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Week 18: 2 weeks – 3 classes left, and some only 2. Art making continues.

Our Studio with Frank Korb: Discipline

Be Self-Disciplined. That is rule #5.

https://www.corita.org/about/corita to learn more about Sister Mary Corita Kent and her art. Thanks!

Let’s talk about that – Come on over.

The full series of episodes can be found HERE! Come on over.

Here are all of our Studio EXPECTATION

6th Grade: Printmaking – Cardboard and Found Objects and FROTTAGE

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

Lesson Plans for Found Object Printing

AND FROTTAGE!

Max Ernst and Frottage – 101-year-old process! This is a lot of fun!

Max ?Er7th Grade: DIGITAL ART – Portraits in Photoshop

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

We have found this to be a REALLY challenging unit – and that is OK! Keep learning how to make art and use as many of the various approaches as possible – even the challenging ones.

New assignment, and it has yet to be built in Google about the use of portrait and digital art – layer masks. This will be CLEARLY EXPLAINED in the assignment.

8th Grade 2D: Still Life in Pencil Drawing

Here are the 8th Grade 2D Design semester Lesson Plans for you to see what our day will look like.

The still Life is an important part of art history (as is drawing). We are exploring the variety of pencils and marks that they can make, as well as the variety of values that are capable of being produced. Slow down and make a great still Life.

Here is the Drawing assignment.

8th Grade Sculpture: Plaster Sculpture – One more run at plaster and cardboard. Here we come Alexander Calder!

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

Alexander Calder’s Maquette for a large sculpture – read the NYT Article to learn more.

We are going to try to approach an Alexander Calder-inspired construction that failed last semester. We are going to remove the idea of sculpting around our bodies and try the cardboard approach one more time. I believe it will work, and we just need more time.

Alexander Calder Sculpture – Lessons

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Week 17: 2 weeks – 5 classes Each – STILL WORK (and cleaning) to do.

Our Studio with Frank Korb: Discipline

Be Self-Disciplined. That is rule #5.

https://www.corita.org/about/corita to learn more about Sister Mary Corita Kent and her art. Thanks!

Let’s talk about that – Come on over.

The full series of episodes can be found HERE! Come on over.

Here are all of our Studio EXPECTATION

6th Grade: Printmaking – Cardboard and Found Objects

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

We are working on the lesson plans for this… but It will be set for the future.

7th Grade: DIGITAL ART – Portraits in Photoshop

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

We have found this to be a REALLY challenging unit – and that is OK! Keep learning how to make art and use as many of the various approaches as possible – even the challenging ones.

New assignment and it has still yet to be built in Google about the use of the portrait and digital art – layer masks. This will be CLEARLY EXPLAINED in the assignment.

8th Grade 2D: Still Life in Pencil Drawing

Here are the 8th Grade 2D Design semester Lesson Plans for you to see what our day will look like.

The still Life is an important part of art history (as is drawing). We are exploring the variety of pencils and marks that they can make as well as the variety of values that are capable of being produced. Slow down and make a great still Life.

Here is the Drawing assignment.

8th Grade Sculpture: Plaster Sculpture – One more run at plaster and cardboard. Here we come Alexander Calder!

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

Alexander Calder’s Maquette for a large sculpture – read the NYT Article to learn more.

We are going to try to approach an Alexander Calder inspired construction that failed last semester. We are going to remove the idea of sculpting around our bodies and try the cardboard approach one more time. I believe it will work and we just need more time.

Alexander Calder Sculpture – Lessons

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Week 16: 19 Days – 9 with one group 10 with another

Our Studio with Frank Korb: Experiment

Consider Everything An Experiment. That is rule #4 – what are you doing to always think about the works as experiments? Hmmm.

https://www.corita.org/about/corita to learn more about Sister Mary Corita Kent and her art. Thanks!

Let’s talk about that – Come on over.

The full series of episodes can be found HERE! Come on over.

How do you see yourself in Sister Mary Corita Kent’s Studio Rule?

Here are all of our Studio EXPECTATIONS.

6th Grade: Keepsake Boxes Assessments

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

We are all done with the Keepsake Boxes and we are now assessing them. These will be in the display case for a bit (I will add a ink to all the photos soon too). These artists did an outstanding job. Congratulations on the hard and dedicated work.

We are wrapping up CLAY! Boo Hoo!

Lesson Plans for the Keepsake Box.

7th Grade: DIGITAL ART – Portraits in Photoshop

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

New assignment and it has still yet to be built in Google about the use of the portrait and digital art – layer masks. This will be CLEARLY EXPLAINED in the assignment.

8th Grade 2D: Still Life in Pencil Drawing

Here are the 8th Grade 2D Design semester Lesson Plans for you to see what our day will look like.

The still Life is an important part of art history (as is drawing). We are exploring the variety of pencils and marks that they can make as well as the variety of values that are capable of being produced. Slow down and make a great still Life.

Here is the Drawing assignment.

8th Grade Sculpture: Wheel Throwing and Hand Building AND TEST TILES and GLAZING – this week is ALL ASSESSMENTS – UGH on my part too.

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

As we end this week we are going to be doing some test tiles. This is an example and HERE is the worksheets we are going to be using. What are your predictions? Here is Florian Gatsby and his dog Ciro in the studio with his test tiles. I made them for you.

Welcome to the pottery studio. The next 4 or 5 weeks we are going to be switching between two different summative assignments. Wheel Throwing (which will be more about the experience) and a new project (I am excited about this) Bas-Relief Architectural Works.

Milwaukee Artist Heather Eiden and her Bas-Relief Sculptures of local homes and spaces. What are you thinking about as you begin to plan your ideas?

The Wheel Thrown Assignment is HERE.

The Bas-Relief Architecture Assignment is HERE

Involving more than 120 artists, craftspeople and self-taught makers from across Japan, Hyakkล is a celebration of contemporary Japanese craft aesthetics.

Virtual Exhibition of the Hyakko Show at Japan House – London. Artists – here is a great place to start for inspiration towards a lifetime of making. One could wander through this virtual exhibition for hours. Imagine what the real space would be like?

This exhibition presents works in clay, glass, wood, leather, metal and bamboo โ€“ from ceramic matcha bowls to metal teapots and urushi lacquerware trays. Each item bears traces of its makerโ€™s surroundings and nods to tradition while quietly incorporating both innovation and self-expression.

Discover the people and processes behind the craft of Japanโ€™s every day, where form and function exist in harmony.

https://www.japanhouselondon.uk/whats-on/hyakko-100-makers-from-japan/

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And that’s a wrap. Year 2 at the middle school in the books!

HELLO Friends of Art With Korb. If you want to ALWAYS SEE what is happening the SUNDAY before it happens – SUBSCRIBE.

As Always – the Studio Expectations are Here. – We will be exploring these even more. Handout and conversations will happen.

6th, 7th, and 8th Grades WORKED until the end

With the end of the year less than 24 hours behind me, I look back on a year of learning and experiments, stresses and successes. I hope my fading memory remembers the successes more than the stressors.

The last days (and I wish I had made photographs of the works, included plein air drawings and paintings, fused glass magnets, and a day of exquisite corpses. That was a lot of fun (for those who could follow directions and draw for 4 minutes).

Biggest lesson I learned is a reminder from my mom. “Frank” she says, “remember to not be so uptight in the class. Nobody there is going to be as passionate or interested in the arts as you. They are teenagers (and preteens) and always have three things on their minds. Art isn’t one of them.” Now I can only guess what the pre-teens have on their minds… and I know that art isn’t one of them (all the time at least). I DO need to chill a bit.

Anyhow. Thanks for the year of follows. I don’t get a lot of feedback from the audience from these posts but I am always interested in your thoughts. How to be more chill? Relax? Ways to let them just be the energy filled children they are and not have it drive me to the verge of anger? I am up for your thoughts.

This is the first thing I am doing on my summer break (other than removing a bad microwave and making coffee, and struggling to change the head on a QUIP toothbrush). And this is going to be it for the summer (maybe some Waterford 7+ photos but… we aren’t there yet. That is my adults with differing abilities and mad passion for art group – names after the Group of Seven from Canada – Oh Canada…).

Check out MoMA’s Exquisite Corpse site and the Group of Seven.

Have a GREAT Summer.

Frank

Fused Glass
My Plein Air Painting
My Plein Air Drawing
My Plein Air Drawing of a great kiddo doing a Plein Air Drawing
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1 week and 1 day. I DO hope that we are able to get it all done.

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As Always – the Studio Expectations are Here. – Next year we will be exploring these even more. Handout and conversations will happen.

6th Grade: Keepsake Boxes, glazing, and FIRING!

Lesson Plans

What did you learn about when it came to glazing? We have VERY LITTLE TIME left and the minutes click by.

4 coats work the best. Make sure you are aware of the SAX versus Amaco and Mayco glazes.

Thank you Reddit and R/Ceramics for the image. This is done with Terra Sigilata

Ceramic Keepsake Box Assignment

7th Grade: Photoshop: Inspirational Posters, Toolbox, Text… and then… ON YOUR OWN.

Lesson Plans

What have you learned? How will you think about the use of Photoshop and the digital world as you move forward? How did you make the TEXT easy to read?

Poster Assignment HERE

8th Grade Sculpture: Glass Fusing and Firing

Lesson Plans

Without hurting ourselves with the glass, lets try some glass Fusing.

One day to plan and research

One day to build with the materials we have on hand.

One day to FIRE and PICK THEM UP.

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I count 2 weeks and 1 day. This comes down to 5 classes. We STILL have a LOT of WORK to get done.

HELLO Friends of Art With Korb. If you want to ALWAYS SEE what is happening the SUNDAY before it happens – SUBSCRIBE.

Studio Expectations are Here.

6th Grade: Keepsake Boxes and GLAZING!

Lesson Plans

What colors are you thinking about? It is time to UNLOAD THE KILN and start to put the glaze on.

4 coats work the best. Make sure you are aware of the SAX versus Amaco and Mayco glazes.

Ceramic Keepsake Box Assignment

7th Grade: Photoshop: Inspirational Posters, Toolbox, Text… and then… ON YOUR OWN.

Lesson Plans

Philippe Sainte-Laudy – Filters and Layers in Photoshop…

Photoshop and Filters? Color Changes? Repetition and Emotion? Let’s see how much fun you can have with this work.

POP Portraits Assignment HERE

8th Grade Sculpture: Critique and Cleaning!

Lesson Plans

We are GLAZING for the next 2 days. Then we CRITIQUE and CLEAN THE STUDIO…

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I count 3 weeks and 1 day. This comes down to 7 classes. We have WORK to get done.

HELLO Friends of Art With Korb. If you want to ALWAYS SEE what is happening the SUNDAY before it happens – SUBSCRIBE.

Studio Expectations are Here.

6th Grade: Final days of Ceramic Keepsake Boxes!

Lesson Plans

Look at the LIDS and the HANDLES – What are you going to do with your lid and handle?

Additive, Subtractive, Carving, Sgraffito, Modeling / Sculpting – ALL of these are required!

Ceramic Keepsake Box Assignment

7th Grade: Photoshop: Inspirational Posters, Toolbox, Text…

Lesson Plans

Philippe Sainte-Laudy – Filters and Layers in Photoshop…

Photoshop and Filters? Color Changes? Repetition and Emotion? Let’s see how much fun you can have with this work.

POP Portraits Assignment HERE

8th Grade Sculpture: GLAZING time… firing at the end of the week. Critique NEXT WEEK!

Lesson Plans

We are GLAZING for the next 2 days. Then we CRITIQUE and CLEAN THE STUDIO…

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I count 4 weeks and 10 classes – YIKES!

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Studio Expectations are Here.

6th Grade: Ceramic Keepsake Boxes!

Lesson Plans

Look at the LIDS and the HANDLES – What are you going to do with your lid and handle?

Additive, Subtractive, Carving, Sgraffito, Modeling / Sculpting – ALL of these are required!

Carol Long Pottery

Ceramic Keepsake Box Assignment

7th Grade: Photoshop and Andy Warhol POP Portrait

Lesson Plans

Andy Warhol, The Complete Athlete Series, 1978.

Andy Warhol, The Complete Athlete Series, 1978. (O.J. Simpson, Dorothy Hamill, Pelรฉ, Jack Nicklaus, Rod Gilbert, Muhammad Ali, Tom Seaver, Willie Shoemaker, Chris Evert, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)

Photoshop and Filters? Color Changes? Repetition and Emotion? Let’s see how much fun you can have with this work.

POP Portraits Assignment HERE

8th Grade Sculpture: GLAZING time… firing comes SOON.

Lesson Plans

We are GLAZING for the next 5 days.

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4 more weeks. Who’s counting?

HELLO! WELCOME to ArtWithKorb.com. If you want to ALWAYS SEE what is happening the SUNDAY before it happens – SUBSCRIBE.

Studio Expectations are Here.

6th Grade: Ceramic Keepsake Boxes!

Lesson Plans

Look at the LIDS and the HANDLES – What are you going to do with your lid and handle?

Ceramic Keepsake Box Assignment

7th Grade: Photoshop and Andy Warhol POP Portrait

Lesson Plans

Andy Warhol,ย Ethel Scull 36 Times, 1963, ยฉ 2020 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

POP Portraits Assignment HERE

8th Grade Sculpture: Final Editing in iMovie!

Lesson Plans

Claymation Assignment HERE.

  • One day left of editing and then it is time to view them all!
  • Work as a team but on your own version of the movie.
  • Good job on the PHOTOGRAPHY – let us hope they all work out!
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Week 14? That means only 5 more to go – YIKES!

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Ok… WE HAVE to reel in the rules and expectations… and… As Always… Studio Expectations are Here.

6th Grade: Ceramic Keepsake Boxes!

Lesson Plans

Printmaking Art Assignment

Ceramic Keepsake Box Assignment

The MET – Woodcut Demo Page – This is GOOD! – Check it out.

7th Grade: Assessment and PORTRAITS!

Neurographic Line Portrait Assignment HERE

Watercolor Technique DEMO – NO PORTRAIT WORK this week (unless we get through it all on the FIRST DAY!

8th Grade Sculpture: Digital Computer Lab – Editing in iMovie!

Lesson Plans

Claymation Assignment HERE.

  • One week of editing and then it is time to view them all! Work as a team but on your own version of the movie. Good job on the PHOTOGRAPHY – let us hope they all work out!