March 27, 2013 – Wednesday

“You can’t hit a target you cannot see and you cannot see a target you do not have.” — Zig Ziglar

What is the target you are setting up for yourself this week?

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Art Foundations: Continue on the 2 Point Perspective Drawings. Save the Chiaroscuro for AFTER Spring Break… Let’s get the basics done first.

What is your city going to look like?

GOALS:

  1. 1.2create art that demonstrates an understanding of how your ideas relate to 1.2.3 and processes you use.
  2. 3.1 reflect on how art differs and describe how it relates to your culture.

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Review with your neighbors the non-linear as well as the Rules of Thumb about 2 Point perspective. What are you were successful with and where you need help?

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Drawing: Let’s get back to the drawing of the figure and the piece of paper.

Look at the VALUES and TEXTURES! What?! For REAL? This is great. How are you doing? Last 2 days in class…

GOALS:

  1. 2.2 Evaluate the effectiveness of your artwork (1.2)
  2. Create art that demonstrates an understanding of how your ideas relate to materials, techniques and process.

What are your thoughts about the idea of the composition / paper bag as subject matter? WRITE THAT IN YOUR GOAL SHEETS. Why do you feel this is worthy / unworthy / simple / complicated?

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AP Studio Art: Work on your concentration works… 3 due the week AFTER we get back from break.

How does your home studio look as the week of break is coming upon us? Are you ready?

GOALS:

  1. 4.4 evaluate and interpret your art for relationships in 4.4.1 form 4.4.2 context and 4.4.3 meanings showing understanding of the work of various art professionals* (How do you think you stack up?).

How does your art compare with the work of “professionals” and how can you work to create a better understanding of your approach / intent / ideas?).

March 26, 2013 – Tuesday

“You can’t hit a target you cannot see and you cannot see a target you do not have.” — Zig Ziglar

What is the target you are setting up for yourself this week?

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Art Foundations: Chiaroscuro – SPHERE… How’s your shading going? Clean it up and make it PERFECT!

Remeber this image? How are you doing to create a city?

GOALS:

  1. 5.1 identify the rationale behind making art
  2. 3.5 Evaluate and defend the manner in which subject matter, symbols, and images are used.

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What is working well for you now? Where are you struggling with the ideas of VALUE and SHADING? How can you use this in the cityscape to help the drawing?

What is ONE positive thing you are proud of regarding the work you have accomplished today? Tell yourself in your goals.

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Drawing: Day 2 in the computer lab. Let’s continue to talk about and think about the role of and the use of the personal evaluation and refelction…

GOALS:

  1. 3.5 Evaluate and defend the manner in which subject matter, symbols, and images are used. (D)
  2. Research and Information Fluency – Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.

What was the success in today’s self-evaluation and the use of the GOOGLE DRIVE?

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AP Studio Art: Let’s WORK on the CONCENTRATION with a sense of EFFORT and URGENCY!\

GOALS:

  1. 2.2 PEER-evaluate the effectiveness of artworks
  2. 3.5 Evaluate and defend the manner in which subject matter, symbols, and images are used. (D)

What are you walking away from knowing about your work regarding TODAY’s efforts? What strings do you have untied at the end of the day? What questions will you need to look at tomorrow and answer to help you advance?

March 25, 2013 – Monday

“You can’t hit a target you cannot see and you cannot see a target you do not have.” — Zig Ziglar

What is the target you are setting up for yourself this week?

Jasper Johns has hit the target with his “Target.” What is your’s?

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Art Foundations: Chairoscuro Worksheet today… That’s it! Oh, and one summative worksheet… yes… that’s it… oh wait, one more thing… GOALS SHEET INFORMATION…

What do you see? What do you recognize? What is the challenge you see? Where would you struggle?

GOALS:

  1. (1.2.2 and 3) Create 2 point perspective drawings that demonstrate an understanding of how your ideas relate to technique and process (P).
  2. (5.1) Identify the intentions and purposes in creating 2 point perspective / values / taking an ART CLASS in general – (3rd Quarter Review Sheet).

Review with neighbors the progress of the chiaroscuro and the proper use of 2 point perspective. What are the big challenges you are facing with the buildings?

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Drawing: Let’s look into the ideas of 21st Century technology… how are you learning about the use of it? How can what WE do help in your other aspects of life / school? GOALS SHEET INFORMATION…

I wonder what we are doing today? Make sure you have your drawing and a ruler.

GOALS:

  1. 3.5 Evaluate and defend the manner in which subject matter, symbols, and images are used.
  2. Research and Information Fluency – Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.

What was the success in today’s self-evaluation and the use of the GOOGLE DRIVE?

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AP Studio Art: What is a challenge with the CRITIQUES? Where is it you struggle with when it comes to talking? Let’s share the ideas. GOALS are going to become a part of the weekly grades… how can you earn more and more points for staying focused? I’ll let you know.


GOALS:

2.2 PEER-evaluate the effectiveness of artworks

What were the biggest impressions you had from the classmate’s works? What were the most difficult things you felt as you presented your work? Conversation between classmates about the 2 questions for your exam. How does this work relate to your concentration?

March 5, 2013 – Tuesday

Art Club – Set Painting, Tuesday and Wedesday from 5:30 – 8:30. Join us and bring a friend! Be part of all the fine arts at WUHS!

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“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”

– Booker T. Washington

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Art Foundations: Positive and Negative Space Drawings, 2 Point Perspective – the Cube – Review notes from Chapter 5.

Positive / Negative Space Drawing and Painting.

GOALS:

  1. 1.2 create art that demonstrates an understanding of how your ideas relate to the 1.2.3 processes you use
  2. 2.3 create artworks that solve visual challenges

What was the MOST CHALLENGING aspect of using the NEGATIVE space to create your artwork for today? Why do you think that being able to SEE the negative space is important in an observational drawing?

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Drawing: Begin work on texture drawings – paper bag and plastic bag drawings – OPEN compositions.

Notice the texture? Is this an OPEN or CLOSED composition?

GOALS:

  1. (1.2) Create art that demonstrates an understanding of how your ideas relate to materials, techniques and process.

What techniques / understanding from our last projects in VALUE do you think you can use top make this next drawing OUTSTANDING? What did you learn that will make your OPEN compositions really strong?

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AP Studio Art: Work on coming up with ideas for the next BREADTH work and you concentration works… DO NOT WAIT until the few days before the second week to get started on either… work on both ALWAYS.

What can you do with your ideas? How cool is this sketchbook?

GOALS:

  1. 2.6 create multiple solutions to visual challenges that show understanding in relationships between composition and meaning of artwork

How do you make plans for the work you are planning? What is holding you back from creating outstanding works in the first place? Are you unsure, scared, lazy, apathetic or SOARING to new heights?

 

March 4, 2013 – Monday

Art Club – Set Painting, Tuesday and Wedesday from 5:30 – 8:30. Join us and bring a friend! Be part of all the fine arts at WUHS!
From Frank Korb’s ABC’s of Art 2013:

“L is for Lifelong Learning – What does it take to be an artist? This is a question that many colleges and universities fail to provide a solid answer for. Opportunities abound as one learns what it is to juggle the time, management, resources, artworks, and all the other things that are part of a successful artist (professional and students alike).”

– Frank Korb

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Art Foundations: Perspective – Linear and NON-Linear. Chapter 5 ArtTalk Textbook, Drawing and Discussion of perspective ideas. How do you see SPACE?

Black and white negative space empty Black and white negative space filled

GOALS:

  1. 1.4 create, define, and solve visual challenges using 1.4.1 analysis (breaking up the artwork / subject matter to basic elements)

 Review with neighbors the RULES of THUMB and discuss the Differences in linear and non-linear perspective.

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Drawing – Final day to TOUCH up and FIX any visual challenges your portrait has.

Look “Close” and see how it all comes together! How’s your drawing?

GOALS:

  1. 1.4 create, define, and solve visual challenges using 1.4.2 synthesis (put all the parts of a work together to form a whole)

What did you take away from the critique last week? How did you use that information to make your drawing more successful today? Was the extended work time worthwhile to resolve the challenges you had? Write down what you have taken from the crit.

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AP Studio ArtCRITIQUE – Who gets voted off?

Robert Smithson’s “Spiral Jetty,” one of the most famous works of earth art. GETTY EDUCATIONAL IMAGE – Copyright Getty Education.

Goals:

  1. PEER-evaluate the effectiveness of artworks A: What have you been challenged with from the past two weeks worth of making art.

What were the biggest impressions you had from the classmate’s works? What were the most difficult things you felt as you presented your work? Conversation between classmates about the 2 questions for your exam. How does this work relate to your concentration?

March 1, 2013 – Friday: Parent / Teacher Conference Day

“Our success at friendship, business, sports, love—indeed, at nearly every enterprise we attempt—is largely determined by our self-image. People who have a confidence in their personal worth seem to be magnets for success and happiness.”

— Alan Loy McGinn” – http://goalhabits.com/author/paul456/

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Thank you to ALL the parents who came on Thursday night. I look forward to seeing the rest of you on Friday from 8 - 10 AM.
Thank you to ALL the parents who came on Thursday night. I look forward to seeing the rest of you on Friday from 8 – 10 AM.

Parent Teacher Conferences are TODAY! If you haven’t made plans to come, visit, and talk about what  is happening in the classroom – come on down 8 – 10am!

February 28, 2013 – Thursday (or is it Friday?)

There is only one day left, always starting over; it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre – http://goalhabits.com/author/paul456/

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Art Foundations: Perspective – what is it and how do you understand the process of one and two point perspective? Draw out your understanding of the process and your work. Filippo Brunelleschi and the Re-Invention of linear perspective.

“The Nuptials of the Holy Virgin” Raphael, 1504

GOALS:

  1. 1.4.1 analysis (breaking up the artwork / subject matter to basic elements).
  2. 6.2 compare characteristics of the visual arts and other disciplines from history or movements (Renaissance).

What were your MAJOR mistakes / missteps in the use of one point perspective? What is it that you remember from your past experiences with perspective?

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Drawing: ORAL CRITIQUE – Day 3.

How have you demonstrated YOUR self-reflection? Does this look like a good use of time? YES!

What was beneficial for you in the process of the critique? WHY are some NOT speaking? Hmm…..

GOALS: Be prepared for this long one… I have GREAT expectations from each and every one of you!

  1. 5.2 Gather up the courage to talk about the work in front of you, and stand behind your criticism of art

What is it you take away from the critique of others work? Write down ONE REALLY SOLID bit of information that stands out in your head! Share this with your classmate. THIS IS IMPORTANT!

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AP Studio Art: Last day to work in class… Who won Work of Art? Peregrine the girl from the park? Hipster Steve? Maybe it was Abdi the educator… AP STUDIO ART: Final Minutes of Work of Art… Who will be voted off? Work of Art: The Next Great Artist Season 1

Andy Goldsworthy – Take a look at how HE uses the objects from nature and makes quality and thoughtful artworks. How can you approach – how HAVE you approached the same ideas.

GOALS:

  1. What is your personal GOAL for the day?
  2. 5.4 reflect on interpretations as a means for understanding and evaluating art

Ok all… what have you got to continue and finish? What are your plans for the next work? What is holding you back from developing your work and moving it forward?

February 27, 2013 – Wednesday

FOLLOW and SHARE – Can you set GOALS for your own DAY to DAY? These are the roadmaps for the students in my classes.

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Art Foundations: Perspective – what is it and how do you understand the process of one and two point perspective? Draw out your understanding of the process and your work. Filippo Brunelleschi and the Re-Invention of linear perspective.

Perspective was invented in the Renaissance of Art (Late 1400’s – 1700).

GOALS:

  1. 1.4.1 analysis (breaking up the artwork / subject matter to basic elements).
  2. 6.2 compare characteristics of the visual arts and other disciplines from history or movements (Renaissance).

What were your MAJOR mistakes / missteps in the use of one point perspective? What is it that you remember from your past experiences with perspective?

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Drawing: ORAL CRITIQUE – Day 2.

How have you demonstrated YOUR self-reflection? Does this look like a good use of time? YES!
How have you demonstrated YOUR self-reflection? Does this look like a good use of time? YES!

GOALS: Be prepared for this long one… I have GREAT expectations from each and every one of you!

  1. 5.2 SPEAK about the work you see in front of you, gather up the courage to talk about the work in front of you, and stand behind your criticism of art

What is it you take away from the critique of others work? Write down ONE REALLY SOLID bitof information that stands out in your head! Share this with your classmate. THIS IS IMPORTANT!

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AP Studio Art: Yesterday – I asked you to come up with your own GOAL. What is a GOAL that you have for the day for yourself. This is not a TASK or AGENDA item… Sit back and think about the Goals we have written for the past year. What is a GOAL that you can modify and make pertinent to your work – your progress – your desires to learn more or improve on? Write this out and make it work.

Andy Goldsworthy – Another work by him… Let’s take a look at his website!

GOALS:

  1. 3.2 apply subjects, symbols, and ideas in art and use skill to solve visual challenges
  2. What is YOUR goal? Rewrite a National Visual Arts Standard to make it particular to your work. DO IT!

So… report to Mr. Korb what your PERSONAL GOAL was for the day, what category (1 – 6 in the NVAS did it come from) and how did you modify it to make it your own?