#Welcome to #SpringBreak. A FEW things to work on Kidd-o.

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

DRAWING – Look No Further

Start with this Google Form. When you are done with that an email will be sent to you. Open the email and read the instructions on the Google Document that is attached. This will take you to the Google Folder to copy your artwork from AND the Google Slide that we are all sharing that you will add your artwork and information to. If you have any questions – CONTACT ME!


AP Studio Art: Online is in need of WORK!

Make sure that you are staying on top of the necessary online aspects of your portfolio.

  • 72DPI
  • 10.25″ Maximum
  • 7.25ish” Minimum

#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? :

#Friday – and #Korb is away with #OtherArtStudents

Chick Close busy at work in his studio: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/b8/38/22/b8382226b5e49669453989e41e984831.jpg

Art is an adventure into the unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take risks.” Mark Rothko


Drawing

7.2Ac: Evaluate the effectiveness of an image or images to influence ideas, feelings, and behaviors of specific audiences.

PAGE 20 in your HANDBOOK – As this work develops, how are your ideas and Kandinsky’s similar and how are they different? What might you take away from this experience? How can you share that idea with the world? Write out Two similarities and One MAJOR difference.

Wassily Kandinsky and the Bauhaus: http://www.wassilykandinsky.net/images/works/544.jpg
Wassily Kandinsky and the Bauhaus: http://www.wassilykandinsky.net/images/works/544.jpg

As this work develops, how are your ideas and Kandinsky’s similar and how are they different? WRITE this out from the beginning of the hour. Has it Changed?


Studio Art 360

Develop Craft: Learning to use tools, materials, artistic conventions; and learning to care for tools, materials, and space.

Chick Close busy at work in his studio: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/b8/38/22/b8382226b5e49669453989e41e984831.jpg
Chuck Close busy at work in his studio: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/b8/38/22/b8382226b5e49669453989e41e984831.jpg

PAGE 20 in your HANDBOOK – What challenges did you have in the process of using the grid as a device to transfer the image from the photograph to the piece of paper? Explain why the process why so hard to you.


Advanced Drawing

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

Hands and feet are challenging – what is going to be challenging about these aspects to make them believable – one doesn’t want to draw mittens and socks in the place of hands and feet.

http://corewalking.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/FITZ_december24_2011_grasping-at-straws-1024x510.jpg
http://corewalking.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/FITZ_december24_2011_grasping-at-straws-1024×510.jpg

PAGE 20 in your HANDBOOK: How will you use the knowledge of the shapes and joints to help you make the proportions CORRECT? Give some technique and ideas in your answer.


AP Studio Art

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PAGE 20 in your HANDBOOK: What do you see as needing to be REALLY focusing on as NEXT WEEK comes up? I want you to be FOCUSED on the tasks at hand and get as much done next week so you have NOTHING but typing and tweaking your website over Spring Break. Make a list of things to do if you have to.

#Midweek #Wednesday #Artday

Pelvis in the Art you make - Make it Strong: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/a3/14/37/a31437c011c8617346bbbd7426bd52bd.jpg

Thanks to Abi and Mia (et.al.) for their support in the world of High School Artists!


Art is an adventure into the unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take risks.”

– Mark Rothko


Drawing: Look at all that was written about your work yesterday and reflect on it.

B7.2Ac: Evaluate the effectiveness of an image or images to influence ideas, feelings, and behaviors of specific audiences.

Reflect on YESTERDAY before you begin today! What are your OVERALL IDEAS that you hope to communicate.

Kandinsky: http://uploads8.wikipaintings.org/images/wassily-kandinsky/yellow-red-blue-1925.jpg
Kandinsky: http://uploads8.wikipaintings.org/images/wassily-kandinsky/yellow-red-blue-1925.jpg

Biggest struggle / success for today? Write it out and the WHY!


Studio Art 360: COLOR THEORY – Let’s Talk Schemes.

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

Review with your neighbor the relationships of color on the color wheel.

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Review with neighbors the relationships of the colors on the color wheel? QUIZ one another on the names, types and relationships of the colors


Advanced Drawing: The Pelvis and Proportions

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

How can you use another part of the body to help you determine the height and width of the pelvic area as you are drawing the human form? Where and how will you use measurements to help?

Pelvis in the Art you make - Make it Strong: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/a3/14/37/a31437c011c8617346bbbd7426bd52bd.jpg
Pelvis in the Art you make – Make it Strong: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/a3/14/37/a31437c011c8617346bbbd7426bd52bd.jpg

When you look at the form of the figure today, how have you succeeded with the drawing of the form? What techniques / approaches have you used?


AP Studio Art: Let’s Keep Talking

Reflect: Learning to think and talk with others about an aspect of one’s work or working process, and learning to judge one’s own work and working process and the work of others.

We began yesterday with a few presentations – you are now on your own. Take the period to do your presentations with one another – One of you will keep track of comments / suggestions / another will keep track of time. This is all on you – real AP Level conversations that are FOCUSED and ATTENTIVE to the tasks at hand. GO!

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Nothing – reflected on work that was produced

#Sketchbook #Tuesday in the #ArtStudio

Jim dine TOOLS: https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.collageplatform.com.prod/image_cache/1010x580_fit/5761760584184e24248b4568/fe211c255a4260f5dc47bb9f7cce6a0b.jpg

 


Drawing: Kandinsky and your ideas

7.2Ac: Evaluate the effectiveness of an image or images to influence ideas, feelings, and behaviors of specific audiences.

As this develops, how are your ideas and Kandinsky’s similar and how are they different? What might you take away from this experience? How can you share that idea with the world?

Wassily Kandinsky and Circles: http://www.kimberleyjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/K3-Wassily-Kandinsky-Concentric-Circles.jpg
Wassily Kandinsky and Circles: http://www.kimberleyjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/K3-Wassily-Kandinsky-Concentric-Circles.jpg

As this work develops, how are your ideas and Kandinsky’s similar and how are they different? WRITE this out from the beginning of the hour. Has it Changed?


Studio Art 360: Sketchbook Tuesday

2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan. What STRUGGLES do you have with OBSERVATION? How about VALUE?

Sketchbook Assignment Page  We are working on the SKETCHBOOKS today (Page 20) – Sketchbook Tuesday. WORK! Help your neighbor as you go along. ONE COLOR SCHEME – Let’s Look at Page 29 and REVIEW them all.

Grab a hammer, screwdriver, wrench, some sort of toolbox type of tool and draw it based on careful observation. Make sure that you spend some quality time looking at the object and then also consider the space in the background. What are you doing to fill that space? Please look at Jim Dine’s artworks about tools: https://goo.gl/xYYksN – Focus on the tool drawings.

Jim dine TOOLS: https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.collageplatform.com.prod/image_cache/1010x580_fit/5761760584184e24248b4568/fe211c255a4260f5dc47bb9f7cce6a0b.jpg
Jim dine TOOLS: https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.collageplatform.com.prod/image_cache/1010x580_fit/5761760584184e24248b4568/fe211c255a4260f5dc47bb9f7cce6a0b.jpg

How are you considering the ideas about COMPOSITION as you create your artwork? How does the imagery we saw from Jim Dine give you permission to do NEW things and NEW ideas for your composition?


Advanced Drawing: Skeletons and the TORSO

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 will be most difficult about the TORSO portion of the body to draw? Why is this so?

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Leonardo Da Vinci and his skeletal studies: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/ac/9f/78/ac9f782791c2cbcda3790b2fa73ddb7c.jpg

How are you able to make reference to the SKULL as you are drawing the torso / ribs and abdomen?


AP Studio Art: Critique – Let’s Talk

Reflect: Learning to think and talk with others about an aspect of one’s work or working process, and learning to judge one’s own work and working process and the work of others.

We began yesterday with a few presentations – you are now on your own. Take the period to do your presentations with one another – One of you will keep track of comments / suggestions / another will keep track of time. This is all on you – real AP Level conversations that are FOCUSED and ATTENTIVE to the tasks at hand. GO!

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Nothing – reflected on work that was produced

#WelcomeBack #Mr.Korb – #StayAWhlie

Jim Dine donates work to UW - Madison: http://news.wisc.edu/story_images/8672/large/Chazen_sculpture14_3751.JPG?1400081186



Drawing: Kandinsky in Color – Week 2

7.2Ac: Evaluate the effectiveness of an image or images to influence ideas, feelings, and behaviors of specific audiences.

TURN TO PAGE 20 in your Handbook: Reflect on LAST WEEK before you begin today! What are your OVERALL IDEAS that you hope to communicate? What do you feel you’ll be doing with the materials that are NEW and CHALLENGING to you?

Complex / Symphonic Composition by Wassily Kandinsky: http://www.wassilykandinsky.net/images/works/256.jpg
Complex / Symphonic Composition by Wassily Kandinsky: http://www.wassilykandinsky.net/images/works/256.jpg

Biggest struggle / success for today? Write it out and the WHY!


Studio Art 360: Color and Color Schemes

G: 7.1P: Hypothesize ways in which art influences perception and understanding of human experiences.

Where do you see color? How does the color on TV get blended together? How does color in a magazine get blended together? Optical color?

PRISM and Color Mixing http://www.photo-dictionary.com/photofiles/list/699/1110prism.jpg
PRISM and Color Mixing http://www.photo-dictionary.com/photofiles/list/699/1110prism.jpg

What are the three types of colors on the color wheel? What can you NOT mix? How do you mix Orange, etc…


Advanced Drawing: Skeletons / Proportions / Isolation in Composition

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

What is the longest bone in the body? How can you use your understanding of the figure to HELP you figure out proportions AS you are drawing?

Jim Dine donates work to UW - Madison: http://news.wisc.edu/story_images/8672/large/Chazen_sculpture14_3751.JPG?1400081186
Jim Dine donates work to UW – Madison: http://news.wisc.edu/story_images/8672/large/Chazen_sculpture14_3751.JPG?1400081186

What aspect of the skull did you draw today that can help you understand the drawing of the head as you move forward in the idea of figure drawing?

Article: http://news.wisc.edu/chazen-museum-of-art-receives-gift-of-67-jim-dine-artworks/

Images of Skeletal Parts for Reference Materials: https://goo.gl/photos/YmGWWFz8Ynto98cB8


AP Studio Art: Critique Days – I hope the extra Two days were HELPFUL

Reflect: Learning to think and talk with others about an aspect of one’s work or working process, and learning to judge one’s own work and working process and the work of others.

Grab the 4 part PRE-Critique Worksheets and (on your own pacing) go for the next 28 – 20 minutes to critique one another’s work. What response do you have regarding your studio mate’s  works – really – that can help them see things that they might not see – things that might help them continue to learn from their own works and marks? NO KID GLOVES.

Presentations to the studio from the website – answer the questions from AP and present the work that has been created. G: Nothing – reflected on work that was produced.

 

#KORB is #GONE on #FRIDAY? #Sad.

“Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.” — Julie Andrews


Drawing: Soft Pastels

7.2Ac: Evaluate the effectiveness of an image or images to influence ideas, feelings, and behaviors of specific audiences.

Reflect on YESTERDAY as you began your ideas on paper. What are your OVERALL IDEAS that you hope to communicate?

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Kandinsky: http://uploads8.wikipaintings.org/images/wassily-kandinsky/yellow-red-blue-1925.jpg

Biggest struggle / success for today? Write it out and the WHY! 

MILWAUKEE: http://mam.org/kandinsky/

  1. Blending ANALOGOUS colors with and without finger blending
  2. Blending COMPLEMENTS with and without finger blending
  3. Straight and Curved lines with the TIPS and with the SIDES of the pastels
  4. Filling large areas with a color and then doing smaller details over the top with another DIFFERENT color
  5. Blending with CIRCULAR marks as well as BACK AND FORTH marks
  6. Using PAPER as a masking tool
  7. Adding a WHITE HIGHLIGHT over a darker colored surface
  8. Working UPRIGHT on an easel versus on the FLAT on a table top
  9. Cleaning your pastels with paper towel
  10. Experiment on your own – use your initial images of SKETCHING for the VISUAL experiment inspiration
  11. CLEANING with SPRAY and a CLOTH RAG – that’s not an exercise but a technique that will clean a lot faster than paper towel

Studio Art 360: Character Mugs and COLOR WHEEL

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

If you ABSOLUTELY need 15 minutes to wrap up your ceramic work… take it. OTHERWISE – In your HANDBOOK – Answer the following questions: 1) What are the three PRIMARY colors? 2) What are the three SECONDARY colors?  3) List three WARM Colors. 4) List three COOL colors.

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Looks like it is from the Milwaukee Art Museum – Meg with a FACE: http://www.newton.k12.in.us/art/3d/images/facejugs/index_files/image017.jpg

What was the biggest challenge you had with using clay and creating a three dimensional artwork – PAUSE 10 minutes before the end of class.

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Advanced Drawing: Figure Drawing and the GESTURE

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

How did you struggle with the drawing from yesterday? What do you see as TWO benefits from learning how to GESTURE DRAW?

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Van Gogh’s Gesture Drawings: http://www.vangoghgallery.com/catalog/image/1649r/Sheet-with-Numerous-Figure-Sketches.jpg

What strengths did you develop in your drawing today? What three things do you look at with your drawing and say – “Hey… that’s not so bad!”

 


AP Studio Art: WORK on CONCENTRATION

 

Reflect: Learning to think and talk with others about an aspect of one’s work or working process, and learning to judge one’s own work and working process and the work of others.

I gave you time to work yesterday and today – MAKE THE MOST OF IT. What do you need to do today?

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WHAT’s the Assignment? If you need another 1, 2, or 3 concentration works – this is your assignment (one at the minimum). You will have your WEBSITE updated with 12 concentration works – PERIOD. You will rework your statements and answers to the AP Questions… ALL DUE on APRIL 3 for CRITIQUE & PRESENTATION.

#HolyThursday #ArtMan – Time to #DRAW

“Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.” — Julie Andrews


Drawing: Soft Pastels

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

Of the shapes we are using, which one is STRONG and why? Which shape describes a passive quality? Why? Are you using Impression, Improvisation, or Composition? What about the use of shapes? Melodic or Symphonic?

Wassily Kandinsky at the Milwaukee Art Museum Exhibition - not part of their permanent collection.  https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5287/13570248174_0cb6714488_z.jpg
Wassily Kandinsky at the Milwaukee Art Museum Exhibition – not part of their permanent collection. https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5287/13570248174_0cb6714488_z.jpg

How are you beginning to use the ideas of color and shape to communicate your ideas from your song?

MILWAUKEE: http://mam.org/kandinsky/

 

  1. Blending ANALOGOUS colors with and without finger blending
  2. Blending COMPLEMENTS with and without finger blending
  3. Straight and Curved lines with the TIPS and with the SIDES of the pastels
  4. Filling large areas with a color and then doing smaller details over the top with another DIFFERENT color
  5. Blending with CIRCULAR marks as well as BACK AND FORTH marks
  6. Using PAPER as a masking tool
  7. Adding a WHITE HIGHLIGHT over a darker colored surface
  8. Working UPRIGHT on an easel versus on the FLAT on a table top
  9. Cleaning your pastels with paper towel
  10. Experiment on your own – use your initial images of SKETCHING for the VISUAL experiment inspiration
  11. CLEANING with SPRAY and a CLOTH RAG – that’s not an exercise but a technique that will clean a lot faster than paper towel

Studio Art 360: Character Mugs

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

What was your FAVORITE or LEAST FAVORITE part of working with clay. Please tell me WHY you LOVE or DON’T LOVE using this Clay. Please be specific. 

 

What was the most challenging part of working with ceramics / clay as you created your mug? What are three things that working with this material challenged you with?

DUE END OF CLASS TODAY.


Advanced Drawing: Figure Drawing and the GESTURE

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

Look at the series of works from yesterday… how have you begun to see the figure differently? Are you thinking about the the FORM in a different fashion than you had earlier?

Gesture Drawings - Side of Charcoal - FAST http://www.serenatran.com/images/2dsketchbook/gesture.jpg
Gesture Drawings – Side of Charcoal – FAST http://www.serenatran.com/images/2dsketchbook/gesture.jpg

What did taking an entire minute away from your drawings do for you? Harder? Easier? What did you have to do DIFFERENTLY? 

 


AP Studio Art: WORK on CONCENTRATION

Reflect: Learning to think and talk with others about an aspect of one’s work or working process, and learning to judge one’s own work and working process and the work of others.

What response do you have regarding your studio mate’s  works – really – that can help them see things that they might not see – things that might help them continue to learn from their own works and marks? Take 5 minutes and walk around – take a look – make some thoughts for MONDAY (the extended deadline). 

Brayden – This group of Photos is for YOU.

WHAT’s the Assignment? If you need another 1, 2, or 3 concentration works – this is your assignment (one at the minimum). You will have your WEBSITE updated with 12 concentration works – PERIOD. You will rework your statements and answers to the AP Questions… ALL DUE on APRIL 3 for CRITIQUE & PRESENTATION.

#NoMrKorb in the #ArtStudio @fjkorb is missing! Nope… #Volunteering Elsewhere for the #Arts

Kandisnky as an Impression Painter: http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/citi/images/standard/WebLarge/WebImg_000276/189732_3296010.jpg

“Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.” — Julie Andrews


Drawing: Soft Pastels

 

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

What ONE bit of theory has stuck with you as we have talked about the works and ideas of Wassily Kandinsky? Can you use any of his ideas on color and shape in your work as it is developed?

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Kandisnky as an Impression Painter: http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/citi/images/standard/WebLarge/WebImg_000276/189732_3296010.jpg

  1. Blending ANALOGOUS colors with and without finger blending
  2. Blending COMPLEMENTS with and without finger blending
  3. Straight and Curved lines with the TIPS and with the SIDES of the pastels
  4. Filling large areas with a color and then doing smaller details over the top with another DIFFERENT color
  5. Blending with CIRCULAR marks as well as BACK AND FORTH marks
  6. Using PAPER as a masking tool
  7. Adding a WHITE HIGHLIGHT over a darker colored surface
  8. Working UPRIGHT on an easel versus on the FLAT on a table top
  9. Cleaning your pastels with paper towel
  10. Experiment on your own – use your initial images of SKETCHING for the VISUAL experiment inspiration
  11. CLEANING with SPRAY and a CLOTH RAG – that’s not an exercise but a technique that will clean a lot faster than paper towel

END OF CLASS TODAY – Write an answer to this on PAGE 19: What NEW ideas do you have about COLOR as you have used pastels?


Studio Art 360: Character Mugs

 

1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design. A: How will you use the experience of working in 3D change the way you work in 2D in the future?

A Bit Blurry but... How's YOUR face on a mug? https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7-pk_0b1mKU/hqdefault.jpg
A Bit Blurry but… How’s YOUR face on a mug? https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7-pk_0b1mKU/hqdefault.jpg

END OF CLASS TODAY – Write an answer to this on PAGE 19: If you could do something in the beginning differently, what are the three things you might change? Why? 

DUE END OF CLASS ON THURSDAY.


Advanced Drawing: Figure Drawing and the GESTURE

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

Look at the series of works from yesterday… how have you begun to see the figure differently? Are you thinking about the the FORM in a different fashion than you had earlier?

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GEsture over Gesture over Gesture… well maybe not exactly but… http://www.studentartguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/line-drawings-wang-tzu-ting.jpg

Next week – LONGER FIGURE DRAWINGS – 

END OF CLASS TODAY – Write an answer to this on PAGE 19: What were the the challenges you faced today? What was the BIGGEST CHALLENGE you faced today in the drawing? How did you SUCCEED?


 

AP Studio Art: WORK on CONCENTRATION

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

What have your previous sketches been over the past months? How have you been planning the NEW and Important ideas out for your work? HOW DOES THIS HELP YOU? (Hand out the Artists pages from their websites and remind them of the expectations.)

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How are YOU doing in YOUR studio? Concentration of works: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/4c/91/30/4c9130b187f9557c4d1aad29c51cdb94.jpg

END OF CLASS TODAY – Write an answer to this on PAGE 19: What materials and ideas are you using that are elevating your concentration? How have you demonstrated the LEARNING and GROWTH in the body of work you have produced? 

WHAT’s the Assignment? If you need another 1, 2, or 3 concentration works – this is your assignment (one at the minimum). You will have your WEBSITE updated with 12 concentration works – PERIOD. You will rework your statements and answers to the AP Questions… ALL DUE on APRIL 3 for CRITIQUE & PRESENTATION.

 

#Friday – Enough Said.

Felix Gonzales-Torres: http://dbprng00ikc2j.cloudfront.net/work/image/46284/slide/Communication_Breakdown_Felix_Gonzalez_Torres__Christopher_Wool_untitled_693_118.jpg
Ted Kruzan TED Talk: http://www.vancouversun.com/life/cms/binary/8032880.jpg?size=620x400s
Ted Kruzan TED Talk: http://www.vancouversun.com/life/cms/binary/8032880.jpg?size=620x400s

Shane Koyczan – TED Talk “To This Day”... for the Bullied and Beautiful… “If you can’t see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror, look a little closer, stare a little longer, because there’s something inside you that makes you keep trying despite everyone who told you to quit.”

Drawing: Nest Critiques – GRADES will be coming FAST!

9.1Ac: Determine the relevance of criteria used by others to evaluate a work of art or collection of works.

Let’s finish this critique up. Get the work up in front of us and you lead the way. KORB will sit and listen… Keep time Korb.

SQUAK SQUAK SQUAK - What have you got to say? http://blog-imgs-50.fc2.com/a/f/g/afg2/The-critique-Group.jpg
SQUAK SQUAK SQUAK – What have you got to say? http://blog-imgs-50.fc2.com/a/f/g/afg2/The-critique-Group.jpg

Ok. Your LAST Set of works begins tomorrow. BE ready to work. http://blog-imgs-50.fc2.com/a/f/g/afg2/The-critique-Group.jpg

Studio Art 360: CLAY – Make a Slab and then a cylinder.

1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design. 10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.

What do you currently know about using CLAY?

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Slab of Clay made into a vase / holder: https://andymac1976dotcom.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/dsc_0271.jpg

Here are the ideas for Final Product in the next assignment – you will have to use the same technique but with multiple solutions to the challenges – BRIGHT COLORS and GLAZES – Multiple Ideas – Clay Cup / Mug (Pinch Pot, Coils?) Animal Sculpture (look at historical ideas – REALLY OLD sculpture – stuff), Post Modern – Neo-Pop Keith Haring and other 3D Works – Bright Colors etc… 

Advanced Drawing: 50 SoP WORK 

6.1Ac: Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history.

SFMoMA VIDEO on Felix Gonzales-Torres

This is the LAST WEEK on this drawing – I think we are LONG past the original time it was planned for. That’s OK – BUT – WHAT DO YOU REALLY NEED TO FOCUS ON TO BE READY FOR MONDAY’S CRITIQUE? Seriously… CRIT on MONDAY!

Felix Gonzales-Torres: http://dbprng00ikc2j.cloudfront.net/work/image/46284/slide/Communication_Breakdown_Felix_Gonzalez_Torres__Christopher_Wool_untitled_693_118.jpg
Felix Gonzales-Torres: http://dbprng00ikc2j.cloudfront.net/work/image/46284/slide/Communication_Breakdown_Felix_Gonzalez_Torres__Christopher_Wool_untitled_693_118.jpg

Were you able to get 3 things accomplished today that help you see you are on the right path for completion? Is there a good amount of work to finish? STAY ON TASK 

Felix Gonzalez – Torres BIO: http://www.andrearosengallery.com/artists/felix-gonzalez-torres/images

AP Studio Art: Concentration PLAN and REFLECT

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.

How do you see the growth of your work? What are two things that you see as STRONG developments as you have moved forward?

WHAT’s the Assignment? If you need another 1, 2, or 3 concentration works – this is your assignment (one at the minimum). You will have your WEBSITE updated with 12 concentration works – PERIOD. You will rework your statements and answers to the AP Questions… ALL DUE on MARCH 30 for CRITIQUE & PRESENTATION.

What's the big idea: https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/728663600877834241/B4pmoeUE.jpg
What’s the big idea: https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/728663600877834241/B4pmoeUE.jpg

End of the day – one more day in class. How many more pieces do you need to get through for this batch of 3 concentration works? \