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What are you THANKFUL for?

2013 Open Canvas Art Event – Milwaukee WI

Welcome to the event.
Beginning of the Open Canvas Night – 15 minutes in!
My Empty Wall
2 works beginning. Mixed Media of Coffee Filters, Coffee Grounds, Bible Pages.
Propped up and ready to begin painting.
First coats with a light blue in the sky. The ethereal side of things.
A little bit more paint.
And now the yellow, the spiritual side of life.
A detail of “In Our Confusion, It Can Always Be.”
A detail of “In Our Confusion, It Can Always Be.”
A detail of “In Our Confusion, It Can Always Be.”
A detail of “In Our Confusion, It Can Always Be.”
My second work – I forgot to document this one as it progressed. “”Walking The Path of the Awakened.”
A detail of “Walking the Path of the Awakened.”
A detail of “In Our Confusion, It Can Always Be.”
The 2 works sold together for $275. All proceeds went to MIAD and the Peck School of the Arts, UWM.
The buyer and her friend, Thank you Tina Gallup. Ms. Gallup purchased my work LAST year too. Thanks! Good to see you again!

“You won’t be happy with more until you’re happy with what you’ve got.” – Viki King (author, writer, speaker)

What are YOU thankful for? Take 30 seconds and write out 3 things you are thankful for.

Art Foundations 2D: Intro to Critiquing, 2 Point Perspective

What are YOU incorporating into your city / neighborhood / interior?

Goals:

  1. (1.2) Create 2 point perspective art that demonstrates how your ideas relate to the media, techniques (VALUE) and processes you use. (P)
  2. (2.3) Create artworks that uses organization and function to solve specific visual challenges.

What was the success in today’s drawing? What was the challenge?  What were the goals we have had over the past couple of weeks that you feel you have accomplished? WHY are you successful or unsuccessful with this artwork?

Advanced Drawing: Drawing and Evaluation

How are you using pastels? How did Degas?

Goals:

  1. 3.3 describe the creation of images and ideas and explain why they are of value
  2. NETS: TONIGHT Use digital media to work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning (Begin your crit.)

What was the success in today’s first portion of the critique? What did you see when you ANALYZED your work? What was the surprising to you?  What were the goals we have had over the past couple of weeks that you feel you have accomplished? WHY are you successful or unsuccessful with this artwork?

AP Studio Art: Still Life and Concentration (and WEB Design)

So… what are you worried about?

Goals:

  1. 3.1 reflect on how your art differs and describe how it relates to the CONCENTRATION you have begun.
  2. 3.3 describe the creation of your images and ideas and how they work with your concentration.

What did you accomplish today? What do you need to do tomorrow?  Developing Still Life works, concentration work. How can you develop your OWN voice?

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“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” ― A.A. Milne

“Power will accomplish much, but perseverance more.”  — William Scott Downey

Where will this river take us?

Art Foundations: Presentation of Architecture AND Begin City Scape / Neighborhood Drawings 

What can you say about your work that hasn’t been said about Gehry’s?

Goals: Neighborhoods and City Scapes HERE

  1. Evaluate the Effectiveness of Art
  2. Create 2 point perspective and Value drawing that uses COMPOSITION to solve visual challenges.

7th Hour – Same Goals – Different Activity: You will take 10 minutes to complete the GROUP Evaluation of your work – hand that in to your GUEST TEACHER.

  1. Evaluate the Effectiveness of Art
  2. Create 2 point perspective and Value drawing that uses COMPOSITION to solve visual challenges.
  • Take a look at the goals and write them down in your binder.
  • After you are finished with that, break into your groups and take 8 minutes to finish up your group answers for the Frank Gehry inspired building you worked on.
  • Staple all of your individual reflection sheets under the group answers and hand them into your guest teacher.
  • As you are headed BACK TO YOUR DESKS, please grab a sheet of White Paper from the Kitchen Table AND a RULER or T-Square.
  • At your desks – using pencil – measure in 6 inches from one side (at the top and the bottom) and draw a line. This is one edge of your picture plane.
  • Do the same for the other side… this is the OTHER side of your picture plane.
  • You can now do one of two things…
    • The picture plane can be the space between these two lines OR
    • CAREFULLY TRIM THE PAPER ON THESE LINES (using the paper cutter, scissors, or an x-Acto Knife and cutting mat) and then attach the “wings” to the side of the paper.
  • BEFORE YOU DRAW A HORIZON LINE, think about the TYPE of VIEW you’d like to have in your NEighborhood OR City Scape. Click HERE – one student is the clicker-master – and look through the images of the NEIGHBORHOOD.
    • In Your Sketchbook write out your thoughts regarding the Neighborhood:
      • Placement of Buildings
      • Number of Buildings
      • Look of Streets, Sidewalks, and Yards
      • Height of houses, trees, other aspects of the architecture / things in the image
      • Does this remind you of YOUR neighborhood? Your houses?
      • What’s Different? What’s the same?
    • In Your Sketchbook write out your thoughts regarding the City Scape:
      • Placement of Buildings
      • Number of Buildings
      • Look of Streets, Sidewalks, and Yards
      • Height of houses, trees, other aspects of the architecture / things in the image
      • Does this remind you of YOUR neighborhood? Your houses?
      • What’s Different? What’s the same?
  • Pair up and REVIEW THE RULES OF TWO POINT Perspective (if time allows). Go over EACH of the 6 Rules of Thumb
  • Are you ready to draw your horizon Line? If so, go ahead and begin with ONE BUILDING… go to the vanishing points…
  • Use your skills and your knowledge… this is a lot on you today and tomorrow – I have FAITH in YOU!

What were the BIGGEST CHALLENGES today? Write that on your GOALS page. Thanks – Video Tomorrow!

Advanced Drawing: Hallway – OIL PASTELS!

Hallway! Is it REAL COLORS? I don’t think so.

Goals

  1. 1.2 create art that demonstrates an understanding of how your ideas relate to the 1.2.1 OIL PASTELS and 1.2.2 OBSERVATION AND MARK MAKING
  2. 2.2 evaluate the effectiveness of artworks (What’s working SO FAR?)

Day two in the hallways with oil pastels for sure… what is the challenge NOT working in the space of the studio?

AP Studio Art: Concentration and ADVENTURE!

TIME MACHINE! Take me back HOME!

Goals

  1. 2.3 Create artworks that use organizational structures and functions to solve specific visual art problems

As an AP Student, you especially need to be focused on the progress you are making. How are you coming with your work? How are you progressing?

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“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” ― Confucius

BREAKING ART NEWS! Francis Bacon Triptych Sells for $148 Million

What does $148 Million Dollars Look Like? This! Click on the painting above to read the BBC Article on this Auction record and see the video. Munch must be SCREAMing in his grave! [This] “File photo shows a journalist looking at Francis Bacon’s paintings ‘Three Studies of Lucian Freud’ (1969) during an exhibition at the Borghese museum in Rome, on September 30, 2009 (AFP/File, Vincenzo Pinto)”

“Power will accomplish much, but perseverance more.”  — William Scott Downey

It is all in how you line things up…

Art Foundations: Two Point Perspective – FINAL PROJECT!

Richard Estes – Painting of a Cityscape… What has your cityscape / neighborhood scape got in it?

CITY SCAPE / NEIGHBORHOOD EXAMPLES: HERE – Under Art Foundations: Neighborhoods / City Scape Link

Broad Museum RIGHT NEXT TO GEHRY’s in LA. Click on image for 3 minute video.

Goals

  1. Evaluate the effectiveness of your artwork.

Review with neighbors the progress of the cityscape and the proper use of 2 point perspective. What are the big challenges you are facing with the buildings?

Advanced Drawing: Hallway Drawings – Oils? I Hope So!

While this is ONE point perspective… how have they used COLOR to RAMP THINGS UP?

Goals

  1. 1.2 create art that demonstrates an understanding of how your ideas relate to the 1.2.1 materials and 1.2.2 techniques

What do you need to do differently for tomorrow to be successful with these materials in the hallways? How did today go?

AP Studio Art: Concentration and ADVENTURES (click THERE for the story)… PHOTOGRAPH? Build your digital portfolio.

AAArghh.. Although he is NOT a very scary pirate… not in the least.

Goals

  1. 1.2 Create works of Visual Art that demonstrate an understanding of how the communication of your ideas relate to the 1.2.1 media, 1.2.2 technique 1.2.3 and process you use.
  2. 2.3 Create artworks that use organizational structures and functions to solve specific visual art problems – How are COMPOSITION and ORGANIZATION holding your work together to COMMUNICATE your message?

Working in class over the past 2 weeks – what have you accomplished – SHARE! What did you accomplish today? What do you need to do tomorrow?

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