Studio Art Education: Encouraging Self-Directed, Reflective, and Risk Taking Artists since 1996.
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?
How have you advanced? What is ONE SPECIFIC ASPECT of your drawing that demonstrates your accomplishment?
2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
Today we are going to work with CARAN DACHE in mind and the final ideas for our compositions. Crayons and a printing plate to help create a MONOPRINT. What is your FAVORITE COLOR SCHEME of all time and WHY? You are going to use THIS color scheme for your CARAN DACHE print.
What do you need to do in order to be ready to print MONDAY? Are you done with the crayon drawing?
2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.
Inside and outside images – Edward Hopper: New York Movie Information
Nothing but the references to Edward hopper – continue to work on the drawings. Going to be looking at the evaluation on the process and ideas in the work. Continue to work on the inside outside drawings.
What do you hope to accomplish in the creation of this work? what messages are you communicating in this drawing?
1.1 Ad: Visualize and hypothesize to generate plans for ideas and directions for creating art and design that can affect social change.
Step back – do not look at the work – set it up, step back and now look at your work. What is going well? What needs work?
Last 4 minutes – find another artist and pair up… give each other 4 SERIOUS THOUGHTS of FEEDBACK about the piece.
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
Let’s get rolling and get outside to draw with a view of 1 foot away. One page and one drawing. That’s the goal.
Once again… What is your feeling about the process of drawing outside with a book that you made and a particular goal of filling it with observational drawings? Having to think about tomorrow – the final COVER drawing – what do
7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
What are two things about PAINTING in ACRYLIC that you have discovered and will STAY WITH YOU in the future?
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?
1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.
What did you accomplish yesterday with the facial features? Today is another day – Let’s take this 10 minutes at a time…
How are you dealing with the PLANNING stages of this artwork? Portraits, Figure, Architecture, Reference Materials? Write out 3 main ideas that you have accomplished in today’s planning stages.
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4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
PROJECT COMING UP! What do you think of when it comes to what it means to be an artist? When your parents hear that you want to be an artist – or others hear you are an artist – what images / thoughts do you think come to their mind?
When you consider the ideas of the myths – do you see any of them in yourself?
These drawings were created by the Advanced Drawing class with two stipulations, they needed to base their drawing on a sense of observation and they needed to use 50 sheets of paper. The rest was up to them. Our artists chose from a wide range of topics and ideas – all personal to them. Using direct observation, symbolism, and abstraction, our artists have created a wide variety of images all at various skill levels and approaches for you to enjoy.
“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
1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.
What are three challenges you have when it comes to working in / with the ideas of a sketchbook? Let’s Start BUILDING ours – follow along guys. Who is video recording for me? Assignment is HERE.
What did you have a hard time with today? What was holding you back? DESCRIBE THE CHALLENGES on page 22.
Mr. Korb – Start it around 10:45 and let it play for a few minutes…
1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
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 did you have today with the transferring of the portrait up to the canvas? Two struggles? Chuck Close Video on the Grid:
2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
What is it about the figure that you are still uncertain about? The Drawings are ALL ABOUT LOOKING and I expect you to be working and FOCUSED 100% of the time.
What aspect of the drawing do you find successful? Why?
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.
Listen to the TTBOOK Podcast – LISTEN – We’ve got time – let’s listen to a few shows.
What are you thinking about after we have spent another day listening to a radio show about making art? Molly Crabapple:
Develop Craft: Learning to use tools, materials, artistic conventions; and learning to care for tools, materials, and space.
Today you resolve the drawings. What challenges do you still have in front of you?
What do you need to do TONIGHT or TODAY to finalize your work?
2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
What technique have you learned when it comes to draw something in 3 dimensions? What are different techniques you know?
Dennis Møgelgaard is a visual artist who was born in 1959.
What is ONE thing you are CERTAIN you did successfully with your drawing today? What is ONE THING you are CERTAIN you need to focus on in order to create a more realistic / successfully accurate observation drawith tomorrow?
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.
How did last week’s MID CRIT critique help you or challenge you as you looked at it from that distance and heard from Mr. Korb or your fellow artists?
Talk to your neighbor / partner about the potential meaning behind your work. Write those thoughts down PLEASE?
1.1 Ad: Visualize and hypothesize to generate plans for ideas and directions for creating art and design that can affect social change.
What are you AFRAID of? What is the topic for your artwork and how do you see moving forward? Today – Go into the GALLERY and REMOVE your SHOW – New Works going up TOMORROW from Other Classes. I will be coming around to talk to you individually – NEW SEATING SPACES – Time to MIX THINGS UP!
What did you accomplish today? FINAL WORK DUE MONDAY! ACROPHOBIA – Fear of Heights:
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.
With a phone call from Mr. Foster this morning at 6:00 – we all learned that SCHOOL’S OUT for the day. Well… There is still work to be done.
Thanks –
Mr. Korb
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.
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?
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?
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
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!
What went well today? What was a struggle?
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
How do you FEEL about the act of oil painting again? The time away and the time returned? What did the BREAK do for the act of painting for you?
What is the STRENGTH of your work that you are especially proud of?
1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.
What are various types of artwork that we have created this year? Let’s create a list of the different works we’ve done on the board.
What are your plans? Any thoughts? Fears? Plans?
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?
What chapter did you decide to use for this next piece? What is ONE of the aspects of the theme you feel you will be working through?
What are you looking to do with the “last” / next set of three?
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