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#Wednesday is here – #LateWork is #DUE at 3:00!

#28: An idea is only as good as its execution. It is important that you master your medium. Poorly made work will either ruin a good idea or make the lamentable execution itself the subject. Overly finessed technique can mask a lack of content or can smother an image. At the same time, roughness and imprecision has its place in rendering. One can only gauge the need to throw technique away if one has first achieved the mastery of it. Kit White 101 Things I Learned in Art School

IF YOU ARE MIISSING WORK! This is a NOT SO GENTLE REMINDER to GET YOUR WORK COMPLETED TODAY for a GRADE IN THE FIRST QUARTER! If it is not IN BY 3:00 TODAY – it is a ZERO in the GRADE BOOK!

Studio Art 360: CLAY and Cups and Figures and Animals

What are three textures / techniques  you are going to have to interpret into your sculpture from your research?

Bende Robert: Animal sculpture: https://i0.wp.com/images.artparks.co.uk/sculpture/big_img/sculpture_artwork_bende_robert_untitled__4886_1.jpg
Bende Robert: Animal sculpture: http://images.artparks.co.uk/sculpture/big_img/sculpture_artwork_bende_robert_untitled__4886_1.jpg

What techniques are REALLY important to be using to make sure any ADDITIVE clay really HOLD TIGHT to the clay you are adding it to?  BEnde Robert

PAINTING: Hallways and Abstraction

What are the largest and most DOMINANT LINES you see in your drawing of the hallways? These are the lines that we are going to be looking at as the FOCAL POINT / DOMINANT LINES to build our next work off of.

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Mondrian and the TREE! http://emptyeasel.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/treesbypietmondrian.gif

How easy or difficult was it for you to begin simplifying the space and shapes of your drawings? What challenges do see as you continue? Know that the use of color in the work will be used to create a MOOD / EMOTIONAL response to the space that you are representing with your abstraction.

Drawing: Kandinsky and YOU!

Reflect on YESTERDAY before you begin today! What are your OVERALL IDEAS that you hope to communicate?

We have seen this one before... What are your goals? What are your thoughts? https://i0.wp.com/www.wassily-kandinsky.org/images/gallery/Yellow-Red-Blue.jpg
We have seen this one before… What are your goals? What are your thoughts? http://www.wassily-kandinsky.org/images/gallery/Yellow-Red-Blue.jpg

Biggest struggle / success for today? Write it out and the WHY! 

AP Studio Art: Concentration – AAARGHHH!

HUSE CHANGE OF PLANS… Ok, the ideas of the 200 images is a good idea. It really is. That said… we are going to chill out a bit on this… and when I say we… I mean me. 50 images. That’s it. A lot of you may already have had made a lot of images, and that is good. Some of you haven’t. Let’s start with 50 and see where we need to go from here.

What are your FEARS as you begin to come to the end of the first three works? What are your FEARS about the AP Process?

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http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_484_822284_robert-arneson.jpg

Ask 2 probing questions about the work of one of your classmates.

Robert Arneson: http://www.artnet.com/artists/robert-arneson/

Body of Work: Henri Matisse: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/mati/hd_mati.htm

HERE is the link to the RUBRIC.

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. Work on THIS with me – let’s explore our ideas!

ASSIGNMENT PART 1: 3 concentration works. DUE NOVEMBER 7.

Assignment Part 2: 200 Images – All On You Own. Due on NOVEMBER 6, 2016 at 11:59PM. You need to use the school based Google Drive: LINK HERE

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Wednesday and let’s wrap some stuff up!

#13 Each generation gets to reinvent art in its own image. Because art is an act of description, it is inevitable that what it describes will reflect every generation’s bias of the moment. It is not a strict reflection of a time but an interpretation rendered in a language that is always in a state of transformation. Kit White 101 Things I Learned in Art School

Studio Art 360: A bit of still life and a bit of reflection.

Space: Using all of the knowledge you have gained from the first batch of sketches, create a drawing that emphasizes the idea of space, depth, form, perhaps perspective. Consider your understanding of Line, Shape, Form, Texture, and Color to complete this assignment.

Take a LONG HARD LOOK at your composition. What is happening with the FIGURE? The GROUND? The POSITIVE SPACE? The NEGATIVE SPACE? TOMORROW is the last day… Critique, Mount, and Hand Them In happens tomorrow – last 15 – 20 minutes is NOT DRAWING TIME. Keep that in Mind as we move through today.

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The Objects in Morandi’s Studio! http://labrouge.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/due-inglesi-al-mambo-studio-of-giorgio-morandi-bologna-labrouge.jpg

How have you worked today on the ideas of the positive and negative space? What are you doing to RESOLVE the image for tomorrow? 

PAINTING: Watercolor CRITIQUE

As an individual, what do you think you are going to struggle with the most in today’s (and tomorrow – and maybe Wednesday’s) Critique.

 

What do you struggle with when drawing hallways, perspective FROM REAL LIFE? think about the rules of perspective that you may have learned in Art Foundations class… SHARE WHAT YOU REMEMBER ABOUT THE RULES?

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Hallway drawing and a CAREER! https://halo.bungie.net/images/News/InlineImages2007/Special%20Features/HeroicMapsGuide/rall_hallway_red.jpg

What challenges did you have with the hallways? What perspective challenged you more that others?

Drawing: Kandinsky and YOU!

What ONE bit of theory has stuck with you as we have talked about the works and ideas of Wassily Kandinsky? Can you use any of his ideas on color and shape in your work as it is developed?

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Vasily Kandinsky French, born Russia, 1866–1944 Painting with Green Center, 1913

What NEW ideas do you have about COLOR and Shape in the art you are creating now that we have had some conversation and learning about the ideas of Wassily Kandinsky? 

 

AP Studio Art: Rubrics – 3 of them…

What is the biggest (or two) Element / Principle you might be using in your work this week? Explain in SPECIFICS – Use your individual pieces to explain

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http://www.brooklynrail.org/article_image/image/13230/berryhill-web3.jpg

3 things that were successful today in your three work?

HERE is the link to the RUBRIC.

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. Work on THIS with me – let’s explore our ideas!

ASSIGNMENT PART 1: 3 concentration works. DUE NOVEMBER 7.

Assignment Part 2: 200 Images – All On You Own. Due on NOVEMBER 6, 2016 at 11:59PM. You need to use the school based Google Drive: LINK HERE

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#Artmaking in the #ArtStudio – Coming up on the End of the Quarter – #WHAT?

Art is the product of process. “Whether conceptual, experimental, emotional, or formal, the process you develop yields the image you produce. The materials you choose, the methods of production, and the sources of the images should all reflect the interests that command your attention. The process does not stop with each work completed. It is ongoing. The cumulative result of that process is a body of work.”– Kit White 101 Things I Learned in Art School

We are coming upon the end of the quarter and grades will be finalized soon. Take a moment and look back on your rubrics, sketchbook assignments and thoughts about the artworks to see if there are things you’d like to revisit and demonstrate a greater MASTERY LEVEL. Please list and explain 3 aspects of your works that you would like to redo or fix to demonstrate that learning.

Studio Art 360: Still Life Drawing

Look back at your THUMBNAIL drawings… Which type of composition do you feel you are going to use? What are TWO things that have changed about your composition from the THUMBNAIL STAGE.

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A still life is chall;enging – check out the VALUES and FORMS! http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PrG50iuNFK0/SxS501MvyiI/AAAAAAAAAL4/jF5L2eilTSU/s1600/Composition-+three+planes.jpg

Looking at the THUMBNAIL again and the DRAWING – What positive changes or negative changes have come from the process of drawing?

Painting: Watercolor PAINT!

Looking over the work you have, what surprises do you see from where you started? Stronger than you expected? Weaker? EXPLAIN! I will be asking you about Georgia O’Keefe’s work on Friday – anything stand out today? Keep an eye on her work as the week progresses.

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O’Keefe – Let’s look at her work ove rthe week. http://www.artexpertswebsite.com/pages/artists/artists_l-z/okeefe/O’Keeffe_EveningStarNo.V1917.jpg

What ELEMENT of art do you find being the strongest one that you are using? Color? Line? Shape? Form? Space? 

Drawing: Crit and Kandinsky

Looking at the still life in front of you, what is the one aspect of it that you are most pleased with? Why are you so pleased with how you handled the materials and composition?

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What can you say about your work? http://www.artic.edu/sites/default/files/styles/slideshow_scale/public/cal_TP_crit_360.png?itok=AhqbYJZS

What was it that you took away from today’s critique? How did you contribute to the success of the conversation?

AP Studio Art: Crit and Concentration

Time to CRITIQUE your “Work of Art” images. How are using the ideas of the rubric to push yourself – develop your ideas – Improve your work.

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Abdi and his WORKS – What’s the Critique? http://www.allartnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Work-of-Art-winner-Abdi-Farah-installs-his-Brooklyn-Museum-show.jpg

As you look back on the development of your composition, what are especially satisfied about? What are 3 things that you feel are successful compositionally? What did you add to the critique? 

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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
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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?