Tag: Figure drawing

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#FinallyFriday – #Pshewww – #Ok?Ok. #What’sNext?

David Hockney - Sketchbook Drawings: https://kelise72.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/david_hockney_yorkshire_sketchbooks.png?w=370&h=385

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good…” Ira Glass

Plein Air at the Fair

WI State Fair - Plein Air at the Fair. Entry Forms are HERE: https://goo.gl/i0KjNx
WI State Fair – Plein Air at the Fair. Entry Forms are HERE: https://goo.gl/i0KjNx

Drawing: Let’s Go and DRAW!

2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.

Let’s get rolling and get outside to draw from 2 – 5 feet away. One page and one drawing. That’s the goal.!

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David Hockney – Sketchbook Drawings: https://kelise72.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/david_hockney_yorkshire_sketchbooks.png?w=370&h=385

Once again… What is your feeling about the process of drawing outside with a book that you made and a particular goal of filling it with observational drawings?

Studio Art 360: Painting of a Portrait!

7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.

What are two reasons the simplification of the portrait makes the process less intimidating and more approachable? What is one thing in your life outside of art that you could see this relating to?

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Chuck Close in the Studio – Working on HIS self Portrait! https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/68/09/97/68099702a2ae982c392b3718f6f9b437.jpg

What part of the process of tracing and transferring the image up to the canvas did you struggle with? Name 2 things that were challenging for you in this process. Sit and share with the table and then the class.

Advanced Drawing: No Molly – but Photos of her!

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

RESOLUTION of the figure drawing is today. What are three strengths that are happening in your drawing? How are you going to build on those strengths and develop the final drawing?

Richard Diebenkorn image - looks a lot like the ideas of Jim Dine: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/28/b7/fb/28b7fba31399fcc332d9ce66135de2ff.jpg
Richard Diebenkorn image – looks a lot like the ideas of Jim Dine: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/28/b7/fb/28b7fba31399fcc332d9ce66135de2ff.jpg

Step back – how did it turn out? Give a thought here – think about your work and step back with pride in the process.

AP Studio Art: Portraits and the PORTFOLIO

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.

Have you attempted to work OUTSIDE OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE? Please explain how you have done this?

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Portraits by… Frank Korb. Kallen Poolside. https://frankkorb.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/kallen-poolside.jpg?w=700&h=&crop=1

How do you feel this portrait is talking about the person MORE SO than just a recreation of an image you made with a camera?

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#EndingTheWeekSoon… #OneMoreDay in #Art

David Hockney Sketchbook Drawings: http://lacarioca.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/image18ho.jpg

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good…” Ira Glass

WI State Fair - Plein Air at the Fair. Entry Forms are HERE: https://goo.gl/i0KjNx
WI State Fair – Plein Air at the Fair. Entry Forms are HERE: https://goo.gl/i0KjNx

Drawing: Covers and insert pages Today!

4.2Ac: Analyze, select, and critique personal artwork for a collection or portfolio presentation.

I hope it is warm and dry outside. Let’s think about the challenges of drawing something VERY CLOSE to our eyes – within one foot of what we see – One page – DETAIL – probably!

David Hockney Sketchbook Drawings: http://lacarioca.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/image18ho.jpg
David Hockney Sketchbook Drawings: http://lacarioca.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/image18ho.jpg

What is your feeling about the process of drawing outside with a book that you made and a particular goal of filling it with observational drawings?

Studio Art 360: Color Wheel, Color Schemes, Portraits, and Acrylic Paint

3.1P.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.

What is the emotional feeling that you are showing in your photograph / selfie? From all the color schemes, what color scheme best fits you?

Chuck Close Portrait in Progress: http://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/portraits/chuck_close/chuck-close-working-self-portrait.jpg
Chuck Close Portrait in Progress: http://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/portraits/chuck_close/chuck-close-working-self-portrait.jpg

What challenges did you face with the grid?  

Portraits need to be ready to paint on Monday.: Apply relevant criteria from traditional and contemporary cultural contexts to examine, reflect on, and plan revisions for works of art and design in progress.

Advanced Drawing: Erase Yesterday and Then Let’s Draw!

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

How did erasing your drawing help you move the process forward? Are you still afraid of erasing a drawing as you progress through it?

Jim Dine's Drawing of Artist Chuck Close: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/d3/00/f8/d300f8f6ef7129fa6cb283f199fc468c.jpg
Jim Dine’s Drawing of Artist Chuck Close: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/d3/00/f8/d300f8f6ef7129fa6cb283f199fc468c.jpg

What are you struggling with in the drawing today? What HELD YOU BACK?

AP Studio Art: Portrait and the Changing Faces of the Contemporary Portrait

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.

As you begin this process, what are the challenges you are facing? How are you GATHERING IMAGES / RESEARCH for this work. This week and next week.

Katie Musolff Portrait: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nrDR7SFveHc/S3MWJ9RzT7I/AAAAAAAAAPs/rckLEW0mDDQ/s1600/HeatheronCouch2007.jpg
Katie Musolff Portrait: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nrDR7SFveHc/S3MWJ9RzT7I/AAAAAAAAAPs/rckLEW0mDDQ/s1600/HeatheronCouch2007.jpg

Three things you were challenged with today. PLEASE LIST them and then think about them… how are you going to work through the challenges?

AP Website Uploads
Current Place in your Body of Work on the AP Website.

Contemporary Portraits at the National Gallery: London.

The Earnest Face of the Contemporary Portrait: Portrait Society Gallery

In Your Face: Art News (2007)

Contemporary Portraiture: Newington-Cropsey Cultural Studies Center, American Arts Quarterly, Summer 2010.

Zidane: A 21st Centry Portrait: Video Below

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Tuesday and we #build, #grid, #draw, #observe, and #interview.

David Hockney Sketchbook: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/3d/41/97/3d41975e7d7857c59bdba50c52279add.jpg

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good…” Ira Glass

WI State Fair - Plein Air at the Fair. Entry Forms are HERE: https://goo.gl/i0KjNx
WI State Fair – Plein Air at the Fair. Entry Forms are HERE: https://goo.gl/i0KjNx

Drawing: Folding pages and Book Covers!

4.2Ac: Analyze, select, and critique personal artwork for a collection or portfolio presentation.

How have you been challenged with the sketchbooks in class up to this point?

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David Hockney Sketchbook: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/3d/41/97/3d41975e7d7857c59bdba50c52279add.jpg

What do you see as having your own built book as being something different that simply buying one you can fill?

Studio Art 360: Color Wheel and Acrylic Paints

3.1P: Apply relevant criteria from traditional and contemporary cultural contexts to examine, reflect on, and plan revisions for works of art and design in progress.

What are the biggest challenges that you see facing you today in the process of enlarging the photographs? Are you about ready to begin the painting process?

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Chuck Close Working: http://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/portraits/chuck_close/chuck-close-working.jpg

What challenges did you face today in the gridding out of the portrait? Are you ready to begin the painting part of the process?

Advanced Drawing: Figure and Jim Dine “All About Looking“

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

What do you think the skills that you currently have will help you in the process of the figure drawing?

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Jim Dine Figure DrawingL http://www.themorgan.org/sites/default/files/images/blog/302743_021.jpg

How does your drawing look in your own eyes? What did the process of ……………………. the image in the beginning do for you? Huh?

AP Studio Art: Portraits and Interviews. HUGE ASSIGNMENT!

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 are you thinking about in the work you are going to begin? Materials? Poses? Ideas about the work? Mug Shot? Action Shot? Portrait? Figurative Work? I am leaving this up to you! I WANT you to work on the idea of a portrait though.

Mike Dretzka - Self-Portrait in Charcoal: http://www.dretzkastudio.com/images/025.jpg
Mike Dretzka – Self-Portrait in Charcoal: http://www.dretzkastudio.com/images/025.jpg

What have been your first marks – ideas you are making in the idea of the portrait?

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#SpringBreak is OVER and it is time to get back to #MakingArt

David Hockney Pages from his Sketchbook: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/30/96/6d/30966dc44976c035f99c163466e25e60.jpg

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good…” Ira Glass

Plein Air at the Fair – WI State Fair!

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WI State Fair – Plein Air at the Fair. Entry Forms are HERE: https://goo.gl/i0KjNx

DRAWING: Facial Features Studio

1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.

What are three challenges you have when it comes to working in / with the ideas of a sketchbook? Let’s Start BUILDING ours – follow along guys. Who is video recording for me? Assignment is HERE.

David Hockney Pages from his Sketchbook: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/30/96/6d/30966dc44976c035f99c163466e25e60.jpg
David Hockney Pages from his Sketchbook: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/30/96/6d/30966dc44976c035f99c163466e25e60.jpg

What did you have a hard time with today? What was holding you back? DESCRIBE THE CHALLENGES on page 22.

Mr. Korb – Start it around 10:45 and let it play for a few minutes…

Art 360: The Grid and Chuck Close

1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.

How is BREAKING the image down to basic shapes going to make the process of creating a memorable and successful work of art easier?

What challenges did you have today with the transferring of the portrait up to the canvas? Two struggles? Chuck Close Video on the Grid:

Advanced Drawing: Figure Drawing – do you have your permission Slips turned in?

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

What is it about the figure that you are still uncertain about? The Drawings are ALL ABOUT LOOKING and I expect you to be working and FOCUSED 100% of the time.

Figure Drawing starts TODAY: Thanks Molly: http://www.toa.edu.my/aboutus/gfx/facilities/life_b.jpg
Figure Drawing starts TODAY: Thanks Molly: http://www.toa.edu.my/aboutus/gfx/facilities/life_b.jpg

What aspect of the drawing do you find successful? Why?

AP Studio Art: Who are your classmates?

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.

If you were to want to get to know someone better, what are a few questions that you would ask? Not superficial questions, but the kind of question that really helps you get to know someone… Please log onto THIS DOCUMENT and enter your question.

Listen to the TTBOOK Podcast – LISTEN – We’ve got time – let’s listen to a few shows.

Molly Crabapple: WPR To The Best Of Our Knowledge: http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1793137/images/n-MOLLY-CRABAPPLE-628x314.jpg
Molly Crabapple: WPR To The Best Of Our Knowledge: http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1793137/images/n-MOLLY-CRABAPPLE-628×314.jpg

What are you thinking about after we have spent another day listening to a radio show about making art? Molly Crabapple:

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#Portraits in the #ArtStudio and #Watercolors in #Studio360 (art that is)

“The Earth without ART is just… eh.”

WHOSE IN? Drawing, AP Studio Art, Independent Art Students, Advanced Drawing  – ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO FIELD TRIP!

  • OTHER: Cap of 35 Students – 7 SPOTS LEFT!
  • Where: Art Institute of Chicago
  • When: May 4, 2016
  • Why: ART – Van Gogh Bedrooms Exhibit – and Chicago!
  • Time: Leave at 7:30AM – Return around 5PM
  • Cost: $16.00 + Lunch Money and Spending Money (Entrance to Show, Cost of Bus)

Drawing: PORTRAITS!

NEW PAGE on KORB’s Website: Facial Features!

http://www.artsunlight.com/artist-photo/Henri-Matisse/girl-with-a-black-cat-by-Henri-Matisse-027.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.
  • How does this painting by Matisse look different than the previous work we saw? What are aspects of the FAUVISTS that you are REALLY getting your brain around in this drawing? 

Reflection: What was the most challenging aspect of this drawing for you to draw?Why was this most difficult way to go? What is most important about drawing when it comes to observation? 

Studio Art 360: COLOR and YOU!

What’s Picasso’s Color Scheme HERE? Don’t Know? Let’s Talk! http://www.dailyartfixx.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Acr%C3%B3bata-y-joven-arlequ%C3%ADn-Pablo-Picasso-Rose-Period-1905.jpg

Goals:

  • 3.1P: Apply relevant criteria from traditional and contemporary cultural contexts to examine, reflect on, and plan revisions for works of art and design in progress.
  • Why (again) is it important for an artist to choose colors CAREFULLY as they are developing a composition / artwork? What might the RIGHT colors do in an image versus the “wrong” colors?  
  •  Assignment – FOR FRIDAY REPEAT THE ASSIGNMENT from above. MAGAZINE on SELFIES – Scholastic Art Magazine – May 2016

Reflection:  Review with neighbors the relationships of the colors on the color wheel? When you look in your closet… what COLORS do you think you have the most of hanging? Why do you think that you have more of that color than others?

ASSIGNMENT FOR MONDAY – Bring in a FEW FULL FACE SELFIES – Black and White or Color – OR EMAIL them to me… This is the UPCOMING ASSIGNMENT Requirement…

Mr. Korb's Selfie!
Mr. Korb’s Selfie!

HERE’s where were headed with this! Andy Warhol at MoMA.

AP Studio Art: Portrait of One Another

Portraits: http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolio3/s/steen/Squared-1336615123.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.
  • TOMORROW is the LAST DAY TO DRAW / CREATE / RESOLVE your portrait… what are THREE THINGS you need to FINISH and FIX and RESOLVE? Look at it with that CRITICAL EYE.

Reflection:  YEP – REFLECT AGAIN…  Step back – SHUSH – 3 minutes left of class – What did you accomplish today? Do you need to take this home to resolve for MONDAY’s CRIT? Take your rubric and BEGIN to fill it out! 

Advanced Drawing: Jim Dine

Skeleton Shared Album HERE

Jim Dine Self Portrait: http://web.carteret.edu/keoughp/AFA%20images/Drawing/Jim%20Dine/jimDine-portrait%20of%20Chuch%20Close.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • How did spending a FULL period on the work and NOT having to erase it help you move the process forward? Are you still afraid of erasing a drawing as you progress through it?   Jim Dine Drawing of Chuck Close

Reflection: What are you struggling with in the drawing today? What HELD YOU BACK?

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#Art at the Midpoint (of the week) – Where are #YOU?

“The Earth without ART is just… eh.”

WHOSE IN? Drawing, AP Studio Art, Independent Art Students, Advanced Drawing  – ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO FIELD TRIP!

  • OTHER: Cap of 45 Students
  • Where: Art Institute of Chicago
  • When: May 4, 2016
  • Why: ART – Van Gogh Bedrooms Exhibit – and Chicago!
  • Time: Leave at 7:30AM – Return around 5PM
  • Cost: $16.00 + Lunch Money and Spending Money (Entrance to Show, Cost of Bus)

Drawing: PORTRAITS!

NEW PAGE on KORB’s Website: Facial Features!

Madame Matisse – Where we started! http://cdn.bartongalleries.com/paintings/800/050242_Matisse_Madame%20Matisse.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.
  • Take a look at your previous day’s work – where did you struggle the most with the idea of the portrait? Where did you succeed the most? How do you use the ideas of chiaroscuro to better define the ideas of form (in the face especially)?

Reflection: What was the most challenging way to draw? Why was this most difficult way to go? What is most important about drawing when it comes to observation?

Studio Art 360: COLOR and YOU!

Color Schemes? What are they here? https://agraphicworld2.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/monopoly_pennsylvania_green.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
  •  We spoke about 4 color schemes yesterday – WHAT ARE THEY? WRITE them out and HOW THEY can be defined. Ask your neighbors – do NOT use your notes.

Reflection: Review with neighbors the relationships of the colors on the color wheel? QUIZ one another on the names, types and relationships of the colors. What were the most CHALLENGING COLORS for you to mix? Which were the easiest to work with? ASSIGNMENT FOR FRIDAY – Bring in a FEW FULL FACE SELFIES – Black and White or Color – OR EMAIL them to me… This is the UPCOMING ASSIGNMENT Requirement…

AP Studio Art: Portrait of One Another

Portrait? Hpw’s it going? https://img1.etsystatic.com/068/1/6145735/il_570xN.750783775_c3dw.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.
  • What have you done that is  NEW in this work – 2 things? What are you LEARNING in this work – 2 things. 

Reflection:  Ok –  Step back – SHUSH – 3 minutes left of class – WHAT DO YOU START WITH TOMORROW?

Advanced Drawing: Jim Dine

Skeleton Shared Album HERE

Jim Dine – Figure Drawing: http://www.themorgan.org/sites/default/files/images/blog/302743_021.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • What do you think the skills that you currently have will help you in the process of the figure drawing?

Reflection: How does your drawing look in your own eyes? What did the process of ERASING the image in the beginning do for you?

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#Draw #Color #Fauvism #Portraits We’re doing a lot in the #ArtStudio

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Drawing, AP Studio Art, Independent Art Students, Advanced Drawing  – ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO FIELD TRIP!

  • OTHER: Cap of 45 Students
  • Where: Art Institute of Chicago
  • When: May 4, 2016
  • Why: ART – Van Gogh Bedrooms Exhibit – and Chicago!
  • Time: Leave at 7:30AM – Return around 5PM
  • Cost: $16.00 + Lunch Money and Spending Money (Entrance to Show, Cost of Bus)

Drawing: PORTRAITS!

NEW PAGE on KORB’s Website: Facial Features!

Alex Jawlenski: http://en.wahooart.com/Art.nsf/O/8YDE4Y/$File/Alexei-Jawlensky-Lola.JPG

Goals:

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.
  • We’re getting theie folks – three more days – Every square inch needs pastel. What’s holding you back? What has propelled you forward in the process?

Reflection:Are you taking pastels home? Where are you going to work on the drawing? What has been the HARDEST PART of the drawing

Studio Art 360: COLOR and YOU!

Jamie Treadwell Color Wheel – Thanks Jamie: http://www.jaimetreadwell.com/colorwheel.JPG

Goals:

  • 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
  • Review with your neighbor the relationships of color on the color wheel.

Reflection: Review with neighbors the relationships of the colors on the color wheel? QUIZ one another on the names, types and relationships of the colors.

AP Studio Art: Portrait of One Another

Collage Portrait! Mia – you’d like this one! http://cdn.trendhunterstatic.com/phpthumbnails/40/40829/40829_1_800.jpeg

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.
  • Take a minute with your partner and share your thoughts about the work you are completing. Take a compliment, take a criticism… repeat to your partner. 

Reflection:  Step back – SHUSH – 3 minutes left of class – WHAT DO YOU START WITH TOMORROW? 

Advanced Drawing: Jim Dine

Skeleton Shared Album HERE

 

Jim Dine Figure Drawing: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/1b/26/76/1b2676ac3a8cbe8cd9a84937684d1eaa.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • Figure Drawing is ESSENTIAL to the strong portfolio. Why do you feel that every artist should have a strong background in the world of figure drawing? Or DO you? Why or Why NOT?

Reflection: How did your drawing challenge you today? Are you able to be focused on the figure for the period? Why do you stop short if you do? 

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What’s YOUR take on using #color in the #VisualArts

Drawing, AP Studio Art, Independent Art Students, Advanced Drawing  – ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO FIELD TRIP!

  • OTHER: Cap of 45 Students
  • Where: Art Institute of Chicago
  • When: May 4, 2016
  • Why: ART – Van Gogh Bedrooms Exhibit – and Chicago!
  • Time: Leave at 7:30AM – Return around 5PM
  • Cost: $16.00 + Lunch Money and Spending Money (Entrance to Show, Cost of Bus)

https://i0.wp.com/www.streetartutopia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/the-earth-without-art-is-just-eh.jpeg

Drawing: PORTRAITS!

NEW PAGE on KORB’s Website: Facial Features!

Alexi von Jawlensky: http://www.allpaintings.org/d/34361-2/Alexej+von+Jawlensky+-+Young+Girl+with+Green+Eyes.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.
  • Step back – yesterday you looked at the class work and got some feedback from them. Take a HARD LOOK AT YOUR DRAWING and determine what you need to focus on in the next 46 minutes. WRITE IT OUT in COMPLETE SENTENCES! 

Reflection: Until THURSDAY to work in class. What is working successfully in your drawing? WHY?

Studio Art 360: COLOR and YOU!

http://www.photo-dictionary.com/photofiles/list/699/1110prism.jpg

Goals:

  • 7.1P: Hypothesize ways in which art influences perception and understanding of human experiences.
  • THINK ABOUT SCIENCE for a minute… How do we SEE color? How does the color on a digital device get blended together? How does color in a magazine get blended together? 

Reflection: What are the three types of colors on the color wheel? What can you NOT mix? How do you mix Orange, etc…

AP Studio Art: Portrait of One Another

Duchamp talking about his work… what have YOU got to say? http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1399585/images/o-ARMORY-SHOW-1913-facebook.jpg

Goals:

  • 7.2Ad: Determine the commonalities within a group of artists or visual images attributed to a particular type of art, timeframe, or culture.
  • How does stepping back and looking at the works as a whole offer you insight into other’s skills, approaches, and intents and how YOU can learn from others and teach others? 

Reflection: What has been the STRENGTH of the CRIT for you this week?

Advanced Drawing: Jim Dine

Skeleton Shared Album HERE

No bad poses – all are difficult.  http://www.toa.edu.my/aboutus/gfx/facilities/life_b.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • What is it about the figure that you are still uncertain about? If you have to go back and change something about your current state of the figure, what are you needing to rework? These Drawings are ALL ABOUT LOOKING and I expect you to be working and FOCUSED 100% of the time.

Reflection: What aspect of the drawing do you find successful? What was it that made the second part of the drawing – the part of the drawing that may have surprised you – angered you? Why?

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#WaitWhat? #Friday here already!

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Van Gogh’s Bedroom at Arles – Chicago Art Institute: http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/citi/images/standard/WebMedium/WebImg_000287/219031_3428458.jpg

Drawing, AP Studio Art, Independent Art Students, Advanced Drawing  – ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO FIELD TRIP!

  • OTHER: Cap of 45 Students
  • Where: Art Institute of Chicago
  • When: May 4, 2016
  • Why: ART – Van Gogh Bedrooms Exhibit – and Chicago!
  • Time: Leave at 7:30AM – Return around 5PM
  • Cost: $16.00 + Lunch Money and Spending Money (Entrance to Show, Cost of Bus)

Drawing: PORTRAITS!

NEW PAGE on KORB’s Website: Facial Features!

http://uploads2.wikiart.org/images/max-pechstein/girl-on-a-green-sofa-with-a-cat-1910.jpg!Blog.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.
  • After ONE WEEK of pastels, what is your STRONGEST aspect of the composition? Describe WHY you feel it is working so well.

Reflection: How do you feel about the work you accomplished today? What has changed / was learned in how you are working with Soft Pastels?

Studio Art 360: Bas Relief Sculpture / Sculpture in the Round

Marie Reine Contemporary Sculptor – different approach than Ed Hamilton. https://a.1stdibscdn.com/archivesE/1stdibs/012814/LebretonCC_DM/1/DSC_0011.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
  • As you look at the FINAL SCULPTURE – What areas stand out as your most successful in the creation of your SOCIAL COMMENTARY in sculpture form? What stands out as the LEAST successful?

Reflection: What was the biggest challenge and most successful aspect you had with using clay and creating a three dimensional artwork – Let’s have a round table conversation…

AP Studio Art: To the Best of Our Knowledge – Listen to the Show!

https://frankkorb.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/kallen-poolside.jpg?w=700&h=&crop=1

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.
  • Have you attempted to work OUTSIDE OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE? Please explain how you have done this? Are you capturing your model?

Reflection: How do you feel this portrait is talking about the person MORE SO than just a recreation of an image you made with a camera

Advanced Drawing: Skeleton – Shared Album HERE

http://www.marylandhall.org/sites/default/files/images/7-22-13%201.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • What do you think the skills that you currently have will help you in the process of the figure drawing? 

Reflection: How does your drawing look in your own eyes? Write a short paragraph about the process.

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#VanGogh at the #ArtInstituteOfChicago – MAY 4

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Van Gogh’s Bedroom at Arles – Chicago Art Institute: http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/citi/images/standard/WebMedium/WebImg_000287/219031_3428458.jpg

Drawing, AP Studio Art, Independent Art Students, Advanced Drawing  – ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO FIELD TRIP!

  • OTHER: Cap of 45 Students
  • Where: Art Institute of Chicago
  • When: May 4, 2016
  • Why: ART- Van Gogh Bedrooms Exhibit – and Chicago!
  • Time: Leave at 7:30AM – Return around 5PM
  • Cost: $16.00 + Lunch Money and Spending Money (Entrance to Show, Cost of Bus)

Drawing: PORTRAITS!

NEW PAGE on KORB’s Website: Facial Features!

Max Pechstein: Self Portrait with Pipe and Hat: http://uploads2.wikiart.org/images/max-pechstein/self-portrait-with-pipe-and-hat-1918.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.
  • How are the colors working for you? Look carefully at the LAYERING of your colors and how you are considering the FAUVIST approach? Talk about 2 things you are LEARNING about the use of COLOR in an artwork OR 2 things you are learning about the use of SOFT PASTELS that you will remember throughout the drawing.

Reflection:  What areas are you working on? Background? Foreground? ENTIRE GROUND?

Studio Art 360: Bas Relief Sculpture / Sculpture in the Round

Ed Hamilton Sculpture: http://www.trbimg.com/img-51a55626/turbine/dp-nws-newportnews-mlk-art-0529-20130528-001/600/600×450

Goals:

  • 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
  • If today is your last day to RESOLVE your sculpture – what (SPECIFICALLY) do you have to focus on to make it YOUR BEST WORK? “TODAY I am going to focus on __________ so that my social message is crystal clear.”

Reflection: What was the biggest challenge you had with using clay and creating a three dimensional artwork. Of the different techniques (additive, subtractive, manipulation) what caused you the most challenge? 

AP Studio Art: To the Best of Our Knowledge – Listen to the Show!

Katie Musolf: https://korbartwuhs.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/cc406-heatheroncouch2007.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.
  • As you begin this process, what are the challenges you are facing? How are you GATHERING IMAGES / RESEARCH for this work. This week and next week.

Reflection: Three things you were challenged with today. PLEASE LIST them and then think about them… how are you going to work through the challenges?

Advanced Drawing: Skeleton – Shared Album HERE

Let’s Draw! http://i.ytimg.com/vi/R44Pe3sxDv8/maxresdefault.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • Figure Drawing is ESSENTIAL to the strong portfolio. Why do you feel that every artist should have a strong background in the world of figure drawing?

Reflection: How did your drawing challenge you today? Are you able to be focused on the figure for the period? Why do you stop short if you do?

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