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Week 7: Life was busy and we missed a week.

Hello Friends of Art with Korb

With technology finally working and the artists now completing some MAJOR works of art – the assessment time comes up on us. While we critiqued our works from 7th grade – the 6th graders are doing it this week. I will get the 7th grade done timely so that the 6th grade doesn’t fall behind.

The digital display (thank you Wal-Mart for the Grant) is up and running (thank you IT for helping with the hard wiring). Now… how do I keep the images looping and NOT moving onto some other YouTube set of videos? Great work by the portrait artists and the 6th graders one point perspectives are coming along great as well. Watercolors was a huge part of the learning curve in both sets of classes with colored pencils and crayons (all Water-Soluble) being new to the 7th graders.

8th graders are wrapping up the stop motion photography films and the efforts are REALLY showing off. I have some kids working a bit AVANT GARDE (I wish they knew what that meant) and we will see how the efforts turn out. Effort and attitude is ALWAYS an issue and I am curious to see how the CLAY projects move along when we turn on the potter’s wheels. It will be fine.

If there is anything that I have learned over the past week it is that being helpful and sincere is how I live my life AND that keeping in my lane is sometimes a heck of a lot easier in the long run. Ok. Here we go!

We are going to leave the posts below as they are (for the most part) and we will update more as the projects develop along. Thanks.

Here are all of our Studio EXPECTATION

6th Grade: One Point Perspective – looking up and WRAPPING UP!

Here are the 6th-grade semester Lesson Plans to show you what our day will look like.

One point perspective is used and seen everywhere you find a single vanishing point with all diagonal lines receding to that point. Below is my example from last year. We are working collaboratively with our other art teacher in the 6th grade classes to learn how to draw using this Renaissance invented technique. I am looking down into my studio space – how would you approach this work?

This is not one of my kids works but this is the direction we are going – or looking up. One point perspective is a great use of a lot of the art vocabulary – this is another goal this year. VOCABULARY!

Here is the assignment for One Point Perspective

7th Grade: SOFT PASTELS and PRINTMAKING as we wrap up the Neurographic Portraits and Color Schemes

Here are the 7th-grade semester Lesson Plans to show you what our day will look like.

What can you do with SOFT PASTELS? We are going to be working on landscapes or floral drawings and then we are going to make MONO PRINTS and GHOST PRINTS from them – assuming it all works for us. This was new to us last year and the CRAYONS did not work out (cheap and not as good as the ones I have used int he past) so we are switching to SOFT PASTELS – MUCH BETTER! We will also take a look at Wolf Kahn’s pastel works! He was a contemporary artist who did landscapes in soft pastels – the colors are great!

Soft Pastel Assignment is HERE.

And from the first 6 weeks – my final image of BIRK:

What do you look like? How do you see yourself? What are your favorite colors? What is a line exactly? Are all lines the same? What about watercolors? Is it as simple as putting water in the tray and taking the color out? Are there more things that can be done with the paints? YOU BET! We are also using Colored Pencils and crayons – all Water-Soluble.

This artwork is going to help you explore ALL of those ideas AND it is going to give you the option of making your final artwork be as bright and colorful as you are! Below is my final work of art from last year and BIRK has never looked more colorful!

This portrait is using the watercolors and Caran-Dache crayons in the face and body and then the Stadtler Pencils in the background. HERE is a link to the midway rubric that the kids can work through all while they are working on the artwork.

Here is the Neurographic Assignment.

AGAIN – HERE is a link to the midway rubric that the kids can work through all while they are working on the artwork.

8th Grade Sculpture: Claymation and Collaboration

Here are the 8th Grade Sculpture semester Lesson Plans for you to see what our day will look like.

We are moving from making photographs to the digital lab this week and exploring iMovie to begin the film making. This is a LOT to work on and the 8th graders are absolutely up to the challenge. STAY TUNED!

Stop Motion Film Making has been around for a long time. Collaboration has too. We are going to be taking some time to work on this assignment and we are going to also work through some new challenges that are going to be really open to you as you make decisions in how you plan it out. What MIGHT your ideas be? How are you going to work on the ideas together? This might be challenging in how you choose your groups and the stories and the set design and the approach and ALL SORTS of other ideas.

HERE is the Claymation Assignment!

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Week 5: Hands and minds are hard at work in the Art Studio

Hello – Welcome back to the classroom space. It has been a rewarding year so far with only technology getting in the way of greatness. We’ve gotten a grant from Wal*Mart for a flat screen smart TV to share the works (more-so the digital work that can’t be hung up) with everyone and it has found a small glitch in that the wi-fi isn’t staying connected all the time.

We are working around that problem this week. The top of a cabinet was pulled off to make it easier for the wi-fi to pass through but that didn’t seem to do it. We are still working through some issues.

The rest of the classes have been great and are making wonderful works. I need to make more photos of the hands at work so… that’s a goal for this week! How are things going in YOUR classroom studio space?

We are going to leave the posts below as they are (for the most part) and we will update more as the projects develop along. Thanks.

Here are all of our Studio EXPECTATION

6th Grade: One Point Perspective – looking up!

Here are the 6th-grade semester Lesson Plans to show you what our day will look like.

One point perspective is used and seen everywhere you find a single vanishing point with all diagonal lines receding to that point. Below is my example from last year. WE are going to work collaboratively with our other art teacher in the 6th grade classes to learn how to draw using this renaissance invented technique.

This is not one of my kids works but this is the direction we are going – or looking up. One point perspective is a great use of a lot of the art vocabulary – this is another goal this year. VOCABULARY!

Here is the assignment for One Point Perspective

7th Grade: Neurographic Portraits and Color Schemes

Here are the 7th-grade semester Lesson Plans to show you what our day will look like.

What do you look like? How do you see yourself? What are your favorite colors? What is a line exactly? Are all lines the same? What about watercolors? Is it as simple as putting water in the tray and taking the color out? Are there more things that can be done with the paints? YOU BET!

This artwork is going to help you explore ALL of those ideas AND it is going to give you the option of making your final artwork be as bright and colorful as you are! Below is my final work of art from last year and BIRK has never looked more colorful!

This portrait is using the watercolors and Caran-Dache crayons in the face and body and then the Stadtler Pencils in the background. HERE is a link to the midway rubric that the kids can work through all while they are working on the artwork.

Here is the Neurographic Assignment.

AGAIN – HERE is a link to the midway rubric that the kids can work through all while they are working on the artwork.

8th Grade Sculpture: Claymation and Collaboration

Here are the 8th Grade Sculpture semester Lesson Plans for you to see what our day will look like.

Kids hands at work are a real example of what working through challenges and then onto actual collaboration looks like. I sent home 4 postcards that day to express how happy my heart felt.

We are moving from making photographs to the digital lab this week and exploring iMovie to begin the film making. This is a LOT to work on and the 8th graders are absolutely up to the challenge. STAY TUNED!

Stop Motion Film Making has been around for a long time. Collaboration has too. We are going to be taking some time to work on this assignment and we are going to also work through some new challenges that are going to be really open to you as you make decisions in how you plan it out. What MIGHT your ideas be? How are you going to work on the ideas together? This might be challenging in how you choose your groups and the stories and the set design and the approach and ALL SORTS of other ideas.

HERE is the Claymation Assignment!

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Week 4: Now the work begins…

As we move forward in the art of the middle school, the hands are getting busy and the final products are starting to come forward. Continue to follow along with us – I’ve a feeling I am going to be making modifications to the posts but… not just yet. ALSO – the second season of Our Studio with Frank Korb will begin shooting again next week. I hope you follow along. Below is the end of last season.

We are going to leave the posts below as they are (for the most part) and we will update more as the projects develop along. Thanks.

Here are all of our Studio EXPECTATION

6th Grade: One Point Perspective – looking up!

Here are the 6th-grade semester Lesson Plans to show you what our day will look like.

One point perspective is used and seen everywhere you find a single vanishing point with all diagonal lines receding to that point. Below is my example from last year. WE are going to work collaboratively with our other art teacher in the 6th grade classes to learn how to draw using this renaissance invented technique.

Here is the assignment for One Point Perspective

7th Grade: Neurographic Portraits and Color Schemes

Here are the 7th-grade semester Lesson Plans to show you what our day will look like.

What do you look like? How do you see yourself? What are your favorite colors? What is a line exactly? Are all lines the same? What about watercolors? Is it as simple as putting water in the tray and taking the color out? Are there more things that can be done with the paints? YOU BET!

This artwork is going to help you explore ALL of those ideas AND it is going to give you the option of making your final artwork be as bright and colorful as you are! Below is my final work of art from last year and BIRK has never looked more colorful!

Here is the Neurographic Assignment.

8th Grade Sculpture: Claymation and Collaboration

Here are the 8th Grade Sculpture semester Lesson Plans for you to see what our day will look like.

Stop Motion Film Making has been around for a long time. Collaboration has too. We are going to be taking some time to work on this assignment and we are going to also work through some new challenges that are going to be really open to you as you make decisions in how you plan it out. What MIGHT your ideas be? How are you going to work on the ideas together? This might be challenging in how you choose your groups and the stories and the set design and the approach and ALL SORTS of other ideas.

HERE is the Claymation Assignment!

AND… This is an 18 minute video with Adam Savage and Laika’s Stop Motion photography in the science and patience of Stop Motion Photography and CORALINE specifically.

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Week 3: Sets are being built and watercolor media are being opened! New approaches all around!

Week 3 is beginning and the artists are really working! Collaboration and story development is happening in the 8th grade with their stop motion films. 7th graders have had their photographs made and they have found all sorts of values and shapes and highlights and shadows in themselves (and a bunny). 6th graders have gathered together into one classroom and have been learning through co-teaching about the ideas of one point perspective. The artists are moving fast and the work is moving forward! Thanks!

We are going to leave the posts below as they are (for the most part) and we will update more as the projects develop along. Thanks.

Here are all of our Studio EXPECTATION

6th Grade: One Point Perspective – looking up!

Here are the 6th-grade semester Lesson Plans to show you what our day will look like.

One point perspective is used and seen everywhere you find a single vanishing point with all diagonal lines receding to that point. Below is my example from last year. WE are going to work collaboratively with our other art teacher in the 6th grade classes to learn how to draw using this renaissance invented technique.

Here is the assignment for One Point Perspective

7th Grade: Neurographic Portraits and Color Schemes

Here are the 7th-grade semester Lesson Plans to show you what our day will look like.

What do you look like? How do you see yourself? What are your favorite colors? What is a line exactly? Are all lines the same? What about watercolors? Is it as simple as putting water in the tray and taking the color out? Are there more things that can be done with the paints? YOU BET!

This artwork is going to help you explore ALL of those ideas AND it is going to give you the option of making your final artwork be as bright and colorful as you are! Below is my final work of art from last year and BIRK has never looked more colorful!

Here is the Neurographic Assignment.

8th Grade Sculpture: Claymation and Collaboration

Here are the 8th Grade Sculpture semester Lesson Plans for you to see what our day will look like.

Stop Motion Film Making has been around for a long time. Collaboration has too. We are going to be taking some time to work on this assignment and we are going to also work through some new challenges that are going to be really open to you as you make decisions in how you plan it out. What MIGHT your ideas be? How are you going to work on the ideas together? This might be challenging in how you choose your groups and the stories and the set design and the approach and ALL SORTS of other ideas.

HERE is the Claymation Assignment!

AND… This is an 18 minute video with Adam Savage and Laika’s Stop Motion photography in the science and patience of Stop Motion Photography and CORALINE specifically.

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May 24, 2013 – Friday – Happy Birthday Abby!

“A dream only becomes overrated when not pursued by the dreamer.” ― Courtney Hickman

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Art Foundations: Collage and build the ABSTRACT IMAGE based on your personal life and feelings…

Simplicity in the use of ELEMENTS of ART can make an abstraction – what are you doing? What are your textures?

GOALS:

  1. 1.3 communicate your thoughts on social topics clearly
  2. 4.3 compare relationships in visual art in terms of 4.3.3 your culture as it relates to your own art.

What have you learned about the creation of ABSTRACT ART? What have you learned about the important things in your life THROUGH the creation of your ABSTRACT ART PROCESS?

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DRAWING: 1) Perspective and 2) Critiques… 6th hour is going to have to hustle ONE DAY tocatch up. PHOTOGRAPHS will HAVE TO BE a part of the process. THESE Photos are going to be UPLOADED to the FINAL CRITIQUE for the FINAL EXAM… make sure you are documenting the process.

EVOL, “DRESDEN 09”, 2010 Spray paint on cardboard, 61 x 76 cm —> High Resolution… How can you do this… GOUACHE, GESSO, PENCIL!

GOALS:

  1. 5.1 Identify the rationale behind making art.
  2. 1.4 Create, define, and solve visual challenges using 1.4.1 Analysis (how do you see the perspective in your drawing?)

Where did you struggle in remembering perspective? How can you use the skills of sighting in to refresh your memory and heighten your skills? THIS IS A FAST PROJECT that IS the basis of the FINAL EXAM. If you do not finish the drawing in the time allotted – you will have a hard time passing the final exam. HOW can you make this YOUR own special drawing? Your locker? Your favorite hallway / doorway / classroom?

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AP Studio Art: CONGRATULATIONS! Let’s get out there and be proud of the 9 months of ART MAKING!

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GOALS:

  1. 2.5 defend personal evaluations
  2. 3.3 describe the creation of images and ideas and explain why they are of value Work at the (AP) Art Exhibition.

What did you contribute to the cultural end of the school day? What questions came up? What controversy came up? Who do you impress and why? What were your thoughts as the day / hour went by? Good job folks… One more week of Art Making and then the end…

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May 23, 2013 – Thursday

WELCOME HOME MOM!
WELCOME HOME MOM!

“A dream only becomes overrated when not pursued by the dreamer.” ― Courtney Hickman

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Art Foundations: Continue to develop the ABSTRACT IDEAS of your Social / Personal ideas and topics of importance. What is your social topic / personal idea and how can you use abstraction and texture to communicate the meaning.

Cosmological in nature – this is you guys too!
Abstract – You Guys!
Textures – Landscape, Architecture, Figurative?
Max Ernst… Landscape? Arcitecture?
Landscape ideas?

GOALS:

  1. 1.3 communicate your thoughts on social topics clearly
  2. 4.3 compare relationships in visual art in terms of 4.3.3 your culture as it relates to your own art

What sorts of ABSTRACT imagery have you come up with to help communicate your message?

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Drawing: This is, hopefully, the last day of the critique – we are going to get some FINAL words from the 3rd hour and maybe the 6th hour – 1 more day in 6th likely…

What’s to come? – I will show you tomorrow… we can’t spend a lot of time in it but… if you are interested – here is an AWESOME link to the inspiration that will take you to the halls… LINK HERE to the WILDE Gallery, Berlin, Germany.

Crit of Still Life Drawings
Previous High school Classes Critiquing – ONE MORE DAY of confidence building!

GOALS:

  1. 5.1 Identify the rationale behind making art.
  2. 1.4 Create, define, and solve visual challenges using 1.4.1 Analysis (how do you see the perspective in your drawing?)

What is the most important thing you have taken away from the entire process of the critique? How can you use the information that you have learned and put it to use in the next works that you are going to create?

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AP Studio Art – I like to Move it move it… MOVE IT TO THE CAFETERIA!

GOALS:

  1. Stand behind your criticism / creation of art
  2. 3.3 describe the creation of images and ideas and explain why they are of value

NEXT WEEK TUESDAY! We are in the Cafeteria – what do you need to have finished to be a completed display by then? Friday is a WASH – unless you all want to hang in the cafeteria tomorrow and then… I can work out passes for the half day – THIS MIGHT BE A GREAT IDEA!

 

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May 22, 2013 – Wednesday

“A dream only becomes overrated when not pursued by the dreamer.” ― Courtney Hickman 

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Art Foundations: Continue to develop the ABSTRACT IDEAS of your Social / Personal ideas and topics of importance.

Abstract art at its best… Vasilly Kandinsky…Localization of Graphic Motifs II. 1912–13

Abstraction – -Color Schemes – What can you do? What did Max Ernst do?

GOALS:

  1. 3.2 apply subjects, symbols, and ideas in art and use skill to solve visual challenges.
  2. 1.1 apply paint, crayon, and charcoal, through various texture making processes, using collage with 1.1.3 an awareness so that your ideas are executed well

What have you been able to do to help you SYMBOLIZE the larger concrete idea into an ABSTRACT visual representation? Which if the three categories does it fit under – Cosmology, Architecture, or Landscape? HOW?

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Drawing: Critique your artwork and your classmates artwork?

I am so glad that I am back… thank you all.

GOALS:

  1. 2.1 form criticism about artworks that work to accomplish personal meanings (what are you trying to communicate?)
  2. 5.5 Evaluate responses to works of art for communicating rationale and ideas.

What did you accomplish with the critique today? How does this process help you with your artwork? What are you still struggling with regarding the process of the critique?

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AP Studio Art: Installing your art exhibition and getting the space ready for your debut to the school.

  • YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN – Ms. Hanson and Mr. Roberts are watching you today. Please use the time and space wisely. We are walking the display boards to the CAFETERIA TOMORROW. 
  • Write Down your Goals for the day… end of the hour – look at the accomplishments you have done and respond to the questions below.
  • Bryan – you are in charge of time.
  • Mel – you are in charge of the Computer and the Technology.
  • Matt – you are in charge of music.
  • Make sure the room is CLEAN and ORGANIZED at the end of the hour and the walls are back in the corner.

Last day to adjust the lights and straighten the pictures, fix the artist statements and make sure your names are on the wall correctly.

GOALS:

  1. 2.5 defend personal evaluations
  2. 3.3 describe the creation of images and ideas and explain why they are of value

How does your artwork look? How have you put your best foot forward and represented yourself in the best light? What are the struggles you can see in your work? What are the successes that you see in your work?

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May 21, 2013 – Tuesday

“A dream only becomes overrated when not pursued by the dreamer.” ― Courtney Hickman 

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Art Foundations: We are going to be working in ABSTRACTION and reading about UNITY and that sort of stuff. If you are away… Check out the text online – Look to the right of the screen and click on the Foundations Page… REMEMBER that the exam is coming up shortly – begin to review! What are social topics that are important to you in life? We are going to create works over the next week that speak to the social topic that you feel is important enough in your life that you can make work to respond and comment on it.

ARTnews: The Golden Age of Abstraction: Right Now

Abstraction Worksheet / brainstorming sheet – HERE

Max Ernst (1891‑1976) Title The Entire City La Ville entière Date 1934 Medium Oil paint on paper on canvas Dimensions support: 502 x 613 mm frame: 696 x 798 x 47 mm Collection Tate Acquisition Purchased with assistance from the Knapping Fund 1941 Reference N05289

GOALS:

  1. 2.6 Work on creating multiple solutions to solve visual challenges.
  2. 3.2 apply subjects, symbols, and ideas in art and use skill to solve visual challenges.

How to ABSTRACT the idea of COSMOLOGY? Stars, planets, orbs, or orbits? What might you be able to do with this image?

What about the idea of a landscape? How could you abstract this idea with shape, line, texture, or / and color?

What about the idea of athletics as being important and how can you abstract this idea? The use of abstraction is hard, but when you think about simplifying the forms into shape and focus on the arrangement of the shapes, colors, textures, or other elements of art… it can become easier and more meaningful.

What is the social topic that you feel is important enough to make an artwork about? Why does it touch your life? How?

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DRAWING:

Perspective… Remember this???

GOALS:

  1. Create multiple solutions to visual problems.

What were the biggest challenges you had today with perspective? What came back to you relatively easily?

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AP Studio Art: Hang a show! Get the work up and out!

Make it even… make it straight… make it balanced!

GOALS:

  1. 2.5 defend personal evaluations
  2. 3.3 describe the creation of images and ideas and explain why they are of value

How many works have you chosen for your exhibition? Feedback from your neighbor about your display / wall.

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May 20, 2013 – Monday

“A dream only becomes overrated when not pursued by the dreamer.” ― Courtney Hickman 

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Art Foundations: We are going to be working in ABSTRACTION and reading about UNITY and that sort of stuff. If you are away… Check out the text online – Look to the right of the screen and click on the Foundations Page…

ARTnews: The Golden Age of Abstraction: Right Now

Abstraction – -Color Schemes – What can you do? What did Max Ernst do?

GOALS:

  1. 4.3 compare relationships of texture and meaning in visual art in terms of 4.3.2 aesthetics (how things look and how you respond to them)
  2. 2.6 Work on creating multiple solutions to solve visual challenges.

What is the topic that that you focused on today? How do you think that you are going to be able to create an abstract work of art based on the idea? Why does abstract art look so easy? Why do you feel it is going to be hard?

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Drawing: Critique Day! What have you got? What are you going to be talking about? What are you going to be LISTENING FOR?

Romare Bearden gave critiques too, and his students listened and participated in the critiques as well. DO NOT LET one or two of your classmates dominate the room.

GOALS:

  1. 2.1 form criticism about artworks that work to accomplish personal meanings (what are you trying to communicate?)
  2. 5.5 Evaluate responses to works of art for communicating rationale and ideas.

What have you taken away from today’s critique? What came from this past week’s worth of work? What did you learn about the ideas of your own work / ideas / work from the instructor with specific goals and intentions in mind? Easy? Hard? What made it worthwhile?

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AP Studio Art: Are you ready to go with your show? What have you done with your statement? What have you got for your name tags? Do you have your Art and Fear ready to go? PIZZA TIME!

GOALS:

  1. Evaluate the effectiveness of artwork. (P).
  2. Know about the use of symbolism, self-reflection, personal experiences, and feelings

What did you take away from today’s critique? What did you offer to your classmates? (2) Statement / Paper or Presentation DUE (last week – be ready to hang art today!)

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May 17, 2013 – Friday – Really? Already? : (

“Talent may get someone off the starting blocks faster, but without a sense of direction or a goal to strive for, it won’t count for much.”
– David Bayles and Ted Orland, Art and Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking Thank you Ted and David – You have both been inspirations for the AP kids this past month. Pizza Party for a Critique? Sounds Good!

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ASCD Webinar Participants – SEE BELOW FOR MORE INFORMATION

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Art Foundations: TEXTURE – Brief Textbook (175?) and Note taking. What is the texture we spoke of yesterday and how can we gather it up? Did you go and gather it up with your classmates.

Max Ernst’s TEXTURE Surrealism… What can you do that Ernst has mastered?

GOALS:

  1. 1.1 apply media (acrylic paint), techniques (Grattage and Decalcomania), and processes (creating an series of textures) with an 1.1.3 awareness so that your ideas are executed well.

What, of the three texture making techniques, did you enjoy using the most? What do you think you can do with each of these textures?

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DRAWING: Finish the pastel drawing… DO NOT FORGET to COLLABORATE with your partner!

Backgrounds… Culture… What does your drawing say about you?

GOALS:

  1. 2.2 evaluate the effectiveness of artworks
  2. NETS: Communication and Collaboration – Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and to the learning of others.

What has been the most difficult part of this Self-Portrait for you? What has been the most rewarding part of this Self-Portrait for you? Please take a moment to reflect on why you felt this way. How have you GROWN through this process? I am SO proud of each and every one of you. You may not have worked at an A level, but each of you who challenged yourselves have succeeded in your own way.

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AP Studio Art: FINISH ALL THAT I HAVE ASKED OF YOU! Holy Cow! There is a lot to do… Art Show goes up next week.

Woah! Let’s hang a show as good at the ideas these kids have created! Show your best work and put your best foot forward!

GOALS:

  1. 3.1 reflect on how art differs and describe how it relates to your history and your culture.

What have you created this year?What have you challenged yourself with? What have you accomplished that you did not think that you might have been able to accomplish? Take a moment and give yourself some credit for all that you have finished and think about what you were unable to finish… why were you unable to finish you were able to finish?