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Finally #Friends – It is #Friday in the #Studio. Keep making #Art!

#17 Drawing is About Mark Making

“Every mark has a distinct character and quality.Every mark is a signature. Variations in pressure and weight is the visual equivalent of intonation. Marks, or lines, of consistent weight or thickness surrounding a figure or object will flatten the image. Tapering or breaking a line in a curve can connote a highlight or make the curve flow. Also, a tentative line will read as such. Give every mark or line authority and make sure it serves a purpose. Try to use only the marks you need.” 101 Things Learned in Art School, Kit White, 2011, MIT Press

Welcome to National Arts and Humanities Month! What day is TODAY?

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http://www.americansforthearts.org/events/national-arts-and-humanities-month 

Studio Art 360: Drawing and Value – How do you match up?

What was the biggest challenge you found as you began to draw your values yesterday and today?

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Still Life of Dennis Mogelgaard and a focus on Value – What can WE do that will make for an interesting still life drawing? https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/15/2d/bd/152dbd9e1ced4bbccf1bb4e83805cc96.jp

What are 2 difficulties that you had in beginning your value drawings today? Remember – DRAWING IS A CHALLENGE – let it be! 

Painting: Personal Reflection and Meaning – and PAINT!

ASSIGNMENT – Due at the END of the watercolor painting assignment October 21, 2016: Artists research on ONE of the following artists for imagery, technique, approach: Winslow Homer, Charles Demuth, Thomas Eakins, Edward Hopper, Dong Kingman, Reginald Marsh, Charles Sheeler, J.M.W. Turner, Thomas Moran, Georgia O’Keefe, James Whistler, or Andrew Wyeth.

How has the gathering of images HELPED or CHALLENGED you in the creation of a composition visually and / or telling a story – about yourself?

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Thomas Moran: Landscape – in Watercolor! http://www.denverartmuseum.org/sites/default/files/exhibitions/Media%20browser/hero-moran.jpg

What does your composition say about you? How might others read the images you have gathered and assembled?

http://www.denverartmuseum.org/exhibitions/thomas-moran-s-yellowstone-project-nation

Develop / collect images, consider the ideas about yourself and surroundings. This is going to be a SELF-PORTRAIT of sorts – no that it is going to look like you but rather… the objects and images, surroundings, ideas will be about you.

Drawing: Pencils and Paper and NESTS!

How is the work developing? REMEMBER – Wednesday of NEXT WEEK as a MID-CRIT!

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I have NO IDEA who this artist is… sorry: http://i0.wp.com/thejadedress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/6a0115721817bb970b0120a5c1a1d0970c-800wi1.jpg

What are three points of progress in your work? Clearly define them.  

Educational Use Thanks!

 

AP Studio Art: NATURE!

What has been successful for your outdoor work? What has FAILED you? Where do you need to go from here?

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Niles-Udo and earth art https://jmmathenyblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/robinia-leaf-swing.jpg

 With this OUT OF THE BOX (out of the doors) assignment… What are two struggles are you facing and how do you envision yourself getting out from under the challenges?

 

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#MidWeek #Wednesday in the #ArtStudio

“Art Can Be Anything.” It is not defined by medium or the means of its production, but by a collective sense that it belongs to a category of experiences we have come to know as “art”.”

“101 Things Learned in Art School”, Kit White, 2011, MIT Press

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Mr. Korb and Mrs. Smith on School Color Day – Staff = YELLOW (and Sweatshirts)!

3 minute personal reflection on the process / progress of the artwork you have currently in front of you. Write for the full 3 minutes – make it so it is legible. (You’ll be asked to rewrite it if it cannot be read.)

Studio Art 360: Sketchbooks

How do you see this site specific sculpture as working with the environment that we looked at from around the building? What are the strengths of the work and what is a weakness?

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Final ideas behind your sculptures? http://st-ives.net/selected-art/denarend/pix/poam_sculpture_park.jpg

What is the coolest computer drawing, photography thing you have done with your technology. 

 

Painting: Critique and WATERCOLORS this week!

What do you feel about talking aloud when it comes to other’s works? What are your thoughts about why you may be apprehensive or confident when discussing other individual’s work?

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What are we doing with the critique that you are liking?  http://www.the-art-minute.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/flag-moma.jpg

What were 3 things that you took away from today’s critique?

 

Drawing: Crit and Van Gogh’s Bird Nests – in PENCIL

What is your sense of OBSERVATION regarding the Bird’s nests? What is a quality of the nest that you could see as becoming an aspect of your drawing that would be worth your while to focus on during the next week or so?

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What can you do with your bird’s nest? https://uploads7.wikiart.org/images/vincent-van-gogh/bird-s-nest-1885(1).jpg!Large.jpg

What element have you looked at specifically in the beginning process? What is a successful aspect of the initial drawing that you have? 

 

AP Studio Art: 2 Days of Figure Drawing – (No Duchamp – YET)

What do you feel about talking aloud when it comes to other’s works? What are your thoughts about why you may be apprehensive or confident when discussing other individual’s work?

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Art Critique at SAIC: http://www.saic.edu/media/saic/gfx/academics/undergraduatedegrees/undergraduateexperience/painting_critique.jpg

What were 3 things that you took away from today’s critique?

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#Homecoming Week – But we STILL MAKE ART!

“Art Can Be Anything.” It is not defined by medium or the means of its production, but by a collective sense that it belongs to a category of experiences we have come to know as “art”.”

“101 Things Learned in Art School”, Kit White, 2011, MIT Press

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Marcel Duchamp “Fountain” http://blogosofica.azurewebsites.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/DuchampFountain72-292×300.jpg

We are beginning the middle(ish) week of the quarter… three weeks have flown by haven’t they? Describe two thoughts you have about this course in the space below. What to talk about? Maybe about the growth you are seeing in yourself. Perhaps the challenges you are being faced with on a day to day process. Maybe something else that you are feeling about the studio course

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Armed Services Day at WUHS – Spirit Week!

Studio Art 360: Sculpture and Computers this week

What are the strengths and weaknesses that you would like to resolve with your sculptures today before you get into the final touches of the surface quality?

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I’ve seen trees and houses, but this is FUN! http://40.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4g41cyANi1rra1j7o1_500.jpg

As you look over your sculpture maquette as a finished work, what are you most pleased with? Collaboration? Construction? Creativity?

Painting: Critique and WATERCOLORS this week!

What do you feel about talking aloud when it comes to other’s works? What are your thoughts about why you may be apprehensive or confident when discussing other individual’s work?

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Critique a John’s Work? Not today – but your work! http://www.the-art-minute.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/flag-moma.jpg

What were 3 things that you took away from today’s critique?

Drawing: Crit and Van Gogh’s Bird Nests – in PENCIL

What do you feel about talking aloud when it comes to other’s works? What are your thoughts about why you may be apprehensive or confident when discussing other individual’s work?

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Let’s sit back and talk about the work you are doing. Ok?

What were 3 things that you took away from today’s critique?

AP Studio Art: Figure Drawing – (No Duchamp – YET)

What do you feel about talking aloud when it comes to other’s works? What are your thoughts about why you may be apprehensive or confident when discussing other individual’s work?

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Art Critique at SAIC: http://www.saic.edu/media/saic/gfx/academics/undergraduatedegrees/undergraduateexperience/painting_critique.jpg

What were 3 things that you took away from today’s critique?

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Happy #Parent’sDay 2016 at #WUHS_Activities

“What difference does it make whether you’re looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.” – Chuck Close

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As you hit the end of the week, describe two things you look back on this week as successes, failures, or aspects of the week that you learned something from.

Studio Art 360: Sculpture Wrap up – TODAY!

Painting: Wrap Up Encaustic – Crit on Monday!

Drawing: Collage and Drawing!

So sorry… I uploaded the WRONG VIDEO. It’ll work ok, but no cool intro music or images of VincentVanGogh’s Bird’s nests. Here is one for your viewing pleasure.

AP Studio Art: Jim Dine and PLANTS!

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#Sketchbook #Tuesday 4 #StudioArt360

“What difference does it make whether you’re looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.” – Chuck Close

Studio Art 360: Sketchbook Tuesday

How did you improve your ideas about art from last week’s work on LINE? N: Sketchbook weekly drawings – hand out on SHAPE.

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Charles Green Shaw – Spainerman Modern: http://spaniermanmodern.com/12-Charles-Green-Shaw/shaw110504cf.jpg

Challenges and struggles? Are you going to take it home and REFINE it? 

 

Painting: Encaustics CLEAR WAX is HERE!

 

what skills are you developing as you move forward?

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Jasper Johns! 8. https://alaintruong2014.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/913.jpg

What has been the most interesting part of the first bit of the encaustic ideas? Most difficult? 

Drawing: Collage and Drawing!

What ideas are you looking to use as the idea of collage, drawing, text, texture, and books are brought together?

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Paper collage! https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6n6BiZ4N6JM/maxresdefault.jpg

Have you improved your ART MAKING skills over the first artwork? 

 

AP Studio Art: Jim Dine and PLANTS!

How are you PERSONALLY moving forward with the ideas of  PLANT BASED drawing?

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Jim Dine Plants and Flowers: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/e8/d1/2d/e8d12d7d9a90759beb48a282cf722153.jpg

How are you moving forward? 

 

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#MidWeek #Wednesday in the #ArtStudio

“Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.” Brian Tracy, Eat that Frog

Reflection: Describe, in complete sentences, two ways you have worked to move forward in what you might have been struggling with at the beginning of the week? Share these thoughts with your neighbor.

Studio Art 360: Sketchbook Tuesday

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Drawing out ideas for your sculptures BEFORE you build them! https://marcgodfreysketchblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/sculpture3.png?w=500

Q: What are the challenges you see as you develop the ideas TOGETHER? Friday we are going to see your space with your ideas in mind so you can TALK!

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READ THE ARTICLE! Click on the image above… Artnews Fall 2016 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES: THE COMPLEX TASK OF PRESERVING DONALD JUDD’S LEGACY BY Zoë Lescaze, http://www.artnews.com/2016/09/12/specific-objectives-the-complex-task-of-preserving-donald-judds-legacy/

Painting: Encaustics – Let’s get rolling!

This is a GREAT movie to watch in its entirety. I’ll leave the link up for your viewing pleasure.

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Encaustic Drawing? Painting? https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/0d/db/e1/0ddbe1a5142951814a9b0eaf25cf6f6c.jpg

Q: As you are working, what are you seeing as an area that you might need to really focus on as you continue.

Drawing: Charcoal, Pastels: Oil and Soft Still Life / Collage

Stage 1: Detail: Walnut Hill Senior Min develops her voice “Studio Thinking 2” Color Plates
Walnut Hill Senior Min develops her voice “Studio Thinking 2” Color Plates
DETAIL: Walnut Hill Senior Min develops her voice “Studio Thinking 2” Color Plates

Q: Have you improved your drawings skills over the past few days?  What is the biggest success you have accomplished this week? Where are you struggling?

AP Studio Art: Critique – Let’s look at the RUBRIC! Then talk about your works.

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Jim Dine – Let’s SEE how he SEES. And then Draw how WE SEE. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pDlzbuQqPDE/TZBPpYq5TnI/AAAAAAAADf0/KWROXWNNSJU/s1600/1980+tree+%2528the+kimono%2529.jpg

Alan Cristea Gallery

Jim Dine Video

Q: What are your first marks on the paper? How are you handling the ideas of THUMBNAILS? What are the areas that you are focusing on in the composition? How did you approach this work?

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#End of the #Week… Tomorrow #SPARK

Maybe you noticed the re-branding of the name of the site. Yes… I have changes the Day to Day to the name of the URL… Art With Korb. This is the name I’ve been using across many platforms and I realize that I need to make it all the same. Same types of information – newer name. Thanks for following – share it around. – Frank

“Unless you have a definite, precise, clearly set goals, you are not going to realize the maximum potential that lies within you.” — Zig Ziglar
  • Like us on Facebook.com/ArtWithKorb
  • Remind: text @artwithk to 81010 to get yourself on the list.
  • Interactive Handbook is here ONLINE
  • Subscribe to the Google Calendar to stay up to speed…

Class Reflections: As you look back on the week, what are 3 comments, questions, or concerns that you have and would like to ask? Also – is there anything in about your work that you would like to work on, specifically, as you head home for the weekend or think about first thing next week?

Studio Art 360: 3D Images / Sculpture Coming Up

Waterford Lights Site Specific Sculpture from under the bridge – Waterford.
Waterford Lights Site Specific Sculpture over the bridge – Waterford.

Q: What can you use from DRAWING to Invent a sculpture that is PERSONAL, Site Specific, Collaborative and includes the ideas of a CUBE, CYLINDER, and / or PYRAMID? Do you want to work on ALL of them at the same time or are you going to finish one and then move onto the next? What was the most challenging form for you to create? What is ONE things that gave you such a hard time with it?

Painting: Watercolors? Encaustics?

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https://assets.paddle8.com/media/editorial/entry/1423606477-robert-rauschenberg-jasper-johns.jpeg

Q: How is your previous days work going? Will you be ready to run on Monday with the beginnings of the painting?

Drawing: 2Point / 3Point Perspective

 

Q: How are you defining the edges of forms DIFFERENTLY now than you have in the past? How are you thinking about the idea of COMPOSITION now that it has been spoken about?  

AP Studio Art: Let’s get a small concentration started.

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Wayne Thiebauld used apples too! http://www.christies.com/lotfinderimages/D56246/wayne_thiebaud_candy_apple_cigar_box_d5624694h.jpg

Q: 3 – ?? parts to this weeks project. DUE MONDAY. Critique on Monday. What are you most comfortable with? Pencil, Charcoal, Pastel, or Paint? Why?

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First #Friday in the #ArtStudio

What is Art? “Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.” Agnes Martin, Art In America (p.124, 1996)

Friday is a unique schedules so let’s put that up right now.

  • 1st 7:25 – 8:05
  • HR 8:10 – 8:54
    • Friday Homeroom: JUNIORS in auditorium
    • Tuesday Homeroom: SOPHOMORES in auditorium
    • Wednesday Homeroom: FRESHMEN in auditorium
      • Schedule is a BIT changed
  • 2nd 8:59 – 9:39
  • 3rd 9:44 – 10:24
  • 4th 10:29 – 11:09
  • 5A LUNCH 11:09 – 11:37
  • 5B LUNCH 11:37 – 12:04
  • 5C LUNCH 12:04 – 12:31
  • 5AB Class 11:14 – 12:04
  • 5BC Class 11:42 – 12:31
  • 5AC Class 11:14 – 11:37 / 12:08 – 12:31
  • 6 12:36 – 1:16
  • 7 1:21 – 2:01
  • 8 2:06 – 2:49

Like us on Facebook.com/ArtWithKorb

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Remind: text @artwithk to 81010 to get yourself on the list.

Remind Instructions

Interactive Handbook is here ONLINE

Front Cover

Subscribe to the Google Calendar to stay up to speed…

Studio Art 360: 3D Images

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Visit the original site for this great example here: https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/0560f-valueblock.jpg

Painting: Watercolors? Encaustics?

Robert Indiana
Jasper Johns
Robert Indiana
Jasper Johns

Drawing: 2Point / 3Point Perspective

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This is a SKETCH of a stack of books (https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3448/3984244810_ae2be970dd_z.jpg) what can you do with the ideas of a sketch?

AP Studio Art: Let’s get a small concentration started.

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Paul Cezanne Apples: http://www.myartprints.co.uk/kunst/paul_cezanne/still_life_with_apples.jpg

Class Reflections: As you have looked at making artwork, what is ONE skill that you feel you already have that you think will help you continue to succeed as a learning artist? Sticky note reflection and add it to your page 9 (or 8… wherever you are keeping our two days of sticky notes). Have a GREAT WEEKEND… Tuesday – We get into it.

and lastly… a bit about Mr. Korb

Frank Korb website

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#WelcomeBack to the #ArtStudio #Artists

What is Art? “Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.” Anges Martin, Art In America (p.124, 1996)

Welcome to the 2016 – 17 School year and to the Art Department – specifically – Mr. Korb’s Studio. This site will be a place we visit multiple times a week, so make sure you get to know the address. http://www.ArtWithKorb.com. I have also made use of that name for a Facebook Site to try and keep some of the classroom activities available online there also Facebook.com/ArtWithKorb.

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Speaking of CELL PHONES

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Remember the CELL PHONE RULES.

 

Thursday and Friday are unique schedules so let’s put that up right now.

  • 1st 7:25 – 8:05
  • HR 8:10 – 8:54
    • Thursday Homeroom: SENIORS in auditorium
    • Friday Homeroom: JUNIORS in auditorium
    • Tuesday Homeroom: SOPHOMORES in auditorium
    • Wednesday Homeroom: FRESHMEN in auditorium
      • Schedule is a BIT changed
  • 2nd 8:59 – 9:39
  • 3rd 9:44 – 10:24
  • 4th 10:29 – 11:09
  • 5A LUNCH 11:09 – 11:37
  • 5B LUNCH 11:37 – 12:04
  • 5C LUNCH 12:04 – 12:31
  • 5AB Class 11:14 – 12:04
  • 5BC Class 11:42 – 12:31
  • 5AC Class 11:14 – 11:37 / 12:08 – 12:31
  • 6 12:36 – 1:16
  • 7 1:21 – 2:01
  • 8 2:06 – 2:49

Remind is a communications tool that I’ll be working with this year (as I have begun to use in the past). Go ahead and get your cell phones out and, if you want to be kept in the loop, text @artwithk to 81010 to get yourself on the list.

Remind Instructions

As a returning artist / parent / guardian / educator one will note that the Interactive Handbook we have used in in the past are dramatically different this year. No longer are we using the 11″ x 8.5″ folder, but we have now changed to a 8.5″ x 5.5″ booklet. The weekly pages are a bit different also with fewer, but more probing reflections about the work you are creating. Let’s look them over TUESDAY of NEXT WEEK.

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Inside Pages

CALENDAR on WEBSITE – Look and PAY ATTENTION!

Studio Art 360: 3D Images

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Robert Indiana – 3D Numbershttps://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/1750965577_f7ee03962d.jpg

Reflection: STICKY NOTES… What are 3 things you hope to learn in this room? END OF CLASS – Stand up – Think about what you are hoping to learn – in ONE WORD (and you cannot repeat another person’s comment) Your name and then your word. That’s it. Speak it out loud.

Painting: Watercolors? Encaustics?

Castle on Hill, Norham by Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775-1851
JMW Turner, Castle on Hill. https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/d40191_10.jpg

Reflection: STICKY NOTES… What are 3 things you hope to learn in this room? END OF CLASS – Stand up – Think about what you are hoping to learn – in ONE WORD (and you cannot repeat another person’s comment) Your name and then your word. That’s it. Speak it out loud.

Drawing: 2Point / 3Point Perspective

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What are your skills in 2 point perspective? https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/box.jpg

Reflection: STICKY NOTES… What are 3 things you hope to learn in this room? END OF CLASS – Stand up – Think about what you are hoping to learn – in ONE WORD (and you cannot repeat another person’s comment) Your name and then your word. That’s it. Speak it out loud.

AP Studio Art: Let’s get a small concentration started.

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Wayne Thiebauld: Concentration? https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/thiebaud-cakes-631__800x600_q85_crop.jpg

Reflection: STICKY NOTES… What are 3 things you hope to learn in this room? END OF CLASS – Stand up – Think about what you are hoping to learn – in ONE WORD (and you cannot repeat another person’s comment) Your name and then your word. That’s it. Speak it out loud.

A Bit About Mr. Korb

Frank Korb website

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The End Has Come – #PleinAir #Paint #Draw on your own

That’s it folks… Summer School is OVER. I am really happy with the work that has been created over the past four weeks. I would venture to bet, if I were a betting man, that this was the most work some of you have done in the shortest period of time. That tells me that one needs to make a LOT of art and not focus on ONE work… well… in some cases make a lot of work but in other cases… persistence and sticktoitiveness is important.

I think about the Studio Habits of Mind as the artists were out there and appreciate all the work that was demonstrated. I am curious about how those thoughts and ideas stuck with the young artists as they worked out in the real world. Developing Craft, Observing, Reflecting,  and Engaging and Persisting are some that really stand out to me as being some of the habits that really stood out. All of the SHoM, if the artists were to sit back and really look at the ideas they were working with, were with them everyday – and to see the development in all the artists is a great thing to see. Now… did all the artists take away the same level of learning, experience, development… of course not. But they all did take some away.

This link will take you to see the many photographs that were made during the 4 weeks of Plein Air Art in the Waterford (and Spring Green) area from this past summer. Enoy.

PLEIN AIR STATE FAIR OPPORTUNITY – If you are interested – and I hope some of you are – the Wisconsin State Fair is having their SECOND Plein Air Art Opportunity. The cost is $35 and you get 4 tickets to the fair. You need to supply you own materials and the day is yours to paint. You DO need to have something to show – framed and ready to share – but this is a GREAT resume builder and day to paint. READ THE RULES and be ready to PAINT!

PDF Information HERE

Entry Form HERE

Frank