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#Friday #Already? #3DayWeekend – Whatcha’ takin’ home?
“A dream only becomes overrated when not pursued by the dreamer.” ― Courtney Hickman
Let’s take a trip to the Venice Biennale: Thank you Blouin ArtInfo for the tour!
AP Studio Art: Collaboration – What’s on the plate?
- 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.
- 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).
Drawing: Places and Faces!
http://toddmrozinski.com/
- 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!
Studio Art 360: Let’s DRAW!
- 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!
#What? #Friday already? #WhereDidTheWeekGo?
Happy Youth Art Month: Art Terms 101: Composition is an arrangement of the elements of art and the principles of design
“Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.” — Julie Andrews
AP Studio Art: Figure Drawing! Let’s DRAW!
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.
- 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
Goals:
- 7.1Ad: Analyze how responses to art develop over time based on knowledge of and experience with art and life.
- What do you need to do to come to a solid RESOLUTION for the end of the week? 4 days next week – not much time!
Are you in need of taking this home this weekend? What are the aspects of the work that are in need of REAL FOCUS?
Drawing: Online Presentation of the Images.
Kandinsky and the Bauhaus Presentation is HERE…
Goals:
- 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?
Studio Art 360: Hands on with CLAY!
Ed Hamilton’s Website – Making of a Bas Relief Sculpture
Goals:
- 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
- What portions of your sculpture do you see as ADDITIVE, SUBTRACTIVE, and MANIPULATIVE? Describe in DETAIL the areas – use imagery as descriptors.
What was the biggest challenge you had with using clay and creating a three dimensional artwork – PAUSE 10 minutes before the end of class.
#HappyBirthday #KanoTanyu #Japanese Artist b.1602 d.1674
HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Kano Tanyu b.1602 d.1674
“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!!!
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.
Kandinsky at MAM – HERE
Studio Art 360: Romare Bearden and Social Commentary
Goals:
- 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?
#HappyBirthday #ArnoldNewman
HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Arnold Newman
“There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.” —Og Mandino
AP Studio Art: CRIT!
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.
- 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.
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.
- 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...
Drawing: Oil Pastels!
Goals:
- 6.1Ac: Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history.
- What songs are you using to create your artwork and what is ONE things that STANDS OUT as OBVIOUS to connect the two works of art?
SHARE YOUR THEORY AND DRAWING WITH YOUR CLASSMATE – Last 5 Minutes – CONVERSATION and write down what you have learned from your classmate.
By The Way… Share your STILL LIFE DRAWINGS by visiting them HERE.
Kandinsky at MAM – HERE
Studio Art 360: Collage and Symbolism
Goals:
- 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
- What TEXTURES do you like best from yesterday? Why? N: Max Ernst – Share one or more of his works – LANDSCAPES?
Write a ONE SENTENCE EXPLANATION about your work. Describe how you used Frottage, Grattage, and Decalcomania in the work.
#Texture in the #Studio – #Symbolism in our #Art
“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)
AP Studio Art: CRIT!
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.
- 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.
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.
- This is the LAST DAY to work… What is the NUMBER ONE and the NUMBER TWO thing you are going to work on to WRAP IT UP today?
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?
Drawing: Oil Pastels!
Goals:
- 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.
Kandinsky at MAM – HERE
Studio Art 360: Collage and Symbolism
Goals:
- 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.
#Monday in the #Artroom – Ready to #MidCrit?
10 Things Creative People Do By: Randy Taran
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.
AP Studio Art: Concentration!
Goals:
- 2.2Ad: Demonstrate understanding of the importance of balancing freedom and responsibility in the use of images, materials, tools, and equipment in the creation and circulation of creative work.
- What 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.
Goals:
- 3.1Ac: Engage in constructive critique with peers, then reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art and design in response to personal artistic vision.
- 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?
Drawing: Color, Shape, Meaning, and MUSIC!
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
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!
#Time to #Draw #DrawingThursday!
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!
Goals:
- 3.5 evaluate and defend how 3.5.1 subject matter 3.5.2 symbols are used in art 4.4 evaluate and interpret your art in your time for relationships in 4.4.1 form 4.4.2 context (what might this mean as we look at ALL of the class work?)
- How does your concentration stand up together as being important?
Looking back at the first half of the week, what major accomplishments have you made that helps you stand out from the rest of the class?
Advanced Drawing:Discussion of Composition and Meaning.
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.
- Looking back on the past few days of work, what are you pleased with in the creation of the work? What are area that you are still being challenged with? N: Mid Critique in the Drawing Process.
What did you take from the critique of your work? What did you add to the critique of your classmates work? What did you take away from the work of your classmates?
Drawing: Color and Shape and MEANING!
By The Way… Share your STILL LIFE DRAWINGS by visiting them HERE.
Goals:
- 1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.
- How are you using geometric shapes in your life? How do you relate meaning to them? What are some shapes that are dominant in your life?
What NEW ideas might you have had about COLOR and SHAPE in the art you were creating?
Studio Art 360: Develop Compositions for Final Drawing.
Goals:
- 4.1P: Analyze, select, and curate artifacts and/or artworks for presentation and preservation.
- How do you feel about the ideas you are creating RIGHT NOW? Name 2 things you are a bit uncertain about as it comes to your THUMBNAIL drawings turning into your final drawings.
What are the three best things you are working on with this drawing so far?
How about COMPOSITIONS? Looking for ideas? Let’s Look HERE!
#Thumbnail #Drawings, #DoYouEverFeelLikeAPlasticBag? or a #PaperBag?
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!
Goals:
- Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making (Students use critical thinking skills to plan and conduct research, manage projects, solve problems, and make informed decisions using appropriate digital tools and resources.)
- What images have you made photographs of so far? What images have you yet to make photographs of? Is this taking you long? We are going to learn UPLOADING soon… hope you are READY.
What have been the problems that you had today with the editing of the images? Can you do this on your own? Do we need one more day in the lab to work? FRIDAY…
Advanced Drawing:Discussion of Composition and Meaning.
Goals:
- 1.1 Ad: Visualize and hypothesize to generate plans for ideas and directions for creating art and design that can affect social change.A: What skills do you feel you are able to be falling back onto as you move into this drawing?
What has been your most successful area of this drawing today?
Drawing: Color and Shape and MEANING!
By The Way… Share your STILL LIFE DRAWINGS by visiting them HERE.
Goals:
- 2.3Ac: Redesign an object, system, place, or design in response to contemporary issues.
- How are you using geometric shapes in your life? How do you relate meaning to them? What are some shapes that are dominant in your life?
What NEW ideas might you have had about COLOR and Shape in the art you were creating?
Studio Art 360: Develop Compositions for Final Drawing.
Goals:
- 4.1P: Analyze, select, and curate artifacts and/or artworks for presentation and preservation.
- What are THREE types of compositions you can think of that you might want to try and create for your final drawing?
What are the three best things you are working on with this drawing so far?
How about COMPOSITIONS? Looking for ideas? Let’s Look HERE!
#Monday in the #ArtStudio! Let’s get to it.
What is Art? Agnes Martin “Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.” Art In America (p.124, 1996)
AP Studio Art: Presentation of OUTSIDE inspired Art!
Goals:
- 3.1Ac: Engage in constructive critique with peers, then reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art and design in response to personal artistic vision.
- Think about your work from last week… What are you hoping to express and communicate to the WORLD through your art?
What worked in the Crit to help you learn about other’s ideas BASED on the same assignment?
Advanced Drawing: Let’s listen to the AP CLASS!
Goals:
- 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.
- Think about the AP Student’s experience of using the PHYSICAL elements from outside and using them their work. What are three things you feel would challenge you the most?
What was the most interesting thing you took away from this critique and WHY?
Drawing: CRIT and DONE!
Goals:
- 3.1Ac: Engage in constructive critique with peers, then reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art and design in response to personal artistic vision.
- Think about last week’s critique… How can you CONTINUE to consider the ELEMENTS and PRINCIPLES to be a successful and productive member of the oral critique?
What is the ONE THING you are doing to REALLY ADD to the CRITIQUE of your classmates work?
Studio Art 360: Develop Compositions for Final Drawing.
Goals:
- 7.1P: Hypothesize ways in which art influences perception and understanding of human experiences.
- What are THREE areas in your value scales that are in need of SINCERE Attention today?
Look back on the THREE areas of improvement, how did you do? Choose one and write 3 sentences about the success or failure! TURN in your WORKSHEETS!
How about COMPOSITIONS? Looking for ideas? Let’s Look HERE!
Art With Korb 
