Max Ernst and Frottage – 101-year-old process! This is a lot of fun!
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Here are the 7th-grade semesterย Lesson Plansย to show you what our day will look like.
We have found this to be a REALLY challenging unit – and that is OK! Keep learning how to make art and use as many of the various approaches as possible – even the challenging ones.
New assignment, and it has yet to be built in Google about the use of portrait and digital art – layer masks. This will be CLEARLY EXPLAINED in the assignment.
8th Grade 2D: Still Life in Pencil Drawing
Here are the 8th Grade 2D Design semester Lesson Plansfor you to see what our day will look like.
The still Life is an important part of art history (as is drawing). We are exploring the variety of pencils and marks that they can make, as well as the variety of values that are capable of being produced. Slow down and make a great still Life.
8th Grade Sculpture: Plaster Sculpture – One more run at plaster and cardboard. Here we come Alexander Calder!
Here are the 8th Grade Sculpture semester Lesson Plans for you to see what our day will look like.
Alexander Calder’s Maquette for a large sculpture – read the NYT Article to learn more.
We are going to try to approach an Alexander Calder-inspired construction that failed last semester. We are going to remove the idea of sculpting around our bodies and try the cardboard approach one more time. I believe it will work, and we just need more time.
6th Grade: Printmaking – Cardboard and Found Objects
Here are the 6th grade semester Lesson Plans for you to see what our day will look like.
We are working on the lesson plans for this… but It will be set for the future.
7th Grade: DIGITAL ART – Portraits in Photoshop
Here are the 7th grade semester Lesson Plans for you to see what our day will look like.
We have found this to be a REALLY challenging unit – and that is OK! Keep learning how to make art and use as many of the various approaches as possible – even the challenging ones.
New assignment and it has still yet to be built in Google about the use of the portrait and digital art – layer masks. This will be CLEARLY EXPLAINED in the assignment.
8th Grade 2D: Still Life in Pencil Drawing
Here are the 8th Grade 2D Design semester Lesson Plansfor you to see what our day will look like.
The still Life is an important part of art history (as is drawing). We are exploring the variety of pencils and marks that they can make as well as the variety of values that are capable of being produced. Slow down and make a great still Life.
8th Grade Sculpture: Plaster Sculpture – One more run at plaster and cardboard. Here we come Alexander Calder!
Here are the 8th Grade Sculpture semester Lesson Plans for you to see what our day will look like.
Alexander Calder’s Maquette for a large sculpture – read the NYT Article to learn more.
We are going to try to approach an Alexander Calder inspired construction that failed last semester. We are going to remove the idea of sculpting around our bodies and try the cardboard approach one more time. I believe it will work and we just need more time.
Here are the 6th grade semester Lesson Plans for you to see what our day will look like.
We are all done with the Keepsake Boxes and we are now assessing them. These will be in the display case for a bit (I will add a ink to all the photos soon too). These artists did an outstanding job. Congratulations on the hard and dedicated work.
Here are the 7th grade semester Lesson Plans for you to see what our day will look like.
New assignment and it has still yet to be built in Google about the use of the portrait and digital art – layer masks. This will be CLEARLY EXPLAINED in the assignment.
8th Grade 2D: Still Life in Pencil Drawing
Here are the 8th Grade 2D Design semester Lesson Plansfor you to see what our day will look like.
The still Life is an important part of art history (as is drawing). We are exploring the variety of pencils and marks that they can make as well as the variety of values that are capable of being produced. Slow down and make a great still Life.
8th Grade Sculpture: Wheel Throwing and Hand Building AND TEST TILES and GLAZING – this week is ALL ASSESSMENTS – UGH on my part too.
Here are the 8th Grade Sculpture semester Lesson Plans for you to see what our day will look like.
As we end this week we are going to be doing some test tiles. This is an example and HERE is the worksheets we are going to be using. What are your predictions? Here is Florian Gatsby and his dog Ciro in the studio with his test tiles. I made them for you.
Welcome to the pottery studio. The next 4 or 5 weeks we are going to be switching between two different summative assignments. Wheel Throwing (which will be more about the experience) and a new project (I am excited about this) Bas-Relief Architectural Works.
Milwaukee Artist Heather Eiden and her Bas-Relief Sculptures of local homes and spaces. What are you thinking about as you begin to plan your ideas?
Involving more than 120 artists, craftspeople and self-taught makers from across Japan, Hyakkล is a celebration of contemporary Japanese craft aesthetics.
Virtual Exhibition of the Hyakko Show at Japan House – London. Artists – here is a great place to start for inspiration towards a lifetime of making. One could wander through this virtual exhibition for hours. Imagine what the real space would be like?
This exhibition presents works in clay, glass, wood, leather, metal and bamboo โ from ceramic matcha bowls to metal teapots and urushilacquerware trays. Each item bears traces of its makerโs surroundings and nods to tradition while quietly incorporating both innovation and self-expression.
Discover the people and processes behind the craft of Japanโs every day, where form and function exist in harmony.
Here are the 6th grade semester Lesson Plans for you to see what our day will look like.
We are going to begin with the glazing this week. Let’s hope all the boxes are DRY and out of the Kiln!
Let’s leave this here just like it is…
We are beginning in CLAY! Woo Hoo! We are experimenting first and making some small keepsakes for our pockets. We are going to be making KEEPSAKE boxes – this is one I made for my daughter who collects matchbooks. What is a keepsake you have?
Remember these? These are your small Pokisculps (Pocket Sculptures) ๐๐๐.. we are glazing them after we finish up the boxes. How close to done are you?
Here are the 7th grade semester Lesson Plans for you to see what our day will look like.
We are switching to draw with soft pastels and make one of a kind prints. This is going to be AWESOME. When you go outside, how much do you appreciate the TREES? We are going to go out and REALLY get to know them (and revisit color schemes too).
New assignment – yet to be built in Google about the use of the portrait and digital art – layer masks. This will be CLEARLY EXPLAINED in the assignment. You will have the portraits variable to you from me! Day 1!
8th Grade 2D: Linoleum Printing – Assessment and then DRAWING
Here are the 8th Grade 2D Design semester Lesson Plansfor you to see what our day will look like.
Printmaking has been around for a LONG time. Almost as long as Mr. Korb has been around. There have been a lot of movements in art that utilized the process of printmaking to express their beliefs and thoughts. German Expressionism was a huge one that implemented the ideas of printmaking to put a lot of their works and thoughts about the world out into the world. Above is an image by Franz Marc (a German Expressionist).
8th Grade Sculpture: Wheel Throwing and Hand Building AND TEST TILES and GLAZING!
Here are the 8th Grade Sculpture semester Lesson Plans for you to see what our day will look like.
As we end this week we are going to be doing some test tiles. This is an example and HERE is the worksheets we are going to be using. What are your predictions? Here is Florian Gatsby and his dog Ciro in the studio with his test tiles. I made them for you.
Welcome to the pottery studio. The next 4 or 5 weeks we are going to be switching between two different summative assignments. Wheel Throwing (which will be more about the experience) and a new project (I am excited about this) Bas-Relief Architectural Works.
Milwaukee Artist Heather Eiden and her Bas-Relief Sculptures of local homes and spaces. What are you thinking about as you begin to plan your ideas?
Involving more than 120 artists, craftspeople and self-taught makers from across Japan, Hyakkล is a celebration of contemporary Japanese craft aesthetics.
Virtual Exhibition of the Hyakko Show at Japan House – London. Artists – here is a great place to start for inspiration towards a lifetime of making. One could wander through this virtual exhibition for hours. Imagine what the real space would be like?
This exhibition presents works in clay, glass, wood, leather, metal and bamboo โ from ceramic matcha bowls to metal teapots and urushilacquerware trays. Each item bears traces of its makerโs surroundings and nods to tradition while quietly incorporating both innovation and self-expression.
Discover the people and processes behind the craft of Japanโs every day, where form and function exist in harmony.
With the end of the year less than 24 hours behind me, I look back on a year of learning and experiments, stresses and successes. I hope my fading memory remembers the successes more than the stressors.
The last days (and I wish I had made photographs of the works, included plein air drawings and paintings, fused glass magnets, and a day of exquisite corpses. That was a lot of fun (for those who could follow directions and draw for 4 minutes).
Biggest lesson I learned is a reminder from my mom. “Frank” she says, “remember to not be so uptight in the class. Nobody there is going to be as passionate or interested in the arts as you. They are teenagers (and preteens) and always have three things on their minds. Art isn’t one of them.” Now I can only guess what the pre-teens have on their minds… and I know that art isn’t one of them (all the time at least). I DO need to chill a bit.
Anyhow. Thanks for the year of follows. I don’t get a lot of feedback from the audience from these posts but I am always interested in your thoughts. How to be more chill? Relax? Ways to let them just be the energy filled children they are and not have it drive me to the verge of anger? I am up for your thoughts.
This is the first thing I am doing on my summer break (other than removing a bad microwave and making coffee, and struggling to change the head on a QUIP toothbrush). And this is going to be it for the summer (maybe some Waterford 7+ photos but… we aren’t there yet. That is my adults with differing abilities and mad passion for art group – names after the Group of Seven from Canada – Oh Canada…).
What have you learned? How will you think about the use of Photoshop and the digital world as you move forward? How did you make the TEXT easy to read?
Art With Korb 