Class Reflections: As you have looked at making artwork, what is ONE skill that you feel you already have that you think will help you continue to succeed as a learning artist? Sticky note reflection and add it to your page 9 (or 8… wherever you are keeping our two days of sticky notes). Have a GREAT WEEKEND… Tuesday – We get into it.
Do you remember YOUR Freshman Open House? We have it again TONIGHT! The ART DEPARTMENT could use your help in promoting itself. Come DRAW, PAINT, WORK in the studio tonight from 5:30 – 8:00pm. Let Mr. Korb Know when you will be here. Sign up HERE!
What you must express in your drawing is not “what model you had,” but “what were your sensations,” and you select from what is visual of the model the traits that best express you. – Robert Henri
1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.
How are you ACTIVATING or THINKING about the background – negative space? As you have worked… what pencil have you been drawn to? Why? What has been easy about this project? More importantly – what was challenging?
Reflection: What are three differences in your drawing techniques / skills you are finding as you are using DRAWING Pencils versus MECHANICAL or STANDARD #2 pencils?
9.1P: Establish relevant criteria in order to evaluate a work of art or collection of works.
What are you doing in your composition to FULLY ACTIVATE the background? Shapes, Texture, Color, Lines, Circles? Allow yourself to EXPERIMENT!
Reflection: What is the strongest part of your artwork that you created this week? Use the ART TERMS you know
AP Studio Art: Work Of Art!
OUTSIDE AS ART… James Turrell “Sky Space”… http://skyspace.rice.edu/site_media/media/cache/2f/98/2f98a170074f3e2a60d93038c289dbed.png
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 have you been doing to try and create a work of art inspired by the outside? Where do you see this drawing / artwork going? How are you using the materials from outside to make GREAT ART?
Reflection: What have you accomplished in this day of work? What do you need to get accomplished for FRIDAY when your CURRENT BREADTH work is due online?
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
Most young artists work with their FIRST idea and that’s it. What might the benefit be to begin with MORE ideas? When you sketch in your binders / homework… where do you mostly get your ideas from? How do you define OBSERVATION?
Reflection: As you drew today, how have you begun to break the shapes and forms down into more bite sized, more manageable pieces? Do you need to LIGHTEN UP your initial drawing? Do you need to get the WHOLE COMPOSITION figured in first? Are you really OBSERVING?
2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
What did you do successfully yesterday with VALUES that you can continue with today? What is it you need to erase, change, resolve to make the drawing today even more successful.
Reflection: What is one thing you are putting into your drawing of the 3D Forms and VALUE in the worksheets that you demonstrated and / or learned about in your Artist Trading Cards from last week? Make sure you are really need to be aware of the Elements and Principles as you are making art.
4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
What are TWO THINGS you took away from YESTERDAY’s Critique that you can see as helping you become a stronger artist?
Reflection: Look at the List of Habits of an Artist on page 30 in your folder. What is one area that you feel you may need to look at strongly as you move forward into the next artwork?
4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
Step back from your drawing and write out two things you see that are in need of attention FIRST! WRITE them down and then write down the WHY they need attention.
Reflection: Turn to the second set of pages in your rubric packet and get together with a friend / fellow artist and consider this a PRE-mid critique (sort of) and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the work you have in front of you. In the space provided in the RUBRIC write out your thoughts about the good, the bad, and the ugly WITH EXPLANATION. Are you STRONG, GOOD, BASIC, WEAK, or POOR – WHY? Execution, Composition, and Character – all
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
What did you accomplished yesterday? Thumbnails from MONDAY help prepare ideas for more solutions and ideas
Page 31 and 32 in Folder – Go over this with kids – Read aloud.
Reflection: In your compositions, IDENTIFY and WRITE DOWN the Transparent, Opaque, Translucent, and Metallic Objects you have chosen? Looking at your thumbnails, what compositional styles have you chosen to focus on?
2.3Ad: Demonstrate in works of art or design how visual and material culture defines, shapes, enhances, inhibits, and/or empowers people’s lives.
Last day in class to work on this breadth piece is today. As you look at the work in front of you, what is it you need to do SPECIFICALLY to resolve this image? What is in need of FINE TUNING and REVISION?
Reflection: What is the MOST successful aspect of your work about Art and Fear? WHY? Can you explain any sense of artistic growth or development in this work?
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
Looking over your ideas from yesterday – which ONE stands out as successful and WHY? What type of composition (looking at the handout from today) would you say it is most like?
Reflection: What have you done to begin your final composition today? What ARTIST HABIT OF MIND are you thinking about – or maybe you are considering the levels in the rubric as you continue to develop your artistic skills?
1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.
What color schemes, techniques are you using to UNIFY the work as you develop it? How are you getting STARTED? Let’s BRIEFLY TALK and then OUT TO PAINT.
Reflection / Evaluation: Describe the biggest successes and failures you have had with this first painting. What skills did you use that you remember from the earlier classes in art? Use BIG ART TERMS as you critique this work?
Studio Art 360: 6th Hour – Info Sheets on Extra Computers in the room if not done at home
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 makes your artwork based on a single object interesting or worthwhile? Why THIS object or idea?
Reflection / Evaluation: What challenges do you have when you are working on more than one composition at a time? What is easy about the use of a common theme?
Assignment ONLINE – Google Document – SHARE WITH ME at fkorb@waterforduhs.k12.wi.us! DUE ON MONDAY. CLICK HERE FOR A GOOD EXAMPLE. READ THE BRIEF BLOG POST! Where do you see yourself artistically now, where in 5 Years?
Drawing: Group of Objects – Scale, Composition, VALUE!
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
What do you hope to accomplish with your drawing today?
Reflection / Evaluation: What are 2 differences you have found with using DRAWING pencils in today’s drawing time VERUS simply using a mechanical or standard #2 pencil?
2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
What was the biggest challenge you found as you began coming up with ideas and drawing your cube, cylinder, or pyramid yesterday?
Reflection / Evaluation: What are 2 skills you have already that are going to make your experiences in Studio Art 360 easier?
AP Studio Art: Bag of Ideas?
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.
Where / when in your past have you used the ideas of the repetition of single object in a SERIES of drawings, paintings, artworks… something else?
Reflection / Evaluation: g been successful in TODAY’s beginnings of a CONCENTRATION?
Assignment ONLINE – Google Document – SHARE WITH ME at fkorb@waterforduhs.k12.wi.us! DUE ON MONDAY. CLICK HERE FOR A GOOD EXAMPLE. READ THE BRIEF BLOG POST! Where do you see yourself artistically now, where in 5 Years?
Drawing: Observation and Pencils?
Boxes, Objects, COMPOSITION!
Goals:
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
Most young artists work with their FIRST idea and that’s it. What might the benefit be to begin with MORE ideas? When you sketch in your sketchbooks / artworks… where do you mostly get your ideas from? How do you define OBSERVATION?
Reflection / Evaluation: What skills do you hope to develop this year in Drawing? What do you feel you will be able to improve on regarding the skills you have currently?
“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
AP Studio Art – Art and Fear – Make your ART!
Your reach as a maker is still pretty far… who do you reach?
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.
Last day in class to work on this breadth piece. How has it felt to be NOT working on your CONCENTRATION works this week? Give yourself a few sentences to reflect.
What are you going to be working on this weekend to resolve your work. PLEASE WRITE UP AND POST A ONE PARAGRAPH STATEMENT ABOUT YOUR ARTWORK ON THE WEBSITE – IN YOUR CHAPTER PAGE.
Advanced Drawing: Let’s pin up our Abstraction and Pastels and talk – MONDAY!
Crit? Let’s look at this on MONDAY! What do you need to do in order to get this drawing completed?
Goals:
G: 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 has previous discussion of your work tended to be? Negative? Positive? Constructive? Discuss the challenges that one might face when posed with the potential of a critique.
What do you fear about the idea of speaking to your classmates about their work? If you had to choose ONE element or one PRINCIPLE to focus on about your artwork, what would that be and why?
Drawing: Still Life -Time to draw the FINAL WORK!
Morandi’s prints. Look at the RELATIONSHIPS in space and form. Impressive!
Goals:
G: 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
What did you accomplished yesterday? What are the differences in drawing materials – in your own words?
Regarding the work by Georgio Morandi, what are 3 things that you see in his work that you could carry into the work you are creating? What are 2 challenges you are facing? What is ONE thing you are happy about?
Studio Art 360: Construction Time!
Robert Indiana’s famous MECCA Arena Floor for the Milwaukee Bucks. Watch this WTMJ’s Story about Robert Indiana and his work!
Goals:
10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.
What is the difference between shape and form? Please be descriptive in your definition that you come up with your neighbor.
What do you envision as the biggest challenge with your forms? If you see this as the problem… how do you feel you might be able to solve that challenge?
“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
AP Studio Art – Art and Fear – Make your ART!
Goals:
G: 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
Look through your chapter in the the book again – is there anything else in the chapter that is standing out to you? Is there a way you can work a second or third idea into the current work – cover more topics?
REVIEW The ideas with your classmates that you are working on. How do you see the ideas growing from your initial ideas?
Advanced Drawing: Let’s pin up our Abstraction and Pastels and talk!
Günter Fruhtrunk and his artwork – Color Scheme?
Goals:
G: 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
What are the challenges you have had with the pastels and charcoal so far? What skills have you learned? What skills are you needing to continue developing?
REFLECT on the STRENGTHS of your use of your Color scheme and how you are using it successfully throughout. What are your plans as you move forward?
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
What did you accomplished yesterday? What are the differences in drawing materials – in your own words? N: Hands on use of a variety of materials. A: Boxes and Sphere drawings OBSERVATION.
How does it feel to get that BLANK sheet of paper and then get instructed to get to work? What FEARS did you face as you got started?
2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
What are your plans to get at least ONE of the forms constructed today? Are you going to get all the cardboard cut first or are you going to work on one, finish it, and then move onto another? What’s your plan of attack? Allow yourself to EXPERIMENT!
What parts of CONSTRUCTING your sculpture are you having success with right now? What areas are you struggling with? Use the ART TERMS you know.
“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
AP Studio Art – Art and Fear – Let’s go to it!
YEAH!
Goals:
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?
Advanced Drawing: Abstraction and Pastels – Color Schemes!
Monochromatic – simple in color – BALANCED in value. How are you balancing your composition?
Goals:
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
What is successful in your artwork? What is the monochromatic color scheme you are using and what is the complementary color? Share this with your neighbor. Where is your emphasis (complimentary color) going to be and why?
What is the progress of the drawing thus far? What is your neighbor doing well? What is your neighbor not doing successfully? Share your thoughts with your neighbors.
Drawing: Still Life – FAST and FURIOUS!
I will ALWAYS go to Giorgio Morandi for the CLASSIC Black and White Still Life. What’s the compositional style here?
Goals:
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
What did you accomplished yesterday? Thumbnails from MONDAY help prepare ideas for more solutions and ideas
What are the differences with the different types of Pencils? What do YOU find useful from today’s exercise?
Studio Art 360: Draw what you REMEMBER!
I LOVE ART! Robert Indiana does too.
Goals:
2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
What materials did you use yesterday that you have used in the past? What materials can you TRY to use today that you have NOT USED in the past.
Continue to hand out supplies – Discuss the expectations of the classroom.
What is ONE question that you still have about the course, department, or me?
“Unless you have a definite, precise, clearly set goals, you are not going to realize the maximum potential that lies within you.” — Zig Ziglar
Welcome back to school! This is going to be a GREAT year and I am VERY excited to be back. I hope that all of you are too. There are a few things that we do in the art classroom that will happen everyday – Goal Setting (based on the National Visual Arts Standards), Work, and Reflection. This will all become second nature as the semester rolls along and I ask you to trust that what we do in class at the beginning and end of the class will help you in the middle portion of class as well as with the final artwork that we create. PLEASE subcribe to this website AND add your name to the TEXTING feature of REMIND – School Texting Services.
TEXTING with REMIND from Mr. Korb!
2014 – 15 Sign up for the REMOND TEXTING service for each of your classes…
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Studio Art 360: Syllabus, Sketchbooks, and Artmaking
2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
What are you doing in your composition to FULLY ACTIVATE the background? Shapes, Texture, Color, Lines, Circles? Allow yourself to EXPERIMENT!
What is the strongest part of your artwork that you created this week? Use the ART TERMS you know.
ASSIGNMENT for MONDAY: Look through your FONTS on your home computer or school computer and PRINT OUT 4 VERY different types of letters using the first letter of your FIRST or LAST name. TAPE THESE into your sketchbook. 72 Point Font at LEAST and label them – EXAMPLE BELOW! You will choose ONE of these to draw and then SCULPT! When you have chosen the font and letter you are happiest with, print it out as large as you can on a single sheet of paper – we will use this as a tracing for the final product.
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AP Studio Art: Introductions, Expectations, and Art Making – ON YOUR OWN!
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 makes your artwork based on a single object interesting or worthwhile? Why THIS object or idea?
What challenges do you have when you are working on more than one composition at a time? What is easy about the use of a common theme?
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Painting: Introductions, Expectations, and Watercolors
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 color schemes, techniques are you using to UNIFY the work as you develop it?
Describe the biggest successes and failures you have had with this first painting. What skills did you use that you remember from the earlier classes in art? Use BIG ART TERMS as you critique this work?
Janet Fish: Still Life in Pencil. 
Art With Korb 
