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#Wednesday and you are Making #Art – We Hope

Of the works, skills, information you wrote about earlier in the week (above) write out a timeline for the next 5 days that will allow you to really work out the changes, skills, mastery so that you can (by mid-week next week) turn in the changes for a stronger demonstration of the learned skills. (All late and missing work will be DUE on the FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL NEXT WEEK.)

Art is the product of process. “Whether conceptual, experimental, emotional, or formal, the process you develop yields the image you produce. The materials you choose, the methods of production, and the sources of the images should all reflect the interests that command your attention. The process does not stop with each work completed. It is ongoing. The cumulative result of that process is a body of work.” Kit White 101 Things I Learned in Art School

Studio Art 360: Still Life = Quiet and Focused Drawing

Look back at Monday’s drawings and the beginning of the process, what are some of the challenges that you are facing when it comes to drawing from observation?

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Observation of the still life – check out the values and shapes. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aQKehe2lF80/T7SKuSjChDI/AAAAAAAAAIw/z3adIQpV3nY/s640/still_life_charcoal.jpg

In 140 characters, describe your artistic GROWTH through this process of DIRECT OBSERVATION #’s are acceptable.

Painting: Personal Reflection and Meaning – and PAINT!

SKETCHBOOKS WILL BE LOOKED AT MONDAY!

As you look at your work in front of you, what are the aspects you struggled with? What have you soared with?

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Georgia O’Keefe – watercolor painting and you. What are you doing that is similar to her work? What skills have you learned? http://www.berkshirefinearts.com/uploadedImages/articles/1213_Dove-OKeeffe915381.jpg

Biggest accomplishment with the watercolor today? how have you seen stagnation – non-experimentation / growth as an artist so far? 

Drawing: Let’s Mount the Drawings and Listen to some Music! Time to DRAW!

SKETCHBOOKS WILL BE LOOKED AT MONDAY!

How are you using geometric shapes in your life? How do you relate meaning to them? What are some shapes that are dominant in your life?

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Music, Geometry, Color, Shape – what are you going to be doing? http://littleguyintheeye.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/shapes-in-nature.jpg

Work out ideas in sketchbook to help develop compositions.G: What NEW ideas might you have had about COLOR and Shape in the art you were creating?

AP Studio Art: Concentration and YOU!

AP Studio Art CONCENTRATION EXAMPLES

With a lot to accomplish in two weeks and little input from me… how are you going to manage your time effectively? Website can be done on own time. Sketching / making art – own time / study hall / before / after school…

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Giorgio Morandi – What is the common thread, the ideas that Morandi is hoping to accomplish. http://i0.wp.com/www.italianmodernart.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Morandi-still-lifes-with-object-by-WS-Jr.jpg?resize=738%2C492

What 3 questions do you have about the ideas of a concentration?

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#Monday and #Critiques and #Sculpture and #Minimalism

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:

1. Listen In: Listen to your intuition and capture your new ideas. Whether from your morning shower, nighttime dreams, when running, in the car, or in nature, keep an idea notebook and jot it down.

2. Mind Your Mindset: When you start something new, you can either choose to put yourself down and succumb to the inner critic (fixed mindset) or enjoy the process of creation (growth mindset).

– Randy Taran

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/randy-taran/-creative-people_b_5281571.html

Drawing: MUSIC and ART!

REFLECT on ART – Roy Lichtenstein did. http://www.theuntappedsource.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/1b4fcfb5-550×317.jpg

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.
  • One day and a WEEKEND away from the Crit – REVIEW YOUR GOALS from last Thursday and Write out 1 thing that you found beneficial from taking a step back and TALKING about your art.

Reflection: WRITE CRITIQUE and BE DONE! We Reflected A LOT!

Studio Art 360: Sculpture.

Tony Smith and his MINIMALIST SCULPTURE. http://prod-images.exhibit-e.com/www_matthewmarks_com/22487_02_PREVIEW2.jpg Matthew Marks Gallery.

Goals:

  • 10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.
  • What is one thing that is the SAME about using SHAPE in an artwork and using FORM in an artwork? What is one thing that is DIFFERENT? Write this out and then SHARE this idea with your studio mates at your table.

Reflection: How much of your letter did you get done? One shape? Two shapes? Gluing / Taping sides?

AP Studio Art: Who Got VOTED OFF?

What are YOU talking about – all I hear is CHIRP CHIRP CHIRP! http://blog-imgs-50.fc2.com/a/f/g/afg2/The-critique-Group.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.
  • Get together for 10 minutes and talk with one another about the ideas of your concentration work. We have been away from it for about 4+ weeks and you might be a bit rusty regarding what it is all about. While you talk with one another – write out the thoughts you come up with regarding your ideas and the progress of the artworks. 

Reflection: As you look back on the bast 2.5 quarters of work, what are 3 of your biggest impressions from your studio-mate’s works?

Advanced Drawing: Critique! PAPER for TOMORROW!

Keith Haring and his ONLOOKERS – Perhaps CRITIQUING the work? http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/03/23/arts/23HARING_SPAN/23HARING-blog480.jpg

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.
  • One day and a WEEKEND away from the Crit – REVIEW YOUR GOALS from last Thursday and Write out 1 thing that you found beneficial from taking a step back and TALKING about your art.

Reflection: WRITE CRITIQUE and BE DONE! We Reflected A LOT!

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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?