#Cleaning in the #ArtStudio

Francis Bacon's Art Studio - HE needed OUR help in cleaning it. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/550c9d68e4b0567de63aa557/550de75de4b0bc81227c05ee/555d22c9e4b059c53a726d5c/1432170710007/Francis+Bacon.jpg?format=1000w

“A dream only becomes overrated when not pursued by the dreamer.” ― Courtney Hickman


PLEIN AIR ART CLASS: Summer Opportunities – Plein Air and Printmaking!

Summer Plein Air Art - Taliesin - Frank Lloyd Wright - Spring Green, WI
Summer Plein Air Art – Taliesin – Frank Lloyd Wright – Spring Green, WI Images of Field Trip HERE.

ALL LATE WORK IS DUE TODAY – No Exceptions! Period.


TODAY is, for the most part, a day for cleaning. Let us use this time wisely to gather our art, our supplies, our personal belongings, and move them all home. If we finish – it is work time. Other than that… it is time to get the room in order. Work continues on TUESDAY so be

Francis Bacon's Art Studio - HE needed OUR help in cleaning it. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/550c9d68e4b0567de63aa557/550de75de4b0bc81227c05ee/555d22c9e4b059c53a726d5c/1432170710007/Francis+Bacon.jpg?format=1000w
Francis Bacon’s Art Studio – HE needed OUR help in cleaning it. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/550c9d68e4b0567de63aa557/550de75de4b0bc81227c05ee/555d22c9e4b059c53a726d5c/1432170710007/Francis+Bacon.jpg?format=1000w

ready – unless it is a CRITIQUE day… then we critique.

#HolyThursdayBatman! One more Day then it’s a 3 1/2 day weekend!

Large Scale Work - Todd Mrozinski SHADOWS! https://365artists365days.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/working-in-studio-on-tree-shadow.jpg?w=640&h=480

“A dream only becomes overrated when not pursued by the dreamer.” ― Courtney Hickman


PLEIN AIR ART CLASS: Summer Opportunities – Plein Air and Printmaking!

Summer Plein Air Art - Taliesin - Frank Lloyd Wright - Spring Green, WI
Summer Plein Air Art – Taliesin – Frank Lloyd Wright – Spring Green, WI Images of Field Trip HERE.

ALL LATE WORK IS DUE FRIDAY – No Exceptions! Period.


Drawing: Shadows, Positive, and Negative Space

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

What do you need to RESOLVE in the next few days? What skills are you pleased with in how you are completing this work?

Large Scale Work - Todd Mrozinski SHADOWS! https://365artists365days.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/working-in-studio-on-tree-shadow.jpg?w=640&h=480
Large Scale Work – Todd Mrozinski SHADOWS! https://365artists365days.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/working-in-studio-on-tree-shadow.jpg?w=640&h=480

What have you learned about the process of working? What is ONE thing that you have taken from the year of working? What strengths have you gained?


Studio Art 360: Printing Day # 2 is HERE!

SIT DOWN PLEASE and SHHHHHHHHHH!

2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.

Today we are going to work with CARAN D’ACHE Crayons and a printing plate to help create a MONOPRINT Group Print. When your’s is done – WASH IT CLEAN and then we begin to CLEAN OUT OUR STUFF.

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Caran D’Ache and YOU! http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-e67QAc_ss0U/T0LWh-yeL-I/AAAAAAAAECs/hWdgpgdQjj0/s1600/Neocolor+II+Aquarelle+Crayons.jpg

What are you MOST pleased with in regards to your print? WHY? Tomorrow we CLEAN!


Advanced Drawing: Work like your ART depends on it!

Express: Learning to create works that convey an idea, a feeling, or a personal meaning.

Take a look at your previous week’s works – where did you struggle the most with the idea of the portrait? Where did you succeed the most? How do you use the ideas of chiaroscuro to better define the ideas of form (in the face especially)?

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Johannes Vermeer “The Music Lesson” http://taboofart.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/hiroshi-sugimoto-the-music-lesson-1999.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? (Vermeer)


AP Studio Art: 7 Deadly Art Sins – What’s the PROGRESS?

Robert Rauschenberg Show at MoMA

AP Art Show Nametags – Make a copy of this into your folder.

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

ghbors about the Myth. What are your thoughts about your classmates work. Sticky Note Comments.

Greed https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/Jheronimus_Bosch_Table_of_the_Mortal_Sins_%28Avaricia%29.jpg?download By Hieronymus Bosch - →This file has been extracted from another file: Hieronymus Bosch- The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things.JPG, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5595680
Greed https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/Jheronimus_Bosch_Table_of_the_Mortal_Sins_%28Avaricia%29.jpg?download By Hieronymus Bosch – →This file has been extracted from another file: Hieronymus Bosch- The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things.JPG, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5595680

ritique on MONDAY – What can you do over the next few days to continue working on it? Quiet Work Days Friday. Greed

Week 16 – 3 More Weeks in the #ArtStudio

Edward Hopper Automat: http://www.edwardhopper.net/images/paintings/automat.jpg

“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


PLEIN AIR ART CLASS: Summer Opportunities – Plein Air and Printmaking!

Summer Plein Air Art - Taliesin - Frank Lloyd Wright - Spring Green, WI
Summer Plein Air Art – Taliesin – Frank Lloyd Wright – Spring Green, WI Images of Field Trip HERE.

Drawing: Critique Day and Photographs

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

Sit with your RUBRIC – the 4 part FEEDBACK from your classmates – and then we will do our own Self – Reflections – That’s good to start with.

David Hockney - A Bigger Picture: https://artblart.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/mbunyan-hockney-h-web.jpg
David Hockney – A Bigger Picture: https://artblart.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/mbunyan-hockney-h-web.jpg

Open to Page 25 – What did you get from your studiomates that helped you 1) recognize what you did well and 2) areas that you struggled with.


Studio Art 360: Critique and New Approach to the conversation and feedback

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

Sit with your RUBRIC – the 4 part FEEDBACK from your classmates – and then we will do our own Self – Reflections – That’s good to start with.

Chuck Close working on his portrait. https://www.washington.edu/alumni/columns/june97/studio23.gif
Chuck Close working on his portrait. https://www.washington.edu/alumni/columns/june97/studio23.gif

Open to Page 25 – What did you get from your studiomates that helped you 1) recognize what you did well and 2) areas that you struggled with?


Advanced Drawing: Hopper and Kahlo – How are you doing?

1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.

What have you got going with your Hopper / Kahlo images so far? This is the work that becomes the final critique for your final exam – be thoughtful and prepared – ready for your paper?

Edward Hopper Automat: http://www.edwardhopper.net/images/paintings/automat.jpg
Edward Hopper Automat: http://www.edwardhopper.net/images/paintings/automat.jpg

What’s working and what is not? Where have you struggled in this drawing so far?


AP Studio Art: 7 Deadly Art Myths and Hieronymous Bosch

1.1 Ad: Visualize and hypothesize to generate plans for ideas and directions for creating art and design that can affect social change.

As you looked at the ideas that Hieronymous Bosch put into his works – what ways can your response to the Seven Deadly Art Myths and reach out and think beyond the BASIC ideas you might have?

ANGER - Hieronymous Bosch: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/d5/4e/f7/d54ef7a45c1dd8ef0de2707c5e3f9f76.jpg
ANGER – Hieronymous Bosch: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/d5/4e/f7/d54ef7a45c1dd8ef0de2707c5e3f9f76.jpg

 

What do you see that biggest challenge that see in front of you as we continue forward in this narrative?

#MidWeek #Wednesday in the #ArtStudio – a LONG WEEK – with LOTS to do!

Hieronymous Bosch - the Seven Deadly Sins... What are the Seven Deadly MYTHS about being an Artist? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Hieronymus_Bosch-_The_Seven_Deadly_Sins_and_the_Four_Last_Things.JPG

PLEIN AIR ART CLASS: Summer Opportunities – Plein Air and Printmaking!

Summer Plein Air Art - Taliesin - Frank Lloyd Wright - Spring Green, WI
Summer Plein Air Art – Taliesin – Frank Lloyd Wright – Spring Green, WI Images of Field Trip HERE.

Drawing – 2nd to the LAST DAY in the OUTDOORS. Many would LOVE to go outside, I am sorry it is at 7:25am.

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 with a view of 1 foot away. One page and one drawing. That’s the goal.

What are you looking at to define your composition? How are you FOCUSED on the task? http://www.artmarketmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Screen-shot-2009-10-18-at-1.31.51-PM.png
What are you looking at to define your composition? How are you FOCUSED on the task? http://www.artmarketmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Screen-shot-2009-10-18-at-1.31.51-PM.png

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? Having to think about tomorrow – the final COVER drawing – what do 


Studio Art 360: PORTRAIT’s Almost Done? Do NOT Rush…

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

What are two things about PAINTING in ACRYLIC that you have discovered and will STAY WITH YOU in the future?

Warhol at SFMoMA 1986 Self Portrait https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/97.892
Warhol at SFMoMA 1986 Self Portrait https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/97.892

What is it that you especially enjoy about the image you are creating in your painting? How do the ideas and colors RELATE to you?


Advanced Drawing: Hopper and Kahlo – Let’s talk about the ideas you’ve got.

1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.

What did you accomplish yesterday with the facial features? Today is another day – Let’s take this 10 minutes at a time…

Frida Kahlo Self Portrait 0as a Tehuana: https://uploads7.wikiart.org/images/magdalena-carmen-frieda-kahlo-y-calder%C3%B3n-de-rivera/self-portrait-as-a-tehuana-1943.jpg
Frida Kahlo Self Portrait 0as a Tehuana: https://uploads7.wikiart.org/images/magdalena-carmen-frieda-kahlo-y-calder%C3%B3n-de-rivera/self-portrait-as-a-tehuana-1943.jpg

How are you dealing with the PLANNING stages of this artwork? Portraits, Figure, Architecture, Reference Materials? Write out 3 main ideas that you have accomplished in today’s planning stages.

Handouts:


AP Studio Art: You’re KILLING the Crit! (Some still need to demonstrate they get the talking and reflecting part).

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

PROJECT COMING UP! What do you think of when it comes to what it means to be an artist? When your parents hear that you want to be an artist – or others hear you are an artist – what images / thoughts do you think come to their mind?

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Hieronymous Bosch – the Seven Deadly Sins… What are the Seven Deadly MYTHS about being an Artist? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Hieronymus_Bosch-_The_Seven_Deadly_Sins_and_the_Four_Last_Things.JPG

When you consider the ideas of the myths – do you see any of them in yourself?

 #ArtMomentum is #Working… Let’s keep this #Making Going!

Kyle and Eve want to know how your critique is going.

PLEIN AIR ART CLASS: Summer Opportunities – Plein Air and Printmaking!

Summer Plein Air Art - Taliesin - Frank Lloyd Wright - Spring Green, WI
Summer Plein Air Art – Taliesin – Frank Lloyd Wright – Spring Green, WI – Images of Field Trip HERE.

Drawing: Outside Day 8

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 2 – 5 feet away. One page and one drawing. That’s the goal

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David Hockney drawing in his car – Let’s look at this for the next major work. http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02902/hockney_2902167b.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: Portrait Tuesday – Push Sketchbooks till Friday!

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

What are two things about PAINTING in ACRYLIC that you have discovered and will STAY WITH YOU in the future?

SFMoMA Andy Warhol 1967 Silkscreen: https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/92.283
SFMoMA Andy Warhol 1967 Silkscreen: https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/92.283

What is it that you especially enjoy about the image you are creating in your painting? How do the ideas and colors RELATE to you?


Advanced Drawing: What’s the IDEA of your work looking like?

1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.

What did you accomplish yesterday with the facial features? Today is another day – Let’s take this 10 minutes at a time…

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Edward Hopper and the ideas of the SKETCH – PRIOR to his drawings or paintings. http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4144/5175512908_075d641148.jpg

Tomorrow we discuss the process and planning for the next work.

Handouts for next week:


AP Studio Art: Crit!

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

Based on the conversations you had at the beginning of this artwork, what are some of the qualities / characteristics you worked into the final portrait of your classmate? Would this be something that an audience would learn / see from simply looking at the work?

Kyle and Eve want to know how your critique is going.
Kyle and Eve want to know how your critique is going.

Well? How’d you do?

Monday is where we are… Friday is where we want to be. Let’s make ART to get us through it all.

Andy Warhol used REPETITION and COLOR in his PORTRAITS - Even if all it was is Marilyn Monroe's Lips: http://www.imranomerart.com/images/essays/lips.jpg

PLEIN AIR ART CLASS: Summer Opportunity!

Summer Plein Air Art
Summer Plein Air Art – Taliesin – Frank Lloyd Wright – Spring Green, WI Click HERE to see more photos. Sign up in the Guidance Office to join in the Summer Artmaking Fun!

If you don’t like change, you’ll like irrelevance even less” General Eric Shinseki


Drawing: Plein Air Painters

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

Tri-Dorms at Ripon College. Abby's last Sunday of her Freshman year.
Tri-Dorms at Ripon College. Abby’s last Sunday of her Freshman year.

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

Let's look to David Hockney for our inspiration in our landscapes! http://www.hockneypictures.com/images/3-works/2-drawings/OO/large/08B25-lg.jpg
Let’s look to David Hockney for our inspiration in our landscapes! http://www.hockneypictures.com/images/3-works/2-drawings/OO/large/08B25-lg.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: Portrait Paintings

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

What is the aspect of your personality that the COLOR USE and POSE OF THE SELFIE are representing?

Andy Warhol used REPETITION and COLOR in his PORTRAITS - Even if all it was is Marilyn Monroe's Lips: http://www.imranomerart.com/images/essays/lips.jpg
Andy Warhol used REPETITION and COLOR in his PORTRAITS – Even if all it was is Marilyn Monroe’s Lips: http://www.imranomerart.com/images/essays/lips.jpg

What are the COLOR Sand the COLOR SCHEME you are using in your painting?


Advanced Drawing: Hopper / Kahlo

1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.

When it comes to the FACE and the FIGURE, what are the biggest difficulties that you have faced in the past?

Body Parts and Edward Hopper: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/96/20/d1/9620d161812611a840c2a820fc780c6e.jpg
Body Parts and Edward Hopper: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/96/20/d1/9620d161812611a840c2a820fc780c6e.jpg

What did you have a hard time with today? What was holding you back? DESCRIBE THE CHALLENGES on page 23

Handouts for next week:


AP Studio Art: Critique of the Portraits

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

Based on the conversations you had at the beginning of this artwork, what are some of the qualities / characteristics you worked into the final portrait of your classmate? Would this be something that an audience would learn / see from simply looking at the work?

 

Make s

Vincent Van Gogh Portrait: Let's See Yours: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/aa/39/41/aa39410686f1b5ae7b3b975b087819e3.jpg
Vincent Van Gogh Portrait: Let’s See Yours: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/aa/39/41/aa39410686f1b5ae7b3b975b087819e3.jpg

ure this gets photographed and put into your website… Maybe another heading… OTHER ARTWORKS?

#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.

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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?

Wednesday – MidWeek #ArtMaking

David Hockney and his drawings - 10 - 20 feet: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/600x315/05/5d/e2/055de2dd870c79b59b1aac5482b8ce12.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: Brrrr… I hope you brought MITTENS

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 with a view from 10 – 20 feet away. One page and one drawing. That’s the goal.

David Hockney and his drawings - 10 - 20 feet: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/600x315/05/5d/e2/055de2dd870c79b59b1aac5482b8ce12.jpg
David Hockney and his drawings – 10 – 20 feet: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/600×315/05/5d/e2/055de2dd870c79b59b1aac5482b8ce12.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 and PAINT! We’re doing it ALL today.

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?

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Glazing Work – Let’s Glaze! http://www.pottery-magic.com/pottery/tip_techniques/glaze7.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 DAY!

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

What are the skills you saw in others work that you could see being important as you look at your own work.

Looking at Figurative Work: http://www.austinchronicle.com/binary/0d18/NationalGallery.jpg
Looking at Figurative Work: http://www.austinchronicle.com/binary/0d18/NationalGallery.jpg

Nothing – we reflected all hour.


AP Studio Art: What a DAY!

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

Now that we are done with the AP Testing – time to move forward. Looking over the past year and the development of the works you created… what 2 skills did you develop and put into your Art Toolbox over the course of the year?

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Diego Rivera by Frida Kahlo: https://uploads5.wikiart.org/images/magdalena-carmen-frieda-kahlo-y-calder%C3%B3n-de-rivera/portrait-of-diego-rivera-1937.jpg

No reflection individually – this is a class mid critique.

#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?

#MoMA #Women in #PostwarAbstraction – and #MakingArt on a #wednesday – #ArtStudio

Albert Einstein: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/3f/17/61/3f176185b7269a1576868f47e85bac7c.jpg
Albert Einstein: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/3f/17/61/3f176185b7269a1576868f47e85bac7c.jpg

Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction / MoMA Live…

Just to give a bit of art history and importance / social context of women in art history…


Drawing: Kandinsky Critique

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.

What were the similarities and differences in your ideas and Kandinsky’s?

Remember Helen Miren - This one is from MO=oMA: http://www.moma.org/collection_images/resized/443/w500h420/CRI_241443.jpg
Remember Helen Mirren – This one is from MO=oMA: http://www.moma.org/collection_images/resized/443/w500h420/CRI_241443.jpg

Nothing – We Self Reflected ALL hour.


Studio Art 360: Selfies and the Grid

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

What is the emotional feeling that you are showing in your photograph / selfie? From all the color schemes, what color scheme best fits you?

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Moving into the world of POP art! http://assets.yellowtrace.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Brillo-Box-foam-ottomans-by-Fab.com-and-The-Andy-Warhol-Foundation-Photo-by-Nick-Hughes-for-Yellowtrace-02.jpg

What 3 challenges do you see in the process of gridding the work out?

Remember our Sketches from Yesterday? Here are a few websites for you to enjoy from the artists Stephen Shanabrook and Veronika Georgieva.

Advanced Drawing: Skeleton Isolation Drawing

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

What do you think the skills that you currently have will help you in the process of the skeleton drawing?

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How are you dealing with the negative space in your skeleton? https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/de/e5/d3/dee5d33596aa1c473f97da7fc4ae3061.jpg

How does your drawing look in your own eyes? What did the process of ERASING the image in the beginning do for you?


AP Studio Art – YOUR BODY OF WORK!

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 are 3 things you have learned, researched, inquired about your ideas for your concentration so far this week? I’ve had MANY great conversations with each almost each of you… what do you take away from them?

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Alexander Clader’s Circus: http://whitney.org/image_columns/0002/4353/alexandercalderinstallview1_600_1200.jpg?1369062947

What are your questions about making your statement ONLINE? Do you have an idea how to access your ONLINE portion of the website? :