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#Week of #Art and a lot of #SelfAssessment

Get out your handbooks!

Stained Glass: Self Assessment and Moving onto BOXES.

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork
  • 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.

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  • Begin by getting your 2nd panel out (storage room or the gallery). Today we are going to SELF ASSESS the works. This is your time and think about what you have accomplished? Execution? Composition? Character? This is you taking the time to think about WHY you are exceeding or why you are struggling. Time for self reflection. Let’s do this now.

BY THE WAY: everything-stained-glass.com is a good site for your own personal research.

CIaD: Handbook Covers. WRAP IT UP TODAY

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • 2.2Ac: Demonstrate awareness of ethical implications of making and distributing creative work.
  • 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.
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Book Cover in AI: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dHcMl7Go2aM/maxresdefault.jpg
  • This is the week / day to finalize your design. Sit with ONE PERSON NEXT TO YOU and look at the design. I want you to explain your thoughts and reasons for this work. Explain all the choices you made. As the listener… please share TWO THOUGHTS with your partner that are CRITICAL and ACTIONABLE. Write out what your partner has said and how you are going to move forward with it.

Drawing: Nests and PASTELS! WOO HOO

  • 7.2Ac: Evaluate the effectiveness of an image or images to influence ideas, feelings, and behaviors of specific audiences.
  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
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Matisse and Fauvism: https://www.moma.org/wp/moma_learning/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Matisse.-Study-for-Luxe-calme-et-volupte-469×372.jpg
  • Fauvism and color use. We are taking the first drawings and moving forward with them. You worked so hard to deal with value and the composition and you now are going to work with the idea of COLOR and composition. Look at your first composition and write out three things that you see as having been done WELL and three things that you feel you need to improve on. These improvements need to be actionable – what SPECIFICALLY are you going to do to improve your next work?
  • Fauvism at MoMA

AP Studio Art: Jim Dine Plants and Flowers – PRINTS to be completed in the end.

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork
  • 9.1Ad: Construct evaluations of a work of art or collection of works based on differing sets of criteria.
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Jim Dine: http://c300221.r21.cf1.rackcdn.com/jim-dine-flowers-1353360866_b.jpg
  • Using the PLANT and the images by Jim Dine that I’ve shown you, what ideas have you begun to come up with regarding the final work? The drawings need to break the traditional compositional space. How are you planning on moving that idea forward? Write out three thoughts – full sentences – about your plans.
  • This is coming up next:
    • Jim Dine and Plants slide show – HERE.
    • Previous Artworks – HERE.
    • Jim Dine Self-Portrait on the Wall VIDEO – HERE.

Adv. Drawing: Skeleton Isolation Drawings Today!

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • 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.
  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
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Da Vinci Studies. https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/ac9f782791c2cbcda3790b2fa73ddb7c.jpg?w=525
  • This week we begin our final skeleton ISOLATION drawing. Looking back at your studies from last week, what areas of the skeleton were you particularly drawn too? List 2 and tell yourself why. From these studies – what portion of the body are you going to begin your thumbnail drawings today? How are you going to deal with the negative space?
  • Previous Student’s Work
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#Thursday and I’m at a meeting… #ArtWork to do!

Art kids at Adama Clay Studios.

Get out your handbooks!

“Decisions are made by those who show up.” Aaron Sorkin

Stained Glass: Thursday and Friday are the last days to work on you panels.

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork
  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
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Panel#2″: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Field_of_Lilies_-_Tiffany_Studios%2C_c._1910.JPG
  • Looking back at project #2 – What are 3 major accomplishments that you can reflect on with this work? What have you become really good at in the realm of stained glass? Be ready to work on a BRAND NEW ARTWORK coming up.

BY THE WAY: everything-stained-glass.com is a good site for your own personal research.

CIaD: Handbook Covers. Use your time wisely.

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • 2.2Ac: Demonstrate awareness of ethical implications of making and distributing creative work.
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Handbook Covers for the Living and the Dead: https://img.etsystatic.com/il/fcbbda/843510474/il_570xN.843510474_9gwj.jpg?version=0
  • What are the SUCCESSFUL and INDIVIDUAL ideas you have in your handbook cover design? Why is your design standing out from the crowd? What did you take away from the CRITIQUE of TUESDAY and make changes to the work so that you were able to advance the design? CLASS CRITIQUE is TUESDAY of next week – that is the DEADLINE. We present to the SCHOOL COMMITTEE coming up VERY SOON!

Play the above video for all the afternoon classes and GET OUT YOUR HANDBOOKS to respond to the questions below.

Drawing: Nests and CHARCOAL

  • 7.2Ac: Evaluate the effectiveness of an image or images to influence ideas, feelings, and behaviors of specific audiences.
  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
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Van Gogh Nest Drawing: https://www.vincent-van-gogh-gallery.org/thumbnail/403000/403549/mini_normal/Birds-Nest.jpg?ts=1459229076
  • Looking at the previous drawings from the beginning of the week. How are you making advances in the drawing? We are working on a small TRIO of drawings with specific COMPOSITIONAL requirements. Use of CHARCOAL will begin TODAY if you haven’t otherwise. Remember to focus on your INTENTIONAL mark making (and removal of marks with erasers).

AP Studio Art: Jim Dine Plants and Flowers – PRINTS to be completed in the end.

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork
  • 9.1Ad: Construct evaluations of a work of art or collection of works based on differing sets of criteria.
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Jim Dine Plant: http://p1.la-img.com/335/1786/768265_2_l.jpg
  • Using the PLANTS and the image by Jim Dine that I have shown you (AND THE BOOK), what ideas FIRST COME TO YOUR MIND when told you are going to be working on a PLANT BASED drawing and then a PRINT? Write out your FIRST THOUGHTS. We are going to be dealing with the idea of a PRINT from a drawing… the drawing will be one work, the print will be a second work that you can then go back into and work.
  • This is coming up next:
    • Jim Dine and Plants slide show – HERE.
    • Previous Artworks – HERE.
    • Jim Dine Self-Portrait on the Wall VIDEO – HERE.

Adv. Drawing: Skeleton Drawings Today! NO HANDBOOK FOR YOU THURSDAY – We will look at that FRIDAY instead.

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • 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.
  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
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Skeleton Drawing: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/07/a4/fa/07a4fa086f136d458ea1ccfc06fb53e3.jpg
  • As we worked with the skeleton this week… what have you learned from this series for drawings? What struggles are you working through? Next week we focus in on a portion of the skeleton on a large sheet of paper and work on an isolation drawing of the skeleton.
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#WelcomeBack from #SpringBreak! Good #vacation? I hope so.

Get out your handbooks!

“Decisions are made by those who show up.” Aaron Sorkin

Habits and Standards
Habits and Standards

Stained Glass: GLASS IS IN! Woo Hoo! DONE by THURSDAY? Talk to me if you are NOT GOING TO BE.

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork
  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
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Tiffany Stained Glass: https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3430/3964536572_f89ee44d8a_b.jpg
  • With all the new glass now in the cabinet, it is time to really look at the deadlines. This second panel deadline will be WEDNESDAY and we group critique on Thursday. Panels will be cleaned, photographed, installed in the gallery, and grades uploaded on Friday.
  • Today we are doing a “close to final” group critique. Your final self assessment rubric will be filled out later this week. Your written comments on the rubric will be actionable items. Not… “I like x,y, or z in your work.” But rather “there are issues with the gaps in the frames and you could fix that by doing this…”

BY THE WAY: everything-stained-glass.com is a good site for your own personal research.

CIaD: Handbook Covers. Lots of instructions and rules.

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • 2.2Ac: Demonstrate awareness of ethical implications of making and distributing creative work.
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Handbook Cover? https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/51/168863981_29b67a6d71_b.jpg
  • This week is YOU WORKING and we have a MIDCRIT coming up FAST. Be prepared to talk and explain your plans to a small group of NON NEIGHBOR Studiomates. This is YOUR time to shine and get feedback and GIVE feedback. Our Midcrit is TUESDAY – so let’s get some GOOD solid design done / worked on MONDAY and be ready to roll TUESDAY for conversation.

Drawing: Nests and Drawing

  • 7.2Ac: Evaluate the effectiveness of an image or images to influence ideas, feelings, and behaviors of specific audiences.
  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
Van Gogh Nest Drawing: https://www.vincent-van-gogh-gallery.org/thumbnail/403000/403549/mini_normal/Birds-Nest.jpg?ts=1459229076
Ah the birds nest of Vincent Van Gogh: http://66.media.tumblr.com/980f8013c2c35c3e845bade1721c5f82/tumblr_nj8rr2Oxuz1slb5k6o2_1280.jpg
Love the BIRD’S NESTS! http://unschoolrules.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/found-bird-nest.jpg
Nests: http://www.juliahargreaves.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Birds-Nest-3-1024×682.jpg
  • STILL LIFE in FRONT of you… well… the beginnings of a still life that is. Today we SIMPLY sit and sketch the nests in front of us. Take your time and LOOK CAREFULLY at the lines, the marks, the ways in which you can draw. From the first two days of drawing we will begin the still life based on these natural works of engineering.
  • What challenged you with the still life ideas today? What ELEMENTS did you focus on? What Principles (movement? balance? repetition?) did you use? Are you thinking COMPOSITIONALLY?

AP Studio Art: Concentration / Crit – Jim Dine Plants and Flowers – PRINTS to be completed in the end.

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork
  • 9.1Ad: Construct evaluations of a work of art or collection of works based on differing sets of criteria.
  • Artwork out and in front of us all. We are CRITIQUING TODAY. If you are not done – it is a ZERO and you fail the final 3 works in the concentration. Fair? Yes. Empty threat? I hope not.
  • This is coming up next:
    • Jim Dine and Plants slide show – HERE.
    • Previous Artworks – HERE.

Adv. Drawing: Skeleton Drawings Today!

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • 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.
  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept. 

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    Skeleton Drawings coming up soon: http://portfolio.newschool.edu/tessardenfinkelstein/files/2015/11/Skeleton-1gz4w3x.jpg
  • 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? N: Skeleton Drawings – Studying the INDIVIDUAL parts / sections of the skeleton.
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#Welcome to the 4th Quarter – Last Quarter of your #Waterford #Career?

Get out your handbooks!

Experience can act as an object. Art has traditionally been object oriented. But with the emergence of performance, installation, sound- and time-based media, ephemeral experiences and relationships can now be thought of as surrogate objects embodying the art impulse. This is in keeping with the fleeting and disembodied nature of much of what passes for objecthood in the simulated realm of the digital. Objects must be thought of as pulses of energy and patterns, not just solid volumes. 101 Things to Learn in Art School Kit White © 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Kit White

THIS WAS SO FUNNY! Watch it again for fun! Stories of Almost Everyone – Hammer Museum – UCLA

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Baffled by Conceptual Art? So is the Hammer Museum in LA. http://www.adweek.com/creativity/baffled-by-conceptual-art-so-are-will-ferrell-and-joel-mchale-in-this-museums-short-film/

Stained Glass: GLASS IS IN! Woo Hoo! DONE by THURSDAY? Talk to me if you are NOT GOING TO BE.

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork
  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.

 

Soldering of Stained Glass: https://c1.staticflickr.com/6/5211/5391700445_504c6a58cd_b.jpg
  • Looking back at project #2 – What are 3 major accomplishments that you can reflect on with this work? What have you become really good at in the realm of stained glass? Be ready to work on a BRAND NEW ARTWORK when we get back from break!

BY THE WAY: everything-stained-glass.com is a good site for your own personal research.

CIaD: Handbook Covers. Lots of instructions and rules.

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
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Handbook Cover: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/f0/24/6a/f0246aefe42e4d2af56d2090b890693e–college-students-cover-design.jpg
  • What are the SUCCESSFUL and INDIVIDUAL ideas you have in your handbook cover design? Why is your design standing out from the crowd? How is it ORIGINAL and YOURS? Write out the STRONGEST ideas you have in your design and be able to explain WHY these are good design principles and / or elements. Balance? Movement? Repetition? Line? Shape? Space?

Drawing: Crits are  DONE. Computer work to WRAP IT ALL UP.

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork
  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
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Van Gogh Nest Drawing: https://www.vincent-van-gogh-gallery.org/thumbnail/403000/403549/mini_normal/Birds-Nest.jpg?ts=1459229076
  • Looking at the previous work… What was a successful skill that you picked up? What observational skills have you developed? What skills are you still struggling with when it comes to making art? These skills will hopefully be aspects of your artmaking skills that will stick with you for the rest of your artmaking life. Keep it up!

AP Studio Art: Concentration – How are you doing? Without work – the progress doesn’t happen.

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork
  • 9.1Ad: Construct evaluations of a work of art or collection of works based on differing sets of criteria.
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AP Uploads DUE: http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/image/apartsdemo/screenshots-student/s09L-fowarding-portfolio.gif
  • What do you ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO DO over break? I do not want to see this all done the night before we come back. Take some time EACH and EVERY DAY to get some of the AP SITE updated as well as OUR AP Student site.

Adv. Drawing: Gesture Drawings Today!

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
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Skeleton Drawings coming up soon: http://portfolio.newschool.edu/tessardenfinkelstein/files/2015/11/Skeleton-1gz4w3x.jpg
  • As we worked with the “human” form this week… what have you learned from this series for drawings? What struggles are you working through?
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#Welcome to the 4th Quarter – Last Quarter of your #Waterford #Career?

Get out your handbooks!

Experience can act as an object. Art has traditionally been object oriented. But with the emergence of performance, installation, sound- and time-based media, ephemeral experiences and relationships can now be thought of as surrogate objects embodying the art impulse. This is in keeping with the fleeting and disembodied nature of much of what passes for objecthood in the simulated realm of the digital. Objects must be thought of as pulses of energy and patterns, not just solid volumes. 101 Things to Learn in Art School Kit White © 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Kit White

Stories of Almost Everyone – Hammer Museum – UCLA

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Baffled by Conceptual Art? So is the Hammer Museum in LA. http://www.adweek.com/creativity/baffled-by-conceptual-art-so-are-will-ferrell-and-joel-mchale-in-this-museums-short-film/

Stained Glass: Keep working – DONE by THURSDAY! Talk to me if you are NOT GOING TO BE.

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork
  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
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Soldering: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Soldering.JPG/652px-Soldering.JPG
  • Four days to work on the stained glass. The GOAL for the week is to FINISH the piece. This is completely in EVERYONE’S reach. If you are FAR from finished you are in need of coming on and getting yourself to work outside of class. Some of you are doing a good job cutting, but have ZERO foiled and ZERO soldered. Are you in that category? Look at what you currently have begun and write out a FOUR DAY PLAN. Monday I plan on… Tuesday I will… Wednesday I am going to… Thursday I will finish this work up and fill out my rubric and hand in the final work of art.

BY THE WAY: everything-stained-glass.com is a good site for your own personal research.

CIaD: Handbook Covers. Lots of instructions and rules.

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • 2.2Ac: Demonstrate awareness of ethical implications of making and distributing creative work.
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Handbook Cover Ideas: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/be/19/c9/be19c93456646bf357593dc7c6e601a9–cover-design-manual.jpg
  • Open your sketchbook and get out your 10 magazine covers. Let’s look at previous handbook covers and other handbook covers from additional locations. What is a common idea that you are seeing in the covers? What are areas that you see as unique and individual? We have some VERY SPECIFIC instructions that we are going to follow… wait for it though… I want you to design for a bit first.

Drawing: German Expressionism – CRIT this week.

  • 7.2Ac: Evaluate the effectiveness of an image or images to influence ideas, feelings, and behaviors of specific audiences.
  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
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German Expressionism at MoMA: https://www.moma.org/s/ge/german_expressionism/images/home/01.jpg
  • Gather into groups of FOUR with NEW PEOPLE that you are not used to working with. Not the people you are sitting next to most of the time. Sit down and work with one another through the back of the rubric and give one another real feedback and critique. This is a 15 minute process… Ok? Ok. Go to it!

AP Studio Art: Concentration – How are you doing? Without work – the progress doesn’t happen.

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork
  • 9.1Ad: Construct evaluations of a work of art or collection of works based on differing sets of criteria.
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AP Concentrations: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/cb/8b/47/cb8b475641823a1b7f6b7e48ec4289a5.jpg
  • What are three things you are MOST PLEASED with in regards to the most RECENT WORKS of art? Write out the strengths. What are you doing that is holding you back? I am giving you TWO MORE DAYS to work on the concentration – we are going to CRIT on WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY.

Adv. Drawing: Figures coming up…

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • 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.
  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
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Mannequin https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/-IIAAOSwB09YDwaU/s-l300.jpg
  • What are the biggest fears that you have about the ideas of drawing a full human figure? Why do you think this is so tough? Beginning with a general idea of the figure and a reference with the mannequin – you will draw out the proportions and stance of the models for a few minutes and then transition to the human form. Using various references, you will look very carefully and recreate the figures.
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#LastWeekOfTheQuarter #Critique and #WORK in the #ArtStudio

Get out your handbooks!

Static images deliver the information they contain instantly. But they also have the capacity to reveal the whole process of their making, as well as the depth of their narrative, over an extended period of investigation, meditation, and analysis. Paintings are especially unique in this quality. Good art never stops revealing itself. And though the eye can take in an image in its totality in an instant, great images reveal their secrets slowly. The more complex an image, the slower the revelation. 101 Things to Learn in Art School Kit White © 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Kit White

Stained Glass: Keep working – What have you gotten done this week?

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork
  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
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Installing a LARGE Window – How big can we go? https://media.defense.gov/2005/Aug/05/2000580670/780/780/0/050802-F-2169D-0001.JPG
  • How much did you accomplish this week? List three things you were very successful with this week and ONE thing that you really struggled with? Why were you successful and what was it that you held you back?

BY THE WAY: everything-stained-glass.com is a good site for your own personal research.

CIaD: Critique – ALL LATE WORK IS DUE TODAY!

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
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Photoshop ad Filters: https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3624/3578295052_0792c4d6dc_b.jpg
  • Looking back on the week – what 3 things challenged you with Adobe Photoshop? Write out two things you notice as DIFFERENT between APS and AI… How are they similar?

Drawing: German Expressionism – Final Week – CRIT MONDAY and TUESDAY!

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork
  • 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.
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Ernst_Ludwig_Kirchner_Sitzende_Dame_%28Dodo%29_1907-1.jpg
  • What do you need to do over the weekend to resolve this drawing? What challenges did you overcome through this artwork? How do you see the skills that you developed here as being helpful in future works?

AP Studio Art: Concentration – How are you doing? Without work – the progress doesn’t happen.

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork
  • 2.3Ad: Demonstrate in works of art or design how visual and material culture defines, shapes, enhances, inhibits, and/or empowers people’s lives.
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AP Statement: http://tonkaapsa.weebly.com/uploads/1/9/8/2/19821131/4868670_orig.png
  • What do you need to do this weekend to stay ahead of the game? Are you falling behind? Are you being lazy with your work?

Adv. Drawing: CRITIQUE DAY!

  • 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.
  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
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Johns (left) and DeKooning (right): https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/146/432626195_8bf43a9ce8_b.jpg
  • What are you looking at that has been NEW and EXCITING for you in this ABSTRACT process? How have you learned from this process?
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#LastWeekOfTheQuarter #WorkTime in the #Art #Studio

Get out your handbooks!

Static images deliver the information they contain instantly. But they also have the capacity to reveal the whole process of their making, as well as the depth of their narrative, over an extended period of investigation, meditation, and analysis. Paintings are especially unique in this quality. Good art never stops revealing itself. And though the eye can take in an image in its totality in an instant, great images reveal their secrets slowly. The more complex an image, the slower the revelation. 101 Things to Learn in Art School Kit White © 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Kit White

Stained Glass: 10 pieces? Done? Foiled?

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork
  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
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Stained Glass from the Art Nouveau Movement: https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4766/25006449567_4b092aeca6_b.jpg
  • Looking at the week ahead of you… how many pieces should you be working on resolving so that you are staying up to speed with the project? Remember that we should be shooting for 4 or five pieces a day – take the cut stuff home to wrap!

BY THE WAY: everything-stained-glass.com is a good site for your own personal research.

CIaD: Critique – Photoshop this week! ALL LATE WORK IS DUE FRIDAY!

  • 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.
  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
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Adobe Photoshop FILTERS and Drawing on Portraits: https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3657/3566276530_853f2dfa3c_b.jpg
  • How many photographs have you brought to the process for this week? Remember that if you need to finish the Adobe Illustrator project – you need to make time to get into the computer lab (or room 123 has a couple of computers).

Drawing: German Expressionism – Final Week

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork
  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
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Egon Schiele: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Egon_Schiele_-_Self-Portrait_with_Physalis_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
  • How did the critique from last Friday help you see the image you have in front of you in a new way? What are you hoping to do differently now that you have had a chance to look at the work from more than an arms length? What about your studio mates work did you see that will help you with your own work?

AP Studio Art: Concentration

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork
  • 2.3Ad: Demonstrate in works of art or design how visual and material culture defines, shapes, enhances, inhibits, and/or empowers people’s lives.
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Concentration in AP: http://slideplayer.com/10707217/37/images/3/Mundane+Tasks.jpg
  • Concentration works need to be the FOCUS of the hours this week. It is important that you are on task – it you are not then the ideas of the “Artists Habits of Mind” are being missed.Page 18 in the handbook.What do you need to do this week to keep things on track?

Adv. Drawing: Abstract Drawing – Final Crit coming up!

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • 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.
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Willem DeKooning: https://c1.staticflickr.com/7/6039/6360845529_cf435d3d33_b.jpg
  • We will be critiquing at the end of the week -Wednesday and Thursday – Friday if necessary. This will be a process as we need to have a large space to display them and then be able to step back and look. Wednesday we start by going outside with spray fixative and set the charcoal on the paper
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To END With – Get out your handbooks!

The human figure is a complex construction composed of a rigid frame overlaid with soft, rounded, elongated muscles. Its main volumes can be described with a series of interlocking ellipses. There are no straight lines in a body. And it is symmetrical. When laying out a figure drawing, try to do it with a series of interlocking ovals. This will insure that the figure maintains its dimensionality, its roundness in space. This roundness applies to most objects in nature. 101 Things to Learn in Art School Kit White © 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Kit White

Stained Glass: 10 pieces? Done? Foiled?

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork
  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
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Matisse Stained Glass: https://nigelartreviews.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/matisse-christmas-eve-panopticart-tumblr-com.jpg
  • As you worked this week what struggles with your new design have you encountered and resolved? What challenges are you still struggling with?

BY THE WAY: everything-stained-glass.com is a good site for your own personal research.

CIaD: Critique – Photoshop up coming…

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
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Portrait in Phoroshop: https://udemy-images.udemy.com/course/750×422/89780_5386_6.jpg
  • Looking back on the week – what are you most pleased with when it comes to the art you’ve made in the first half of the semester? Let’s look at what we have upcoming and the CALENDAR. We are going to have to really change things up from this point.

Drawing: Faces and German Expressionism

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork
  • 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
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Kollowitz: https://d2w9rnfcy7mm78.cloudfront.net/811947/display_4738b7c99a82884759efe4f0b9f4f992.jpg
  • As you looked at the work you’ve begun this week, step back and think about the problems you are having and the successes that you have had. Write out a few ideas about the specifics, what is a strong aspect of the work and what have you struggled with? Write it out – full sentences and thoughts.

AP Studio Art: Figure Drawing CRITIQUE

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork
  • 2.3Ad: Demonstrate in works of art or design how visual and material culture defines, shapes, enhances, inhibits, and/or empowers people’s lives.
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AP Concentration: https://image.slidesharecdn.com/apart-100513113841-phpapp01/95/ap-art-3-728.jpg?cb=1273750789
  • We are BACK in the process of the CONCENTRATION…how are you utilizing the TIME like you did with the group work in the figure drawing? Are you? Please write out what you need to do in order to make these last three works the STRONGEST of your portfolio / concentration. How have you grown? How are you developing this work as an investigation of a visual challenge?

Adv. Drawing: New Abstract Drawing MID CRIT

  • 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.
  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
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Corrine West: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/25/5d/e2/255de2a32981ecd23bf4e97b400a6842–expressionist-artists-abstract-expressionism.jpg
  • What have you accomplished this week? What skills are you developing in the process of ABSTRACTION? Are you able to see things differently? What 3 skills have you developed with your work
  •  WOMEN OF AbEx…
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To Start With – Get out your handbooks!

Curious about the lesson plan changes? Visit my planning pages and go to week 8. Compare it with week 7 (or before) to see the changes. A lot of info, simpler approach to the week – same quality though.

What a weekend. WAEA in Madison last Friday, 6 of our students with work at the Capitol Rotunda, I got to polka with the Lieutenant Governor of WI Rebecca Kleefisch. Then the night came around and I saw the Addams Family Musical at BHS with my family – dinner afterwards – what a great night. 3 musicals later and I now sit at the kitchen counter, Birk eating his dinner (lunch) and a curious new show on Netflix. I am almost ready to get things going for school. I mentioned that changes were going to take place with this website, and they are. I’ll be posting less frequently than daily, two or three times a week to keep everyone up to speed. I am using the Google Classroom more and I feel that there is more communication directly to the kids there with the assignments, but this is a place to stop and reflect with the handbook so we can  journey through the art semester with a better understanding as to what we are doing. Thank you for the follow, please share this around, and come back to use the resources that I have provided.

Korb

 

The human figure is a complex construction composed of a rigid frame overlaid with soft, rounded, elongated muscles. Its main volumes can be described with a series of interlocking ellipses. There are no straight lines in a body. And it is symmetrical. When laying out a figure drawing, try to do it with a series of interlocking ovals. This will insure that the figure maintains its dimensionality, its roundness in space. This roundness applies to most objects in nature. 101 Things to Learn in Art School Kit White © 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Kit White

Stained Glass: New Project – Preliminary work.

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork
  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
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Marc Chagall Stained Glass: http://www.hudsonvalley.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/Slideshow/uc_slide1.jpg
  • What is the focal point of the composition that you are designing? How does the rest of the space (negative space?) support the dominant portion of the work. How many pieces are you looking at? Have a conversation with your classmates to discuss the challenges that you might be facing with this new work of art.

BY THE WAY: everything-stained-glass.com is a good site for your own personal research.

CIaD: Critique – Self and Others – Self Assessment

  • 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.
  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
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Adobe Illustrator and Drawing: https://blogsimages.adobe.com/adobeillustrator/files/2016/01/Paul_Douarad_AI_Mask_sm.png
  • What have you done with this work that made you particularly proud of the struggle? What new skills are you gaining? We are doing CRITIQUES this week and you will need to have a strong conversation about the process and product.

Drawing: Faces and German Expressionism

  • .1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork
  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
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German Expressionism: https://museum.cornell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/img//discontent-banner.jpg?itok=JsMa7ZGQ
  • What artist / images have you chosen to work from and / or have you been inspired by? Take a few minutes to chat with your colleagues to share this information. We are going to get started with the drawings today so be ready to work in your chosen medium.

AP Studio Art: Figure Drawing 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.
  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork
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Figure Drawing: https://mintmuseum.s3.amazonaws.com/filer_public/d8/97/d897478e-18d8-462d-821b-c06fe1aa32e0/img_0607.jpg
  • This is a two day critique of the figure drawings and then we hang them in the display cased outside of the room. Set things up and please write up your self assessment. What are you especially pleased with in the imagery? What are you still struggling with in the work? This is ESSENTIAL to make a part of your portfolio – and if not one of these, a figure drawing at the very least.

Adv. Drawing: New Abstract Drawing MID CRIT

  • 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.
  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
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Lee Kranser Drawing: https://image.invaluable.com/housePhotos/ManzaGallery/36/616636/H21071-L131956457.jpg
  • This is a one day mid-critique of the abstraction drawings. We have ONE MORE WEEK and then we hang them in the hallway outside of the room (and maybe elsewhere in the building) Hang your works up in the hallway and on the boards so we can look at them all – Handbooks out and write out the strengths and weaknesses of the works. What are you especially pleased with in the imagery? What are you still struggling with in the work? WOMEN OF AbEx…
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#End of #Week7 in the #ArtStudio – #KorbIsMissing!

Today I am in MADISON, WI celebrating the statewide accomplishments of of our young artists. Congratulations to all the kids as they have their work being exhibited in the state capitol rotunda. I look forward to seeing the strong works, the individual artists, the parents and families of the kids who are there, and being able to talk to everyone about the works they are experiencing.

Korb

 

“Time is an Essential Element in All Media. Time reveals itself in two critical ways: the unfolding of the form and the experience of the viewer. Real-time duration implies a narrative structure or linear path, even if abstract, and delivers information and experience in measured units (film, performance, and video). In those cases, the viewer becomes a passive receiver. Recorded media, video, film, L.E.D. word displays, and computer simulations allow for the manipulation of time and the creation of temporal illusion. Time is a dimension.” 10 Kit White 101 Things to Learn in Art School Kit White © 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Kit White

Stained Glass: Finishing up and Designing Ideas

G: 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.

  • Today we are resolving the LARGE drawings and refinement of that drawing. This is the day to add color, refine, redesign, redraw, clean up, simplify, or complicate things. What are you happiest with in your design? Why are you creating this design anyway?
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Fish in Stained Glass: https://pre00.deviantart.net/c7d7/th/pre/f/2012/151/e/2/koi_stained_glass_panel_2_by_trilobiteglassworks-d51rvae.jpg
  • Stop and talk to your neighbor about the new composition that you have designed. Tell them about the challenges, the struggles, the aspects of the work you are most proud of.

BY THE WAY: everything-stained-glass.com is a good site for your own personal research.

CIaD: Let’s Review the MODERNISM Assignment!

1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.

  • This is the LAST DAY to work in class – Monday you will be assessing your own and another student’s work and then we will talk about them on Tuesday. CRIT’s are a coming!
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Computer Illustration – How are you doing? http://www.companyfolders.com/blog/media/2014/02/design-retro-isometric-illustrations.jpg
  • What skills have you learned from Adobe Illustrator? Are you ready for Adobe Photoshop?

Drawing: Faces and German Expressionism

1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.

  • Talk to your table mates about the artists you chose last week and how you plan on using the ideas in the drawing. Three things you would like to really explore from your inspiration artists
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Egon Schiele? Are you interested in his work? https://www.moma.org/s/ge/collection_images/enlarge/05/69605.jpg
  • Do you feel you are ready to move forward with the ideas into the final drawing? Good paper coming up.

AP Studio Art: Figure Drawing

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

  • Look at the work 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 and Figure Drawing: http://www.serenatran.com/images/2dsketchbook/gesture.jpg
  • TODAY was the last day of the drawing process for this work. What are you doing to resolve the idea for Monday?

Adv. Drawing: New Abstract Drawing

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.

  • WE DID NOT MID CRIT. YESTERDAY – Sorry. This video may not make sense entirely – oops. Good Sketchbooks Though!
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Abstraction in Charcoal: http://78.media.tumblr.com/4446557111b90fcc3ff961ba184ef288/tumblr_op2xtmcVA71vnx0lgo3_r1_1280.png
  • What did you accomplish this week? What are you looking at with this as a STRONG Drawing? What challenges have you overcome with it?