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#Friday – I will miss you dearly today!

“Nothing in life that’s worth anything is easy.” – Barack Obama, #SOTU 2014

How To Do Everything

How to do Everything Image
How To Do Everything with your chef – Mr. Korb… Listen to the second half of the show to hear Mr. Korb’s Contributuion to the BIG GAME snack dip recipe. Start at 5:55.

AP Studio Art – From the OUTSIDE IN. Nature in your art!

James Turrell – SKY SPACE – Check out the OFFICIAL SITE here.

Goals:

  • 7.2Ad: Determine the commonalities within a group of artists or visual images attributed to a particular type of art, timeframe, or culture.
  • What are your initial thoughts as you try and create a work of art inspired by the outside?

What challenges have you overcome or are you still stimied by after your day of work?

Work of Art: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003YFJR84/ref=avod_yvl_watch_now

Advanced Drawing: Time to CRIT on MONDAY! – SKETCHBOOK!

TIME TO WORK on the MASTERPIECE SKETCHES!

Goals:

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

What part of your drawing worked out really well for you today? What did you struggle with in your drawing?

Drawing: DRAWING – Think about the MID CRIT and what you can do from here!

A NEW vision of MORANDI! Check it out HERE at MoMA!

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 have you changed in the process since you have begun? How are you drawing DIFFERENTLY than you did PRIOR to this Drawing?

Have you improved your drawings skills over the past few days?  What is the biggest success you have accomplished this week? Where are you struggling?

Video: Work of Art: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003QWZVF8/ref=dv_dp_ep1 Episode 1 – Start at 18:20 and run a few minutes to see a mid-critique. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L0bwEX_0GsFXJr9Vg7SqPUgvZc9KjDH5Kr6dhTq8CZE/edit

Studio Art 360: ONE More Day on the construction!

Richard Serra at MoMA – Link HERE!

Goals:

  • 2.2P: Explain how traditional and non-traditional materials may impact human health and the environment and demonstrate safe handling of materials, tools, and equipment.
  • What can you use from the process we went through YESTERDAY to continue to create a CUBE, CYLINDER, and a pyramid?

What was the most difficult part of the FINISHING UP today for YOU?

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

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

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

Goals:

  • 1.2Ad: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices, following or breaking established conventions, to plan the making of multiple works of art and design based on a theme, idea, or concept
  • Using the idea of Art and Fear as your next breadth work – what ideas do you find yourself leaning towards when it comes to the imagery for your next work? Why do you see yourself headed in that direction? How are you going to make the ideas CLEAR and READABLE in your artwork?

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

Advanced Drawing: Abstraction and Pastels – Color Schemes!

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

Goals:

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

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

Drawing: Still Life – FAST and FURIOUS!

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

Goals:

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

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

Studio Art 360: Draw what you REMEMBER!

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

Goals:

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

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

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Welcome to the #2ndSemester! The #ArtStudio is your’s to work in.

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

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. didn’t walk the walk… he MARCHED it!

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

What FEARS do you have? What fears are you going to have when you learn about the project coming up?

Goals:

  • 1.1 Ad: Visualize and hypothesize to generate plans for ideas and directions for creating art and design that can affect social change.
  • Art and Fear had a lot to offer. Open the book and look through your chapters… What chapter do you feel you related to the most and WHY?

What chapter did you decide to use for this next piece? What is ONE of the aspects of the theme you feel you will be working through?

Advanced Drawing: Abstraction and Pastels – Color Schemes!

Color and Shape – Let’s practice with PASTELS and COLOR SCHEMES (were going to learn a few more schemes today!) Peter Halley and his artowrk. What’s the dominant color scheme? Is there one?

Goals:

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.
  • What were your memories of drawing – pair up and discuss. Share with the class memories of drawing class. What are your expectations of the course?

Reflect on what your expectations and anxieties of the class are. Write up your reflection on the Goal Sheet.

Drawing: Still Life – FAST and FURIOUS!

What are you doing with your composition today? How can you ALL work together to develop this idea of a LARGE SCALE STILL LIFE? Drawing Class #2 – sorry – you guys work with what the first class set up BUT – you get a little extra time.

Goals:

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.
  • What is it that you think about when you think about what IS art? (SHARE WITH FRIEND) What is it you think about when you think about making art?

What are 3 things you found challenging about your first day of drawing out thumbnails?

Studio Art 360: Draw what you REMEMBER!

How do you remember the idea of FORM? Let’s test your memory with Cubes, Cylinders, and Pyramids! Robert Indiana’s BIO HERE!

Goals:

  • 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • How do you draw something in 3 dimensions? What are different techniques you know? Sit with your neighbor and BEGIN with a box, a cylinder, a pyramid, and the first letter of your first or last name.

What are 3 things you hope to learn as you complete this course?

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#ContinuousLineContour #Drawings into #Paintings – What can you say about YOURSELF?

“When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.” — Zig Ziglar

Feeling overwhelmed? I can relate!

Studio Art 360 – BAS RELIEF SCULPTURE, Collage, Frottage, Grattage, and Decalcomania

If you are NOT done with your Photography CRITIQUE – Get it FINISHED!

LARGE GROUP Slide Show Project – Let’s SEE it HERE!

FINAL PHOTO CRITIQUE DUE DATE… Tuesday, December 2. I will be grading the critiques before then (2nd hour has been worked through) but NOTHING is in the books until AFTER December 2. If you have made changes to your document AFTER I have commented but BEFORE I enter the grades – NOTIFY COLLABORATORS through your Google Document (under File: EMail Collaborators…).

TEXTURE on a BAS RELIEF Sculpture!

Goals:

  • 1.1P: Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.
  • What is the PARTICULAR of the social topic – BULLYING – that you and your partner came up with yesterday? Work through the sheets and WEBSITES to help your ideas get developed.
  • CHANGE IN PLANS! We are going to review and take time to work on your PHOTOGRAPHY CRITIQUES TODAY.
  •  In 3 sentences, please explain what EXECUTION mean to you when it comes to your ARTWORK?

What imagery did you come up with that truly begins to develop the idea of the social commentary on BULLYING? How does it successfully work?

How has taking the time on discussing the critique in more depth helped you (or not helped you) in understanding the ideas of a critique?

 NON-OBJECTIVE (Focus on BULLYING but use this to demonstrate the GATHERING of the textures – MUST BE “realistic” in nature): https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ltLnZB4N8wTwxcqF-aepyAdAjKsBYjrYzYP1HgDASvU/edit?usp=sharing

Painting – Demo on SAW and TEST!

NEW PAINTINGS by the WUHS Painting Class – HERE!

Jean Michel Basquiat – Continuous Line Contour Drawing (from a photograph). http://www.artischeaperthantherapy.com/images/Jean%20Michel%20Basquiat%20portrait%20B%20&%20W_opt.jpg

Goals:

  • 5.1Ac: Evaluate, select, and apply methods or processes appropriate to display artwork in a specific place.
  • What did you enjoy about the continuous line contour drawing from a few weeks ago?

What was successful about the work you did today?

AP Studio Art – the hallway and HANG YOUR WORK in the CASES and CRITIQUE!

TONIGHT at MIDNIGHT CHAPTER 4 is due in Art and Fear Blog.

This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/448/adventure

Goals:

  • Research and Information Fluency – Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.
  • Where are you with the technology we are using (WordPress, Photoshop, online editing programs, cameras – digital SLR and Cell Phone)? What are the STRUGGLES you are having? How can I help organize and structure the use of technology to make what we do stronger. Where are you in regard to YOUR work?

How much work have you photographed? How much work have you edited? How can I help you in the computer lab?

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#River’sEdgeArtWalk #Art in #Waterford – #HighSchool Art #Gallery

Waterford Union High School’s Parent Teacher Conferences were Thursday and Friday and the NEW ART GALLERY had its first REAL gallery opening! Well, the doors were open as the parents and students walked through the front door for conferences. TONIGHT however the gallery will be staffed and visitors will be visiting. The Third Annual River’s Edge Art Walk is underway Friday night from 5 – 9pm in Historic Downtown Waterford, WI. 27 (or so) artists will be sharing their inspired works with the community of Southeastern WI. Come and join us all and see the hard work the student artists of Waterford Union High School (as well as the art teachers – your’s truly included) have brought together.

  • Frank Korb, Mixed Media – Thai-Italiana Restaurant
  • Lisa Dukowitz, Photography – Marty’s Banquet Hall
  • Brett Roberts, Ceramics – Riverside Chiropractic
  • Waterford High School Students – Waterford High School Gallery (Door #1)
  • For More Information visit Absolutely Waterford’s Website – HERE

We look forward to seeing you!

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#Friday already? Well… not really, but #CloseEnough!

“The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.” — Frank Hamilton

Studio Art 360 – FINISH THE DRAWINGS – Mount them to Mats – Exhibit your work!

Now that you have a good understanding of drawing from OBSERVATION… How can you carry that FURTHER into the idea of OTHER objects and Still Life Paintings? Janet Fish has spent a career on that VERY IDEA! http://artandperception.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/fwf1.jpg

GOALS:

  • G: 4.1P: Analyze, select, and curate artifacts and/or artworks for presentation and preservation.
  • How do you feel about MATTING and PRESENTING your work? What sort of FINISH will putting a WHITE MATT around it do for your work? Give two ideas and explanations.

Why does the presentation of your final works make you PROUD or NOT PROUD? Please give a solid three sentence explanation to your answer.

Painting – Hallways – Wow – One More Day?

What makes this a more successful DRAWING than yesterdays? How do you see your abilities as you see a strong drawing like this one? What can you do?

GOALS:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • What EXPERIMENTS are you using as you make marks in the hallways? Are you finding NEW SKILLS you didn’t think you had? Explain the STRENGTH (in art terms) of your initial ROUGH drawing and Thumbnails.

What about today’s drawing makes for a successful drawing? Three reasons please. 

AP Studio Art – LECTURE TIME – Art and Fear – Sit and Chat about the challenges ahead of you.

What is the FOCAL POINT? What Elements is this artist using to create a sense of EMPHASIS or UNITY? https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/755a3-dscf0129.jpg

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.
  • Looking at the hands and feet drawings – what can you do now – 3 things – to EMPHASIZE the FOCAL POINT through your use of CONTRAST?

Looking at the rubric from the AP Site – are you hitting the level 6 marks? What do you do SPECIFICALLY to match one of them (or not match one of them).

AP COURSE Rubric: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/ap12_studio_art_scoring_guidelines.pdf

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Making Art for FUN!

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Welcome BACK fellow staff members! Our Goals for Today are:

  1. Express yourself visually and begin (maybe finish) a piece of art that says something about you.
  2. Collaborate with your group members:
    1. Tell the group your plan and get suggestions and feedback
    2. As a group, attempt to agree upon a color or color scheme that visually brings your pieces together.

*Give your finished piece to me by this Thursday 8/28 to be hung in the new gallery.

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Grids and Math and Art and Culture!

“Remember, all the answers you need are inside of you; you only have to become quiet enough to hear them.” — Debbie Ford

Art Foundations: GRIDS and MATH – Shhhh… Let’s figure this out.

Look at all the MARILYNS! Can you find a color scheme in any of them? http://mjsevensins.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/andy-warhol-marilyn.jpg

GOALS

    1. 1.2 How are you using the ideas of RATIOS to transfer your IMAGE UP to a larger size? (grid and drawing – then to painting)

How do you see the work you are creating now improving or being more successful than the work you have done in the past? Do you REALLY think you are taking the time in drawing (sketchbooks) as being more thought out? Are you using techniques from our class elsewhere in your day-to-day making  of objects?

Drawing: GENIUS DAY PRESENTATIONS

WHAT ARE YOUR LEARNING GOALS? WHAT DID YOU LEARN? http://b29115924cf54e629aa5-4ff86151a1684680afb5e7ba0d0f4374.r32.cf2.rackcdn.com/227BB82D-C8A9-4CD4-9283-B0006BACC3D3.jpg

GOALS

  1. 5.3 describe meanings of artworks by analyzing 5.3.1 techniques and 5.3.2 how they relate to history and culture

What was the most CHALLENGING Part of this week? What would you do differently? What would you suggest be DONE differently? Hang Work in MATT and DISPLAY on Back Wall With Paragraph / RESEARCH – Hallways Next Week – CHARCOAL!  

AP Studio Art: DuCHOMP some snacks with your art – PRESENTATIONS!

Where are YOUR figures? http://www.chicagoreader.com/imager/how-to-find-the-nude-in-nude-descending-art-collector-arthur-jerome/b/original/9173306/4a04/eddy_s-nude.jpg

GOALS

  1. 5.3 describe meanings of artworks by analyzing 5.3.1 techniques and 5.3.2 how they relate to history and culture

What was the most CHALLENGING Part of this week? What would you do differently? What would you suggest be DONE differently? Hang Work

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Red Yellow and Blue Liz… Thanks Andy!

“Remember, all the answers you need are inside of you; you only have to become quiet enough to hear them.” — Debbie Ford

Art Foundations: GRIDS and ANDY WARHOL

Elizabeth Taylor – What color scheme did WARHOL use? http://markmasuoka.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/andy-warhol-liz-yellow-kunstmuseum-basel-the-early-sixties.jpg

Andy Warhol and POP ART

Goals:

  1. 1.2 How are you using the ideas of RATIOS to transfer your IMAGE UP to a larger size? (grid and drawing – then to painting)
  2. 6.1 How might someone NOT in art use RATIOS in the rest of their life –  Mathematical Ratios and Transferring ideas?

What are the challenges you have been having with this process? What colors have you begun using and how easy / hard has this been for you?.Did you need or offer help from / to a classmate? Collaboration is ESSENTIAL to solving problems

Drawing: Last Genius Day day…

LAST DAY! What do you need to do? Come On… Pull it together! http://lh5.ggpht.com/-7oxR6e_pVhY/UxyFLAEwOGI/AAAAAAAAB_U/Fii4x2O415M/Slide6_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg

Goals:

  1. 2.2 evaluate the effectiveness of artworks

So, How are you doing TODAY? Are you needing HOURS tonight? Do not forget to PRACTICE your presentation. Talk to your neighbor about the process.

AP Studio Art: DUCHAMP at the last day – PRESENT TOMORROW!

Here she comes…. http://classic.education.wisc.edu/art108/_images/fullsized/1309fs.jpg

Goals:

  1. 3.3 describe the creation of images and ideas and explain why they are of value – WHY is this of value to you? What are you learning? What’s happening in your brain about art?

Are you in a resolution stage for this artwork? Are you struggling with it? How are you dealing with the NEGATIVE space?  

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Consumerism POPS in the Arts!

“Remember, all the answers you need are inside of you; you only have to become quiet enough to hear them.” — Debbie Ford

Art Foundations: Color Schemes REBOOT / Grid and the Drawing

Andy Warhol and POP ART. Repetition of the image. Click on the IMAGE to read about WARHOL and the SOUP CAN. http://www.phaidon.com/resource/243936733-91ad4940d7-z.jpg

Goals:

  1. 3.2 Apply ideas in art and use skill to solve visual challenges.
  2. 6.1 compare aspects of the visual arts with aspects of other disciplines through Mathematical Ratios and Transferring images / blending colors.

What challenges are you finding as you begin this n this process of transferring images? Are you able to use MATH to begin the GRID process?

Drawing: Genius Week – Present on Friday

What’s your GENIUS IDEA? http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/236x/b9/a4/9f/b9a49f5d93178ae8a66d1568b5085095.jpg

Goals:

  1. 1.3 communicate ideas clearly – How are you?

Share your ideas with ONE classmate and WRITE in your BINDER – What have I accomplished today. What am I doing / knowing better today than I was yesterday?

AP Studio Art: Duchamp… How is the Drawing? Positive Negative Space? Figure / Ground Relationships?

What’s Duchamp doing to the ART WORLD? http://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/article-2400.jpg

Goals:

  1. 3.3 describe the creation of images and ideas and explain why they are of value (How have the solutions been coming along? Are you able to stay focused on the GOALS you are hoping to accomplish with this drawing? How is it going?) Go ahead and DESCRIBE your thoughts!

Are you in a resolution stage for this artwork? Are you struggling with it? How are you dealing with the NEGATIVE space?