Looking for a smidge of EXTRA CREDIT in your CHARACTER grade?
Extra Credit Options in Mr. Korb’s Art Room: come in during the afternoon to help get the Art Studio Polished and Ready for 2nd Semester to begin. Desks to clean, lockers to square up, pencil bags and supplies to restock and organize. There is a lot to do that our ICE DAY took away – so if you are in need of some points and character building… come in to demonstrate your concern for a well set up studio.
All students must complete their detention obligations before the end of the semester. See above semester exam schedule for detention times.
Attention students: We will NOT distribute a paper copy of your 2nd semester schedule. You will need to log into Power School and click on the “grade/attendance” screen. From that screen you will have the option of either looking at your schedule or printing it out.
Second semester schedule changes must be completed by end of exams on Thursday, January 19, 2017.
G: 2.2P: Explain how traditional and non-traditional materials may impact human health and the environment and demonstrate safe handling of materials, tools, and equipment.
If you look at these Habits of Mind, which one do you feel like you can most relate to? Which one do you feel like you are the furthest from? WHY? COMPUTER LOG IN and COMPLETE SURVEY on course.
What is ONE QUESTION you have for me about the final exam: Write it out on a notecard.
Painting / Advanced Painting: Paint and Clean
2.2Ac: Demonstrate awareness of ethical implications of making and distributing creative work.
Read over the Artist Habits of Mind. If you look at these Habits of Mind, which one do you feel like you can most relate to? Which one do you feel like you are the furthest from? COMPUTER LOG IN and COMPLETE SURVEY on course.
What was the biggest challenge you faced this semester in the art studio and how did you handle it?
Drawing: Print and Edition and Clean
2.2Ac: Demonstrate awareness of ethical implications of making and distributing creative work.
Read over the Artist Habits of Mind. If you look at these Habits of Mind, which one do you feel like you can most relate to? Which one do you feel like you are the furthest from? COMPUTER LOG IN and COMPLETE SURVEY on course.
What was the biggest challenge you faced this semester in the art studio and how did you handle it?
AP Studio Art: Work and Clean and Organize the Gallery
3.1Ad: Reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art or design considering relevant traditional and contemporary criteria as well as personal artistic vision.
Once Again… What is the common thread that is connecting your different pieces in your body of work together?
What is ONE thing you need to do to finish up your website? What is REQUIRED on the EXAM? Do you know?
“If I persist, if I continue to try, if I continue to charge forward, I will succeed.” — Og Mandino
“And even if you don’t succeed… there is NOTHING wrong with failure (just get back and try again – and again – and again…).” – Frank Korb
Studio Art 360: Glazing Pottery
1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
How do you feel about the ceramic work of art in front of you? Name on the rubric – begin to evaluate the sculpting process – hand in the rubric to begin to glaze the work – DEMO TIME TOO!
1.1 Ad: Visualize and hypothesize to generate plans for ideas and directions for creating art and design that can affect social change.
Art and Fear had a lot to offer. Open the book and look through the chapters… What chapter do you feel you MIGHT relate to you the most Based SOLELY on the title of the chapter (may not be fair) – and WHY?
“And even if you don’t succeed… there is NOTHING wrong with failure (just get back and try again – and again – and again…).” – Frank Korb
Studio Art 360: Critique PORTRAITS and COLOR THEORY
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 strengths of your work that you are most proud of in your painting? What challenges did you struggle with the most? YELLOW STICKY NOTE!
Critique and prep for tomorrow’s glazing of work. G: How did the critique help you look at the skills and challenges in making art? Alex Katz: Portrait:
Painting: Portraits and OILS
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
You’ve been away for some time… take a moment and look carefully at your artwork. What stands out as STRONG? What stands out as “I need to work on this?” Write out a BRIEF statement about the work in front of you.
What “discoveries” or “new insights” have you found about your work?
Drawing: Critique your Portraits
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 look over the final portrait – what are the skills you found that you have that you might not have seen at the beginning of this process? ALSO – Tomorrow – you begin on your final drawing for the semester – your OWN creation – ALL YOUR OWN IDEAS.
3.1Ad: Reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art or design considering relevant traditional and contemporary criteria as well as personal artistic vision.
How are you evolving in the development of your work – your concentration of works? What are three things that you see as true growth?
#90 “You can condense, but you cannot simplify.” —Ann Lauterbach, personal conversation: The world is infinitely complex, and any attempt to simplify, which means the elimination of contradictory elements, will fail to capture that complexity. One can, however, attempt to compress or condense those elements into a more abbreviated or altered form. That is the role of metaphor. Kit White 101 Things to Learn in Art School
Studio Art 360: Grids on the Canvas and the Drawing and Transfer it up to the Canvas
What colors are you going to be using in this portrait? What IS your color scheme and what colors are you going to be using? This is important to know as you begin – PLANNING is essential here!
What are your thoughts about this as the work is developing as a work of art? This is the VERY BEGINNING of the process – how do you feel about the work? 3 ideas please.
SKETCHBOOK TUESDAY – FOR NEXT TUESDAY: Using a camera ON YOUR OWN TIME THIS WEEK – RECREATE a famous painting, sculpture, drawing… Print out the photograph that you have created and also include the famous work of art that you were inspired by. Here are a few examples: Student Examples: https://goo.gl/Tvwv4X
PAINTING: Making Plans? Got your Photo?
What do you need to do in order to be READY to transfer your image up to the canvas on MONDAY? Study Halls? After School? Before School? PROCESS! THIS IS HUGE.
What is successful in your artwork? What is the color scheme you are using? Share this with your neighbor. We are going to make photographs of the work we have RIGHT NOW
After having had a chance to look at the progress of your work so far, how do you feel you are progressing? What do you feel you need to do in order to have a solid product by the end of next week?
Andre Derain by Maurice de Vlkamink
AP STUDIO ART: Concentration 3rd of 3
Letters to our AUTHORS – Put your letter in THIS DOCUMENT. I will finish the spacing and page separations. Please do this today so we can gather the info and mail it out by Friday. Thanks.
What is happening in your classmates work that you are truly glad to see happening? Write that out and then take a moment to give them encouragement and support.
What’s on your plate for the weekend? What have you got to work on? Website? Artwork? Job? Relationships? Make sure some of it is ART.
#90 “You can condense, but you cannot simplify.” —Ann Lauterbach, personal conversation: The world is infinitely complex, and any attempt to simplify, which means the elimination of contradictory elements, will fail to capture that complexity. One can, however, attempt to compress or condense those elements into a more abbreviated or altered form. That is the role of metaphor. Kit White 101 Things to Learn in Art School
Studio Art 360: Grids on the Canvas and the Drawing and Transfer it up to the Canvas
FOR NEXT TUESDAY: Using a camera ON YOUR OWN TIME THIS WEEK – RECREATE a famous painting, sculpture, drawing… Print out the photograph that you have created and also include the famous work of art that you were inspired by. Here are a few examples: Student Examples: https://goo.gl/Tvwv4X
get done today to make REALLY GOOD PROGRESS so you are either DONE transferring the image or you have VERY LITTLE to do over the next two days at home or in study hall?
How many squares did you get transferred up to the canvas today? What are 2 things that make this an exciting for you or scary for you artwork?
PAINTING: Making Plans? Got your Photo?
ASSIGNED DATES ON THE SAW – You’re ALL getting a day! Canvas BUILT by Friday!
What is one question you have about the process of building a canvas? Ask around and see if your classmates can help you resolve those questions before you begin to build.
What stage are you at in the process of building the canvas? How can you offer assistance in the process with your classmates. http://ruthshively.com/
#90 “You can condense, but you cannot simplify.” —Ann Lauterbach, personal conversation: The world is infinitely complex, and any attempt to simplify, which means the elimination of contradictory elements, will fail to capture that complexity. One can, however, attempt to compress or condense those elements into a more abbreviated or altered form. That is the role of metaphor. Kit White 101 Things to Learn in Art School
Studio Art 360: Grids on the Canvas and the Drawing and Transfer it up to the Canvas
Looking at the portrait of yourself that you have created a tracing of, what portion of the face do you feel is going to be the most challenging to transfer ONE SQUARE AT A TIME and WHY?
How many squares did you get transferred up to the canvas today? COUNT THEM and do some math. 88 squares minus what you got done today… this is what you have left. How much more for this week?
What part of the process of tracing and transferring the image up to the canvas did you struggle with? Name 2 things that were challenging.
PAINTING: Making Plans? Got your Photo?
ASSIGNED DATES ON THE SAW – You’re ALL getting a day! Canvas BUILT by Friday!
What did you accomplish with your drawing today? Are there aspects of your goal at the beginning of the hour that you accomplished? Didn’t accomplish? Why? Explain.
AP STUDIO ART: Crit – Figure Drawing then the Concentration AGAIN!
On your GALLERY Images: “Title,” Your Name, Height” x Width”, Medium, Year. DO THIS NOW so it is EASIER in May. I am disappointed that Friday came and went and some are NOT done. Zero’s are SET, you can earn points again later…
As you look at the work in front of you, what element / principle stands out in your ARTWORK? What have you taken away from this process of OBSERVATION and REWORKING the ideas in your drawing? How can you use these ideas as you move forward in your CONCENTRATION?
/4#78 Self-portraiture has a long and storied history. It is something that most artists undertake in their training. It can yield great revelations of character and technique as in Rembrandt, van Gogh, and Bacon. It will succeed or fail based on its interest as an image. Try to judge it as an image, not as a mirror. Kit White 101 Things to Learn in Art School.
Studio Art 360: Grids on the Canvas and the Drawing
How is BREAKING the image down to basic shapes going to make the process of creating a memorable and successful work of art easier?
What challenges do you see in the use of OIL paint versus Acrylic paint? What advantages do you see in the use of oil over acrylic?
Vermeer – Details of pearls
What ideas do you see coming out from others works as you took the 4 minutes to walk around today and see what others are doing? How can you see working with OTHERS in a COMMUNITY as being beneficial to the development of your art?
Reginald Baylor Portrait
DRAWING: Fauvists and YOU!
What is successful in your artwork? What is the color scheme you are using? Share this with your neighbor.
“Henri Matisse” Andre Derain – Fauvism
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.
AP STUDIO ART: Figure Drawing
Copy and Paste your LETTERS to the ADVENTURE! authors in THIS DOCUMENT so I have ONE FINAL DOCUMENT. I can go through to make small changes, but make sure you COPY AND PASTE your FINAL LETTER INTO THIS DOCUMENT. Thanks.
Look at the series of works from yesterday… how have you begun to see the figure differently? Are you thinking about the the FORM in a different fashion than you had earlier?
What did taking an entire minute away from your drawings do for you? Harder? Easier? What did you have to do DIFFERENTLY?
REMEMBER -ASSIGNMENT FOR FRIDAY! THAT’S THE DUE DATE! ON YOUR OWN! NO QUESTIONS ASKED! You will have the 2 questions about your AP Concentration written – AND PROOFED by a classmate – and then pasted into the CONCENTRATION Portion of your pages. ALSO – You will have a GALLERY of 6 images FROM YOUR CONCENTRATION ITSELF uploaded to the CONCENTRATION PAGE. As a BONUS – you will have up to 6 and no fewer than 3 BREADTH works on your breadth page… I might be making some changes to these pages as we move along so… be prepared to LISTEN CAREFULLY and FOLLOW MY INSTRUCTIONS – I am hoping to streamline the process.
#78 Self-portraiture has a long and storied history. It is something that most artists undertake in their training. It can yield great revelations of character and technique as in Rembrandt, van Gogh, and Bacon. It will succeed or fail based on its interest as an image. Try to judge it as an image, not as a mirror. Kit White 101 Things to Learn in Art School
Which direction have you decided to go in regarding the use of colors while using oil paints? What kind of mood / feeling do you hope to incorporate into the idea of your painting?
Have you decided HOW you are going to break apart the space that you are building in the painting? Are you emphasizing the new SHAPES or are you developing the LINES that you have in the portrait?
Take a look at your previous week’s works – where did you struggle the most with the idea of the portrait? Where did you succeed the most? How do you use the ideas of chiaroscuro and color to better define the ideas of form (in the face especially)?
What was the most challenging part for you to draw that you LEARNED the most from? Why was this most difficult way to go and how do you see the LEARNING? What is most important about drawing when it comes to observation?
AP STUDIO ART: Figure Drawing
How did you struggle with the drawing from yesterday? What do you see as TWO benefits from learning how to GESTURE DRAW?
What strengths did you develop in your drawing today? What three things do you look at with your drawing and say – “Hey… that’s not so bad!”
REMEMBER -ASSIGNMENT FOR FRIDAY! THAT’S THE DUE DATE! ON YOUR OWN! NO QUESTIONS ASKED! You will have the 2 questions about your AP Concentration written – AND PROOFED by a classmate – and then pasted into the CONCENTRATION Portion of your pages. ALSO – You will have a GALLERY of 6 images FROM YOUR CONCENTRATION ITSELF uploaded to the CONCENTRATION PAGE. As a BONUS – you will have up to 6 and no fewer than 3 BREADTH works on your breadth page… I might be making some changes to these pages as we move along so… be prepared to LISTEN CAREFULLY and FOLLOW MY INSTRUCTIONS – I am hoping to streamline the process.
