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Roses Are Red, Violets are…

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During a trip to Ripon College, I got my daily dose of color theory. This has given me pause to reconsider all the other color ideas I might have been wrong on after all these years. If you have any ideas, send them my way and I’ll post them for you.

Frank

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#MidWeek in the #Art #Studio – #FourThings to help you make #GreatART

“Remember, all the answers you need are inside of you; you only have to become quiet enough to hear them.” — Debbie Ford

Mr Korb’s Spring Break Photographs HERE!

Drawing: PORTRAITS! Let’s get BACK to it!

I LOVE your hair! http://rapidfireart.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/how-to-draw-realistic-hair-featured-RFA-comp-534×280.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.
  • How is the Hair Line and DIRECTION of hair a different feature to draw than any other feature of the head? What struggles do you see that you have had in the drawing of hair in the past?

Reflection: What successes did YOU have today in the drawing of hair? How can you use this new skill (or old skill) to make your work stronger in the future?

Studio Art 360: COLLAGE POEMS

langston-hughes1

Goals:

  • 10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.
  • What do you currently know about using CLAY? Take 1 minute and 30 seconds and write down EVERYTHING you can think of when it comes to clay.
    • Slide Show Link Here 
    • Photos of Collages HERE

Reflection: What are three challenges you see translating your collage into the ceramic Bas Relief Sculpture?

AP Studio Art: Online Uploads and PHOTOS

AP Studio Art Portfolio Days! Consider all the portfolios from around the world! http://www.angryboar.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/amazon_warehouse_12.jpg

Goals:

  • Research and Information Fluency – Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.
  • What NEW images do you have to upload to the website? How many works do you need to upload to the AP Website? Today we are working.

Reflection: What did working on the AP Site give you new insight to about your work? Any NEW thoughts? 

Advanced Drawing: FIGURE DRAWING / CRITIQUE

The geusture drawing a la Vincent Van Gogh: http://www.vangoghgallery.com/catalog/image/1649r/Sheet-with-Numerous-Figure-Sketches.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • How do you feel about the idea of making these gesture drawings? You saw Mr. Korb draw yesterday… what are your initial reactions to the idea of the drawing?
  • Look at the GESTURE DRAWING YouTube by Mr. Korb…

Reflection: 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!”

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#Critique and #Poetry in the #Art #Studio

“Remember, all the answers you need are inside of you; you only have to become quiet enough to hear them.” — Debbie Ford

Mr Korb’s Spring Break Photographs HERE!

Drawing: PORTRAITS! Let’s get BACK to it!

Lets look into the EAR! GROSS! http://orig10.deviantart.net/0187/f/2007/132/7/4/ear_piercings_by_d_mc.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.
  • How is the EAR a different feature to draw than any other feature of the face? Please explain your ideas here.

Reflection: What successes did YOU have in the ear today? What made the ear an easier feature to draw? Or WAS it? 

Studio Art 360: TEXTURE – COLLAGE POEMS

Goals:

  • 6.1P: Analyze and describe the impact that an exhibition or collection has on personal awareness of social, cultural, or political beliefs and understandings.
  • What are three things that you wrote about that really stand out from your collage now that you have begun writing your poem. THESE ARE THINGS THAT YOU CAN USE IN YOUR FINAL POEM.
    • Slide Show Link Here 
    • Photos of Collages HERE

Reflection: You have TONIGHT to finish the ONLINE SLIDESHOW – What is the BIGGEST Message in your Collage and Poem? Explain the way your collage and poem CLEARLY communicate that

AP Studio Art: Online Uploads and PHOTOS

Peregrine Honig RESCHEDULE! Hope you feel better soon! http://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/kcur/files/styles/medium/public/201412/peregrine.JPG

Goals:

  • 7.2Ad: Determine the commonalities within a group of artists or visual images attributed to a particular type of art, time frame, or culture.
  • What are you missing in your collection of artworks? 12 Breadth? 12 Concentration? We are going to be getting SERIOUS about mounting and uploading works of art this next few weeks.

Reflection: As you look at the entire body of work you have developed, what are 3 things that you have seen grow and develop as an artist? Be specific.

Advanced Drawing: FIGURE DRAWING / CRITIQUE

Gesture Drawing: http://spssailors.org/pschulz/Sites/Gesture%20Drawing_files/image006.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • Beginning with a general idea of the figure and a reference with the mannequin – students will draw out the proportions and stance of the models for a few minutes and then transition to the human form. ? GESTURE DRAWING:  AND  https://youtu.be/CMRMLutJvxE

Reflection: What is most important about drawing when it comes to observation?

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Welcome Back from #SpringBreak – Let’s get back to #Art

“Remember, all the answers you need are inside of you; you only have to become quiet enough to hear them.” — Debbie Ford

Mr Korb’s Spring Break Photographs HERE!

Drawing: PORTRAITS! Let’s get BACK to it!

http://www.isaywhatever.com/image/data/nose%20picking.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.
  • How is the NOSE such a different facial feature to draw than say the MOUTH or the EYES? Please explain your ideas here. 

Reflection: What mistakes did YOU make – how bad were they when it came to eyes?

Studio Art 360: TEXTURE – COLLAGE POEMS

Langston Hughes Poetry: https://korbartwuhs.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/langston-hughes-poetry.jpg

Goals:

  •  6.1P: Analyze and describe the impact that an exhibition or collection has on personal awareness of social, cultural, or political beliefs and understandings.
  • What are you seeing about your collage as being a NEW skill / a NEW understanding / a NEW technique that you might take into the future of your art making toolbox?  
    • Slide Show Link Here: 

Reflection: What is the ONE area of the collage that you see yourself as carrying into the BAS RELIEF Sculpture? How do you hope to see this as carrying the SOCIAL COMMENTARY forward?

AP Studio Art: Figurative Art CRITIQUE / PHOTOS

Remember the PENCIL Artworks?

https://lesconcepts.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/duchamp_boccioni.jpg

Goals:

  •  7.2Ad: Determine the commonalities within a group of artists or visual images attributed to a particular type of art, timeframe, or culture.
  • What was the MOST FUN about creating this ABSTRACT work based on the REAL figure from PRIOR to SPRING BREAK? What did you enjoy about the process?

Reflection: In one COMPLETE SENTENCE – Describe the INTENT / PURPOSE of this work.

Advanced Drawing: FIGURE DRAWING / CRITIQUE

http://www.fanboy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/gesture-drawings.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • What are you REALLY STRONG with when it comes to drawing? What are you REALLY struggling with? What do you feel about the human form? How are you at that?

Reflection: What was the most challenging way to draw? Why was this most difficult way to go? How OFF were you from the original that you drew from your memory? What is most important about drawing when it comes to observation?

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#NewWeek #Monday #Portraits #Canvas #Selfies? #ART

#WiArtChat is on TWITTER NEEDS your INPUT! Please visit goo.gl/UvXgQM

“Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. Make. Good. Art.” ~ Neil Gaiman

Painting and Advanced Painting: CANVAS Building

Nancy Duensberry – Painter: http://www.nancydusenberry.com/paintings.html

Goals: 

  • 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.
  • Who have you begun to think about for the idea of the portrait? Self Portrait? Friend? Family? Take a minute – write it down and the big WHY! Tell your neighbor your plan.

Reflection / Evaluation: What is the ONE challenge you will have in the process of building a canvas? What are TWO aspects of your portrait that are going to make this a STRONG and engaging painting for you?

Studio Art 360: POETRY!

Poetry and Art! Roamre BEarden and Lanston Hughes. The Block: http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7013/6845900495_3b7c31d2ce.jpg

Goals

  • NETS Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and to the learning of others.
  • When you WROTE your poetry – what imagery in your artwork really began to stand out? How might this help you develop your bas relief sculpture?
    • Slide Show HERE
    • Images to PLACE – HERE
    • COLLAGE and POETRY LESSON – HERE

Reflection / Evaluation: What challenges did you have in the process of writing poetry for your artwork?

AP Studio Art: Concentration!

Have you looked at the AP Studio Art Portfolio for Inspiration? Here are the AP Studio Art Portfolio Example Pages.

Edvard Munch – Self Portrait Against a Blue Sky: http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/art/19th/munch/munch015.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • What are you thinking about carrying forward as you WRAP UP the FIRST three works (by Wednesday) and move into the NEXT three images? Write your ideas out in your sketchbook as you work.

Reflection / Evaluation: What are two things that you would judge as successful as you look at the 3 works together? Consider these FIRST three works as beginnings.

Drawing: Google Slideshow

Trenton Olson and Graffiti! Guest Speaker! YEAH!

Goals:

  • 6.1Ac: Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history.
  • When you think of what is popular in today’s art world – what kinds of imagery comes to mind? What kind of art do you like? Images, artists, colors? Graffiti and Fauvism – BOTH – worked to advance art beyond the current art of their time.
  • Self-Portraits – Then and Now 

Reflection / Evaluation: What are 2 things you enjoy or are challenged by throught the ideas and imagery of graffiti? BEGIN WORKING ON PRACTICE DRAWINGS of a person’s ENTIRE FACE – Front on or 1/4 turn at the most! PRACTICE is all it is – DUE Thursday – Famous person – BIG.

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#Friday is full of #Poetry, #Collage, #Portraits, and #ArtED:00

“Power will accomplish much, but perseverance more.”  —William Scott Downey

NPR – Listen Radio Lab Story of Perseverence HERE!

#WiArtChat is on TWITTER NEEDS your INPUT! Please visit goo.gl/UvXgQM

Painting and Advanced Painting: PORTRAITS and CANVAS Building

Do you need to add your painting to your the critique? HERE THEY ARE!

Elizabeth Peyton http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Image-22-1170×655.jpg

Goals: 

  • 7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
  • Consider the techniques in the application of paint you used in your acrylic paintings. Layering MANY layers versus one flat color. Thin layers upon layers or one solid thick color. Smooth and flat versus textured. What does this visually do for you, the painter? What does it do visually for the audience?
  • Portraits that Aren’t

Reflection / Evaluation: As some of you will be SEARCHING for ideas, others may be Researching for them (appropriation and making it your own). What is one struggle you are having in the idea of the portrait so that it is NOT JUST a mug shot, but rather an investigation of the PERSON – a portrait with MEANING?

Studio Art 360: Collage – Self Assessment and POETRY! (Photographs too).

Let’s Look at another by Writer and Collage Artist Erica Beebe – HERE!

MVC-002S

Goals

  • NETS: Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and to the learning of others.
  • As you WROTE about your artwork – and thought about it from the idea of POETRY – what are 2 or 3 NEW IDEAS you had about your work? BE specific!
    • Slide Show HERE
    • Images to PLACE – HERE
    • COLLAGE and POETRY LESSON – HERE

Reflection / Evaluation: What challenges did you have in the process of writing poetry for your artwork?

AP Studio Art: Concentration to work on!

Have you looked at the AP Studio Art Portfolio for Inspiration? Here are the AP Studio Art Portfolio Example Pages.

Michael Berryhill: http://www.brooklynrail.org/article_image/image/13232/berryhill-web5.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.3Ad: Demonstrate in works of art or design how visual and material culture defines, shapes, enhances, inhibits, and/or empowers people’s lives.
  • How will your audience be MOVED by the work you are presenting? Remember that one of the CRITERIA is all about creating work that is moving and engaging? ALSO – how do you see your CULTURE / SOCIETY / ENVIRONMENT as being IMPORTANT in the work you are creating?

Reflection / Evaluation: What work are you planning for this weekend? Be specific… What are you going to set time aside for and work on? Friday Night…  Saturday… Sunday…

Drawing: Google Slideshow

YUM! http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/04/29/article-2316509-198A16F8000005DC-186_468x286.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.
  • How is the NOSE such a different facial feature to draw than say the MOUTH or the EYES?
  • Self-Portraits – Then and Now 

Reflection / Evaluation: What mistakes did YOU make – how bad were they when it came to nose?

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