Tag: Sculpture

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#Critique #Sketchbook #ARTMAKING in the #Studio

“Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.” Brian Tracy

Painting and Advanced Painting: Collage to PAINTING

http://marciglenn.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/watercolor-techniques-from-julie-balzer.jpg – Julie Balzer TECHNIQUES…

Goals:

  • 6.1Ac: Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history.
  • How are you relating the ideas of making art to making art about yourself? Do you find this to be easy or difficult – WHY?

Reflection / Evaluation: As you are working, what are you seeing as an area that you might need to really focus on as you continue. 

Studio Art 360:Sketchbook Day! YEAH!

Jim Dine – Richard Gray Gallery: http://prod-images.exhibit-e.com/www_richardgraygallery_com/613b6576.jpg EXAMPLES of TOOLS: http://www.richardgraygallery.com/exhibitions/2000-10-26_jim-dine/ Jim Dine VIDEO at Richard Grey Gallery: http://www.richardgraygallery.com/artists/jim-dine/

Goals:

  • G: 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • What was the most CHALLENGING part of drawing out your CITYSCAPE drawing for today’s sketchbook? If you looked at doing it again, what would you change so it was MORE successful?

Reflection / Evaluation:  What was it about the tool you chose that made you choose that tool? What did you do today to really LOOK at and UNDERSTAND the shape and form of the tool in order to make a unique and successful drawing? Do you have to continue working on it so that it is FINISHED for NEXT TUESDAY?

AP Studio Art: CRIT and FOOD! ONE MORE DAY!

http://www.jerrysartarama.com/blog/post/2011/image.axd?picture=2011%2F5%2Fcritique.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 did you TAKE AWAY from the critique as the AUDIENCE or CRITIC yesterday?

Reflection / Evaluation: Looking back – what are your thoughts on the idea of a CONCENTRATION? Questions? Concerns?

DID YOU MAKE 2 PHOTOGRAPHS OF YOUR ARTWORK AND EMAIL OR PUT THEM ON YOUR GOOGLE DRIVE? Get it DONE for TOMORROW! Computer Lab AND… Assignment ONLINE – Google Document – SHARE WITH ME at fkorb@waterforduhs.k12.wi.us! DUE ON FRIDAY. CLICK HERE FOR A GOOD EXAMPLE. READ THE BRIEF BLOG POST! Where do you see yourself artistically now, where in 5 Years?  WE ARE USING THIS NEXT MONDAY ON THE AP WEBSITE!

Drawing: Last Day to DRAW!

MORANDI: http://uploads3.wikiart.org/images/giorgio-morandi/natura-morta-1(1).jpg  MoMA Let’s Look at his BIO: http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=40790

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • What are 3 things you see as BENEFICIAL to understanding and practicing the ideas of shading? How can this help in ALL your artworks?

Reflection: What is the #1 Skill you see as having been develeoped over hte past 2 weeks? What is ONE strugfgle you still need to work on and overcome?

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#ArtAssignment #Critique and #SelfEvaluate

“Unless you have a definite, precise, clearly set goals, you are not going to realize the maximum potential that lies within you.” — Zig Ziglar

Painting and Advanced Painting: Collage Social Commentary – Building the Collage

Thomas Moran: Watercolro – http://www.denverartmuseum.org/exhibitions/thomas-moran-s-yellowstone-project-nation

Goals:

  • 2.3Ac: Redesign an object, system, place, or design in response to contemporary issues.
  • How has the gathering of images HELPED or CHALLENGED you in the creation of a composition visually and / or telling a story – about yourself? 

QUESTIONS ABOUT YOUR SOCIAL TOPIC. Please write these in your sketchbook for future reference.

  1. What is the LARGER OVERALL TOPIC you have chosen?
  2. If you had to discuss the topic with someone, what are 5 key points that you would try to make in order to “sell” your viewpoint?
  3. What are 2 questions that you have about the topic that require a bit more research?
  4. What is a question / argument that someone else might pose to you about the topic?
  5. What are IMAGES / ENVIRONMENTS / SPACES that you are hoping to create for your collage / watercolor?
  6. What are the KEY images you have gathered SO FAR that are going to help with the building / communicating of your message?
  7. What is a WORKING TITLE for the IDEA you are having SO FAR?

Reflection / Evaluation: What does your composition say about you? How might others read the images you have gathered and assembled

Studio Art 360:Sketchbooks – BRING CARDBOARD FOR TOMORROW!

Donald Judd – Installation at MoMA: VIDEO: http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?object_id=81324

Goals:

  • 7.1P: Hypothesize ways in which art influences perception and understanding of human experiences.
  • 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? What was the most challenging form for you to create? What is ONE things that gave you such a hard time with it?

Reflection / Evaluation:  What do you think one might interpret from seeing a sculpture (like the one as an example today) that is MINIMAL?

AP Studio Art: Bag of Objects. How is your first CONCENTRATION going?

Abstract Watercolors – How are you using WATERCOLORS (or PAINTS)? https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/b3140-reusage-blog-free-texture-paper-colorful-rorschach-watercolor-inner-organs-abstract.png

Goals:

  • 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 is the MAJOR IDEA, the FOCAL POINT to your concentration for this week?

Reflection / Evaluation: What is the COMMON THREAD that viewers can see in the five works that you are creating? How does it TIE them all together?

Assignment ONLINE – Google Document – SHARE WITH ME at fkorb@waterforduhs.k12.wi.us! DUE ON FRIDAY. CLICK HERE FOR A GOOD EXAMPLE. READ THE BRIEF BLOG POST! Where do you see yourself artistically now, where in 5 Years?  WE ARE USING THIS NEXT MONDAY ON THE AP WEBSITE!

Drawing: Group of Objects – STEP BACK from your drawing and REFLECT! MID CRIT!

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.
  • What is it about the mid-crit that makes you a bit nervous?

Reflection: What do YOU find useful from today’s critique exercise?

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Getting to #Work on #Art and #Reflecting on the #Progress OF the Art.

“Unless you have a definite, precise, clearly set goals, you are not going to realize the maximum potential that lies within you.” — Zig Ziglar

Painting and Advanced Painting: Collage Social Commentary 

Charles Demuth (Bio): http://www.tfaoi.com/am/3am/3am169.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • What did TAPING the paper down to the board help with last week?

Reflection / Evaluation: What 2 things did you get done today that helped you move the ideas of SOCIAL C OMMENTARY forward in your design ideas? Be VERY specific in the tasks you accomplished.

Studio Art 360:Sketchbooks – BRING CARDBOARD FOR TOMORROW!

Minimalist Sculpture TONY SMITH: 1964, http://www.moma.org/collection_images/resized/128/w500h420/CRI_229128.jpg

Goals:

  • 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.
  • What challenges do you see about the process of building a cardboard sculpture of a pyramid, cube or cylinder?

Reflection / Evaluation:  What was the most difficult part of the building process today for YOU? How can you use those challenges to develop your skills?

AP Studio Art: Bag of Objects. How is your first CONCENTRATION going?

Pastel? You? http://www.artistsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/64-uart-paper.jpg

Goals:

  • 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 materials are you NOT using yet? Make sure that in the body of work you are making (about 1 object) you try things you are not comfortable with

Reflection / Evaluation: What mediums are you afraid of using. If not afraid – haven’t used because you are not used in the past? WHY?

Assignment ONLINE – Google Document – SHARE WITH ME at fkorb@waterforduhs.k12.wi.us! DUE ON FRIDAY. CLICK HERE FOR A GOOD EXAMPLE. READ THE BRIEF BLOG POST! Where do you see yourself artistically now, where in 5 Years?  WE ARE USING THIS NEXT MONDAY ON THE AP WEBSITE! WOO HOO!

Drawing: Group of Objects – Scale, Composition, VALUE! STEP BACK from your drawing and REFLECT!

MORANDI: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f-jjIfjcnuA/ToJb1gf2UgI/AAAAAAAAAVM/AeO7cIo-KIA/s1600/GM1.jpg

Goals:

  • 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 defining the edges of forms DIFFERENTLY now than you have in the past?

Reflection / Evaluation:  Have you improved your drawings skills over the past few days? What do you feel you will be able to improve on regarding the skills you have currently?

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Let’s Get #SERIOUS this week – #ArtSchool is IN SESSION!

“Unless you have a definite, precise, clearly set goals, you are not going to realize the maximum potential that lies within you.” — Zig Ziglar

Let’s Look at GOAL SETTING… https://studentsuccess.unc.edu/files/2012/10/iStock_000009376848Small3.jpg

Painting and Advanced Painting: Watercolors and You – Social Commentary and Collage

Jean Lacy (BIO) – Social Commentary Collage: http://www.southernspaces.org/sites/default/files/images/2015/rowell-002-cover2-lg.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • What challenges did you have with the watercolors last week when it came to OBSERVATION of the REAL WORLD around you?

Reflection / Evaluation: What are 5 images you gathered today that say something about you? Consider the materials WE have in the Art Studio… magazines that may or may not have ANY interest to you. If you have materials that YOU can bring in… please do so. Rely on YOURSELF and not just the stuff Korb brings. If you do not supply images for yourself – DO NOT COMPLAIN that there are NO IMAGES YOU CAN USE.

Studio Art 360:Sketchbooks – BRING CARDBOARD FOR TOMORROW!

Tony Smith Sculpture… THIS IS OUR DESTINATION… Different than previous years sculptures. http://www.cornermark.com/images/cubi1.gif

Goals:

  • 10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.
  • What is the difference between shape and form? There are a FEW OTHER terms we are going to cover in our textbook – terms that help up TALK about art.

Reflection / Evaluation: What is the strongest part of your sketchbook assignment that you created today? Filling out the Sketchbook Grading Sheet on the RIGHT SIDE of the GOALS Page… Use the ART TERMS you know. 

AP Studio Art: Bag of Objects. How is your first CONCENTRATION going?

How are you working on your ideas? Sketches in pencil and charcoal and watercolors and acrylic? Anything else? http://vincentmademedothis.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/01_04_making_marks_using_charcoal.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • Five parts to this weeks project (DUE ON MONDAY). What are you most comfortable with? Pencil, Charcoal, Pastel, or Paint? Why?

Reflection / Evaluation: What materials have you used today? How are the projects coming along?

Assignment ONLINE – Google Document – SHARE WITH ME at fkorb@waterforduhs.k12.wi.us! DUE ON FRIDAY. CLICK HERE FOR A GOOD EXAMPLE. READ THE BRIEF BLOG POST! Where do you see yourself artistically now, where in 5 Years?  WE ARE USING THIS NEXT MONDAY ON THE AP WEBSITE! WOO HOO!

Drawing: Group of Objects – Scale, Composition, VALUE!

Yet another Morandi: http://www.moma.org/collection_images/resized/526/w500h420/CRI_167526.jpg MoMA: http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=4079

Goals:

  • 1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.
  • What are your biggest accomplishments as you worked last week? Where are the three successful aspects of the still life? What are the aspects that are not successful yet? Identify with your neighbor the absolute black, absolute white, and 3 different levels of grey.

Reflection / Evaluation: What have you learned today about how to push / pull space with value? What have you accomplished with pencil? What is SUCCESSFUL in your drawing?

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#What? #Friday already? #WhereDidTheWeekGo?

Happy Youth Art Month: Art Terms 101:  Composition is an arrangement of the elements of art and the principles of design

“Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.” — Julie Andrews

AP Studio Art: Figure Drawing! Let’s DRAW!

Richard Diebenkorn’s Drawing – How do you relate? https://coxcrows.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/diebenkorn-woman-e280a6-w-cup.jpg?w=272&h=367&crop=1

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.
  • Before you leave for the day – thank our model for the time and posing – it is a lot of work! What is the ONE THING you are most satisfied with in your drawing today? WHY?

What did it for you to WRAP THIS DRAWING UP? Share a small thought with your classmates about this process – product?

Advanced Drawing: Bauhaus Drawing – Oskar Schlemmer

The ballet figure drawing! https://strangeflowers.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/triadic-ballet-3.jpg?w=710

Goals:

  • 7.1Ad: Analyze how responses to art develop over time based on knowledge of and experience with art and life.
  • What do you need to do to come to a solid RESOLUTION for the end of the week? 4 days next week – not much time!

Are you in need of taking this home this weekend? What are the aspects of the work that are in need of REAL FOCUS?

Drawing: Online Presentation of the Images.

Kandinsky and the Bauhaus Presentation is HERE…

POP Art – Portrait of the FAMOUS – not a drawing – but FAME nonetheless… http://revolverwarholgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/andy-warhol-jacqueline-kennedy-iii.jpg

Goals:

  • 7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
  • Of ALL the aspects of the face – what are you having the most success with and what is the most challenging? What is hardest about the most challenging part?

What was it about the FACIAL FEATURES of your chosen face that made for a SUCCESSFUL and at times CHALLENGING drawing?

Studio Art 360: Hands on with CLAY!

Ed Hamilton’s Website – Making of a Bas Relief Sculpture

North versus the South – The FINAL Bronze casting of Ed Hamilton’s sculpture! http://edhamiltonworks.com/images/lincoln/bas_relief/north%20and%20south%20no.%202_detail.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
  • What portions of your sculpture do you see as ADDITIVE, SUBTRACTIVE, and MANIPULATIVE? Describe in DETAIL the areas – use imagery as descriptors.

What was the biggest challenge you had with using clay and creating a three dimensional artwork – PAUSE 10 minutes before the end of class.

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#Friday in the #Art #Studio. Week one #Done. #ThankYou for #Subscribing.

“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?

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How can it be #Thursday in the #Art #Studio already?

“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?

Drawing: Still Life -Time to draw the FINAL WORK! 

I gotta say – LOVE his stuff! http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Observer/Pix/pictures/2013/1/10/1357823154138/morandi-still-life-five-o-023.jpg

Goals:

  • 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?

Studio Art 360: Construction Time!

Love and Hope exhibition – see how the same object can be used MANY times in the arts? https://rosenbaumcontemporary.com/imgs/exhibitions/Robert-Indiana-Exhibit-2.jpg

Goals:

  • 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.

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#Routine in #Korb’s #Classroom. Let’s #work this #DAILY!

“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?

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46 more minutes of #Studio time in the #ArtRoom. How will you use it #WISELY?

“If I persist, if I continue to try, if I continue to charge forward, I will succeed.” — Og Mandino

“And even if you don’t succeed… there is NOTHING wrong with failure (just get back and try again – and again – and again…).” – Frank Korb

Studio Art 360 – BAS RELIEF SCULPTURE!

What level of stain will happen on your work? I do NOT know for 100%.

Goals:

  • 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
  • What lesson do you hope to communicate to your audience as these works get wrapped up? What is the MAIN IDEA behind your sculpture? 3 sentences – FULL SENTENCES!

LAST DAY WITH Ceramics. If there is ONE LESSON you take away from this experience… what would that be? 

Painting: Wrap up before break – what will you come back to?

How are you going to face the time of NOT working on your paintings over the break? Perhaps set up a studio of your own at home?

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • How are you going to handle being away from these paintings for almost TWO WEEKS? What do you feel about the benefits of taking home your WATERCOLORS and some watercolor paper to create a FEW self-portraits (or of others?)

What have you done well in your painting today? Step back and have a 3 minute CONVERSATION with a classmate (or two) and WRITE OUT SOME THOUGHTS IN YOUR SKETCHBOOKS so when you come back you can look and remember.. Allow some REAL TIME to have a REAL CONVERSATION here. Listen to one another. 

AP Studio Art – PAINT and CONCENTRATE!

Ah Bob Ross… focus on the work you have begun and the happy mistakes that will happen along the way.

Goals:

  • 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.
  • Day two of the week? Why are you working on for the next 46 minutes to SET YOU UP FOR THE BREAK?

What are you taking home? 

TODAY – yes – over break – at MIDNIGHT CHAPTER 7 is due in Art and Fear Blog. Who’s NOT READING? I know that reading isn’t on the top of your list of things to do in this class. If you read and get the work done OVER BREAK – you will hopefully LEARN SOMETHING and demonstrate that in your posts. PARTIAL CREDIT – but some is better than none.

Thanks for the nod towards my thoughts on communicating with Parents, Students and the WORLD on Teach.Com. I appreciate the recognition.

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#Friday in the #ArtStudio. Wrap up the week #Strong!

“Failing isn’t bad when you learn what not to do.”  — Albert Einstein

Studio Art 360 – BAS RELIEF SCULPTURE! Lincoln Monument Bas Relief. 

Lincoln finished sculpture… Visit the website HERE!

Goals:

  • 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
  • What portions of your sculpture do you see as ADDITIVE, SUBTRACTIVE, and MANIPULATIVE? Describe in DETAIL the areas – use imagery as descriptors.

What was the biggest challenge you had with using clay and creating a three dimensional artwork? Monday is the LAST DAY – make sure you are wrapping it up TIGHT for the weekend.

Painting – Finish the MID Crit – “I don’t want to do a mid-crit – I’m not DONE!” PAINTINGS by the WUHS Painting Class – HERE!

Edward Hopper’s Self-Portrait – Background has a feel of one of his other paintings… what’s happening in YOURS?

Goals:

  • 7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
  • What’s been the biggest / best thing you have learned about the use of oil paints this week? What has taking this portrait from a continuous line contour drawing helped you with in making the painting? If you HAD TO EXPLAIN – why is this working or not working for you?

Last day of the week. What do you see as needing attention MONDAY? What makes you want to skip second hour and continue to paint?  Edward Hopper

AP Studio Art – CRIT TIME!

Tonight at MIDNIGHT CHAPTER 6 is due in Art and Fear Blog. Who’s NOT READING?

Donald Sultan – WEBSITE! Working on YOUR body of work!

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • Friday – Day to work. How did your conversation go with Mr. Korb yesterday? It didn’t – going to happen TODAY! What are your plans for your new works? Let’s get yourself working. Give yourself a few moments to think about the work you have ahead of yourself and write them out for your own good.

What have you lined up for the weekend? What are you taking home with you this weekend? Are you done with your website? 

Thanks for the nod towards my thoughts on communicating with Parents, Students and the WORLD on Teach.Com. I appreciate the recognition.