Tag: Todd Mrozinski

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#FinalFriday in the #Studio

Check out your shadows. EXCELLENT JOB this week! https://midwestartiststudios.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/img_4202.jpg?w=640

Today’s Schedule

1 – 7:25-8:06
2 – 8:11-8:52
3 – 8:57-9:38
4 – 9:43-10:24
6 – 10:29-11:10
A Lunch – 11:10-11:51
B Lunch – 11:51-12:33
C Lunch – 12:33-1:14
5AB Class – 11:15-12:33
5BC Class – 11:56-1:14
5AC Class – 11:15-11:51 & 12:38-1:14
7 – 1:19-2:00
8 – 2:05-2:46

“Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.” —Norman Vincent Peal

Art Careers – Conservation 

Drawing: Last Day to Work – Let’s Meet Todd on Tuesday!

  • Pre-Critique Worksheet HERE
  • Pre-Critique Artworks to critique HERE

2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.

What have you accomplished to make this work REALLY STAND OUT in your mind? Can you resolve this image over the weekend?

Check out your shadows. EXCELLENT JOB this week! https://midwestartiststudios.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/img_4202.jpg?w=640
Check out your shadows. EXCELLENT JOB this week! https://midwestartiststudios.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/img_4202.jpg?w=640

What are you taking home? PLEASE use the PAPER CRITIQUE FORM that has been handed out (and is available here) to prepare your final written critique for EXAM DAY.

Studio Art 360: Final Day to MAKE YOUR SOCIAL COMMENTARY COLLAGE!

2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.

Today is the FINAL day to collage, title, and write – we evaluate in 30 minutes or less. GO!

Final assessment and evaluation. Fill out the rubric and hand it is as your exit ticket!

Advanced Drawing: Last Day in the Studio… Frida…

  • Pre-Critique Worksheet HERE
  • Pre-Critique Artworks to critique HERE

2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.

What are you going to be taking home this weekend to work as as we WRAP THIS WORK UP for the final exam. NO WORK TIME ON MONDAY!

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Edward Hopper “House by the Railroad” http://www.edwardhopper.net/images/paintings/house-by-the-railroad.jpg

Questions? What is it you need to do on the final exam? How do you plan on finishing this artwork?

AP Studio Art: This is it… In Class… You have the WEEKEND and then we CRIT on Wednesday.

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.

What are your plans today as you move forward with the work?

Emiliy Garcia's Concentration... Do you know where she is going with her new works? I do! https://i1.wp.com/apartwithkorb.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/lexy.jpg?w=370&h=&crop=1&ssl=1
Emiliy Garcia’s Concentration… Do you know where she is going with her new works? I do! https://i1.wp.com/apartwithkorb.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/lexy.jpg?w=370&h=&crop=1&ssl=1

As you look at your progress – consider the ideas of Develop Craft: Learning to use tools, materials, artistic conventions; and learning to care for tools, materials, and space. How are you progressing?

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#BetterLateThanNever in the #ArtStudio

Dakota Galkowski - Concentration on your own... https://apartwithkorb.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/20170501_123847.jpg?w=700&h=

“Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.” —Norman Vincent Peal

Drawing – Let’s do the same as yesterday!

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 so you are REALLY ready for the finished product? Is there time to complete ONE MORE DRAWING? The Person Made Object shadow?

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Just Keep Working Todd… Todd Mrozinski at Work: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/34/cf/34/34cf346fa659f5f55f31d5339691bfe3.jpg

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.

Studio Art 360 – Time to Collage

2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.

Looking at your images… what are the aspects of them that are STILL interesting to you? What NO LONGER seem worthwhile?

Just what was it that made yesterday's homes so different, so appealing? (upgrade) 2004 by Richard Hamilton 1922-2011
Richard Hamilton: “Just what was it that made yesterday’s homes so different, so appealing?” http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/P20271

When you look at the IDEAS you can up with on TUESDAY – what do you see SPECIFICALLY in the images and TITLE that might help you communicate that in the work?

Advanced Drawing – Hopper and Kahlo

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.

Inside and outside images – Edward Hopper

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Frida Kahlo – Tehuana Self Portrait: http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/frida-kahlo-tehuana-self-portrait-pg-reproductions.jpg

What do you hope to accomplish in the creation of this work? what messages are you communicating in this drawing?

AP Studio Art – Final Project Concentration 2.0

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.

What was the CENTRAL IDEA of your concentration? How can you use that same idea and GROW from it? This is NOT about making a 14th or 15th work – it is using the ideas from your body of work and GROWING and MATURING – Moving forward in the process. Final work of art for your final exam critique.

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Dakota Galkowski – Concentration on your own… https://apartwithkorb.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/20170501_123847.jpg?w=700&h=

With one another – discuss the ideas that you had about your final work and how you are moving forward with your ideas.

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#Special Awards Today and Tonight – #ART

Cambree Ney: How will YOU take your work and move it forward? https://apartwithkorb.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/the-white-house-fix.jpg?w=700&h=

“Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.” —Norman Vincent Peal

Today’s Schedule

  • 1: 7:25 -8:02
  • 2: 8:07 – 8:46
  • 3: 8:51 – 9:28
  • 4: 9:33 – 10:10
  • Assembly: 10:15 – 11:10
  • A Lunch: 11:10 – 11:40
  • B Lunch: 11:40 – 12:10
  • C Lunch: 12:10 – 12:40
  • 5AB: 11:15 – 12:10
  • 5BC: 11:45 – 12:40
  • 5AC: 11:15 – 11:40; 12: 15 – 12:40
  • 6: 12:45 – 1:22
  • 7: 1:27 – 2:04
  • 8: 2:09 – 2:46

Drawing: What do you need to do with the SPACE?

11.1Ac: Utilize inquiry methods of observation, research, and experimentation to explore unfamiliar subjects through art-making.

What skills from all of your works of art from this year REALLY stand out in your mind that is helping you along RIGHT NOW?

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Todd Mrozinski and the use of POSITIVE ad NEGATIVE space. http://www.intercontinentalmilwaukee.com/downtown-milwaukee-images/artists/tmrozinski.jpg

What was ONE accomplishment you made this year in the process of  making art that you will be able to reflection in 10 weeks and remember? How have you felt about the PROCESS and MEANING in the making of art?

Studio Art 360: Romare Bearden and Alex Katz

2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.

What were the images you gathered yesterday? How can you begin to assemble them or clean them up to start making an image that is communicating an idea?

What were your challenges today in the making of your art ideas?

Advanced Drawing: Frida Hopper? Edward Kahlo? NO WAY!

2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.

Three more in studio work days – Make sure that you are able to get your space and lockers clean too. What is on your plate to take care of this week?

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Frida Kahlo and her Parrots “Me and My Parrots 9” https://sep.yimg.com/ay/artsheaven/me-and-my-parrots-9.jpg

Alright Hopper Kahlo artists. How have you taken this work from BEYOND the assignment to make it your own?

AP Studio Art: Concentration 2.0 – You are moving on!

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.

What was the CENTRAL IDEA of your concentration? How can you use that same idea and GROW from it? This is NOT about making a 14th or 15th work – it is using the ideas from your body of work and GROWING and MATURING – Moving forward in the process. Final work of art for your final exam critique.

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Cambree Ney: How will YOU take your work and move it forward? https://apartwithkorb.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/the-white-house-fix.jpg?w=700&h=

With one another – discuss the ideas that you had about your final work and how you are moving forward with your ideas.

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#HolyThursdayBatman! One more Day then it’s a 3 1/2 day weekend!

Large Scale Work - Todd Mrozinski SHADOWS! https://365artists365days.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/working-in-studio-on-tree-shadow.jpg?w=640&h=480

“A dream only becomes overrated when not pursued by the dreamer.” ― Courtney Hickman

PLEIN AIR ART CLASS: Summer Opportunities – Plein Air and Printmaking!

Summer Plein Air Art - Taliesin - Frank Lloyd Wright - Spring Green, WI
Summer Plein Air Art – Taliesin – Frank Lloyd Wright – Spring Green, WI Images of Field Trip HERE.

ALL LATE WORK IS DUE FRIDAY – No Exceptions! Period.

Drawing: Shadows, Positive, and Negative Space

2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.

What do you need to RESOLVE in the next few days? What skills are you pleased with in how you are completing this work?

Large Scale Work - Todd Mrozinski SHADOWS! https://365artists365days.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/working-in-studio-on-tree-shadow.jpg?w=640&h=480
Large Scale Work – Todd Mrozinski SHADOWS! https://365artists365days.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/working-in-studio-on-tree-shadow.jpg?w=640&h=480

What have you learned about the process of working? What is ONE thing that you have taken from the year of working? What strengths have you gained?

Studio Art 360: Printing Day # 2 is HERE!

SIT DOWN PLEASE and SHHHHHHHHHH!

2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.

Today we are going to work with CARAN D’ACHE Crayons and a printing plate to help create a MONOPRINT Group Print. When your’s is done – WASH IT CLEAN and then we begin to CLEAN OUT OUR STUFF.

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Caran D’Ache and YOU! http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-e67QAc_ss0U/T0LWh-yeL-I/AAAAAAAAECs/hWdgpgdQjj0/s1600/Neocolor+II+Aquarelle+Crayons.jpg

What are you MOST pleased with in regards to your print? WHY? Tomorrow we CLEAN!

Advanced Drawing: Work like your ART depends on it!

Express: Learning to create works that convey an idea, a feeling, or a personal meaning.

Take a look at your previous week’s works – where did you struggle the most with the idea of the portrait? Where did you succeed the most? How do you use the ideas of chiaroscuro to better define the ideas of form (in the face especially)?

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Johannes Vermeer “The Music Lesson” http://taboofart.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/hiroshi-sugimoto-the-music-lesson-1999.jpg

What was the most challenging way to draw? Why was this most difficult way to go? What is most important about drawing when it comes to observation? (Vermeer)

AP Studio Art: 7 Deadly Art Sins – What’s the PROGRESS?

Robert Rauschenberg Show at MoMA

AP Art Show Nametags – Make a copy of this into your folder.

4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.

ghbors about the Myth. What are your thoughts about your classmates work. Sticky Note Comments.

Greed https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/Jheronimus_Bosch_Table_of_the_Mortal_Sins_%28Avaricia%29.jpg?download By Hieronymus Bosch - →This file has been extracted from another file: Hieronymus Bosch- The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things.JPG, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5595680
Greed https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/Jheronimus_Bosch_Table_of_the_Mortal_Sins_%28Avaricia%29.jpg?download By Hieronymus Bosch – →This file has been extracted from another file: Hieronymus Bosch- The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things.JPG, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5595680

ritique on MONDAY – What can you do over the next few days to continue working on it? Quiet Work Days Friday. Greed

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#HumpDay! This is the MIDDLE of the WEEK! YaHoo! Another day to make #ART!

Andy Warhol making Silk Screen Prints - It takes a lot of work to do the job. http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/01-Aug-2012/538491-Gerard_Malanga_silk_screening_with_Andy_Warhol_Factory1965.jpg

“A dream only becomes overrated when not pursued by the dreamer.” ― Courtney Hickman

PLEIN AIR ART CLASS: Summer Opportunities – Plein Air and Printmaking!

Summer Plein Air Art - Taliesin - Frank Lloyd Wright - Spring Green, WI
Summer Plein Air Art – Taliesin – Frank Lloyd Wright – Spring Green, WI Images of Field Trip HERE.

ALL LATE WORK IS DUE FRIDAY – No Exceptions! Period.

Drawing: Shadows, Positive, and Negative Space

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? Can you resolve that over the weekend?

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Todd Mrozonski at the work table in the studio. https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AlAbGuqwdMc/sddefault.jpg

What do you need to begin with tomorrow?

Studio Art 360: Printing Day # 2 is HERE!

2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.

What do you need to do to PRINT this hour or rework your plate to GROUP PRINT? If you are DONE printing – how are you going to use the remainder of the time to prepare a note card for the exam – Look at the HANDBOOK and understand the ELEMENTS and PRINCIPLES, color wheel, grid… One note card is your tool? Think of a question that you might have for me for the end of the class to help you with your questions…

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Andy Warhol making Silk Screen Prints – It takes a lot of work to do the job. http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/01-Aug-2012/538491-Gerard_Malanga_silk_screening_with_Andy_Warhol_Factory1965.jpg

What is ONE QUESTION I can help you with regarding the exam? Do you have any knowledge of the exam… Let’s talk tomorrow!

Advanced Drawing: Work like your ART depends on it!

Express: Learning to create works that convey an idea, a feeling, or a personal meaning.

Take a look at your previous week’s works – where did you struggle the most with the idea of the portrait? Where did you succeed the most? How do you use the ideas of chiaroscuro to better define the ideas of form (in the face especially)?

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Vermeer: Indoor painting: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Vermeer_-_The_Milkmaid.jpg

What was the most challenging way to draw? Why was this most difficult way to go? What is most important about drawing when it comes to observation? Previous works from past classes. Indoor outdoor images (Vermeer).

AP Studio Art: 7 Deadly Art Sins – What’s the PROGRESS?

AP Art Show Nametags – Make a copy of this into your folder.

4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.

Review your thoughts with you neighbors about the Myth. What are your thoughts about your classmates work. Sticky Note Comments.

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Hieronymous Bosch Envy: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Jheronimus_Bosch_Table_of_the_Mortal_Sins_%28Invidia%29.jpg By Hieronymus Bosch – →This file has been extracted from another file: Hieronymus Bosch- The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things.JPG, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5595483

Critique on MONDAY – What can you do over the next few days to continue working on it? Quiet Work Days Thursday and Friday. Envy:

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#Monday – This is the #LastWeekOfSchool (Full week that is)!

Speaking about Art... Mid Crit. http://www.uarts.edu/sites/default/files/imagecache/audience_slide/images/fineartcrit.jpg

“A dream only becomes overrated when not pursued by the dreamer.” ― Courtney Hickman

PLEIN AIR ART CLASS: Summer Opportunities – Plein Air and Printmaking!

Summer Plein Air Art - Taliesin - Frank Lloyd Wright - Spring Green, WI
Summer Plein Air Art – Taliesin – Frank Lloyd Wright – Spring Green, WI Images of Field Trip HERE.

ALL LATE WORK IS DUE FRIDAY – No Exceptions! Period.

Drawing: MidCrit and Shadows

Goals: 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.

What is your FIRST thought as you put your work up in front of yourself?

Speaking about Art... Mid Crit. http://www.uarts.edu/sites/default/files/imagecache/audience_slide/images/fineartcrit.jpg
Speaking about Art… Mid Crit. http://www.uarts.edu/sites/default/files/imagecache/audience_slide/images/fineartcrit.jpg

What difficulties are you having with about this project? What have you learned and what are you going to take into the next stage of the work?

Studio Art 360: Printing Plates and KIKI SMITH

2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.

Today we are FINISHING our CARAN D’ACHE Crayons and a printing plates. What are three things you want to work on to wrap it up for the day / assignment?

Using plastic printing plates, draw with the crayons to fill the plastic plate, don;t go light, but don’t go heavy. MEDIUM PRESSURE. G: Once again… What do you need to do in order to be ready to print TOMORROW? Are you done with the crayon drawing?

Advanced Drawing: Edward Hopper and Frida Kahlo

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.

What is your FIRST thought as you put your work up in front of yourself? N: MID CRIT: ORAL CRITIQUE.

Speaking about Art... Mid Crit. http://www.uarts.edu/sites/default/files/imagecache/audience_slide/images/fineartcrit.jpg
Speaking about Art… Mid Crit. http://www.uarts.edu/sites/default/files/imagecache/audience_slide/images/fineartcrit.jpg

What difficulties are you having with about this project? What have you learned and what are you going to take into the next stage of the work?

AP Studio Art: Gallery Installation

AP Art Show Nametags – Make a copy of this into your folder.

4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.

How many works do you have ready for your exhibit? Let’s get things in there and ready to OPEN the show tomorrow!  Is your Artist Statement available?

What are you satisfied with in regards to your show? Take a look as a group and let’s reflect.

 

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#Thursday in the #Studio – Let’s Make LOTS of #Art

Caran Dache Crayons - Let's Think about them as we go outside and draw for ideas. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-e67QAc_ss0U/T0LWh-yeL-I/AAAAAAAAECs/hWdgpgdQjj0/s1600/Neocolor+II+Aquarelle+Crayons.jpg

DRAWING’s Morning Scenery Books – Now in the Library.

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Morning Scenery Handmade Japanese Accordion Books: https://goo.gl/ls2WjH

“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

Drawing: Outside with our

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?

Shadows and you. Today we work on our partners - Thanks Todd Mrozonski http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-S35AqnNouiw/VET52lDbUEI/AAAAAAAAA1g/yonT9XC32DQ/s1600/todd%2Bpm.jpg
Shadows and you. Today we work on our partners – Thanks Todd Mrozonski http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-S35AqnNouiw/VET52lDbUEI/AAAAAAAAA1g/yonT9XC32DQ/s1600/todd%2Bpm.jpg

How have you advanced? What is ONE SPECIFIC ASPECT of your drawing that demonstrates your accomplishment?

Studio Art 360: Outside One More Time

2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.

Today we are going to work with CARAN DACHE in mind and the final ideas for our compositions. Crayons and a printing plate to help create a MONOPRINT. What is your FAVORITE COLOR SCHEME of all time and WHY?  You are going to use THIS color scheme for your CARAN DACHE print.

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Caran Dache Crayons – Let’s Think about them as we go outside and draw for ideas. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-e67QAc_ss0U/T0LWh-yeL-I/AAAAAAAAECs/hWdgpgdQjj0/s1600/Neocolor+II+Aquarelle+Crayons.jpg

What do you need to do in order to be ready to print MONDAY? Are you done with the crayon drawing?

Advanced Drawing: Mid Crit on MONDAY – What kind of Accomplishment are you having?

2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.

Inside and outside images – Edward Hopper: New York Movie Information

Nothing but the references to Edward hopper – continue to work on the drawings. Going to be looking at the evaluation on the process and ideas in the work. Continue to work on the inside outside drawings.

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New York Movie – Edward Hopper: http://www.edwardhopper.net/images/paintings/newyork-movie.jpg

What do you hope to accomplish in the creation of this work? what messages are you communicating in this drawing?

AP Studio Art: ART WORLD Deadly Sins!

AP Art Show Nametags – Make a copy of this into your folder.

1.1 Ad: Visualize and hypothesize to generate plans for ideas and directions for creating art and design that can affect social change.

Step back – do not look at the work – set it up, step back and now look at your work. What is going well? What needs work?

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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Jheronimus_Bosch_Table_of_the_Mortal_Sins_%28Luxuria%29.jpg By Hieronymus Bosch – →This file has been extracted from another file: Hieronymus Bosch- The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things.JPG, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5595879

Last 4 minutes – find another artist and pair up… give each other  4 SERIOUS THOUGHTS of FEEDBACK about the piece.

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#85Degrees today – Let’s go out and #MAKEART!(Not everyone… 360).

Todd Mrozinski: Wall images: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zlgMPWRueGQ/VET5jmurXgI/AAAAAAAAA04/5nhxh8k5Cfo/s1600/big%2Bpicture%2Bpm.jpg

“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

Drawing: Shadows and Todd Mrozinski

2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.

What are three reasons that SIMPLIFYING a work of art may be a good way to make meaning easier to understand in a work of art?

Todd Mrozinski: Wall images: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zlgMPWRueGQ/VET5jmurXgI/AAAAAAAAA04/5nhxh8k5Cfo/s1600/big%2Bpicture%2Bpm.jpg
Todd Mrozinski: Wall images: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zlgMPWRueGQ/VET5jmurXgI/AAAAAAAAA04/5nhxh8k5Cfo/s1600/big%2Bpicture%2Bpm.jpg

What are three characteristics of your classmate that you think will be helpful to you in discovering a color scheme / ideas for compositions? Do you have an OBJECT that you can bring in tomorrow to be the third part of the triptych? BRING IT IN!

Studio Art 360: Outside and Observe!

2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.

Look at last weeks drawing from FRIDAY. What is one thing that you did well on? What are two things you would like to improve on?

Jim Dine: Observational Drawings: BIG TREE! http://cdn0.walkerart.org/public/collections-thumbs/wac_5035/340x438.jpeg
Jim Dine: Observational Drawings: BIG TREE! http://cdn0.walkerart.org/public/collections-thumbs/wac_5035/340×438.jpeg

What was your biggest challenge in the drawing from observation? What are 2 things that were a challenge as you were looking at a REAL object?

Advanced Drawing:  Edward Hopper and Frida… KAHLO!

G: 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.

Where have you used criticism in the past to evaluate something as good or bad? What were some of the criteria that you have used to do that?

Sit back - share your ideas with your classmates... gather a couple around and talk. http://www.uarts.edu/sites/default/files/imagecache/audience_slide/images/fineartcrit.jpg
Sit back – share your ideas with your classmates… gather a couple around and talk. http://www.uarts.edu/sites/default/files/imagecache/audience_slide/images/fineartcrit.jpg

What was difficult about this project? What have you learned and what are you going to take into the next work?

AP Studio Art: Remember we are pulling your SHOW together this week

1.1 Ad: Visualize and hypothesize to generate plans for ideas and directions for creating art and design that can affect social change.

What symbols are you using to visualize the myth or to denounce the myth?

By Hieronymus Bosch - →This file has been extracted from another file: Hieronymus Bosch- The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things.JPG, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5595816 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/Jheronimus_Bosch_Table_of_the_Mortal_Sins_%28Gula%29.jpg
By Hieronymus Bosch – →This file has been extracted from another file: Hieronymus Bosch- The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things.JPG, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5595816 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/Jheronimus_Bosch_Table_of_the_Mortal_Sins_%28Gula%29.jpg

How are you using the images to fully communicate the ideas you have about your myth?

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#MidWeek and we’re almost DONE with the #SchoolYear

TODAY’S SCHEDULE

  1. 7:25 – 8:02
  2. 8:07 – 8:46
  3. 8:51 – 9:28
  4. 9:33 – 10:10
  5. 11:10 – 12:40
  6. 12:45 – 1:22
  7. 1:27 – 2:04
  8. 2:09 – 2:46

ASSEMBLY between 4 – 5

EMPTY YOUR LOCKERS THIS WEEK! Take it ALL HOME – Except what you are working on right now (and your folders).

“Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.” —Norman Vincent Peal

Drawing – Todd Mrozinski and YOU!

Keep Painting Todd! https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/34/cf/34/34cf346fa659f5f55f31d5339691bfe3.jpg

Goals:

  • 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 so you are REALLY ready for the finished product? 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.

Studio Art 360: The SCULPTURES! The RUBRIC! The CRITIQUE!

Oh Andy… http://archv.sfmoma.org/images/artwork/medium/78.196.A-F_01_D02.jpg

Goals:

  • 7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
  • What are two things about PAINTING in ACRYLIC that you have discovered and will STAY WITH YOU in the future?

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? 

HERE’s where were headed with this! Andy Warhol at MoMA.

AP Studio Art: Collaboration

NAMETAGS HERE for your ART in the GALLERY

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Goals:

  • 6.1Ad: Curate a collection of objects, artifacts, or artwork to impact the viewer’s understanding of social, cultural, and/or political experiences.
  • As this is a GROUP SHOW, what challenges did you seeing in the process of installing the show? What’ needs work in the visual end of it all? What do you need to do to BALANCE the show? 

Reflection: Is the show hung? Are your name-tags made? Are your images shot (maybe you make photos of your section of the gallery and display them in your website.) What are your feelings – what do you stand back and look at specifically and say with pride “I made that.”

Advanced Drawing: Individualized SERIES

Series of Flags! http://www.hbs.edu/PublishingImages/schwartz/fullimage/aronsteindaniel22.jpg

Goals:

  • 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? 

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#HappyBirthday @AbbyKorb – #Tuesday in the #ArtStudio – Lots of #WORK to #MAKE

HAPPY 18th Birthday Abby Korb!

Happy 18th Birthday Abby! I Love You! - DAD and MOM
Happy 18th Birthday Abby! I Love You! – DAD and MOM

EMPTY YOUR LOCKERS THIS WEEK! Take it ALL HOME – Except what you are working on right now (and your folders).

“Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.” —Norman Vincent Peal

Drawing – Todd Mrozinski and YOU!

Todd – What are YOU THINKING? http://www.intercontinentalmilwaukee.com/downtown-milwaukee-images/artists/tmrozinski.jpg

Goals:

  • 11.1Ac: Utilize inquiry methods of observation, research, and experimentation to explore unfamiliar subjects through art-making.
  • What skills from all of your works of art from this year REALLY stand out in your mind that is helping you along RIGHT NOW?

Reflection:  What was ONE accomplishment you made this year in the process of making art that you will be able to reflection in 10 weeks and remember? How have you felt about the PROCESS and MEANING in the making of art? 

Studio Art 360: The SCULPTURES! The RUBRIC! The CRITIQUE!

KISS! http://www.imranomerart.com/images/essays/lips.jpg

Goals:

  • 7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
  • What is the aspect of your personality that the COLOR USE and POSE OF THE SELFIE are representing?

Reflection: What are the COLOR Sand the COLOR SCHEME you are using in your painting? 

HERE’s where were headed with this! Andy Warhol at MoMA.

AP Studio Art: Collaboration

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NAMETAGS HERE for your ART in the GALLERY

Goals:

  • 6.1Ad: Curate a collection of objects, artifacts, or artwork to impact the viewer’s understanding of social, cultural, and/or political experiences.
  • What is ONE THING you want to speak SPECIFICALLY to in the Waterford Senior Living Work? What is one CHALLENGE you had? One Success?

Reflection: No more thoughts – today was all about REFLECTION.

Advanced Drawing: Individualized SERIES

For YOU Kelsey: http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3066/1982/1600/4%20gatitos.jpg

Goals:

  • 7.1Ad: Analyze how responses to art develop over time based on knowledge of and experience with art and life.
  • How has this idea of a SERIES challenged you? Name 3 things that are important to you about the work you are creating.

Reflection: You shared a bit YESTERDAY – THINK BACK… What did you take a away from the 1) conversation and then 2) WORK TIME? 

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