“Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.” Brian Tracy, Eat that Frog
Reflection: Describe, in complete sentences, two ways you have worked to move forward in what you might have been struggling with at the beginning of the week? Share these thoughts with your neighbor.
Q: As you are working, what are you seeing as an area that you might need to really focus on as you continue.
Drawing: Charcoal, Pastels: Oil and Soft Still Life / Collage
Stage 1: Detail: Walnut Hill Senior Min develops her voice “Studio Thinking 2” Color Plates
Walnut Hill Senior Min develops her voice “Studio Thinking 2” Color Plates
DETAIL: Walnut Hill Senior Min develops her voice “Studio Thinking 2” Color Plates
Q: 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?
AP Studio Art: Critique – Let’s look at the RUBRIC! Then talk about your works.
Q: What are your first marks on the paper? How are you handling the ideas of THUMBNAILS? What are the areas that you are focusing on in the composition? How did you approach this work?
“Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.” Brian Tracy, Eat that Frog
Class Reflections: As you look back on week one, what are two things that you are pleased with or struggling with as we have moved forward in the artmaking process?
Studio Art 360: Collaborative Site Specific Sculpture
Waterford Lights Site Specific Sculpture over the bridge – Waterford.
Waterford Lights Site Specific Sculpture from under the bridge – Waterford.
Q: What is the biggest challenge you see in the process of cutting out the SHAPES in order to build up the FORM? Working with your team? Thinking about the space that you are working from?
Painting: Encaustics – Let’s get rolling!
This is a GREAT movie to watch in its entirety. I’ll leave the link up for your viewing pleasure.
Jasper Johns Encaustic – Let’s get started!
Q: What are you ready to do today. OUT LOUD TO STUDENTS – Take a look and have a conversation with your classmates to discuss the next steps in the process.
Drawing: Charcoal, Pastels: Oil and Soft Still Life / Collage
Q: What have you learned today about how to push / pull / develop space using perspective? What have you accomplished with pencil? Pastel? Charcoal?
AP Studio Art: Critique – Let’s look at the RUBRIC! Then talk about your works.
Robert Chabet uses apples as a concentration. Let’s eat ours (if they are still good) while we talk about the rubric and develop some conversation.
Q: As a body / concentration of works, what do you see as interesting, worthwhile for 1) YOU to create and 2) the audience to sit and look at? 3) Holding it together as an intense study of the topic?
10 Things CREATIVE people do – Have you ever wondered why some people are more creative than others? Did you ever wish that you had more of that particular gene? The good news is that research shows that happiness and creativity are not only related, they can be developed. Here are 10 ways to jumpstart your creativity, starting now:
9. Learn Something New: By taking a class outside your typical area of interest, you can have a wider range of ideas to draw from and interconnect. Researchshows that connecting in new ways is the basis for all creative thought.
10. Know Your Strengths and Passions: Get to know what makes your heart soar, what makes you feel most alive and energized, and use it as fuel for the creative process.
By nourishing your creative side, you’ll bring happiness not only to yourself but to those around you. You’ll also know what you had inside yourself all along. What do you do to tap into your creativity?
1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.
Of the shapes we are began with yesterday (Circle, Square, Triangle), which one is STRONG and why? Which shape describes a passive quality? Why?
Reflection: How do you feel you might be able to use the ideas of color and shape to communicate your ideas from your song? Give 3 examples of how a shape, angle, color might offer emotion.
Studio Art 360: Sculpture.
Goals:
.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? Do you want to work on ALL of them at the same time or are you going to finish one and then move onto the next?
Reflection: Looking at the sculpture you have begun… what are three things you could be (can do) to enhance the composition, the execution, the message?
2.3Ad: Demonstrate in works of art or design how visual and material culture defines, shapes, enhances, inhibits, and/or empowers people’s lives.
What is happening in your classmates work that you are truly glad to see happening? Write that out and then take a moment to give them encouragement and support.
Reflection: What’s on your plate for the weekend? What have you got to work on? Website? Artwork? Job?
2.2Ad: Demonstrate understanding of the importance of balancing freedom and responsibility in the use of images, materials, tools, and equipment in the creation and circulation of creative work.
Last day this week… What are two things you are planning on doing TODAY to get a good deal of work planned and begun for today?
Reflection: Having has 4 days to get into the process. DESCRIBE ALL THAT YOU HAVE ACCOMPLISHED in the past 4 days. As a VIEWER – what progress would we see.
1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.
What feelings do you get from specific pieces of music? Give some examples. Rap / Country / Reggae / ROCK and ROLL (i.e.: When I listen to country music, the shapes that flow through my mind are…)
Know that Mary Heebsh is going to be helping you out today with the music and ideas. She’s able to answer a lot of your questions about this project and the larger ideas behind it. That said, don’t worry too much about it. As long as you are trying, you are succeeding. This is a GREAT project that can affect your art making experience for years. RELAX and ENJOY!
Reflection: Looking back on your drawings from today, what shapes, lines, forms did you draw out and find? What ideas came to mind as you listened to the very different music?
2.6 create multiple solutions to visual challenges that show understanding in relationships between composition and meaning of artwork.
What have your previous sketches been over the past months? Are you still thinking about your CONCENTRATION? How have you been planning the NEW ideas out for your work?
TODAY YOU ARE HANGING WORKS AND CLEANING YOUR SPACE AND THE LIKE!
THANKS! Korb.
DO NOT FORGET that your CHAPTER 4 statements are due TONIGHT at midnight. Thanks to ALL who are already done.
Reflection: What have you come up with? What materials are you planning on using? How does it fit into your current body of work
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 MASTERPIECE SKETCHES today. Which drawing from the packet are you focusing on today? Why this one in particular?
Reflection: What TWO parts of your MASTERPIECE SKETCHBOOK drawing worked out really well for you today? What ONE THING did you struggle with? How much do you have to do before next week on the due date?
7.1P: Hypothesize ways in which art influences perception and understanding of human experiences.
What is ONE things that you might think if you saw a grouping of cylinders, cubes, and pyramids all grouped together?
Last 10 minutes of class. Set out your GOALS PAGE and the CRITIQUE SHEET I gave you. Walk Clockwise and in serpentine fashion (I’ll demonstrate) around the room and take in the work that is in front of you. Like musical chairs, stop when I say stop and make 5 REAL COMMENTS on 5 different classmates work. What is working? What is NOT working? Last 3 minutes… Read your comments – write a BRIEF response to a classmates comments.
2.2Ad: Demonstrate understanding of the importance of balancing freedom and responsibility in the use of images, materials, tools, and equipment in the creation and circulation of creative work.
What Freedoms and Responsibilities did you take as you chose the images / ideas you created?
As we look at your body of works, what is it that ties them all together? What is it that you can see as your voice starting to come out?
2.3Ac: Redesign an object, system, place, or design in response to contemporary issues
What have you been considering as you have redesigned the images / composition as you’ve planned out your painting?
Look around at the work collages laid out around the room. See if you can figure out what they may be saying about themselves in the art. Write down a brief description of their work on the stick notes I have provided. Refelct on what has been written and then have a conversation about the meaning… Were you right? DO NOT CRITIQUE the work of a classmate that you have been working next to the whole time… SERIOUSLY!
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.
