“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
Take a moment and look at the above AHoM you are currently working on. Write out two things that you see as connections in your choice of AHoM and how you are proceeding with your work?
Studio Art 360: Sculpture Wrap up – FRIDAY!
One day off – Moving forward with the sculpture – How are you working as a team?
What needs doing? Passes? Come in to finish? Take home?
AP Studio Art: Jim Dine and PLANTS!
Not knowing what your thoughts are about plants / flowers, know that they have been and will be a large and important image in art. Working to make sure you have a REAL connection with the images you make, what are your personal connections to the art or the making of the art?
Q: How are you using the letters / numbers / underlying images (newspaper, etc…) to create a work that makes you look more carefully – observe the images you are creating / communicating?
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.
Q: What materials are you NOT using yet? Make sure that in the body of work you are making (about 1 object) you try things you are not comfortable with.
G: 6.1Ac: Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history.
What songs are you using to create your artwork and what is ONE things that STANDS OUT as OBVIOUS to connect the two works of art?
Reflection: SHARE YOUR THEORY AND DRAWING WITH YOUR CLASSMATE – Last 5 Minutes – CONVERSATION and write down what you have learned from your classmate.
1.1P: Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.
What more do you need to do in order to be done with the sculpting of the form and then resolve the form to add the paper mache for Wednesday (might be a work day)?
Reflection: How do you feel the adding of the paper mache and color ENHANCES or MAKES THE WORK STRONGER than it was when it was just cardboard? Use your art terms from the back wall or on page 29 in the folder.
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 does your work for this week Re-Engage the ideas you have been using in the past while ALSO provide ideas of REVISION?.
Reflection: I try to get you to talk to one another and reflect. Look at each other’s work today and do that. Explain, listen, WRITE DOWN THOUGHTS for your own reflections.
6.1Ac: Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history.
What pages are you using to satisfy the 50 pages? What is your imagery? Why are you using what you are using?
Reflection: What did your discussions during the first part of class do for you as you discussed and explained your ideas for 50 pages of paper? Give 3 ideas you shared and will carry forward.
“Nothing in life that’s worth anything is easy.” – Barack Obama, #SOTU 2014
How To Do Everything
How To Do Everything with your chef – Mr. Korb… Listen to the second half of the show to hear Mr. Korb’s Contributuion to the BIG GAME snack dip recipe. Start at 5:55.
AP Studio Art – From the OUTSIDE IN. Nature in your art!
Advanced Drawing: Time to CRIT on MONDAY! – SKETCHBOOK!
TIME TO WORK on the MASTERPIECE SKETCHES!
Goals:
7.2Ad: Determine the commonalities within a group of artists or visual images attributed to a particular type of art, timeframe, or culture.
Today – I am gone. You are going to have an opportunity to work on your BIG BOOK OF SKETCHES today. Which drawing from the packet are you focusing on today? Why this one in particular?
What part of your drawing worked out really well for you today? What did you struggle with in your drawing?
Drawing: DRAWING – Think about the MID CRIT and what you can do from here!
A NEW vision of MORANDI! Check it out HERE at MoMA!
Goals:
1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.
How have you changed in the process since you have begun? How are you drawing DIFFERENTLY than you did PRIOR to this Drawing?
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?
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.
What can you use from the process we went through YESTERDAY to continue to create a CUBE, CYLINDER, and a pyramid?
What was the most difficult part of the FINISHING UP today for YOU?
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.
Take a look at your classmates work – on the corkboards in the hallway and give them feedback / critique – using art terms (listed on the page handed out to you).
What did you take away from the critique today? Write down what you have taken from the written crit
Painting: Painting this week – Starting to think about ACRYLICS.
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.
Looking at the work in front of you – and knowing we are critiquing on MONDAY and TUESDAY – What CRITERIA would you consider as we begin to consider evaluation? Please consider some of the NATIONAL VISUAL STANDARDS as you write this one up – it may take a few minutes to complete this before you begin PAINTING!
What CRITERIA are you focused on in the creation of your work? Are you drawn to that criteria in additional works you make?
7.2P: Analyze how one’s understanding of the world is affected by experiencing visual imagery.
Thinking about the ideas of perspective – looking at the drawings you did in WEEK 1 and comparing them to the real objects in front of you – what sort of differences do you see in how the forms recede in space (go back into space).
How does using VALUE and SHADING help you create a more believable sense of space on a two dimensional picture plane?
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.
Having taken the time to talk yesterday and now looking at the artwork you have in front of you … what do you enter into today’s studio time thinking about with your drawing?
How do you feel about the work you are creating today? Three sentences (minimum) on the sticky note and attach it to your GOALS page.
Painting: Painting this week – Starting to think about ACRYLICS.
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
Again, thinking about working with WATERCOLORS and moving onto the next medium of Acrylics… based on PAST EXPERIENCES… what differences do you see being part of the process?
Biggest accomplishment with the watercolor today? how have you seen stagnation – non-experimentation / growth as an artist so far?
9.1P: Establish relevant criteria in order to evaluate a work of art or collection of works.
Looking at the forms you created – what is the STRONGEST / MOST SUCCESSFUL aspect of these four objects? What is the WEAKESST / LEAST SUCCESSFUL aspect of these four objects?
What form was the most challenging for you to create with the CARDBOARD? Why do you feel that was the biggest challenge? Use the ART TERMS that you know (Form, Shape, Effort, Execution…)
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.
Looking at the assembly of the composition, what is NEW in the approach to CREATING the artwork? Knowing I am asking you to think outside of the “box,” how is it different? Easier? More Difficult? – Share on your GOALS page the differences and how they may be challenging you. SHARE THIS WITH YOUR CLASSMATES.
How did having conversation with your classmates about the processes / materials that you are using give you different ways, new ideas about the work you are making?
Painting: Painting this week – Starting to think about ACRYLICS – but CRIT first.
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
How do you feel that working with WATERCOLORS might take you to the next medium of Acrylic? Based on PAST EXPERIENCES… what similarities do you see being part of the process?
Biggest accomplishment with the watercolor today? how have you seen GROWTH as an artist so far?
10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated.
These forms may not be your MASTERPIECE of all time, but they did require focus, work, and attention to detail. Looking at ALL the FORMS you created, what do you feel about the ease or difficulty about creating a work of art.
If you are NOT done with the paper mache forms, what could you / should you have done over that past 2 weeks to make sure you DID get them finished by the end of the period? YOU WILL COME TO CLASS TOMORROW with them done.
1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.
Looking over the work you have, what surprises do you see from where you started from two weeks ago? 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.
What ELEMENT of art do you find being the strongest one that you are using? Color? Line? Shape? Form? Space? Tell me about it!
Painting: Painting this week – Starting to think about ACRYLICS – but CRIT first.
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.
What are you most comfortable with? Pencil, Charcoal, Pastel, or Paint? Why? What medium are you struggling with? Why? how can you move forward in your work with the UNCOMFORTABLE medium? (1, 2, 3, 7)
What have you added to this composition that is NEW to you? Something that you have NOT done in the past. Anything that is new…
REMEMBER! Create a ONE PAGE PAPER – DUE LAST FRIDAY – I’m Calling you on it TODAY!
(TYPED! double spaced, 11 or 12 point Times New Roman, Palatino – Serif-ed type font) that discusses the artists and their works. Use ideas about the work as to what drew you to the work, what styles did you like, what techniques do you appreciate? A small history of the artist and personal reflection. How will you use similar ideas in your work as they did in theirs? Here are the artists to research: 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. PAPER IS DUE ON Friday, September 19, 2014.
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9.1P: Establish relevant criteria in order to evaluate a work of art or collection of works.
What are TWO IDEAS of PERSONAL criteria that you might set up for yourself as you work on an artwork?
Based on your initial thoughts about personal criteria, are you matching, exceeding, or just barely hitting the standards you would set up for yourself? WHY?
10.1Ad: Synthesize knowledge of social, cultural, historical, and personal life with art-making approaches to create meaningful works of art or design.
Not knowing what your thoughts are about plants / flowers, know that they have been and will be a large and important image in art. Working to make sure you have a REAL connection with the images you make, what are your personal connections to the art or the making of the art?
What materials have you used today? What were the focal points of the drawings for the day. What are you enjoying / hating about the ideas of drawing based on observation?
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.
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?
What were 3 things that you took away from today’s critique? How will you apply that information as you move forward?
REMEMBER! Create a ONE PAGE PAPER(double spaced, 11 or 12 point Times New Roman, Palatino – Serif-ed type font) that discusses the artists and their works. Use ideas about the work as to what drew you to the work, what styles did you like, what techniques do you appreciate? A small history of the artist and personal reflection. How will you use similar ideas in your work as they did in theirs? Here are the artists to research: 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. PAPER IS DUE ON Friday, September 19, 2014.
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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 changes can you make to the forms as you add the paper mache to them? How will this add or take away from the sculptural form? N: Paper mache project today
What do you need to do to WRAP UP THE BUILDING part of this work?
Plants and Trees – Charcoal – Paper – Paint… ttp://www.alancristea.com/collection-41-109-Plants-Andamp%3B-Trees to see more images of the GREAT works.
Goals:
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.
Using the PLANT and the image by Jim Dine that I have shown you, what ideas FIRST COME TO YOUR MIND when told you are going to be working on a PLANT BASED drawing? Write out your FIRST THOUGHTS.
As you are working, what are you seeing as an area that you might need to really focus on as you continue.
6.1Ac: Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history.
How are you relating the ideas of making art to making art about yourself? Do you find this to be easy or difficult – WHY?
REMEMBER! Create a ONE PAGE PAPER(double spaced, 11 or 12 point Times New Roman, Palatino – Serif-ed type font) that discusses the artists and their works. Use ideas about the work as to what drew you to the work, what styles did you like, what techniques do you appreciate? A small history of the artist and personal reflection. How will you use similar ideas in your work as they did in theirs? Here are the artists to research: 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. PAPER IS DUE ON Friday, September 19, 2014.
Art With Korb 
