Develop Craft: Learning to use tools, materials, artistic conventions; and learning to care for tools, materials, and space.
What are you going to be looking at and dealing with as we look at foreground, middleground, and background? How have you improved / learned your skills in the 1) creating of art with supplies and 2) coming up with new and innovative compositions as we work outside?
7.2Ac: Evaluate the effectiveness of an image or images to influence ideas, feelings, and behaviors of specific audiences.
TURN TO PAGE 20 in your Handbook: 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?
AP Studio Art: Critique Days – I hope the extra Two days were HELPFUL
Reflect: Learning to think and talk with others about an aspect of one’s work or working process, and learning to judge one’s own work and working process and the work of others.
Grab the 4 part PRE-Critique Worksheets and (on your own pacing) go for the next 28 – 20 minutes to critique one another’s work. What response do you have regarding your studio mate’s works – really – that can help them see things that they might not see – things that might help them continue to learn from their own works and marks? NO KID GLOVES.
Presentations to the studio from the website – answer the questions from AP and present the work that has been created. G: Nothing – reflected on work that was produced.
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
What have you accomplished this week – three days in? What strengths do you see in the hands and mind you have that will add to the work you are creating? What is a weakness?
Reflection: Can you resolve that over the weekend? What are you taking home? PLEASE use the ONLINE CRITIQUE FORM that is on the side of our website to prepare your final written critique for EXAM DAY. I am NOT looking for it until EXAM DAY. If it is not there, the written portion is a zero… Know that you need to include a photograph into the Google Document that comes to you from filling out the online form.
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.
Look at yesterday’s work. Stand back as a pair or trio and have a strong conversation about the work you have put in front of you. What is next? Two things…
Reflection: What have YOU accomplished today? What do you need to do to RESOLVE the work for tomorrow’s critique?
4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
What did you take away from the conversation yesterday and how did you put it to use? What are you going to be using today to make the work stronger?
Reflection: What is the ONE best part of today… Be aware of all that you are doing as a SERIES of WORKS!
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
What TWO things do you want to accomplish today? Is there time to complete ONE MORE DRAWING? The Person Made Object shadow?
Reflection: What are TWO THINGS that you see as being successful in the BEGINNING of the work you and your collaborator are doing in your respective works.
7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
What are two things you think the PROCESS is going to do to help you in the creation of this artwork? How is this going to be a skill that can help you in the future with OTHER ideas and assignments (in or out of art)?
Reflection: What is it that you especially enjoy about the image you are creating in your painting? How do the ideas and colors RELATE to you?
7.1Ad: Analyze how responses to art develop over time based on knowledge of and experience with art and life.
LOOK AT YOUR IDEAS and see what you are doing in the project. What are your inspirations in the world and in the project?
Reflection: You had a lot to think about today… What did you take a away? Look at the ORIGINAL IDEAS and look at your NEW SERIES of works… what’s happening?
“Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.” — John Andrew Holmes
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
What TWO things do you want to accomplish today? These works are small enough to take home and work on. The color schemes and materials are easy enough to work on in and out of class. How are you going to make this one of the most interesting works you have completed?
Reflection: How have you advanced? What is ONE SPECIFIC ASPECT of your drawing that demonstrates your accomplishment?
3.1P: Apply relevant criteria from traditional and contemporary cultural contexts to examine, reflect on, and plan revisions for works of art and design in progress.
Looking at your color wheel and all you’ve got done… what are your biggest challenges with color blending and painting with acrylics? 3 ideas NOW!
Reflection: Tomorrow we begin on the portrait, what do you need to do to finish the transfer? The painting process will take 2 weeks – GET READY for tomorrow!
4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
Best part of yesterday? Plans for today? how’s it coming?
Reflection: How are you moving forward in the process of developing a series of works based on someone else’s work? How are you keeping the images the SAME and how are you changing the ideas?
4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
Best part of yesterday? Plans for today? how’s it coming?
“Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.” — John Andrew Holmes
Painting and Advanced Painting: PAINTS are ORDERED!
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
What is ONE aspect of working in OIL PAINTS that you feel is working to your advantage in this first challenging oil painting?
Reflection / Evaluation: What was your biggest success as you worked through the class period today?
Studio Art 360: SKETCHBOOKS and HALLWAYS?
Hallways are challenging – what can you do to make this one REALLY successful? Hallway drawing time! http://img07.deviantart.net/3051/i/2010/263/f/4/hallway_perspective_by_juanx-d2z4n3q.jpg
Goals
2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
What is one skill that you feel working on the sketchbooks has helped you become better at over the course of the year?
Reflection / Evaluation: While we may not be able to LOOK at the hallways outside of class time to resolve this drawing… what CAN you do in order to polish this idea of perspective in the hallway? How can you make this a STRONG composition as a FINISHED drawing?
4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
What was helpful about 1) seeing your work from a distance and 2) hearing what others thought about the work you created
Reflection / Evaluation: What is something that you took away from the critique today – whether it be about YOUR work or about another person’s work.
Drawing: Hip-Hop and Fauvism… the Hip-Hop its time.
1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.
What are TWO Elements of Art that you are EMPHASIZING as you create this work of art?
Reflection / Evaluation: Look even MORE carefully at your drawing – what is ONE MORE ELEMENT of ART that you could see as developing as a subordinate element?