1.2 create Oil Pastel 2 Point Perspective drawing that demonstrates an understanding of how your ideas relate to the 1.2.1 materials, 1.2.2 techniques, 1.2.3 and processes you use
1.3 communicate your personal ideas clearly
What do you you need to CLEAN things up before Wednesday rolls around? How are you going to write about the work?
Drawing: THURSDAY CRITIQUE
Goals
3.2 apply GEOMETRIC subjects, symbols, and KANDINSKY / BAUHAUS based ideas in art and use skill to solve visual challenges
Biggest struggle / success for today? Write it out and the WHY!
AP Studio Art: Critique Today – Figure Drawing TOMORROW!
4.4 evaluate and interpret your art for relationships in 4.4.1 form 4.4.2 context and 4.4.3 meanings showing understanding of the work of various art professionals*
Of ALL the works you have created SO FAR… Which are the BEST 5? TOMORROW… Mounting the QUALITY Section of the portfolio.
1.1 apply media, techniques, and processes with 1.1.1 skill, 1.1.2 confidence, 1.1.3 and awareness so that your ideas are executed well
What are questions that you feel will be worth talking about as you write about the drawing and the original image? Come up with 3 questions between the two of you and TURN THEM in on the notecards provided.
Drawing: How Kandinsky did what he did – how can you(ski) do what you do?
GOALS:
3.1 reflect on how YOUR art differs and describe how it relates to YOUR history and cultures
3.2 apply subjects, symbols, and ideas in art and use skill to solve visual challenges
SHARE YOUR THEORY AND DRAWING WITH YOUR CLASSMATE – Last 10 Minutes – CONVERSATION and write down what you have learned from your classmate
4.4 evaluate and interpret your art for relationships in 4.4.1 form 4.4.2 context and 4.4.3 meanings showing understanding of the work of various art professionals*
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?)
Print this out, paint or color it in, and tell me what your thoughts are about Jasper Johns TARGET works and get a FREE 100% in your sketchbooks – but it has to be well done and well thought out! FRIDAY of NEXT WEEK!
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Art Foundations: 2 Point Perspective Drawing in Class
Can you draw THIS house? I bet not yet…
GOALS:
1.4 create, and solve 2 Point Perspective HOUSE drawings using 1.4.1 analysis and a friend. (breaking up the subject matter to basic elements)
LIST of things to draw on the paper provided. Make sure your name and hour is on the paper and gets turned intot he instructor at the end of the hour.
Horizon Line just below center.
One cube that is resting on the ground and rises above the horizon.
A door on one side of the building, open so one can see into it.
A window on another side of the building, open so one can see into it.
A peaked roof with an overhang in the front, back, and sides.
A sidewalk that comes out from the door and falls off the page with cracks in the sidewalk to demonstrate the understanding of receding lines and shapes.
A ramp in the sidewalk with a crosswalk that goes into the “street” or another sidewalk that comes out from that ramp.
Telephone poles that recede into space properly.
GENERALIZATION – In your binders, what was the most challenging part of the drawing process today? What do you need to review on your own? We can check your thoughts here with the finished drawings from the day’s work.
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Advanced Drawing: Hallway Drawings – THUMBNAILS
What is COOL about Philip Johnson’s work… architecture? Can you make WUHS this cool?
GOALS:
2.6 create multiple solutions to visual challenges that show understanding in relationships between composition and meaning of artwork
1.1 apply media, techniques, and processes of 2 point perspective with 1.1.3 awareness so that your ideas are executed well.
What did you do today that brought the work to a place where you can understand what is going to happen? How can you continue this forward movement Tuesday? Are you using your time wisely in the hall?
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AP Studio Art: Concentration Work Today!
Tony Oursler has created mixed media – video works… Check out his video below – 4 minutes… then work!
GOALS:
4.4 evaluate and interpret art for relationships in 4.4.1 form 4.4.2 context
What is the CENTRAL IDEA FOR YOUR CONCENTRATION and how the work you are making today is taking you in that direction. After you have written that all down, pair up with someone and ask them to explain their concentration, how today’s work is getting them there, and then share your thoughts with them.
Aim for the target… what are you setting your eyes on the target!
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Richard Estes – New York Artist who dealt with Photo realism. Click on the painting for his BIO!
GOALS:
1.2 create art that demonstrates how you understand the ideas of 2 point perspective and creating windows and doors.
Review with neighbors the process of perspective center and drawing windows and doors and inside walls, floors, and ceilings. Write your most difficult challenge in the GOALS REFLECTION for today and then share that with your neighbor.
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Willem de Kooning (American, born the Netherlands, 1904–1997) Oil and enamel on paper, mounted on wood
GOALS:
2.3 RESOLVE artworks that solve visual challenges
5.1 identify the rationale behind making art (NON-Objective from direct observation)
Is there a CONSCIOUS thought as to the positive / negative space in this work? Are you thinking about how the values are working together? Is it still challenging for you to see non-objective inside the real observable objects? Do you UNDERSTAND how you can develop STRONG ideas that are outside of the comfort zone, outside of your art making toolbox? Are you going to be ready for the critique tomorrow?
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How do we critique an artwork? Let’s look at the worksheets from last time AND the link from the image Above…
GOALS:
WHAT IS THE CENTRAL IDEA FOR YOUR CONCENTRATION?
(3.3) describe the creation of images and ideas and explain why they are of value (Orally participate in the discussion of your classmates drawing.)
(4.3) compare relationships in visual art in terms of (4.3.2) aesthetics
What did you take away from the critique today? Write down what you have taken from the crit.
“If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.”
– Woody Allen
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On Saturday morning, while in South Africa, and through the wonders of modern technology via Google Hangouts and YouTube, First Lady Michelle Obama joined a large group of international students, teachers, and community leaders and discussed the importance of education to move education and learning forward. One of the threads that was strung throughout the conversation was the potential of failure in the process of learning. This is an aspect that it seems current educators, administrators, students, and parents are often missing as an important aspect of the process in learning. As a parent, I miss the important aspect of failure because the failures directly affect the grades that are brought home. As a teacher, failure is an important part of my student’s learning experience and is highly encourages as it does NOT affect the grades (directly) that are taken home. PROCESS!
Taking risks and failing are an essential aspect of the world of the arts. In the great scheme of things though, the audience the artist creates for has little concern of the mistakes and process that the artist went through to get to the final product. The same can be said of the process that students go through in the learning of the materials that they are challenged with in the academics. There is a process my kids go through in the visual arts classes: Preliminary ideas (thumbnail sketches). These are the initial ideas. Great ideas, awful ideas, as well as ideas that may sprout legs and carry the artist to different places. The preliminary ideas get a lot of discussion and conversation between students and then, from that conversation, the next stage… rough drawing. Generally, even in a class like PAINTING, the drawing process comes long before the final product. There is a composition that needs to be thought through, a set of challenges that must be visually resolved before the final art work is begun. How can an idea be roughed out in another subject? In the working world? In a job or career?
From the rough drawings, the final product is then developed. Through the final drawing there is still the suggestion, the encouragement for risk taking, experimentation, failure, and then resolution. It is very important that the students, the artists challenge the ideas they come up with and take the risks that are in front of them. The second part of a final grade in the visual arts classes includes a small portion on EXPERIMENTATION. The encouragement to try something, fail, try something else, fail, try something else, until something is resolved is a key component in the process. Even when the final product is resolved and in the museum, gallery, or more importantly for the artist, the collector’s home, the imperfections are what make the artwork what it is. The slight misses, the “False Starts,” the problems that may be continued into the next work… the unresolved issues and questions that make art so interesting.
In a sketchbook note from the early 1960’s, Jasper Johns wrote, “Take an object, do something to it. Do something else to it.” A sketchbook is the perfect place to experiment and take risks. In the 1960’s, just after the AbEx movement of the 1950’s, popular culture and images was a risk, and a banal object, like a target, was truly a risk.
So… all that said… how are you taking risks? how are you challenging the status quo? How are you being a positive deviant in your environment, leading the way to innovation and positive change? What are you doing to an object? What else are you doing to it? What else are you doing to it? When have you finally got something?
Share the process of the drawings – WHAT is it about your classmates composition that you enjoy and WHY. Share the drawings with one another at the end of the class and make important notes on the side of their cityscape drawings SO THAT they can use those ideas later to improve or write about their drawings.
What is ONE positive thing you can tell your neighbor about the work they are creating? Go ahead – tell them…
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Drawing: Last day to work on the composition. This is DUE when you walk in the door on Monday after break. The PAPER is NOT… : ).
Where did we start?
GOALS:
1.1 apply media, techniques, and processes with 1.1.3 an awareness so that your ideas are executed well
2.3 create artworks that solve visual challenges
Share the process of the drawings – WHAT is it about their composition they enjoy and WHY. Share the drawings with one another at the end of the class and make important notes in your classmates sketchbook SO THAT they can use those ideas later to improve or write about their drawings.
What is ONE positive thing you can tell your neighbor about the work they are creating? Go ahead – tell them…
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AP Studio Art: Last day to work on work IN class… what are you taking home? What is the progress of your online work and uploads?
GOALS:
3.2 apply subjects, symbols, and ideas in art and use skill to solve visual challenges
1.1 apply media, techniques, and processes with 1.1.3 an awareness so that your ideas are executed well
Which works are you most proud of and why? What is working with the pieces that you would choose as your “quality” works? Why do the other ones NOT work?
What is ONE positive thing you can tell your neighbor about the work they are creating? Go ahead – tell them…
Review with your neighbors the non-linear as well as the Rules of Thumb about 2 Point perspective. What are you were successful with and where you need help?
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Drawing: Let’s get back to the drawing of the figure and the piece of paper.
Look at the VALUES and TEXTURES! What?! For REAL? This is great. How are you doing? Last 2 days in class…
GOALS:
2.2 Evaluate the effectiveness of your artwork (1.2)
Create art that demonstrates an understanding of how your ideas relate to materials, techniques and process.
What are your thoughts about the idea of the composition / paper bag as subject matter? WRITE THAT IN YOUR GOAL SHEETS. Why do you feel this is worthy / unworthy / simple / complicated?
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AP Studio Art: Work on your concentration works… 3 due the week AFTER we get back from break.
How does your home studio look as the week of break is coming upon us? Are you ready?
GOALS:
4.4 evaluate and interpret your art for relationships in 4.4.1 form 4.4.2 context and 4.4.3 meanings showing understanding of the work of various art professionals* (How do you think you stack up?).
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?).
What is working well for you now? Where are you struggling with the ideas of VALUE and SHADING? How can you use this in the cityscape to help the drawing?
What is ONE positive thing you are proud of regarding the work you have accomplished today? Tell yourself in your goals.
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Drawing: Day 2 in the computer lab. Let’s continue to talk about and think about the role of and the use of the personal evaluation and refelction…
GOALS:
3.5 Evaluate and defend the manner in which subject matter, symbols, and images are used. (D)
Research and Information Fluency – Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.
What was the success in today’s self-evaluation and the use of the GOOGLE DRIVE?
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AP Studio Art: Let’s WORK on the CONCENTRATION with a sense of EFFORT and URGENCY!\
GOALS:
2.2 PEER-evaluate the effectiveness of artworks
3.5 Evaluate and defend the manner in which subject matter, symbols, and images are used. (D)
What are you walking away from knowing about your work regarding TODAY’s efforts? What strings do you have untied at the end of the day? What questions will you need to look at tomorrow and answer to help you advance?
“You can’t hit a target you cannot see and you cannot see a target you do not have.” — Zig Ziglar
What is the target you are setting up for yourself this week?
Jasper Johns has hit the target with his “Target.” What is your’s?
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Art Foundations: Chairoscuro Worksheet today… That’s it! Oh, and one summative worksheet… yes… that’s it… oh wait, one more thing… GOALS SHEET INFORMATION…
What do you see? What do you recognize? What is the challenge you see? Where would you struggle?
GOALS:
(1.2.2 and 3) Create 2 point perspective drawings that demonstrate an understanding of how your ideas relate to technique and process (P).
(5.1) Identify the intentions and purposes in creating 2 point perspective / values / taking an ART CLASS in general – (3rd Quarter Review Sheet).
Review with neighbors the progress of the chiaroscuro and the proper use of 2 point perspective. What are the big challenges you are facing with the buildings?
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Drawing: Let’s look into the ideas of 21st Century technology… how are you learning about the use of it? How can what WE do help in your other aspects of life / school? GOALS SHEET INFORMATION…
I wonder what we are doing today? Make sure you have your drawing and a ruler.
GOALS:
3.5 Evaluate and defend the manner in which subject matter, symbols, and images are used.
Research and Information Fluency – Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.
What was the success in today’s self-evaluation and the use of the GOOGLE DRIVE?
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AP Studio Art: What is a challenge with the CRITIQUES? Where is it you struggle with when it comes to talking? Let’s share the ideas. GOALS are going to become a part of the weekly grades… how can you earn more and more points for staying focused? I’ll let you know.
GOALS:
2.2 PEER-evaluate the effectiveness of artworks
What were the biggest impressions you had from the classmate’s works? What were the most difficult things you felt as you presented your work? Conversation between classmates about the 2 questions for your exam. How does this work relate to your concentration?
Jasper Johns set his goals in POP art to the TARGET and HIT IT BIG with his images. Where are your ideas and goals in the art room? In life? When you reach them… set more and set them higher!
“No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.” – Jessica Savitch Jasper Johns “Target”
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Art Foundations: Ellipses – how do you use the ideas you have learned in perspective center and cantilevers to create the ideas of manhold covers, bicycle wheels, or awnings? Hmmm…
Two point perspective and ellipses… lets see how we can use perspective center to figure this one out.
GOALS:
1.4 create, and solve 2 Point Perspective ELLIPSE drawings using 1.4.1 analysis (breaking up the subject matter to basic elements)
Review with neighbors the RULES of THUMB and discuss the Differences in one and two point perspective. What do you think you can create with the ideas behind an ellipse?
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Drawing: BREAK FROM CURRENT DRAWING – Let’s talk about proportion. Take 20 minutes to draw your thoughts of the human based on the observation of a life size mannequin.
Who drew this? What were some aspects of the body you think they learned and shared with us 600 years later?
GOALS:
3.3 describe the creation of images and explain why they are of value.
1.4 solve visual challenges using analysis.
Where were you close to accurate in your drawing, where were you really off in the drawing of the human figure?
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AP Studio Art: Mount your QUALITY works to black board and cover sheet it for protection.
How do you present yourself? Does your presentation of yourself relate to the way you can present your artwork?
GOALS:
6.3 use techniques of art with those from other disciplines and present your work
5.2 stand behind your criticism of art in which works you choose as “Quality”
Where else in life is the professionalism of what you present important? Do you believe that one shouldn’t judge a book by its cover when it comes to your work?
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