We in the Korb household hope you are having a GREAT time as the 4th quarter is just around the corner. All our best as we enjoy our nation’s capitol.
Here are some MORE of the images of me and my family as we enjoy and learn and experience and WALK DC.
Our classes begin in Google Classroom AND from the lesson plans below. PLEASE feel free to visit the day to day and see what we are working on in the studio. The links will take you to the Table of Contents… find the current week to see what we are doing.
6th Grade: CERAMICS and KEEPSAKE Boxes
What can you KEEP SAFE in a KEEPSAKE BOX? This is an example of a two part ceramic drawing by Derek from the Great Pottery Throwdown. His KEEPSAKE BOX fits inside the larger TV sculpture and holds a TIE that was his dad’s.
We in the Korb household hope you are having a GREAT time as the 4th quarter is just around the corner. All our best as we enjoy our nation’s capitol.
Our classes begin in Google Classroom AND from the lesson plans below. PLEASE feel free to visit the day to day and see what we are working on in the studio. The links will take you to the Table of Contents… find the current week to see what we are doing.
6th Grade: CERAMICS and KEEPSAKE Boxes
What can you KEEP SAFE in a KEEPSAKE BOX? This is an example of a two part ceramic drawing by Derek from the Great Pottery Throwdown. His KEEPSAKE BOX fits inside the larger TV sculpture and holds a TIE that was his dad’s.
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good…” Ira Glass – Radio Host, This American Life
6.1Ac: Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history.
What do you feel is an aspect of your composition that you might struggle with (but will resolve in your preliminary drawings?
Reflection: What was the most challenging aspect of your drawing to get done today? How are you using OBSERVATION and COMPARISON – sighting in – to get your drawings set up correctly?
1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
What portions of your sculpture do you see as ADDITIVE, SUBTRACTIVE, and MANIPULATIVE? Describe in DETAIL the areas – use imagery as descriptors. MID-CRIT with the RUBRIC.
Reflection: What was the biggest challenge you had with using clay and creating a three dimensional artwork – PAUSE 10 minutes before the end of class.
1.2Ad: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices, following or breaking established conventions, to plan the making of multiple works of art and design based on a theme, idea, or concept.
If you were to want to get to know someone better, what are a few questions that you would ask? Not superficial questions, but the kind of question that really helps you get to know someone… Please log onto THIS DOCUMENT and enter your question.
Reflection: What are you thinking about after we have spent another day listening to a radio show about making art?
2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
What was successful in the series of drawings you did yesterday? How did the STRONGEST DRAWING stand out among the rest of them? Mark making? Line? Variation?
Reflection: Next week – LONGER FIGURE DRAWINGS – What are 3 STRENGTHS you had today? What is the BIGGEST CHALLENGE you faced today?
Painting and Advanced Painting: Self Portrait – Wrap up by Next TUESDAY!
Edward Hopper: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/hopper/hopper.self-portrait.jpg
Goals:
7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments
What’s been the biggest / best thing you have learned about the use of oil paints this week? What has taking this portrait from a continuous line contour drawing helped you with in making the painting? If you HAD TO EXPLAIN – why is this working or not working for you?
Reflection / Evaluation: Last day of the week. What do you see as needing attention MONDAY? What makes you want to skip second hour and continue to paint?
3.1P: Apply relevant criteria from traditional and contemporary cultural contexts to examine, reflect on, and plan revisions for works of art and design in progress.
What are the 10 color schemes that we studied? Can you write all 10 down without looking at your notes?
Reflection / Evaluation: QUIZ on the names, types and relationships of the colors. Open up to page 25… READY… HERE COME THE QUESTIONS… Identify the following types of COLOR SCHEMES…
2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
Thinking about the work that you are doing… what are the visual skills that you feels you are developing? how has this year been beneficial to you so far? N: Nothing – Website maybe, photograph maybe…
Reflection / Evaluation: What is the ONE SKILL that you feel would be worth your time to continue to FOCUS and CONCENTRATE on?
1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.
After ONE WEEK of pastels, what is your STRONGEST aspect of the composition? Describe WHY you feel it is working so well.
The Selfie – Listen and comment on one or two points that describe how YOU are using some f the ideas in your drawing for EXTRA CREDIT: http://www.wpr.org/listen/565351
Reflection / Evaluation: How do you feel about the work you accomplished today? What has changed in how you are looking at using Soft Pastels?
NPR – Listen Radio Lab Story of Perseverence HERE!
ALSO – #WiArtChat is on TWITTER tonight from 7 – 8pm. Join your Art Teachers for some LIVELY conversation about the Art Room AND then be there for a Google Form – “What Questions do YOU have for YOUR Art Teacher?” or something of the like…
Painting and Advanced Painting: Last Day of Critique TODAY! WHOSE NOT DONE? CRITIQUE a Work Of Art – WAS due THURSDAY LATE!!! – HERE
3.1Ac: Engage in constructive critique with peers, then reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art and design in response to personal artistic vision.
As you have HEARD about the works (yours or a classmates) how do you image having to go back and revise, refine, re-engage the work you have developed?
Reflection / Evaluation: What is a skill, an approach, an idea about the materials or ideas that you took away from the critique today – whether it be about YOUR work or about another person’s work.
1.2Ad: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices, following or breaking established conventions, to plan the making of multiple works of art and design based on a theme, idea, or concept.
Beginning on the FIRST set of 3 works… What is the CENTRAL IDEA behind your concentration? Remember that you need to have a common thread / common theme / CENTRAL IDEA that ties your works together. Get together in 3 small groups and SHARE ideas – NEW RUBRIC for the the three works – together – WORK.
Reflection / Evaluation: What did your conversation with your classmates help you do, help you explain / understand as you move your work forward?
3.1Ac: Engage in constructive critique with peers, then reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art and design in response to personal artistic vision.
If you are struggling with adding to the conversation, what is ONE THING you are afraid of? Fear is fine too… If you find yourself an ACTIVE critique, what do you find about yourself that makes it EASY to add to the conversation?
Reflection / Evaluation: Two things you feel you can go back to and fix in your drawing to demonstrate a stronger feel of mastery in the work? Why do you feel it worthwhile to reflect / re-engage / refine the work that is in front of you?
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 – WARHOL and the DESIGNERS of your Logo Choices*
What do you need to expand on? Share the ideas / challenges with your neighbors. Share your self -evaluations and turn EVERYTHING IN on your way out the door – Original Printouts / drawing / 30 minute Round Robin Evaluations, final Painting, diagram of the painting too.
Drawing: Self Portrait – What kinds of Selfies might the FAUVISTS have made with Instagram or Snap Chat?
Create artworks that use organization and function to solve specific visual challenges. (P). (5.1) Identify the intentions and purposes behind making art.
What was the most challenging way to draw? Why was this most difficult way to go? What is most important about drawing when it comes to observation?
AP Studio Art: ONE DAY LEFT – Change to our ICE CREAM SOCIAL plans… FRIDAY – EVERYBODY!
1.1 apply acrylic paint using various, techniques and processes with an 1.1.3 awareness so that your ideas are executed well. What do YOU think you are doing EXCEPTIONALLY WELL with Acrylic Paints?
What is the most successful aspect of your Painting? What skills are you going to be able to use and carry forward? Why and How? WHAT DO YOU NEED TO DO THIS WEEKEND TO BE DONE?
3.1 reflect on how art differs and describe how it relates to history and cultures – What’s going on in YOUR work that you DO NOT see in other’s work?
4.1 recognize differences in historical and cultural contexts of art. How are you tying into the PAST of FAUVISM and the CONTEMPORARY of HIP HOP?
What was the most challenging aspect of your drawing to get done today? How are you using OBSERVATION and COMPARISON – sighting in – to get your drawings set up correctly?
AP Studio Art: 2 Days + the Weekend! How are your statements? Online and Uploaded – DUE TUESDAY WHEN WE WALK IN THE EXAM SPACE!
AP Exam Takers…WHEN YOU ARE DONE ONLINE… Turn it into your teacher so that I can look at the work as a whole and read your statement.
Goals:
Work on Quality Mounting of artworks. – QUALITY
3.3 Describe the creation of images and ideas and explain why they are value – STATEMENT!
Process of presentation of works. Rationale behind the presentation of quality and selling yourself in the best light possible. (2, 3, 4, 5, 7) G: Are you ready for Tuesday?
Evaluate the effectiveness of your work – WHAT IS SUCCESSFUL? What is NOT? WHY? In your GOALS – Write out 3 things that you are PLEASED with in your work and 3 things that you are still struggling with?
What is the most difficult part to mixing colors with the acrylic paints? What do you feel makes it the most challenging / frightening medium for some?
Drawing: PORTRAITS – What are you doing with the FAUVISTS? HIP-HOPsters?
It’s About Frikin Time – Selfies at the Frick Museum… HERE and the Collection HERE.
Goals
Know about solving visual challenges (making art) using analysis (breaking the work into its parts). How are you thinking about the fore, middle, and background in the work? Have you considered the colors you are going to use? What are you thinking about for this work?
What struggles did you face today and yesterday with this process of getting started? What message are you going to be communicating with your work?
Evaluate the effectiveness of your work – WHAT IS SUCCESSFUL? What is NOT? WHY? SELF EVALUATION and PEER Evaluations.
What is the most difficult part to mixing colors with the acrylic paints? What do you feel makes it the most challenging / frightening medium for some?
Drawing: Self-Portraits in FAUVIST Style and HIP-HOP!
Goals
Know about solving visual challenges (making art) using analysis (breaking the work into its parts).
What is the progress of the drawing thus far? What is your neighbor doing well? What is your neighbor not doing successfully? Share your thoughts with your neighbors.
WHAT SKILLS ARE YOU DEVELOPING as you work on color mixing with acrylic paints and execute your composition well?
If you look at your goals – personal goals – set yesterday, what is it you still need to work on, focus on, as you move forward/ This is ALL DUE MONDAY!
Drawing: Soft-Pastels – Selfies / Graffiti
Mr. Korb and the Funkin’ Wassels Posse at Whose Line it it Anyway? What does this selfie say about me?
Goals
Identify the intentions and purposes behind making art. – How can you use these NEW materials to solve the portrait problem? What are the intentions behind today’s exercises in soft pastels?
What challenges did you find with the soft pastels? What was new and exciting?
AP Studio Art: PREP Work for Portfolios!
What do you remember about the FEARS you might have had early in the year?
Goals
Work on finishing up presentation of portfolios and uploads. – So… how much do you need to do? Document that here and now.
Did you get all you needed to done today? What are you lining up for tomorrow?
Art With Korb 
