Develop Craft: Learning to use tools, materials, artistic conventions; and learning to care for tools, materials, and space.
What are you going to be looking at and dealing with as we look at foreground, middleground, and background? How have you improved / learned your skills in the 1) creating of art with supplies and 2) coming up with new and innovative compositions as we work outside?
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
What have you accomplished this week – three days in? What strengths do you see in the hands and mind you have that will add to the work you are creating? What is a weakness?
Reflection: Can you resolve that over the weekend? What are you taking home? PLEASE use the ONLINE CRITIQUE FORM that is on the side of our website to prepare your final written critique for EXAM DAY. I am NOT looking for it until EXAM DAY. If it is not there, the written portion is a zero… Know that you need to include a photograph into the Google Document that comes to you from filling out the online form.
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.
Look at yesterday’s work. Stand back as a pair or trio and have a strong conversation about the work you have put in front of you. What is next? Two things…
Reflection: What have YOU accomplished today? What do you need to do to RESOLVE the work for tomorrow’s critique?
4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
What did you take away from the conversation yesterday and how did you put it to use? What are you going to be using today to make the work stronger?
Reflection: What is the ONE best part of today… Be aware of all that you are doing as a SERIES of WORKS!
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
What TWO things do you want to accomplish today? Is there time to complete ONE MORE DRAWING? The Person Made Object shadow?
Reflection: What are TWO THINGS that you see as being successful in the BEGINNING of the work you and your collaborator are doing in your respective works.
7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
What are two things you think the PROCESS is going to do to help you in the creation of this artwork? How is this going to be a skill that can help you in the future with OTHER ideas and assignments (in or out of art)?
Reflection: What is it that you especially enjoy about the image you are creating in your painting? How do the ideas and colors RELATE to you?
7.1Ad: Analyze how responses to art develop over time based on knowledge of and experience with art and life.
LOOK AT YOUR IDEAS and see what you are doing in the project. What are your inspirations in the world and in the project?
Reflection: You had a lot to think about today… What did you take a away? Look at the ORIGINAL IDEAS and look at your NEW SERIES of works… what’s happening?
“Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.” — John Andrew Holmes
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
What TWO things do you want to accomplish today? These works are small enough to take home and work on. The color schemes and materials are easy enough to work on in and out of class. How are you going to make this one of the most interesting works you have completed?
Reflection: How have you advanced? What is ONE SPECIFIC ASPECT of your drawing that demonstrates your accomplishment?
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.
Looking at your color wheel and all you’ve got done… what are your biggest challenges with color blending and painting with acrylics? 3 ideas NOW!
Reflection: Tomorrow we begin on the portrait, what do you need to do to finish the transfer? The painting process will take 2 weeks – GET READY for tomorrow!
4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
Best part of yesterday? Plans for today? how’s it coming?
Reflection: How are you moving forward in the process of developing a series of works based on someone else’s work? How are you keeping the images the SAME and how are you changing the ideas?
4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
Best part of yesterday? Plans for today? how’s it coming?
Oldenburg and Gehry, together at last. Click on the image to see more of Oldenburg and van Bruggen’s work!
Goals
(1.2.2 and 3) Create 2 point perspective drawings that demonstrate an understanding of how your ideas relate to technique and process.
(5.1) Identify the intentions and purposes in creating 2 point perspective / Values.
7th Hour – Same Goals – Different Activity:
Consider the images of the city / neighborhood / Interior of Room that you looked at yesterday in class. The images are available HEREalso.
What ideas can you develop for the THEME of your city? How can you incorporate it into the drawing? Work in your sketchbook if you have to.
How are you going to include all of the images / ideas that are required into your drawing?
What is the FOCAL POINT of your drawing? What is the main focus you are going to focus on and how will it relate to the other aspects in the city / neighborhood / interior room?
TODAY – work to get at least the 5 required buildings / large shapes into the space provided. NOT THE DETAILS but rather the basics, the walls, the height, the depth… how does one building relate to the buildings around it?
If you can, begin to work in the SIDEWALKS or its comparison in the interior drawing. How does it fill the space? How does it interact with your buildings? How BIG or SMALL are they int he space provided?
LINK TO REQUIREMENTS: HEREas well as the handouts that have been provided.
END OF CLASS: 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?
Advanced Drawing
What colors has Bonnard used in his artwork? Real? Imagined? Emotional?
Goals
1.2 create art that demonstrates an understanding of how your ideas relate to the 1.2.1 materials and 1.2.2 techniques
2.2 evaluate the effectiveness of artworks
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
What’s Your Story?
Goals
1.2 Evaluate and defend the validity of the sources for content (D)
2.3 Create artworks that use organizational structures and functions to solve specific visual art problems
What do you need to do over the weekend to be successful in the process of making quality art? SELF – EVALUATION – write up Execution Evaluation, Composition Evaluation, Character Evaluation. Consider the work you have done and EVALUATE progress.
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