Tag: Figure drawing

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#MidWeek – Let’s #Work – 4 Ways To #Learn

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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 Chiocago
  • 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!

Kehinde Wiley: https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/8c85f-dee-and-ricky-by-kehinde-wiley.png

Goals:

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.
  • REVIEW the beginning stages of your portrait. What is standing out as successful? What is standing out as needing resolving COMPOSITIONALLY? Now is the time to FIX the issues.

Reflection:  What do you need to look at tomorrow and think about – fix, change, clean up? WRITE THAT DOWN and make sure you deal with that first thing tomorrow!

Studio Art 360: Sketchbook

Ed Hamilton: http://edhamiltonworks.com/bas-relief.htm  http://edhamiltonworks.com/images/from_the_other_side/confinement_series_no_1_f.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
  • What was your FAVORITE or LEAST FAVORITE part of working with clay. Please tell me WHY you LOVE or DON’T LOVE using this material. Please be specific.

Reflection: What do you see as needing to be RESOLVED for the end of the project TOMORROW? Know that it is the LAST day to work. PAUSE 10 minutes before the end of class.

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

Mike Dretzka http://www.dretzkastudio.com/images/025.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 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…

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

Advanced Drawing: Skeleton – Shared Album HERE

DRAW! Figure! 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? The 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? Why?

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#ArtInSession #FigureDrawing and #Sketchbooks!

 

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Drawing: PORTRAITS!

NEW PAGE on KORB’s Website: Facial Features!

Henri Matisse – Portrait of person in chair: http://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ma/web-large/DT1777.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.
  • Knowing that we are looking at today’s culture through the use of the photograph and the idea of the contemporary individual in society.  You may need to choose a DOMINANT COLOR Scheme to emphasize an emotion… what emotion might you choose in your drawing?

Reflection:  What was the most challenging aspect of your drawing to get done today? How are you using OBSERVATION to get your drawings set up correctly?

Studio Art 360: Sketchbook

Texture – and you thought you were done with it… https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/frottage.jpg?w=620

Goals:

  • 10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.
  • We looked at Vincent Van Gogh’s Nests last week. DID you use a REFERENCE in the process of drawing or did you “wing” it? What made using a reference helpful? 3 sentences to explain.

Reflection: What three things can you do / are you going to do to to enhance your sketchbook drawing for next week’s grade? Look at and work with image from assignment sheet!

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

Ben Slow: http://api.ning.com/files/kV4MbYiv7oQ1gfHsnmrCmFsEZg8c8*Jz8GI4Ig9pU8jSXX7nmQJU4RjUM7o5PYWWJMxoepAqsFttdoMe8gSs4Wviz0BU9Xj2/1082064526.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.
  • Now that you have the list of questions from your contribution and your classmates – is there ONE MORE QUESTION that you feel would make the PERFECT INTERVIEW? Write it on page 22. Then onto the sheet of perfect questions.

Reflection: What NEW information did you learn about your classmate today? What are your first ideas about making a portrait of your classmate?

Advanced Drawing: Skeleton – Shared Album HERE

LOOK CAREFULLY! http://artdivision.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Drawing-Class.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • Beginning with the warm ups, how do you think MORE time to draw will make it a STRONGER drawing?  I worry that the extra time makes you slow down in the beginning of the process and thus SLOW DOWN and not get as much quality done in the END process… Explain your thoughts.

Reflection:  Look carefully at your drawing from today… what’s the STRONGEST part of it? WHY?

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What happened to the week? #Art on a #Thursday!

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

Mr Korb’s Spring Break Photographs HERE!

Drawing: PORTRAITS!

NEW PAGE on KORB’s Website: Facial Features!

https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/ea79a-theartofdrawingpeople-520copy.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.
  • How is the SHAPE of the FACE and OTHER ASPECT of the BODY a different feature to draw? RELATIONSHIPS!

Reflection: What are a FEW of the RELATIONSHIPS that you saw today in the drawing of the FACIAL SHAPE – FEATURES – PLACEMENT of the features on the head that you discovered / realized?

Studio Art 360:

SKETCHBOOK DUE NEXT TUESDAY: Using a camera ON YOUR OWN TIME THIS WEEK – RECREATE a famous painting, sculpture, drawing… Print out the photograph that you have created and also include the famous work of art that you were inspired by. Here are a few examples: Student Examples: https://goo.gl/Tvwv4X

Bes-Relief – OLD SCHOOL! http://www.buzzle.com/images/history/sculptures/egyptian-hieroglyph-bas-relief-large.jpg

Goals:

  • 7.1P: Hypothesize ways in which art influences perception and understanding of human experiences.
  • What are you NERVOUS about as we venture into the work of claY? 
    • Slide Show Link Here 
    • Photos of Collages HERE

Reflection: Working with the clay for ONE DAY now… what do you feel you are going to have to do to REALLY make this sculpture work? How are you going to have to balance and budget your time? 

AP Studio Art: Mounting Work

yes. http://www.theprospect.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Rise-of-the-AP-exam.jpg

Goals:

  • Research and Information Fluency – Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.
  • Yesterday we got things squared away with the AP Site – Logging in and getting ready for the test. How many images  do you need to work on, photograph, edit to get your final ONLINE COUNT to 12 in Concentration and 12 in Breadth?

Reflection: Reflect on your body of work… What are you proud of in the works you have completed? We have a COUPLE of weeks before we take the test.

Advanced Drawing: Gesture

Gesture! http://www.serenatran.com/images/2dsketchbook/gesture.jpg

Goals:

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

Reflection: What did taking an entire minute away from your drawings do for you? Harder? Easier? What did you have to do DIFFERENTLY? 

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#MidWeek in the #Art #Studio – #FourThings to help you make #GreatART

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

Mr Korb’s Spring Break Photographs HERE!

Drawing: PORTRAITS! Let’s get BACK to it!

I LOVE your hair! http://rapidfireart.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/how-to-draw-realistic-hair-featured-RFA-comp-534×280.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.
  • How is the Hair Line and DIRECTION of hair a different feature to draw than any other feature of the head? What struggles do you see that you have had in the drawing of hair in the past?

Reflection: What successes did YOU have today in the drawing of hair? How can you use this new skill (or old skill) to make your work stronger in the future?

Studio Art 360: COLLAGE POEMS

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Goals:

  • 10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.
  • What do you currently know about using CLAY? Take 1 minute and 30 seconds and write down EVERYTHING you can think of when it comes to clay.
    • Slide Show Link Here 
    • Photos of Collages HERE

Reflection: What are three challenges you see translating your collage into the ceramic Bas Relief Sculpture?

AP Studio Art: Online Uploads and PHOTOS

AP Studio Art Portfolio Days! Consider all the portfolios from around the world! http://www.angryboar.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/amazon_warehouse_12.jpg

Goals:

  • Research and Information Fluency – Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.
  • What NEW images do you have to upload to the website? How many works do you need to upload to the AP Website? Today we are working.

Reflection: What did working on the AP Site give you new insight to about your work? Any NEW thoughts? 

Advanced Drawing: FIGURE DRAWING / CRITIQUE

The geusture drawing a la Vincent Van Gogh: http://www.vangoghgallery.com/catalog/image/1649r/Sheet-with-Numerous-Figure-Sketches.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • How do you feel about the idea of making these gesture drawings? You saw Mr. Korb draw yesterday… what are your initial reactions to the idea of the drawing?
  • Look at the GESTURE DRAWING YouTube by Mr. Korb…

Reflection: What strengths did you develop in your drawing today? What three things do you look at with your drawing and say – “Hey… that’s not so bad!”

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Welcome Back from #SpringBreak – Let’s get back to #Art

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

Mr Korb’s Spring Break Photographs HERE!

Drawing: PORTRAITS! Let’s get BACK to it!

http://www.isaywhatever.com/image/data/nose%20picking.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.
  • How is the NOSE such a different facial feature to draw than say the MOUTH or the EYES? Please explain your ideas here. 

Reflection: What mistakes did YOU make – how bad were they when it came to eyes?

Studio Art 360: TEXTURE – COLLAGE POEMS

Langston Hughes Poetry: https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/langston-hughes-poetry.jpg

Goals:

  •  6.1P: Analyze and describe the impact that an exhibition or collection has on personal awareness of social, cultural, or political beliefs and understandings.
  • What are you seeing about your collage as being a NEW skill / a NEW understanding / a NEW technique that you might take into the future of your art making toolbox?  
    • Slide Show Link Here: 

Reflection: What is the ONE area of the collage that you see yourself as carrying into the BAS RELIEF Sculpture? How do you hope to see this as carrying the SOCIAL COMMENTARY forward?

AP Studio Art: Figurative Art CRITIQUE / PHOTOS

Remember the PENCIL Artworks?

https://lesconcepts.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/duchamp_boccioni.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.
  • What was the MOST FUN about creating this ABSTRACT work based on the REAL figure from PRIOR to SPRING BREAK? What did you enjoy about the process?

Reflection: In one COMPLETE SENTENCE – Describe the INTENT / PURPOSE of this work.

Advanced Drawing: FIGURE DRAWING / CRITIQUE

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Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • What are you REALLY STRONG with when it comes to drawing? What are you REALLY struggling with? What do you feel about the human form? How are you at that?

Reflection: What was the most challenging way to draw? Why was this most difficult way to go? How OFF were you from the original that you drew from your memory? What is most important about drawing when it comes to observation?

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Where is #MrKorb? #NEAE16 again… NOPE… #YouthFrontiers

Special Thanks to ALL the #NAEA16 Leaders for the 2016 Conference in #Chicago. This was a great experience! Thank you all.

Drawing: MUSIC and ART ONLINE!

What a face! how will you draw it?  http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3060/2605312538_01f09a2356.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.
  • When it comes to drawing the FACE, what features do you have the hardest time with?  Why do you think that you have the hardest time with that feature?

Reflection: What are the least successful aspect of the facial features that you drew out today? What do you feel makes them LEAST successful? Is it the same as you though in the beginning of the class?

Studio Art 360: TEXTURE – COLLAGE it BEARDEN style

Sarah Eisenlohr and her collage. http://cdn.gestalten.com/media/catalog/product/cache/3/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/t/h/theageofcollage_web_5.jpeg

Goals:

  • 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
  • What are the textures you are hoping to work into your collage (remember that this will be translated into a SCULPTURE)?
  •  BOOK: http://usshop.gestalten.com/age-of-collage.html
    • Let’s Look at Romare Bearden for a bit to give you a better understanding… HERE

Reflection: How is the collage coming along? What is ONE VERY SUCCESSFUL aspect to the work SO FAR? What is one area you are having a CHALLENGE with?

AP Studio Art: Figurative Art –  Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn and MOVEMENT! What do you see as being SIMILAR in ideas to what we are doing with Duchamp? http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/features/klein/Images/klein10-29-10.jpg

Goals:

  • Envision: Learning to picture mentally what cannot be directly observed, and imagine possible next steps in making a piece.
  • Look at YESTERDAY’s day 4 Drawing – What is working with how you initially ENVISIONED the drawing? What are you going to do to IMPROVE it today to create an AUTHENTIC artwork?

Reflection: What are you doing in your ARTIST’s BRAIN to make PERSONAL CONNECTIONS with this drawing? Notice we are looking at RICHARD DIEBENKORN? Tomorrow – we take a moment and look at HIM and his ideas… Richard Diebenkorn

Advanced Drawing: 50 Sheets of Paper – FINAL DAYS THIS WEEK!

Christine Mackey: Lots of ideas… http://gallery.limerick.ie/media/Media,10281,en.jpg

Goals:

  • Envision: Learning to picture mentally what cannot be directly observed, and imagine possible next steps in making a piece.
  • What are three VERY SPECIFIC things you are doing TODAY to get this gigantic undertaking done for tomorrow? How has your vision changed or been the same since the beginning of the art making process – EXPLAIN. 

Reflection: TOMORROW and THURSDAY we are going to HANG THEM UP and CRITRIQUE… What is ONE THING that you have seen change DRAMATICALLY in the drawing – process – product – ideas – WHAT WHY?

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MidWeek #Wednesday! Art in the Middle of the Week.

“Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.” – Og Mandino

Painting and Advanced Painting: Painting and Color Schemes

Goals: 

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • Third REAL day of painting – What are you looking to accomplish today? Look at your painting FIRST… them answer this question? REFLECTION!

Reflection / Evaluation: Looking at your painting today… what DID you accomplish? What are you pleased with and what are you NOT happy with?

Studio Art 360: Collage and Texture – Romare Bearden

Romare Bearden Collage: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/e5/f7/6c/e5f76cf09f272cb7ebc804c1782f21c6.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.1P: Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.
  • What is the SOCIAL TOPIC that you and your partner came up with yesterday? Work through the sheet to help your ideas get developed. 
  • ROMARE BEARDEN: http://www.nga.gov/feature/bearden/tech3.shtm National Gallery

Reflection / Evaluation: What imagery did you come up with that truly begins to develop the idea of the social commentary you have chosen? How does it successfully work?

AP Studio Art: Figure Drawing Critique – OPEN CANVAS CALENDAR!

What are you saying? http://escapingartist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Art-School-Crit.jpg

Goals:

  • 3.1Ad: Reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art or design considering relevant traditional and contemporary criteria as well as personal artistic vision.
  • What did you take away from the critique yesterday? Look at your notes and thoughts. What DID you contribute?

Reflection / Evaluation:  As you look back on the development of your composition, what are especially satisfied about? What are 3 things that you feel are successful compositionally? What did you add to the critique?

Drawing: MID CRIT – Look at the RUBRIC

WOAH! Colors! http://www.invisiblebooks.com/KandinskyComposition%20VIISketch913.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.
  • Take your work out – DON’T look at it. Hang it up, step back – WRITE OUT THE FIRST THINGS THAT COME TO MIND. 3 things!

Reflection / Evaluation: How does this work relate to 1) Kandinsky and his movements? 2) Your song? We are going to be WRITING an ARTIST STATEMENT and PHOTOGRAPHING this work Friday and NEXT WEEK (in the computer lab). Be prepared to provide writing that is DONE! ALSO – FIND YOUR SONG ON YOUTUBE! Tomorrow we begin with a final critique reflection – then onto the ORAL CRITIQUE – BE READY TO TALK!

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#Tuesday in the #ArtRoom – Let’s REFLECT and LOOK!

“Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.” – Og Mandino

Painting and Advanced Painting: Painting and Color Schemes

Helen Frankenthaler – LARGE WORK! http://www.thebohmerian.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Jewish-American-abstract-expressionist-painter-and-artist-Helen-Frankenthaler-photographed-working-in-her-new-york-studio-by-Austrian-photographer-Ernst-Haas-2.jpg

Goals: 

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • Yesterday was a new start for some of you. What are your concerns about the process of painting with Acrylics?

Reflection / Evaluation: What CHALLENGES did you face today? How did you go about SOLVING that challenge?

Studio Art 360: Collage and Texture – Romare Bearden

What’s the MESSAGE in this collage? http://lindberghschoolartspace.wikispaces.com/file/view/Romare%20Bearden%20collage.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.1P: Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.
  • Looking at the ROMARE BEARDEN collage on the screen, what do you think this work is about? WHY? Please work with your neighbor on answering this question.

Reflection / Evaluation: What is the most challenging aspect to creating a collaborative work of art? What did you feel will be helpful in working with a classmate? What did you feel will be a challenge?

AP Studio Art: Figure Drawing Critique – OPEN CANVAS CALENDAR!

Let’s TALK today! Join us will you? http://www.artlearn.org/img/bennet_opening.png

Goals:

  •  3.1Ad: Reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art or design considering relevant traditional and contemporary criteria as well as personal artistic vision.
  • What did the NEW ADDITION of TIME with the figure drawing do to help you better realize the image / composition you created? How did the PROCESS help you?

Reflection / Evaluation:  As you look back on the development of your composition, what are especially satisfied about? What are 3 things that you feel are successful compositionally? What did you add to the critique?

Drawing: MID CRIT – Look at the RUBRIC

Degenerate Art? https://d3l2rivt3pqnj2.cloudfront.net/i/prints/lg/1/6/163099.jpg

Goals:

Reflection / Evaluation: How does your art compare with the work of “professionals” and how can you work to create a better understanding of your approach / intent / ideas?

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#I’mBack – #Art on a #Monday – better than a #FunDay

WHO’S FAILING? Whose failing in the attempts but still coming out on top? Whose failing because they are NOT DOING THEIR WORK? HUGE DIFFERENCE!

“Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.” – Og Mandino

Painting and Advanced Painting: Painting and Color Schemes

Julian Schnabel – Texture / additive: http://www.saatchigallery.com/aipe/imgs/schnabel/divan.jpg

Goals: 

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • What do you know about the process of using ACRYLIC paints? What are you worried about?

Reflection / Evaluation: What did you do today with ACRYLICS that taught you something? What was that learning? Write out 2 things you NEED TO REMEMBER!

Studio Art 360: Collage and Texture – Romare Bearden

Sit Down and LISTEN! Romare Bearden: http://www.artsobserver.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/IMG_8039.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • How did you use texture in the previous work that you enjoyed? How could you use the idea to create new works to represent something more?

Reflection / Evaluation: Write a ONE SPECIFIC ASPECT about your work that tells you TOMORROW what you’ll need to remember about the ART of COLLAGE! Describe how you used Frottage, Grattage, and Decalcomania in the work.

AP Studio Art: Figure Drawing Critique – OPEN CANVAS CALENDAR!

The CRITIQUE – What have you got to say? https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/e21d4-11117186_359882997534528_866387996_n.jpg

Goals:

  • 3.1Ad: Reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art or design considering relevant traditional and contemporary criteria as well as personal artistic vision.
  • What did the NEW ADDITION of TIME with the figure drawing do to help you better realize the image / composition you created? How did the PROCESS help you?

Reflection / Evaluation:  As you look back on the development of your composition, what are especially satisfied about? What are 3 things that you feel are successful compositionally? What did you add to the critique?

Drawing: MID CRIT – Look at the RUBRIC

Kandinsky at the Guggenehim.
Kandinsky at the Guggenheim. Thank you ArtBabble…

Goals:

  • 7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
  • What techniques are working for you in this work? How will you talk about the the struggles and successes you are having?

Reflection / Evaluation: What did you LEARN about your work or that of your classmates from today’s critique?

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#SketchbookTuesday is HERE! StArt360 – #Enjoy

“There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.”  —Og Mandino

Painting and Advanced Painting: Hallway Drawing / Painting

How has MONDRIAN changed his TREE over time? https://educar.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/mondrian-red-tree-s.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design
  • Does the use of LINE become a DOMINANT element in your artwork or are you seeing other elements as coming to the forefront of the composition? Explain your thoughts about the DOMINANT ideas.

Reflection / Evaluation: What color scheme have you begun to think about? Why? how does it DESCRIBE YOUR feelings toward the SIMPLIFICATION of the SPACE / SURROUNDINGS / COLOR? 

Studio Art 360: Sketchbook Day! Doodle Day and Don’t Be Dumb – Thanks Josh and Chuck!

http://cbsnews2.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/2014/01/19/98f30fc1-9cbe-4b1f-949d-79f76b6bcd83/4bee9cd5f388a27cb54d3dd31a98d0df/Andy%20Silton%20doodle%20244.jpg HIGHER PURPOSE of the DOODLE – HERE!

Goals:

  • 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • What are 3 things about your SKETCHBOOK that you are VERY PLEASED with? What are 3 things you WANT TO IMPROVE ON? How have you seen your DRAWING SKILLS improve since week 1?

Reflection / Evaluation:  How much time OUTSIDE of class do you feel you are going to need for NEXT WEEKS DUE DATE?  What DAY are you going to work on that? Maybe 5 – 10 minutes PER day? What benefits would LITTLE bits of time do versus ONE BIG HUGE TIME?

AP Studio Art: Figure Drawing and Trading Card Photographs – OPEN CANVAS CALENDAR!

Movement in the FIGURE DRAWING: https://venetianred.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/john-singer-sargent-sketch-of-a-spanish-dancer-1879.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.
  • Consider the idea of a FIGURE DRAWING… When you think about one that will represent YOU, what are the elements or principles that you feel would be best to serve the purpose of making it YOUR drawing versus simply a “project?” 

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

Drawing: Oil Pastels Kandinsky and Shapes!

https://youtu.be/H62BRsqEruE 

Goals:

  •  7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
  • Reflect on YESTERDAY before you begin today! What worked? What didn’t? WHY?

Reflection / Evaluation:  What are your biggest struggle / success for today as we are now working with OIL PASTELS? Write it out (and the WHY!) PLEASE SHARE THESE IDEAS WITH A CLASSMATE – FINALLY!