Don’t ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it’s the only thing that ever has. – Aaron Sorkin, Writer and Producer.
Get Out Your Handbooks – Page 16!
Ceramics 1: Let’s continue with our boxes!
7.2Ac: Evaluate the effectiveness of an image or images to influence ideas, feelings, and behaviors of specific audiences.
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
Assignment Sheet is in your GOOGLE CLASSROOM (as always) and HERE.
This has been a good week of work. We started with drawing out our plants, cutting into our linoleum, and resolving them for printing. We have also worked with creating successful slabs by rolling them out for today. Finally, today we took all of that information and put it all together successfully and you’ve resolved your boxes. What are three things about this process that you initially struggled with but in the end found a sense of success, accomplishment with? Write it out and then share it with your neighbor. Have a great weekend!
“A dream only becomes overrated when not pursued by the dreamer.” ― Courtney Hickman
PLEIN AIR ART CLASS: Summer Opportunities – Plein Air and Printmaking!
Summer Plein Air Art – Taliesin – Frank Lloyd Wright – Spring Green, WI Images of Field Trip HERE.
ALL LATE WORK IS DUE FRIDAY – No Exceptions! Period.
Drawing: Shadows, Positive, and Negative Space
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
What have you accomplished this week – three days in? What strengths do you see in the hands and mind you have that will add to the work you are creating? What is a weakness? Can you resolve that over the weekend?
2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
What do you need to do to PRINT this hour or rework your plate to GROUP PRINT? If you are DONE printing – how are you going to use the remainder of the time to prepare a note card for the exam – Look at the HANDBOOK and understand the ELEMENTS and PRINCIPLES, color wheel, grid… One note card is your tool? Think of a question that you might have for me for the end of the class to help you with your questions…
What is ONE QUESTION I can help you with regarding the exam? Do you have any knowledge of the exam… Let’s talk tomorrow!
Advanced Drawing: Work like your ART depends on it!
Express: Learning to create works that convey an idea, a feeling, or a personal meaning.
Take a look at your previous week’s works – where did you struggle the most with the idea of the portrait? Where did you succeed the most? How do you use the ideas of chiaroscuro to better define the ideas of form (in the face especially)?
What was the most challenging way to draw? Why was this most difficult way to go? What is most important about drawing when it comes to observation? Previous works from past classes. Indoor outdoor images (Vermeer).
AP Studio Art: 7 Deadly Art Sins – What’s the PROGRESS?
4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
Review your thoughts with you neighbors about the Myth. What are your thoughts about your classmates work. Sticky Note Comments.
What is ONE THING you are happy with about the print? What is ONE THING you would do differently?
Advanced Drawing: Work like your ART depends on it!
Express: Learning to create works that convey an idea, a feeling, or a personal meaning.
Take a look at your previous week’s works – where did you struggle the most with the idea of the portrait? Where did you succeed the most? How do you use the ideas of chiaroscuro to better define the ideas of form (in the face especially)?
4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
Looking at the show – What needs tweeking? What needs work? Ok? Then we are back to the SEVEN DEADLY ART MYTHS.
“Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.” — John Andrew Holmes
Drawing: 30 Minutes of OUTSIDE TIME
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
What is a color that POPS into your mind as you have spoken with and talked to your classmate? Why do you see that color as being something that represents them?
What’s working and what is not? Where have you struggled in this drawing so far?
AP Studio Art: Deadly Sins – of the ART WORLD!
.1 Ad: Visualize and hypothesize to generate plans for ideas and directions for creating art and design that can affect social change.
What are three things that you see as being SOLID PROGRESS in your visualization of the Seven Deadly Art Myths.
Attribution: By Hieronymus Bosch – →This file has been extracted from another file: Hieronymus Bosch- The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things.JPG, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5595862
IF you could change one thing about the work you are creating so far… what would you do to make it stronger?
“Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.” — John Andrew Holmes
Drawing: Shadows and Todd Mrozinski
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
What are three reasons that SIMPLIFYING a work of art may be a good way to make meaning easier to understand in a work of art?
What are three characteristics of your classmate that you think will be helpful to you in discovering a color scheme / ideas for compositions? Do you have an OBJECT that you can bring in tomorrow to be the third part of the triptych? BRING IT IN!
Studio Art 360: Outside and Observe!
2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
Look at last weeks drawing from FRIDAY. What is one thing that you did well on? What are two things you would like to improve on?
What was your biggest challenge in the drawing from observation? What are 2 things that were a challenge as you were looking at a REAL object?
Advanced Drawing: Edward Hopper and Frida… KAHLO!
G: Reflect: Learning to think and talk with others about an aspect of one’s work or working process, and learning to judge one’s own work and working process and the work of others.
Where have you used criticism in the past to evaluate something as good or bad? What were some of the criteria that you have used to do that?
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.
Painting / Advanced Painting: Paint and Clean
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?
Drawing: Print and Edition and Clean
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?
AP Studio Art: Work and Clean and Organize the Gallery
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?
Studio Art 360: Balance and Pattern – All sorts of types
1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
What do you feel you need to do in order to be focused and intentional in the work you are creating? One aspect of this work is to know that the marks you are making are permanent – cannot be taken out – one and done. How do you work with the mistakes that you might make?
Step back and look – what are three things you need to work on in your painting that you might not have seen so far?
Drawing: Drawings ready for Printing
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
Today you are wrapping up the drawing. What are your plans? Have you chosen a compositional style? A color scheme? What is going to make this a STRONG work of art?
Are you ready for tomorrow? Will you be prepared to print on Friday? This is CRUNCH TIME!
AP: Art and Fear NEW UPDATES! Woo Hoo!
Chapter 1 Available in AUDIO! Each Chapter is going to be recorded to help those who might need a bit of help reading through the chapters. The good part is – the words are almost all correct. The downside is – you need to listen to me.
NEW AND EXCITING NEWS! Available on this website (look to the right under ARTICLES, BOOKS, AND VIDEO LINKS for Art and Fear – Audioas well as the individual chapter websites from www.KorbArtAndFear.WordPress.com and HERE is the link too.
1.1 Ad: Visualize and hypothesize to generate plans for ideas and directions for creating art and design that can affect social change.
How does FEAR get in your way TODAY as you begin to or continue to create art?
How have you learned to work beyond fears to create work this year? Do you find that you still have fears about the work you are creating?
The Waterford Seven have continued to create wonderful works of art over this summer. I am truly proud of the ideas and decisions that they make in the arrangement of their visual compositions. From today’s prints to the drawings of landscape in oil pastels and marker, to the acrylic paintings, they make GREAT choices and are following some very challenging processes to their Art making. Way to go ALL! GALLERY is HERE.
1.1P: Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.
What do you need to do in order to be ready to PRINT in 15 minutes?
How have you chosen to use shapes? Are you looking at GEOMETRIC over ORGANIC? Hard Edged or Soft Edged? What mood – feeling do you take from your initial drawings?
Painting: Paint and RESOLVE the image.
Edward Hopper – One of the GREATEST PAINTERS! Look at his WEBSITE – on your own – HERE.
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
What is it you need to be working on ONLINE to be ready for Friday? What snacks are you bringing for the POT-LUCK?
What do you hope to accomplish in the creation of this work? what messages are you communicating in this painting?
AP Studio Art – Let’s CRIT!
Elizabeth Peyton – I’ve talked about her before – let’s look one more time – it is FUN and FRESH work! Here is a BIO.
Goals:
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 many images do you have up on your site? Are your questions answered?
How have you ADVANCED in your work this semester? What is ONE THING that you have seen as a new strength?
Tomorrow at MIDNIGHT CHAPTER 9 is due in Art and Fear Blog. Last Chapter!
“An average person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.” – Brian Tracy
”Even talent is rarely indistinguishable, over the long run, from perseverance and lots of hard work.” Ted Orland and David Bayles – Art and Fear.
Studio Art 360: Continuous Line PORTRAITS and then…
Mono Print TOMORROW!
Goals:
9.1P: Establish relevant criteria in order to evaluate a work of art or collection of works.
Using CRITERIA to EVALUATE a work of art can be a personal thing. Generally we use a four steps process to a well thought out critique. What are three things you would choose to use when critiquing your non-objective print? What are two things you will focus on today when working on it?
What is ONE thing you found that worked out really well for you today in class?
Painting: Continue to Paint and RESOLVE the image
Our critique will be a lot like this… but WAY BETTER! Use this link to access the ONLINE critique sheet and make sure you SHARE it with me.
Goals:
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.
You were asked to begin thinking about the work in front of you… What DO YOU SEE IN YOUR PAINTING? That’s it.. WHAT DO YOU SEE? Take your time… look at everything you see in the work and write down all that you see.
Time to work today began with DESCRIPTION – was there anything NEW that you saw when you began writing and working today? We do not have a lot of time to work this week but… lots of time use that knowledge in your life.
AP Studio Art – PAINT and CONCENTRATE!
One More by Frank Juarez…
Goals:
4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
How is the online presentation coming along? What do you STILL NEED TO DO in order to get the website finished and polished?
Presentation of your current body of work is on Monday. What do you have to do in order to get the 3 works finished?
Art With Korb 
