NVAS: 7.1P: Hypothesize ways in which art influences perception and understanding of human experiences.
Question to begin with: What three things do you see about the beginning of you LAST painting as successful? WHY? What are two things you need to REALLY focus on today? WHY? What is ONE thing you hope to accomplish today while you are out and about painting? WHY? How will ANY of this drive you forward in the creation of your work?
End of the Day Reflection (use the back of this page for more reflection space): Analyze the ELEMENTS That you are setting up as being the emphasis of your painting. How would you use sentences to DESCRIBE how you are using those elements to create a successful composition? WHY does that work for you? SECONDLY – REFLECT on your thoughts from yesterday about WHY you took / WHAT you were hoping to learn from this course. Now… at this point in the course, what HAVE you learned / taken away / appreciated / other thoughts about the course and YOUR WORK – your learning. WEDNESDAY NIGHT’S HOMEWORK – Write up a ONE PAGE (double spaced, Times New Roman, 12 point). You can create it in GOOGLE DRIVE and SHARE it with me… or bring it printed. Google Drive is BEST though. I can make changes, edit, proof, format it… Let me know if you have questions.
NVAS: 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
Question to begin with: What is it you KNOW about watercolors at this point in your art making career? Stop and think about this for a moment. Don’t RUSH your answer. Take a few minutes…
Looking at your paintings from the day (really look at them) what are three things that you are happy with? Be specific and elaborate on your comments. What are two things you discovered about the idea of painting out of doors (Plein Air)? What is one thing you look forward to tomorrow? Remember to elaborate.
Thursday evening I had a wonderful opportunity to meet and speak with Todd Mrozinski about his artwork. In addition to the work in his “Shadow Series,” which consisted of 20+ (must be hundreds of paintings), Todd shared the Pop-Up Gallery installation in a former boutique at the Pfister. His work as well as the works of Timothy Westbrook’s are on display and the opening reception is this evening (Friday, June 12). Thank you to Todd and his wife Renee Bebeau as well as Pamela Anderson (from Milwaukee’s Plaid Tuba Gallery) and her husband Steven Kaishian for the wonderful conversation.
Also below is a great review of student created art inspired by the works of Midwest Artists from Frank Juarez’s (Sheboygan Artist / Educator) book Midwest Artist Studios (MAS). The link to the original site it here, but you can read my excerpt below. Please explore at all the student’s working and works HERE.
A Midwest Artist StudiosReflection, by Frank Juarez (and Frank Korb) – Here
Reflection on Todd Mrozinski and Silhouette Drawings
Written by Frank Korb, art teacher
2015 Drawing Class – Waterford Union High School
I introduced my students to Todd Mrozinski through theMidwestern Artist Studios Project workbook designed by Frank Juarez. In order to help my students better understand who Todd Mrozinski is, I used Frank Juarez’s writing and interview with Todd from the M.A.S. Workbook as well as looking at Todd’s website and video prepared as his application for the Pfister Artist in Residence. From there, we discussed the ideas and history behind diptychs and triptychs. The ideas behind the works were planned around the idea of working with a partner, learning about them as individuals and then working together to create works about one another through the same ideas of Todd – working with the Silhouette of one another and also working with the ideas of shadows cast from plants or trees. Originally, we were going to be creating a triptych and including the shadow of a person made object, one chosen by the partner in the pair, but because of time limitations we only had one artist get that far with the drawing.
In the very beginning, we introduced one another through learning the ideas behind the elevator pitch. Using an elevator pitch approach to introduce themselves gave them a good understanding about who they are, what they believe in, how they make art, what their ideas about life and art. From there we all went outside and looked at shadows and the partners worked together to choose which types of plant shadows to trace. The artist traced the shadow their partner liked or felt symbolized them. They then traced the sitters silhouette. From there we all worked in studio and created these wonderful images through the use of oil pastels. Over these quick 2 weeks or so, a large assortment of strong and conversation starting compositions were created. Works were focused on the positive and negative space the silhouettes created while also being built up upon the idea of color scheme. Working together gave the artwork a collaborative element that previous works did not have. Students were a bit apprehensive about the use of oil pastels, but this was a good choice as time was of a concern. Oils have a quality that really show the mark of the artist and this showed through in many of the works. A few thoughts about the next time that this lesson is taught are to allow more time to work, a mid-critique, as well as a field trip to Todd’s studio in Milwaukee.
Each class period began with a virtual trip to Todd’s gallery and discussion about a few works. Personal written reflection happened at the end of each day with students thinking about and responding to the successes and failures that they were experiencing in the work. When we had about a week left, I provided an online written critique (google forms) for them to use as their final exam. All said and done – kids came into the final exam period with their finished artwork, Skype TV turned on, and Todd, my students, and myself I met up online to talk about the ideas and works that were created.
Over the course of two days and two separate classes, 20 kids each, a 1 1/2 hour time period we had GREAT critiques, conversation, and reinforcement of many words I spoke of earlier. Todd added a lot of new ideas about intention and symbolism, compositional ideas that were new ideas for the students. The young artists were very interested in Todd’s comments, critique, and support about the work. Discussion of the works was very strong and the students took to the conversation with elements and principles in mind with interpretation becoming even more a highlight. I sincerely hope that the ideas spoken about are carried forward into the individual student work.
During the first week of summer vacation, I put out a brief survey to the kids that asked four questions. 1) What are THREE (3) highlights that you found, experienced, or achieved in the working on your shadow / color scheme drawings? 2) What are TWO (2) suggestions you suggest for the next time this artwork / experience gets taught? 3) What is the ONE (1) thing that you feel you will remember / use in the future that you learned from this work of art? 4) Do you have ANYTHING ELSE that you would like to add? Please let me hear more of your thoughts. Survey resultsHERE. While I am not expecting a lot of responses, summer vacation having started, I do hope to get a few comments in about the project. My students works as well as images of the kids in the process of working and critiquing can be seen through this link: https://goo.gl/UgFmbo.
TheMidwest Artist Studios™ Project is supported by a grant from the Kohler Foundation, Inc and the Wisconsin Art Education Association.
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.
Look at yesterday, this past week, the past three days. What is ONE THING that got accomplished? What are two things that have interfered and need to be resolved and worked on today? As a group have the conversation and GET TO IT!
How much time are we going to be working on this project? The year is coming to a close. This is quite possibly going to be the last major work – beyond the art show… What do you all need to do to continue the success of the work?
Advanced Drawing: Self Portrait Time – You are on your own!
NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY – Visit it via Google HERE and the .org site HERE.
Elaine DeKooning Self Portrait: Washington Post Article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/entert https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingtonpost.com/express/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Elaine-de-Kooning-Self-Portrait-NPG_94_81.jpg&w=1484
1.2Ad: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices, following or breaking established conventions, to plan the making of multiple works of art and design based on a theme, idea, or concept.
How does the freedom of this work 1) put you at ease and 2) scare the heck out of you?
What NEW ideas have you come up with today? What advances are you making? This is a FASTER work than you might be used to – WORK in and out of class to continue to resolve this image(s).
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
Looking at yesterday – Wednesday – What’s happening in the drawings that draw you in? Seriously – what’s interesting and strong about the ideas in your work?
What are you taking home this week this weekend? Why is it important to make strides and visual accomplishments in this drawing for you? TWO REASONS!
2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
What are THREE THINGS you are SKILLED with as it comes to DRAWING? Today we are GOING OUTSIDE to DRAW from the ideas of TREES. Positive and Negative Space – Observation.
What was your biggest challenge in the drawing from observation? What are 2 things that were a challenge as you were looking at a REAL object? Vincent van Gogh Trees Outside of the Asylum:
HERE is the GROUP SLIDESHOW that we will ALL put our BEST image from the rubric into and share! All DUE on Monday at Midnight!
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.
Before you leave for the day – thank our model for the time and posing – it is a lot of work! What is the ONE THING you are most satisfied with in your drawing today? WHY?
What did it for you to WRAP THIS DRAWING UP? Share a small thought with your classmates about this process – product?
Advanced Drawing: Bauhaus Drawing – Oskar Schlemmer
7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
Of ALL the aspects of the face – what are you having the most success with and what is the most challenging? What is hardest about the most challenging part?
What was it about the FACIAL FEATURES of your chosen face that made for a SUCCESSFUL and at times CHALLENGING drawing?
“There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.” —Og Mandino
Please Play for ALL Classes.
AP and Advanced Drawing Intro Video:
AP Studio Art: REGISTRATION in due TOMORROW!!!
Ideas? What’s going on in your head?
Goals:
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?
What have you come up with? What materials are you using that help you to challenge yourself? How does it fit into your current body of work? How does it REACH OUT into NEW IDEAS?
Advanced Drawing: Stairway Drawing.
Your Paper Bag Drawings are HERE. Copy YOUR image into YOUR document! Questions – ask me on Wednesday.
DO NOT GO UPSTAIRS TODAY! ACT Testing… Thanks. Goals:
2.3Ad: Demonstrate in works of art or design how visual and material culture defines, shapes, enhances, inhibits, and/or empowers people’s lives.
What type of images have you created in the past REGARDING PERSPECTIVE? What was visually successful in the composition? What was technically successful in your execution? Same with the unsuccessful aspects? Share with your neighbor. Use of (Element) to create a unified artwork.
What was the success in today’s drawing? What was the challenge? Back out Thursday for preliminary drawings.
RUBRIC LINK, but it should ALREADY be in your Google Drive. SHARE it with me...
Drawing: Oil Pastels!
Goals:
7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
Reflect on YESTERDAY before you begin today! What worked? What didn’t?
Biggest struggle / success for today? Write it out and the WHY!
By The Way… Share your STILL LIFE DRAWINGS by visiting them HERE.
1.1P: Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.
Looking at the ROMARE BEARDEN collage on the screen, what do you think this work is about? WHY? Please work with your neighbor on answering this question.
What is the most challenging aspect to creating a collaborative work of art? What did you feel will be helpful in working with a classmate? What did you feel will be a challenge?
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.
How does your work for this week Re-Engage the ideas you have been using in the past while ALSO provide ideas of REVISION?
I try to get you to talk to one another and reflect. Look at each other’s work today and do that. Explain, listen, WRITE DOWN THOUGHTS for your own reflections.
Advanced Drawing: Critiquing of a PAPER BAG.
Your Paper Bag Drawings are HERE. Copy YOUR image into YOUR document! Questions – ask me on Wednesday.
2.3Ad: Demonstrate in works of art or design how visual and material culture defines, shapes, enhances, inhibits, and/or empowers people’s lives.
Looking at the SYMBOLISM that this work is SUPPOSE to have about your life, explain the thoughts and ideas you are hoping to communicate through the work. HOW are you doing that? Be SPECIFIC!
A GREAT day of drawing on Friday – Time got away from us… What worked today and HOW are you going to RESOLVE the work for Wednesday’s CRIT?
RUBRIC LINK, but it should ALREADY be in your Google Drive. SHARE it with me...
“Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure you do things differently from everyone else.”Sara Blakely (inventor of SPANX and youngest Self Made Female BILLIONAIRE – 10 Lessons I Learned from Sarah Blakely – Forbes Magazine)
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.
As you reflect on these three works, what are you considering for your next three works? This is important as you continue to look at the development of your larger body of works – the ENTIRE portfolio… not just each grouping of 3.
We’re going to create one more SOLID SET of CONCENTRATION WORKS. Think about the FIRST works you created and the LAST work we just finished critiquing. WHERE have you TRULY GROWN in the development of your work?
Advanced Drawing: 1 more day… Composition and Meaning of a PAPER BAG.
8.1Ac: Identify types of contextual information useful in the process of constructing interpretations of an artwork or collection of works.
Describe to your neighbor how YOUR WORK OF ART reflects the music you are inspired by? As you develop the ideas of KANDINSKY – Are you approaching your work as a der blaue reiter or as a member of the BAUHAUS? Explain!
Are you successful in the communication of your ideas? Write out 3 reasons to back up your successes.
By The Way… Share your STILL LIFE DRAWINGS by visiting them HERE.
2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
What TEXTURES do you find comforting? What Textures do you find discomforting?
What was your favorite way of gathering textures today? How do you see being able to use them tomorrow in the ONE DAY COLLAGE experience based on MAX ERNST’s works.
10. Know Your Strengths and Passions: Get to know what makes your heart soar, what makes you feel most alive and energized, and use it as fuel for the creative process.
2.2Ad: Demonstrate understanding of the importance of balancing freedom and responsibility in the use of images, materials, tools, and equipment in the creation and circulation of creative work.
What has been your biggest challenge from the past week worth of making art. Today – get together for 10 minutes and talk with one another about the current work.
What were the biggest impressions you had from the classmate’s works? What were the most difficult things you felt as you presented your work?
Advanced Drawing: Composition and Meaning of a PAPER BAG.
3.1Ac: Engage in constructive critique with peers, then reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art and design in response to personal artistic vision.
Prop your images up and walk around the room WITH your goals page. Write out two things you see that you’d like to try and incorporate into your image. Add a comment to the sticky note in front of your classmates work.
How to you feel about the idea of getting feedback from your classmates? Did their comments HELP you? how or how NOT?
By The Way… Share your STILL LIFE DRAWINGS by visiting them 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.
Of the shapes we are using, which one is STRONG and why? Which shape describes a passive quality? Why?
How are you beginning to use the ideas of color and shape to communicate your ideas from your song?
Studio Art 360: Drawing of the Still Life
Georgio Morandi in his studio… Look at the work you are doing!
Goals:
7.1P: Hypothesize ways in which art influences perception and understanding of human experiences.
What skills have you developed as you are creating your CUBE, CYLINDER, PYRAMID and LETTER in the drawing?
Given the opportunity to SELF EVALUATE… BASED ON CRITERIA you may set up for yourself… what grade would you say you have earned SO far in the drawing? 2 COMPLETE THOUGHTS as to WHY?
How about COMPSITIONS? Looking for ideas? Let’s Look HERE!
Art With Korb 
