawing: SKETCHBOOK Masterpieces.

Richard Dibenkorn MASTERPIECE – I LOVE THIS ONE! Check MINE out on the chalkboard. https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/82/c3/b8/82c3b86979c9e4a7889907a12c741de8.jpg

Goals:

  • 7.2Ad: Determine the commonalities within a group of artists or visual images attributed to a particular type of art, timeframe, or culture.
  • Today – I am gone. You are going to have an opportunity to work on your BIG BOOK OF MASTERPIECE SKETCHES today. Which drawing from the packet are you focusing on today? Why this one in particular? 

Reflection: What TWO parts of your MASTERPIECE SKETCHBOOK drawing worked out really well for you today? What ONE THING did you struggle with? How much do you have to do before next week on the due date?

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#WelcomeBack – One Week of #ArtMaking – THEN CLEAN AND REVIEW

“An average person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.” – Brian Tracy

”Even talent is rarely indistinguishable, over the long run, from perseverance and lots of hard work.” Ted Orland and David Bayles – Art and Fear

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Ellsworth Kelley “Red, Yellow, Blue II” at the Milwaukee Art Museum

“An average person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.” – Brian Tracy

”Even talent is rarely indistinguishable, over the long run, from perseverance and lots of hard work.” Ted Orland and David Bayles – Art and Fear

Ellsworth Kelley (1922 – 2015) ARTnews Article

Painting and Advanced Painting: Did you WORK over break?

I bet your palette is MESSIER than this. http://img.ehowcdn.com/615×200/ehow/images/a04/6v/40/use-oil-paints-800×800.jpg

Goals: 

  • G: 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • You’ve been away for some time… take a moment and look carefully at your artwork. What stands out as STRONG? What stands out as “I need to work on this?” Write out a BRIEF statement about the work in front of you.
  • Folder to upload from is HERE.

Reflection: What “discoveries” or “new insights” have you found about your work? 

ONLINE CRITIQUE HERE!

Studio Art 360: TIME TO PAINT!

EXAMPLES from LAST YEAR!

VISUAL EXAMPLE of SETTING UP YOUR IMAGE.

Non-Erased DeKooning: http://htmlgiant.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/woman-500×584.png
Erased DeKooning: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/sfmomamedia/media/research-projects/downloads/EdeK_98.298.jpg

Goals

  • 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
  • How are you EMPHASIZING the idea of PRODUCT or YOU (is the image important to you like Campbell’s was to Warhol) as you create this artwork?

Reflection:  How can ART be used to discuss IMPORTANT things in culture? List 3 ways in which you could use art to communicate ideas.

AP Studio Art: CRIT Today! WORK THIS WEEK!

Wisconsin Artists (and friend) Frank Juarez. We will be looking at his bidy of work THIS WEEK: https://www.artsinmilwaukee.org/hold/galleries/171/171_p172p42615n2g4ho7f610l1l8t5.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.
  • What is the common thread that is connecting your different pieces in your body of work together?

Reflection:  What are the works that need work? What are you doing with the time you are in here? Should I be writing you passes for your study halls? If I am, should I continue? 

Drawing: Wrap up by FRIDAY? Cleaning Monday and Tuesday

Don’t mess with OUR graffiti! http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/01150/21DMC_GRAFFITI_1150072g.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.
  • FIVE days left… Now that you are more aware of the use of pastels and covering larger spaces faster (large to small, general to specific) how do you feel the drawing has progressed?
  • Folder to UPLOAD FROM is HERE

Reflection: Step back and look over your classmates work… what has been the biggest success from you classmate? 

ONLINE CRITIQUE HERE!

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#SevenDays of #ArtStudio Time – 101 Ways to make your seven days worthwile

https://goalhabits.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/goalhabits_1214.jpg Thanks Paul…

Painting and Advanced Painting: Self Portrait – RESOLVE this Week!

Van Eyck “Man in Red Turban” http://www.canvasreplicas.com/images/Man%20in%20a%20Red%20Turban%20Jan%20van%20Eyck.jpg

Goals: 

  • G: 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • Step back and LOOK AT YOUR painting. It’s been a weekend. What are you seeing as being successful at this point? What are you seeing as needing attention?

Reflection / Evaluation:  How has this painting been new and worthwhile for you? What lessons have you learned about using different materials?

Studio Art 360: Color Schemes – LET’S GO!

Mark Rothko “Orange and Yellow” http://www.markrothko.org/images/paintings/orange-and-yellow.jpg

Goals

  • G: 3.1P: Apply relevant criteria from traditional and contemporary cultural contexts to examine, reflect on, and plan revisions for works of art and design in progress.
  • What do you mix to get a TINT? What do you mix to get a SHADE? What do you mix to get a TONE?

Reflection / Evaluation:  Review with neighbors the relationships of the colors on the color wheel? When you look in your closet… what COLORS do you think you have the most of hanging? Why do you think that you have more of that color than others?

AP Studio Art: Concentration / Concentrate

Robert Rauschenberg working on HIS concentration… http://www.theartstory.org/images20/photo/rauschenberg_4.jpg

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 are two things (specifically) that you have accomplished during your past week as you’ve worked on your CONCENTRATION? Write out the IDEA behind your work and then SHARE the story with your classmate… 

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

Drawing: Resolve Hip-Hop all you Wild Beasts (Fauvists).

Margaret Kilgallen – Famous Female Graffiti Artist http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c8/Kilgallengarage.jpg

Goals:

  • 6.1Ac: Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history.
  • What do you feel is an aspect of your composition that you initially struggled with but resolved in the thumbnail and preliminary drawings
    • Artist NPR: The Selfie – Listen and comment on one or two points that describe how YOU are using some f the ideas in your drawing for EXTRA CREDIT: http://www.wpr.org/listen/565351

Reflection / Evaluation: What was the most challenging aspect of your drawing to get done today? How are you using OBSERVATION and COMPARISON – sighting in – to get your drawings set up correctly? List TWO SPECIFIC aspects of the drawing you have used these skills in your drawing. 

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#TODAY in #Art: #Fauvism, the #Portrait, and #You – #Symbolism?

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

Painting and Advanced Painting: CANVAS Building

How to BEGIN the Portrait? 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.
    • SELF PORTRAITS from PREVIOUS Classes – HERE

Reflection / Evaluation: 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?

Studio Art 360: CLAY! Finally!

What NEXT? We SAW this work LAST WEEK – What did he do next? http://edhamiltonworks.com/images/lincoln/bas_relief/slave_9_whole.jpg

Goals

  • 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
  • What challenges are you having COMPOSITIONALLY with your image / sculpture?
    • REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS ARTWORK: Subtractive, Additive, and Manipulation to the clay. These techniques are REQUIRED in the FINAL Sculpture.

Reflection / Evaluation: How have you begun to SOLVE the COMPOSITIONAL CHALLENGES / PROBLEMS in your work?

AP Studio Art: Critique!

Have you looked at the AP Studio Art Portfolio for Inspiration? Here are the AP Studio Art Portfolio Example Pages.

 

How can Music Inspire your ART? – Listen to the SONGS in the link below for your inspiration – CHOOSE TWO to work from – We will assign them tomorrow!

Goals:

  • 4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
  • How have YOU begun to understand the importance of reflection and CRITIQUE? AND…
  • When you think of your favorite music… do you think of images, colors, shapes and forms? How HAVE you , COULD you use your past / current ideas about MUSIC to create works that will represent / draw upon music

MUSIC TO BE INSPIRED BY HERE!

Reflection / Evaluation: What is something that you took away from the critique today – whether it be about YOUR work or about another person’s work.

Drawing: Google Slideshow

Oh Matisse – How you are an inspiration! Andre. http://culturoid.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Andr%C3%A9-Derain-Henri-Matisse.jpeg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • What is successful in your artwork? What is the color scheme you are using? Share this with your neighbor. 

Reflection / Evaluation: What is the progress of the drawing thus far? What is your neighbor doing well? What is your neighbor not doing successfully? Share your thoughts with your neighbors.

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What do you know about #HipHop and #Graffiti in #Art?

#WiArtChat is on TWITTER NEEDS your INPUT! Please visit goo.gl/UvXgQM

“Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. Make. Good. Art.” ~ Neil Gaiman

Painting and Advanced Painting: CANVAS Building

Donna Zhang: http://www.whiterockgallery.com/Donna_Zhang.htm

Goals: 

  • 7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
  • How are you coming along in the process of the painting construction? What is a benefit that you can see in learning how to build a canvas? N: Construction of the canvas. 
  • ONE ADDITION TO THE HANDOUT – RESEARCH A CONTEMPORARY PORTRAIT ARTIST, Write a One Paragraph (or more) Biography about the artist, have 5 images as visual reference with TITLE, SIZE, YEAR, MEDIUM, and have VISUAL REFERENCES to their art in YOUR painting!

Reflection / Evaluation: While there are MANY advantages to the building, what is a disadvantage to the building of a canvas?

Studio Art 360: CLAY! Finally!

Farmers in Stone! 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?

Reflection / Evaluation: How are you going to keep the clay from drying out over the evening? What techniques are REALLY important to be using to make sure any ADDITIVE clay really HOLD TIGHT to the clay you are adding it to?

AP Studio Art: Concentration!

Have you looked at the AP Studio Art Portfolio for Inspiration? Here are the AP Studio Art Portfolio Example Pages.

$117 Million Dollars! WOW http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/thumb/msid-12978951,width-640,resizemode-4/munchs-iconic-artwork-the-scream-sold-for-120-million.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.
  • SELF CRITIQUE on Thursday… You will be critiquing your own works – One person will be the comment mark keeper. You will moderate your own work… What is ONE BIG STATEMENT you feel you will make about your own work? EVERYONE speaks about their own work AND about each person’s work.

Reflection / Evaluation: Of all the Edvard Munch works we have seen this week – What was something that TIED THEM ALL TOGETHER? How do you see this idea as being able to help you tie YOUR works together?

Drawing: Google Slideshow

What’s the SHAPE of the HEAD? Practice THAT today! https://artwithmissgriffin.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/head-perspective.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • Now that we’ve gone over ALL the facial features – What challenges are you facing in the drawing of the face itself? Be AWARE of the MOST CHALLENGING parts – DO NOT SKIMP on the PRACTICE! FOCUS! N: Proportions on the head / shoulders.

Reflection / Evaluation: What are some REALLY IMPORTANT GUIDELINES that you will be using to make ACCURATE references in the face drawings?

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#NewWeek #Monday #Portraits #Canvas #Selfies? #ART

#WiArtChat is on TWITTER NEEDS your INPUT! Please visit goo.gl/UvXgQM

“Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. Make. Good. Art.” ~ Neil Gaiman

Painting and Advanced Painting: CANVAS Building

Nancy Duensberry – Painter: http://www.nancydusenberry.com/paintings.html

Goals: 

  • 3.1P: Apply relevant criteria from traditional and contemporary cultural contexts to examine, reflect on, and plan revisions for works of art and design in progress.
  • Who have you begun to think about for the idea of the portrait? Self Portrait? Friend? Family? Take a minute – write it down and the big WHY! Tell your neighbor your plan.

Reflection / Evaluation: What is the ONE challenge you will have in the process of building a canvas? What are TWO aspects of your portrait that are going to make this a STRONG and engaging painting for you?

Studio Art 360: POETRY!

Poetry and Art! Roamre BEarden and Lanston Hughes. The Block: http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7013/6845900495_3b7c31d2ce.jpg

Goals

  • NETS Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and to the learning of others.
  • When you WROTE your poetry – what imagery in your artwork really began to stand out? How might this help you develop your bas relief sculpture?
    • Slide Show HERE
    • Images to PLACE – HERE
    • COLLAGE and POETRY LESSON – HERE

Reflection / Evaluation: What challenges did you have in the process of writing poetry for your artwork?

AP Studio Art: Concentration!

Have you looked at the AP Studio Art Portfolio for Inspiration? Here are the AP Studio Art Portfolio Example Pages.

Edvard Munch – Self Portrait Against a Blue Sky: http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/art/19th/munch/munch015.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • What are you thinking about carrying forward as you WRAP UP the FIRST three works (by Wednesday) and move into the NEXT three images? Write your ideas out in your sketchbook as you work.

Reflection / Evaluation: What are two things that you would judge as successful as you look at the 3 works together? Consider these FIRST three works as beginnings.

Drawing: Google Slideshow

Trenton Olson and Graffiti! Guest Speaker! YEAH!

Goals:

  • 6.1Ac: Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history.
  • When you think of what is popular in today’s art world – what kinds of imagery comes to mind? What kind of art do you like? Images, artists, colors? Graffiti and Fauvism – BOTH – worked to advance art beyond the current art of their time.
  • Self-Portraits – Then and Now 

Reflection / Evaluation: What are 2 things you enjoy or are challenged by throught the ideas and imagery of graffiti? BEGIN WORKING ON PRACTICE DRAWINGS of a person’s ENTIRE FACE – Front on or 1/4 turn at the most! PRACTICE is all it is – DUE Thursday – Famous person – BIG.

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#Dapper #Tuesday at #WUHS – What’s dapper about #you?

10 Things Creative People Do By: Randy Taran

8. Surround Yourself With Interesting People and Things: Spend time with diverse friends, listen to new music, see new exhibitions to broaden your horizons. Having unusual objects around you also helps you develop original ideas.

AP Studio Art: Concentration!

IDEAS? Are you running against a deadline? How did sharing your ideas yesterday help?

Goals:

  •  2.6 create multiple solutions to visual challenges that show understanding in relationships between composition and meaning of artwork
  • While looking at your classmates work, how do  you see the works needing to GROW? Do you see  yours growing?

What have you come up with? What materials are you planning on using? How does it fit into your current body of work?

Advanced Drawing: Composition and Meaning of a PAPER BAG.

Goals:

  •  1.1 Ad: Visualize and hypothesize to generate plans for ideas and directions for creating art and design that can affect social change.
  • What did you do last week to prepare yourself for in the design and execution of this still life / commentary work? What are you communicating in the work and how are you communicating that work?

What did you take away from the drawing today? What are you succeeding with?. (1, 3, 5).  

Drawing: Color, Shape, Meaning, and MUSIC!

By The Way… Share your STILL LIFE DRAWINGS by visiting them HERE.

What’s the MAP of Kandinsky’s ideas talk about? http://img2.mappio.com/ewant/kandinsky-color-theory-4170-Large.jpg

Kandinsky at MAM – HERE

Goals:

  • 3.1 reflect on how art differs and describe how it relates to history and cultures 3.2 apply subjects, symbols, and ideas in art and use skill to solve visual challenges.
  • What color scheme are you considering using n this work? How do you see that as helping communicate your message?

What composition do you feel is working best for you to communicate the messages you are hoping? Why?

Studio Art 360: Drawing of the Still Life

Georgio Morandi’s space – how’s your work coming along?

Goals:

  • 10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.
  • Step back from your artwork and LOOK at it. What skill have you NEWLY developed as this drawing has come along? Is it VALUE? FORM? SHADING? OBSERVATION? Please explain the ideas in your new skills.

Of ALL the  work on your drawing you created today, what has been the most successful thing that you’ve accomplished? EXPLAIN! 

How about COMPSITIONS? Looking for ideas? Let’s Look HERE!

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#Tuesday is HERE! #Value and #Composition, #Music and #Kandinsky!

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

AP Studio Art: Concentration!

Your Ideas? http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3121/3175394436_db29a51079.jpg?v=0

Goals:

  • 2.6 create multiple solutions to visual challenges that show understanding in relationships between composition and meaning of artwork.
  • What have your previous sketches been over the past months? Are you still thinking about your CONCENTRATION? How have you been planning the NEW ideas out for your work?

What have you come up with? What materials are you planning on using? How does it fit into your current body of work? 

Advanced Drawing: Do you ever feel, like you’re a paper bag? (Thanks kids)

Goals:

  • 2.6 create multiple solutions to visual challenges that show understanding in relationships between composition and meaning of artwork.
  • What did you do last week to prepare yourself for in the design and execution of this still life / commentary work? Discussion of others work and verbalizing your personal thoughts. Called on for comments – not just random participation.

What did you take away from the drawing today? What are you succeeding with?

Drawing: Kandinsky and MUSIC!

How can you relate to MUSIC and the VISUAL ARTS? What’s the same? What’s Different? http://scienceillustrated.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/music.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.
  • What feelings do you get from your FAVORITE piece of music? What song / artist is that?

What shapes did you struggle to find? What ideas did you find as you listened to the music? 

Studio Art 360: Develop Compositions for Final Drawing.

Still Life – Values – Objects! https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/c9d89-composition-threeplanes.jpg

Goals:

  • 10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.
  • One more day with your VALUE scales and the like. What is ONE THING you really need to focus on when it comes to UNDERSTANDING your use of VALUE in these exercises?

EXPLAIN how you are seeing VALUE differently today than you did 3 days ago. Two statements that help define this NEW UNDERSTANDING.

How about COMPOSITIONS? Looking for ideas? Let’s Look HERE!

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#Day2 – How’s that #Art thing going for you?

“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. 

AP Studio Art – Art and Fear – Let’s go to it!

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
  • Using the idea of Art and Fear as your next breadth work – what ideas do you find yourself leaning towards when it comes to the imagery for your next work? Why do you see yourself headed in that direction? How are you going to make the ideas CLEAR and READABLE in your artwork?

What are the challenges from working through an ENTIRE CHAPTER? Explain what your biggest challenges might be about this work.

Advanced Drawing: Abstraction and Pastels – Color Schemes!

http://www.nhsdesigns.com/images/artwork/jean-metzinger_sailboats.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • What has been the hardest part of using values for you? Share this with your neighbor and write your struggles in your goals page. Look at the image of Jean Metzinger’s Sailboats… look at it as visually being BALANCED – notice how we took the color out to see it balanced?

What is the progress of the drawing thus far? What are you doing successfully? Where are you struggling? Share your thoughts with your neighbors.

Drawing: Still Life – FAST and FURIOUS!

Still Life SKETCHES and preliminary ideas… how are your ideas coming?

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • Most young artists work with their FIRST idea and that’s it. What might the benefit be to begin with MORE ideas? When you sketch in your binders / homework… where do you mostly get your ideas from?  How do you define OBSERVATION?

What do you hope to come up with this year in Drawing? What do you feel you will be able to improve on regarding the skills you have currently? 

Studio Art 360: Draw what you REMEMBER!

Robert Indiana – LOVE: http://whitecubediaries.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/3923768734_6b16394256_z.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • What were three challenges you faced as you began with your drawing of a CUBE, CYLINDER, and PYRAMID yesterday?

What are 2 skills you have already that are going to make your experiences in Studio Art 360 easier?

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#FINAL #DAY of #ARTCLASS! Sad Days for me!

Extra Credit – BY FRIDAY!

“This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on yesterdays.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Studio Art 360: PRINT and Clean and REVIEW!

Color Schemes Are:

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Goals:

  • 6.1P: Analyze and describe the impact that an exhibition or collection has on personal awareness of social, cultural, or political beliefs and understandings.
  • What have you taken away about the LARGER IDEA of ART? Process? Projects? Product? TODAY we REVIEW!!

Review with your classmates the COLOR WHEEL and COLOR SCHEMES. 

Painting: Paint and RESOLVE the image.

“Portrait of a Man” by Edward Hopper

FRIDAY’s Final Exam ONLINE SELF CRITIQUE – HERE.

Goals:

  • 5.1Ac: Evaluate, select, and apply methods or processes appropriate to display artwork in a specific place.
  • What is the meaning of your se-portrait? If you have to give a meaning – message – mood behind your work, what would it be (and WHY?).

Questions? What is it you need to do on the final exam? How do you plan on finishing this artwork? 

AP Studio Art – Let’s CRIT!

Eminem… from a photograph maybe?

Goals:

  • Research and Information Fluency – Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.
  • What do you need to do in order to be ready for the final exam that is due on FRIDAY?

Last 15 minutes – Share your website with your classmates.

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