I can communicate in positive ways to get my needs met.
“Bad as it is, the world ispotentially full of good photographs. But to be good, photographs have to be full of the world.” Dorothea Lange
Our classes begin in Google Classroom AND from the lesson plans below. PLEASE feel free to visit the day to day and see what we are working on in the studio. The links will take you to the Table of Contents… find the current week to see what we are doing.
6th Grade: Printmaking
Keepsake boxes and the final few days… what are your ideas for the surface decoration and embellishment.
How are we able to use these ideas in NEW ways… I wish I knew who did this because it is a REALLY great approach to talking the neurographic breakdown of the contours in another direction!
I can communicate in positive ways to get my needs met.
A day at Expo Chicagobrought back a great number of images and ideas… here is one image and then a quote from a different artist. I wish I’d have seen the name of the artist above.
“It doesn’t matter if the story is precisely true…it’s about you telling the story. It’s almost like going to a rock concert where the audience sings along with the performer. I want the viewer’s experiences to be echoed in the work as they are reflected back in the canvases.”
— Nir Hod – Artist
Our classes begin in Google Classroom AND from the lesson plans below. PLEASE feel free to visit the day to day and see what we are working on in the studio. The links will take you to the Table of Contents… find the current week to see what we are doing.
6th Grade: CERAMICS and KEEPSAKE Boxes (Last day) and then PHOTOGRAPHY
Keepsake boxes and the final few days… what are your ideas for the surface decoration and embellishment.
Gordon Parks The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock
7th Grade: PORTRAITS (and we wrap it up) and then PHOTOGRAPHY and Identity
and then PHOTOGRAPHY
How are we able to use these ideas in NEW ways… I wish I knew who did this because it is a REALLY great approach to talking the neurographic breakdown of the contours in another direction!
I can communicate in positive ways to get my needs met.
#69: Color is not Neutral: It has an emotional component. Certain colors have specific associations and induce certain responses. Learn what they are. When you use color, try to determine and understand the accompanying emotional response and how to use it effectively. Color has a visceral impact. Kit White 101 Things I Learned in Art School
Our classes begin in Google Classroom AND from the lesson plans below. PLEASE feel free to visit the day to day and see what we are working on in the studio. The links will take you to the Table of Contents… find the current week to see what we are doing.
6th Grade: CERAMICS and KEEPSAKE Boxes (Last couple of days)
Keepsake boxes and the final few days… what are your ideas for the surface decoration and embellishment.
How are we able to use these ideas in NEW ways… I wish I knew who did this because it is a REALLY great approach to talking the neurographic breakdown of the contours in another direction!
I can choose solutions to problems and describe the impact of my choices on myself and others.
51: Learn the basic principles of color. There are three primary colors: red, blue, and yellow. They are the building blocks of all other colors. The secondary colors are violet (blue and red), green (blue and yellow), and orange (red and yellow). They are composed by the equal mixture of two primaries. All other colors are referred to as tertiary, because they are mixtures of a primary and a secondary color. Kit White 101 Things to Learn in Art School
Our classes begin in Google Classroom AND from the lesson plans below. PLEASE feel free to visit the day to day and see what we are working on in the studio. The links will take you to the Table of Contents… find the current week to see what we are doing.
6th Grade: CERAMICS and KEEPSAKE Boxes
Lids and Feet – I hope everything stayed damp!
7th Grade: PORTRAITS
Artist and Teacher Kathy McMillian’s Work – Lovely – how are your works coming?
These drawings were created by the Advanced Drawing class with two stipulations, they needed to base their drawing on a sense of observation and they needed to use 50 sheets of paper. The rest was up to them. Our artists chose from a wide range of topics and ideas – all personal to them. Using direct observation, symbolism, and abstraction, our artists have created a wide variety of images all at various skill levels and approaches for you to enjoy.
Joslin Stern’s ““And she can laugh!” he said with wrath” from the 50 Sheets of Paper Assignment. Advanced Drawing – 2017.
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 / Bossa Nova. Listen to the music – answer the question!
What shapes did you struggle to find? What ideas did you find as you listened to the music?
Studio Art 360 – Character Mugs – DEMO DAY!
10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.
Of the different ideas of faces and mugs we looked at last week – what do you think you might want to do before we begin to research? Animal, Person? One Eye, One Nose, One Mouth. Sketch it out on paper first. – Research using YOUR DEVICES – or the Chromebooks if I have them.
Envision: Learning to picture mentally what cannot be directly observed, and imagine possible next steps in making a piece.
What are three VERY SPECIFIC things you are doing TODAY to get this gigantic undertaking done for tomorrow? How has your vision changed or been the same since the beginning of the art making process – EXPLAIN.
TOMORROW and THURSDAY we are going to HANG THEM UP and CRITRIQUE… What is ONE THING that you have seen change DRAMATICALLY in the drawing – process – product – ideas – WHAT WHY?
#28: An idea is only as good as its execution. It is important that you master your medium. Poorly made work will either ruin a good idea or make the lamentable execution itself the subject. Overly finessed technique can mask a lack of content or can smother an image. At the same time, roughness and imprecision has its place in rendering. One can only gauge the need to throw technique away if one has first achieved the mastery of it. Kit White 101 Things I Learned in Art School
Studio Art 360: CLAY and Cups and Figures and Animals
What challenges did you have in getting started last week on Friday with the clay? REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS ARTWORK: Subtractive, Additive, and Manipulation to the clay. These techniques are REQUIRED in the FINAL Sculpture.
What was the largest success you have in today’s work? Take a look at the rest of the classes work BEFORE we clean up. PAUSE 10 minutes before the end of class.
PAINTING: Hallways and Abstraction
Does the use of LINE become a DOMINANT element in your artwork or are you seeing other elements as coming to the forefront of the composition? Explain your thoughts about the DOMINANT ideas.
What color scheme have you begun to think about? Why? how does it DESCRIBE YOUR feelings toward the SIMPLIFICATION of the SPACE / SURROUNDINGS / COLOR?
Drawing: Kandinsky and YOU!
MID CRIT TODAY – Put your work out and let’s reflect on what you have done and where are you going (before you begin today)!
Biggest struggle / success for today? Write it out and the WHY!
AP Studio Art: Concentration – AAARGHHH!
What are you planning on doing TODAY to set yourself up for a productive WEEKEND? What is your body of work centered on? Drawing? 2D Design? How do you see this in your first three artworks?
What did you accomplish today? What do you need to do tomorrow? How can you develop your OWN voice? What does the BREADTH work do to help you find that VOICE in your concentration? EXIT TICKET – Sticky Note – What is the Central Idea behind your concentration of work. 5 hours of AP Studio Art this week in class – are you putting in 5 hours outside of class? REALLY WORKING? No? You need to be.
HEREis the link to the RUBRIC. – Still Being Built… Ready for Monday (I HOPE)
Beginning on the FIRST set of 3 works… What is the CENTRAL IDEA behind your concentration? Remember that you need to have a common thread / common theme / CENTRAL IDEA that ties your works together. Work on THIS with me – let’s explore our ideas!
ASSIGNMENT PART 1: 3 concentration works. DUE NOVEMBER 7.
Assignment Part 2: 50 Images – All On You Own. Due on NOVEMBER 6, 2016 at 11:59PM. You need to use the school based Google Drive: LINK HERE
#28: An idea is only as good as its execution. It is important that you master your medium. Poorly made work will either ruin a good idea or make the lamentable execution itself the subject. Overly finessed technique can mask a lack of content or can smother an image. At the same time, roughness and imprecision has its place in rendering. One can only gauge the need to throw technique away if one has first achieved the mastery of it. Kit White 101 Things I Learned in Art School
IF YOU ARE MIISSING WORK! This is a NOT SO GENTLE REMINDER to GET YOUR WORK COMPLETED TODAY for a GRADE IN THE FIRST QUARTER! If it is not IN BY 3:00 TODAY – it is a ZERO in the GRADE BOOK!
Studio Art 360: CLAY and Cups and Figures and Animals
What are three textures / techniques you are going to have to interpret into your sculpture from your research?
What techniques are REALLY important to be using to make sure any ADDITIVE clay really HOLD TIGHT to the clay you are adding it to? BEnde Robert
PAINTING: Hallways and Abstraction
What are the largest and most DOMINANT LINES you see in your drawing of the hallways? These are the lines that we are going to be looking at as the FOCAL POINT / DOMINANT LINES to build our next work off of.
How easy or difficult was it for you to begin simplifying the space and shapes of your drawings? What challenges do see as you continue? Know that the use of color in the work will be used to create a MOOD / EMOTIONAL response to the space that you are representing with your abstraction.
Drawing: Kandinsky and YOU!
Reflect on YESTERDAY before you begin today! What are your OVERALL IDEAS that you hope to communicate?
Biggest struggle / success for today? Write it out and the WHY!
AP Studio Art: Concentration – AAARGHHH!
HUSE CHANGE OF PLANS… Ok, the ideas of the 200 images is a good idea. It really is. That said… we are going to chill out a bit on this… and when I say we… I mean me. 50 images. That’s it. A lot of you may already have had made a lot of images, and that is good. Some of you haven’t. Let’s start with 50 and see where we need to go from here.
What are your FEARS as you begin to come to the end of the first three works? What are your FEARS about the AP Process?
Beginning on the FIRST set of 3 works… What is the CENTRAL IDEA behind your concentration? Remember that you need to have a common thread / common theme / CENTRAL IDEA that ties your works together. Work on THIS with me – let’s explore our ideas!
ASSIGNMENT PART 1: 3 concentration works. DUE NOVEMBER 7.
Assignment Part 2: 200 Images – All On You Own. Due on NOVEMBER 6, 2016 at 11:59PM. You need to use the school based Google Drive: LINK HERE
#28: An idea is only as good as its execution. It is important that you master your medium. Poorly made work will either ruin a good idea or make the lamentable execution itself the subject. Overly finessed technique can mask a lack of content or can smother an image. At the same time, roughness and imprecision has its place in rendering. One can only gauge the need to throw technique away if one has first achieved the mastery of it. Kit White 101 Things I Learned in Art School
IF YOU ARE MIISSING WORK! This is a GENTLE REMINDER to GET YOUR WORK COMPLETED by WEDNESDAY for a GRADE IN THE FIRST QUARTER! If it is not IN BY 3:00 Wednesday – it is a ZERO in the GRADEBOOK!
Studio Art 360: CLAY and Cups and Figures and Animals
Of the different ideas of sculpture we looked at last week – what do you think you might want to do before we begin to research? Animal, Person… Something else living?
Reflect on LAST WEEK before you begin today! What are your OVERALL IDEAS that you hope to communicate? What do you feel you’ll be doing with the materials that are NEW and CHALLENGING to you?
Biggest struggle / success for today? Write it out and the WHY!
AP Studio Art: Concentration DUE Monday – 200 Images Too!
What do you hope to learn / communicate in the FIRST THREE works you are presenting (Next Monday we are presenting the PROGRESS of the works and will be using the RUBRIC to EVALUATE ALL THREE in the FORMATIVE end of things)
Beginning on the FIRST set of 3 works… What is the CENTRAL IDEA behind your concentration? Remember that you need to have a common thread / common theme / CENTRAL IDEA that ties your works together. Work on THIS with me – let’s explore our ideas!
ASSIGNMENT PART 1: 3 concentration works. DUE NOVEMBER 7.
Assignment Part 2: 200 Images – All On You Own. Due on NOVEMBER 6, 2016 at 11:59PM. You need to use the school based Google Drive: LINK HERE
“What difference does it make whether you’re looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.” – Chuck Close
Take a moment and look at the above AHoM you are currently working on. Write out two things that you see as connections in your choice of AHoM and how you are proceeding with your work?
Studio Art 360: Sculpture Wrap up – FRIDAY!
One day off – Moving forward with the sculpture – How are you working as a team?
What needs doing? Passes? Come in to finish? Take home?
AP Studio Art: Jim Dine and PLANTS!
Not knowing what your thoughts are about plants / flowers, know that they have been and will be a large and important image in art. Working to make sure you have a REAL connection with the images you make, what are your personal connections to the art or the making of the art?
Art With Korb 
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