Welcome back to a new semester. As you read before, I am going to work to make this a launching pad for the weeks. I hope it all goes well!
Thanks – Frank
As always, We will leave a link to the EXPECTATIONS in the studio… Here are ours.
6th Grade: Photography and the Camp Snap Camera!
Here are the 6th grade semester Lesson Plans for you to see what our day will look like.
What is the last strong PHOTOGRAPH you made? I mean PHOTOGRAPH! Do not consider snapshots and selfies as photographs? We are going to be REALLY thinking about the idea of making photographs and framing things up properly. We are ALSO going to be using some fun Camp Snap cameras. What’s that? Look them up!
Here are the 7th grade semester Lesson Plans for you to see what our day will look like.
What does a portrait look like to you? What is the focus? How can you use COLOR SCHEMES to simplify your choices and then also make the work stronger and more cohesive? Things to think about here.
Here are the 8th Grade 2D Design semester Lesson Plansfor you to see what our day will look like
Rotoscoping will be a PROCESS versus PRODUCT. This will have a final result but we are going to be more concerned with the day to day learning
Rotoscoping Assignment is HERE to see how we are going to be working through this assignment together.
8th Grade Sculpture: Stop Motion Photography and Claymation
Here are the 8th Grade Sculpture semester Lesson Plans for you to see what our day will look like.
What do you know about claymation and stop motion photography? This is going to be a GREAT time to spend working with a team and building a COOL video from the ground up!
HERE is the assignment for Stop Motion Photography and Claymation
I missed us last week as I was recovering from a back case of pneumonia. PLEASE stay healthy. I am back on track and pushing the studio kids hard this week. 2 more days – YIKES! Unfortunately – I need to keep THIS post short and sweet. NEXT semester – back to it and see how it goes!
Thanks – Frank
What does FAILURE look like to you and how do you COPE? Well… Let’s talk about that.
As always, We will leave a link to the EXPECTATIONS in the studio… Here are ours.
Not one of ours, but take a look at the cleanliness of the work by this artist. Their paper is tightly glued down and the edges are nice and crisp. The eye holes are a bit larger than they might need to be. This is a good goal to shoot for.
Finish the Paper Mache Layers
Think about and look back on your planning of the colors.
OH – and we have to GLAZE our Kiln-Guardians too… That will PROBABLY take precedence over the masks for a couple of days.
8th Grade 2D: ROTOSCOPING
Here are the 8th Grade 2D Design semester Lesson Plans for you to see what our day will look like
Here are the 8th Grade Sculpture semester Lesson Plans for you to see what our day will look like.
ALEXANDER CALDER SCULPTURE ASSIGNMENT HERE – A 180 degree turn!
What will your work look like coming out of the kiln? A lot of works have already been removed – your work might still be waiting.
Photograph and Assess
Learn about Alexander Calder and the Stabile – think about the use of the plaster bandages we have and and plaster sculptures (designed around kids your age when he first started).
Planning and designing and making your Sculptures. Each one takes ONE DAY and then a day to repair. You are responsible for the process and the doing. I hope it works! Watch the process.
Years ago this was the DAILY launchpad for all of my classes. One post per day, every day, new content, yikes. As we moved into Google Classroom, it changed dramatically. I am going to try and see what we can do for the WEEKLY posts. A little bit more info and then onto the Google Docs page if need be.
Thanks – Frank
What kind of time do you use to take off from your studio? Do you? It feels like over the past two weeks, with more free time on my hands, I’ve spent less time in the studio. Family was around more and I got to sleep in more, so that probably had a bit to do with it. And that is ok. So… what kind of “time off” do you give yourself from the studio and what do you do with that time?
As always, We will leave a link to the EXPECTATIONS in the studio… Here are ours.
Kathe Koillwitz – German Expressionism – In Memoriam Karl Liebknecht – 1920 Woodcut. Kollwitz was a German Expressionist and a phenomonal printmaker in her own right. This work is an AP Art History image too. Learn it now!
We are going to be using INKS this week on the Styrofoam printing plates. We have a little bit of a demo to do and a VERY specific order of operation so PAY ATTENTION to how we do this. It can be messy and you will be CLEANING UP EVERYTHING.
Black Ink on White Paper
White Ink on Colored Paper
Ink on Pastel Colored Paper (this might go into next week).
7th Grade: PAPER MACHE MASKS
Here are the 7th grade semester Lesson Plans for you to see what our day will look like.
Not one of ours, but take a look at the cleanliness of the work by this artist. Their paper is tightly glued down and the edges are nice and crisp. The eye holes are a bit larger than they might need to be. This is a good goal to shoot for.
Finish the Paper Mache Layers
Think about and look back on your planning of the colors.
OH – and we have to GLAZE our Kiln-Guardians too… That will PROBABLY take precedence over the masks for a couple of days.
Here are hybrid animals from the movie Poor Things… Fun combinations of these animals.
8th Grade 2D: Linoleum Print Assessment and ROTOSCOPING
Here are the 8th Grade 2D Design semester Lesson Plans for you to see what our day will look like
Mr. Korb’s Plate and the beginnings of his print in REPETITION! A dog chasing his bouncy ball. I still have work to do on mine and YOU are all done with yours. We are going to be using the rubric for one day and then we are into the digital lab for ROTOSCOPING
How are prints signed and numbered? THIS is my handout from my own teachings.
Rotoscoping will be a PROCESS versus PRODUCT. This will have a final result but we are going to be more concerned with the day to day learning.
Rotoscoping Assignment is HERE to see how we are going to be working through this assignment together.
What will your work look like coming out of the kiln? A lot of works have already been removed – your work might still be waiting.
Photograph and Assess
Learn about George Segal and plaster sculptures (designed around kids your age when he first started).
Planning and designing and making your Sculptures. Each one takes ONE DAY and then a day to repair. You are responsible for the process and the doing. I hope it works! Watch the process.
Respect for Others: I can identify examples of discrimination based on perceived differences.
Our classes begin in Google Classroom AND from the lesson plans below. PLEASE feel free to visit the day to day and see what we are working on in the studio. The links will take you to the Table of Contents… find the current week to see what we are doing.
Know about use of technology and the computer and the camera
Know about Photoshop and Inspirational Posters and Text
8th Grade 2D Design: Still Life in Pencil – From 21st Century Technology to the 18th Century Technology– Morandi is a GREAT reference – Watch some of the videos below.
Respect for Others: I can identify examples of discrimination based on perceived differences.
Our classes begin in Google Classroom AND from the lesson plans below. PLEASE feel free to visit the day to day and see what we are working on in the studio. The links will take you to the Table of Contents… find the current week to see what we are doing.
Know about different techniques and processes in PRINTMAKING
Know about personal connections in the art
Know about Artists and Art History
We are doing a lot of different printing. As 6th graders, it is a bit simpler than how others make prints… Mary Cassatt was a phenomenal print maker and the one American in the French Impressionist movement.
SO MUCH ART HISTORY!
7th Grade: Inspirational Posters and Photoshop!Can we focus enough to get the job done?
Know about use of technology and the computer and the camera
Know about Photoshop and Inspirational Posters and Text
Posters and Photoshop! Spot Color as well… this is SPOT COLOR
8th Grade 2D Design: Still Life in Pencil – From 21st Century Technology to the 18th Century Technology– Morandi is a GREAT reference – Watch some of the videos below.
Know about OBSERVATION in Drawing
Know about using LAYERS with SHADING
Know about setting up a STILL LIFE
Know about using PHOTOGRAPHY and Strong LIGHTING
Know about how art history influences what contemporary artists
Reflect on personal ideas and resolve the challenges you have faced.
Know about and work through the ideas of making drawings through observation as well as the techniques that are involved.
I hope all is going well as you are ending your school year! Keep positive and Keep Working! 4, 3 more studio days with most of my awesome artists… how about you?
Respect for Others: I can identify examples of discrimination based on perceived differences.
Our classes begin in Google Classroom AND from the lesson plans below. PLEASE feel free to visit the day to day and see what we are working on in the studio. The links will take you to the Table of Contents… find the current week to see what we are doing.
Know about different techniques and processes in PRINTMAKING
Know about personal connections in the art
Know about Artists and Art History
We are doing a lot of different printing. As 6th graders, it is a bit simpler than how others make prints… Mary Cassatt was a phenomenal print maker and the one American in the French Impressionist movement.
I hope all is going well as you are ending your school year! Keep positive and Keep Working! 6 more studio days with most of my awesome artists… how about you?
This was a DAY WITH GLASSES and a strong time in my painting years… COVID and QUARANTINE too. I LOVE the Studio Habits as an artist and work to instill them in to the hands of the kiddo’s I work with. What are YOUR studio Habits?
LINK THE TO THE 8 STUDIO HABITS is HERE and as a PDF from the originators HERE
Respect for Others: I can identify examples of discrimination based on perceived differences.
Our classes begin in Google Classroom AND from the lesson plans below. PLEASE feel free to visit the day to day and see what we are working on in the studio. The links will take you to the Table of Contents… find the current week to see what we are doing.
This was a DAY WITH GLASSES and a strong time in my painting years… COVID and QUARANTINE too. I LOVE the Studio Habits as an artist and work to instill them in to the hands of the kiddo’s I work with. What are YOUR studio Habits?
LINK THE TO THE 8 STUDIO HABITS is HERE and as a PDF from the originators HERE
Respect for Others: I can identify examples of discrimination based on perceived differences.
Our classes begin in Google Classroom AND from the lesson plans below. PLEASE feel free to visit the day to day and see what we are working on in the studio. The links will take you to the Table of Contents… find the current week to see what we are doing.
One of the BIGGEST CHALLENGES I see with 8th graders and your understanding of what art is and what it can be is that you don not have a wide view of the world of the arts. The IMAGE, the PICTURE has to be something and it has to be correct (in many of the 8th graders eyes) and sometimes it can be and should be about the mark making… the act of making art. Sol Le Witt nailed this!
This was a DAY WITH GLASSES and a strong time in my painting years… COVID and QUARANTINE too. I LOVE the Studio Habits as an artist and work to instill them in to the hands of the kiddo’s I work with. What are YOUR studio Habits?
LINK THE TO THE 8 STUDIO HABITS is HERE and as a PDF from the originators HERE
I can communicate in positive ways to get my needs met.
Our classes begin in Google Classroom AND from the lesson plans below. PLEASE feel free to visit the day to day and see what we are working on in the studio. The links will take you to the Table of Contents… find the current week to see what we are doing.
The Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, 1942, printed 1980 Ansel Adams, 1902–1984; born San Francisco, CA; died Monterey, CA Gelatin silver print x1983-166
I can communicate in positive ways to get my needs met.
“Bad as it is, the world ispotentially full of good photographs. But to be good, photographs have to be full of the world.” Dorothea Lange
Our classes begin in Google Classroom AND from the lesson plans below. PLEASE feel free to visit the day to day and see what we are working on in the studio. The links will take you to the Table of Contents… find the current week to see what we are doing.
6th Grade: Printmaking
Keepsake boxes and the final few days… what are your ideas for the surface decoration and embellishment.
How are we able to use these ideas in NEW ways… I wish I knew who did this because it is a REALLY great approach to talking the neurographic breakdown of the contours in another direction!
Art With Korb 