Tag: Watercolors

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#LastDay you are #OnYourOwn in #PleinAir. NOPE… MEET IN THE GALLERY. 

WE WILL MEET IN THR GALLERY TODAY. Tomorrow you are out in the field on your own today. 

Today we will fo about cleaning up the gallery space and setting up our exhibition. The rest of this post will roll into tomorrow… 

 There is NO ACCESS to the class studio – WET WAX on the floors folks. I will be checking on you as the three (3) hours roll by. BE ACTIVE and ENGAGED as you move forward. Scroll down for more information and inspiration.

Plein Air at the State Fair – Deadline is TOMORROW!

Last times I am sharing this information. I would LOVE for you to join me and the other artists at the WI State Fair during the Plein Air event! HERE you go.

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Out and About in Waterford

9.1P: Establish relevant criteria in order to evaluate a work of art or collection of works. This is it folks. Last day to make work about you and for you and all chosen by you. I hope that the weather has cooperated this week. Get yourself out there and get to work.

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End of the week and you have a small series of works that are all tied together. Name three things that you planned on doing to make this a series of works. How did you accomplish this idea that you set out to accomplish?

  • Anchor Standard 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.
  • Enduring Understanding: Through art-making, people make meaning by investigating and developing awareness of perceptions, knowledge, and experiences.
  • Essential Question(s): How does engaging in creating art enrich people’s lives? How does making art attune people to their surroundings? How do people contribute to awareness and understanding of their lives and the lives of their communities through art-making?
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#Monday with #ArtWork to be done and #NewIdeas to be tackled.

Kandinsky SKETCHES: What are you doing with your ideas? https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/media/collection_images/1/147.1982%23%23S.jpg

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

Perseverance... Keep at it Julie Andres... https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/e2/80/b1/e280b1667ed5f85421461ddfe470c498.jpg
Perseverance… Keep at it Julie Andres… https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/e2/80/b1/e280b1667ed5f85421461ddfe470c498.jpg

Drawing: Kandinsky DEVELOPMENT and PLANNING

G: 2.3Ac: Redesign an object, system, place, or design in response to contemporary issues.

How are you see geometric or organic shapes in your life? Do you relate meaning / feel moods or feelings with them? What are some shapes that are dominant in your life? As you listen to your music… what are the colors and shapes (or lines) that come to mind as you move forward? Look over the worksheet about music and work through it.

Kandinsky SKETCHES: What are you doing with your ideas? https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/media/collection_images/1/147.1982%23%23S.jpg
Kandinsky SKETCHES: What are you doing with your ideas? https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/media/collection_images/1/147.1982%23%23S.jpg

What NEW ideas might you have had about COLOR and Shape in the art you were creating?

Studio Art 360: Character Mugs

1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.

What challenges did you have in getting started last week on with the clay? REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS ARTWORK: Subtractive, Additive, and Manipulation to the clay. These techniques are REQUIRED in the FINAL Mug with a face. We are DONE with this on THURSDAY.

DUE END OF CLASS ON THURSDAY.

FACES and MUGS - What's going on with YOUR MUG? http://uploads.neatorama.com/images/posts/923/70/70923/1396818054-0.jpg
FACES and MUGS – What’s going on with YOUR MUG? http://uploads.neatorama.com/images/posts/923/70/70923/1396818054-0.jpg

What was the largest success you have in today’s work? Take a look at the rest of the classes work BEFORE we clean up. PAUSE 10 minutes before the end of class.

Advanced Drawing: Figure Drawing

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

What are the biggest fears that you have about the ideas of drawing a full human figure? Why do you think this is so tough?

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What was the most challenging way to draw? Why was this most difficult way to go? How OFF were you from the original that you drew from your memory? What is most important about drawing when it comes to observation?

AP Studio Art: WORK

WHAT’s the Assignment? If you need another 1, 2, or 3 concentration works – this is your assignment (one at the minimum). You will have your WEBSITE updated with 12 concentration works – PERIOD. You will rework your statements and answers to the AP Questions… ALL DUE on MARCH 30 for CRITIQUE & PRESENTATION.

3.1Ad: Reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art or design considering relevant traditional and contemporary criteria as well as personal artistic vision.

How does your work for this week Re-Engage the ideas you have been using in the past while ALSO provide ideas of REVISION?

Do your works show GROWTH? http://www.vachonstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/Artist-working-in-the-studio.jpg
Do your works show GROWTH? http://www.vachonstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/Artist-working-in-the-studio.jpg

I try to get you to talk to one another and reflect. Look at each other’s work today and do that. Explain, listen, WRITE DOWN THOUGHTS for your own reflections.

 

 

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Finally #Friends – It is #Friday in the #Studio. Keep making #Art!

#17 Drawing is About Mark Making

“Every mark has a distinct character and quality.Every mark is a signature. Variations in pressure and weight is the visual equivalent of intonation. Marks, or lines, of consistent weight or thickness surrounding a figure or object will flatten the image. Tapering or breaking a line in a curve can connote a highlight or make the curve flow. Also, a tentative line will read as such. Give every mark or line authority and make sure it serves a purpose. Try to use only the marks you need.” 101 Things Learned in Art School, Kit White, 2011, MIT Press

Welcome to National Arts and Humanities Month! What day is TODAY?

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http://www.americansforthearts.org/events/national-arts-and-humanities-month 

Studio Art 360: Drawing and Value – How do you match up?

What was the biggest challenge you found as you began to draw your values yesterday and today?

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Still Life of Dennis Mogelgaard and a focus on Value – What can WE do that will make for an interesting still life drawing? https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/15/2d/bd/152dbd9e1ced4bbccf1bb4e83805cc96.jp

What are 2 difficulties that you had in beginning your value drawings today? Remember – DRAWING IS A CHALLENGE – let it be! 

Painting: Personal Reflection and Meaning – and PAINT!

ASSIGNMENT – Due at the END of the watercolor painting assignment October 21, 2016: Artists research on ONE of the following artists for imagery, technique, approach: Winslow Homer, Charles Demuth, Thomas Eakins, Edward Hopper, Dong Kingman, Reginald Marsh, Charles Sheeler, J.M.W. Turner, Thomas Moran, Georgia O’Keefe, James Whistler, or Andrew Wyeth.

How has the gathering of images HELPED or CHALLENGED you in the creation of a composition visually and / or telling a story – about yourself?

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Thomas Moran: Landscape – in Watercolor! http://www.denverartmuseum.org/sites/default/files/exhibitions/Media%20browser/hero-moran.jpg

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

http://www.denverartmuseum.org/exhibitions/thomas-moran-s-yellowstone-project-nation

Develop / collect images, consider the ideas about yourself and surroundings. This is going to be a SELF-PORTRAIT of sorts – no that it is going to look like you but rather… the objects and images, surroundings, ideas will be about you.

Drawing: Pencils and Paper and NESTS!

How is the work developing? REMEMBER – Wednesday of NEXT WEEK as a MID-CRIT!

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I have NO IDEA who this artist is… sorry: http://i0.wp.com/thejadedress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/6a0115721817bb970b0120a5c1a1d0970c-800wi1.jpg

What are three points of progress in your work? Clearly define them.  

Educational Use Thanks!

 

AP Studio Art: NATURE!

What has been successful for your outdoor work? What has FAILED you? Where do you need to go from here?

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Niles-Udo and earth art https://jmmathenyblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/robinia-leaf-swing.jpg

 With this OUT OF THE BOX (out of the doors) assignment… What are two struggles are you facing and how do you envision yourself getting out from under the challenges?

 

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First #Friday in the #ArtStudio

What is Art? “Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.” Agnes Martin, Art In America (p.124, 1996)

Friday is a unique schedules so let’s put that up right now.

  • 1st 7:25 – 8:05
  • HR 8:10 – 8:54
    • Friday Homeroom: JUNIORS in auditorium
    • Tuesday Homeroom: SOPHOMORES in auditorium
    • Wednesday Homeroom: FRESHMEN in auditorium
      • Schedule is a BIT changed
  • 2nd 8:59 – 9:39
  • 3rd 9:44 – 10:24
  • 4th 10:29 – 11:09
  • 5A LUNCH 11:09 – 11:37
  • 5B LUNCH 11:37 – 12:04
  • 5C LUNCH 12:04 – 12:31
  • 5AB Class 11:14 – 12:04
  • 5BC Class 11:42 – 12:31
  • 5AC Class 11:14 – 11:37 / 12:08 – 12:31
  • 6 12:36 – 1:16
  • 7 1:21 – 2:01
  • 8 2:06 – 2:49

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Remind: text @artwithk to 81010 to get yourself on the list.

Remind Instructions

Interactive Handbook is here ONLINE

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Studio Art 360: 3D Images

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Visit the original site for this great example here: https://korbartwuhs.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/0560f-valueblock.jpg

Painting: Watercolors? Encaustics?

Robert Indiana
Jasper Johns
Robert Indiana
Jasper Johns

Drawing: 2Point / 3Point Perspective

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This is a SKETCH of a stack of books (https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3448/3984244810_ae2be970dd_z.jpg) what can you do with the ideas of a sketch?

AP Studio Art: Let’s get a small concentration started.

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Paul Cezanne Apples: http://www.myartprints.co.uk/kunst/paul_cezanne/still_life_with_apples.jpg

Class Reflections: As you have looked at making artwork, what is ONE skill that you feel you already have that you think will help you continue to succeed as a learning artist? Sticky note reflection and add it to your page 9 (or 8… wherever you are keeping our two days of sticky notes). Have a GREAT WEEKEND… Tuesday – We get into it.

and lastly… a bit about Mr. Korb

Frank Korb website

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#SummerSchool is HERE! As is #PleinAir #Art!

Welcome to the SUMMER and to the Plein Air Art Course at WUHS! We are off to a GREAT START with 8 students taking the opportunity to get some painting and drawing in for the next 4 weeks. We talked a bit today about the process of going out and painting and then we did just that. Watercolors were the first day’s medium (and first week for that matter) and we will talk technique Tuesday – and then PAINT! Hope for NO RAIN!

After a couple of hours experimenting with watercolors…
… the group seemed tired! MORE TO PAINT!

I need a couple of permission slips to get off campus so… please use the FORM BELOW if you are one of the three parents who need to enter information! THANKS!

 

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#Parent’sDay #Friday – #Welcome to the #ArtStudio

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

Painting and Advanced Painting: PAINTING

What TECHNIQUES are you using in the watercolor? https://korbartwuhs.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/4217e-sketchbook-watercolor-test7.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • What TECHNIQUES are you using in the watercolor?

Reflection / Evaluation: What are the STRONGEST aspects of your work this week? What do you see as being ONE challenge you need to REALLY focus on next week? PARENTS: What questions, thoughts, or NEWLY LEARNED IDEAS about ART have you gained from your 30 minutes together today?

Studio Art 360: Boxes/ Sculpture / Paper Mache

CARDBOARD? What? http://www.evolo.us/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/ICON_5.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.1P: Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.
  • What more do you need to do in order to be done with the sculpting of the form and then resolve the form to add the paper mache?

Reflection / Evaluation: How do you feel the adding of the paper mache and color is going to make the work stronger than it was when it was just cardboard? PARENTS: What questions, thoughts, or NEWLY LEARNED IDEAS about ART have you gained from your 30 minutes together today?

AP Studio Art: ENGLISH Computer Lab – Website

Time to UPLOAD IMAGES! First – PHOTOSHOP…

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • What was the MOST FRUSTRATING PART of yesterday? 

Reflection / Evaluation: Talk to your classmates about the challenges of the maintenance of the websites. What challenges do you see having? PARENTS: What questions, thoughts, or NEWLY LEARNED IDEAS about ART have you gained from your 30 minutes together today?

Drawing: CRIT – Let’s Review the PROCESS!

Let’s Talk! http://iupui.mcnrc.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/jacobson-story-image.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.
  • Think about yesterday’s WRITTEN critique… How can you CONTINUE to consider the ELEMENTS and PRINCIPLES to be a successful and productive member of the oral critique?

Reflection: How are you falling short of being able to REALLY add to the critique? REMEMBER that the critique is PART of your final GRADE. PARENTS: What questions, thoughts, or NEWLY LEARNED IDEAS about ART have you gained from your 30 minutes together today?

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#LateStart #Wednesday… Get to #ArtWork #Fast and #Focused

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

Painting and Advanced Painting: Collage to PAINTING

What TECHNIQUES are you going to or ARE you using? mhttps://korbartwuhs.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/ed539-demo000.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.
  • What do you feel about talking aloud when it comes to other’s works? What are your thoughts about why you may be apprehensive or confident when discussing other individual’s work? (Am I looking forward to a critique? YES!)

Reflection / Evaluation: What were 3 things that you took away from today’s MID critique?

Studio Art 360: Boxes/ Sculpture

Cool ways to use cardboard and paper to make useable objects! https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/5c/a3/47/5ca3470c7ce2e609b6d6915e8a3a0660.jpg

Goals:

  • 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.
  • What changes can you make to the forms as you add the paper mache to them? How will this add or take away from the sculptural form?

Reflection / Evaluation:  What do you need to do to WRAP UP THE BUILDING part of this work?

AP Studio Art: Computer Lab – Website

WordPress AP Pages Add
Here’s where we can start!

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • WHY do we want to set up a webpage and digital images for AP Studio Art? Give 3 reasons and explanations.

Reflection / Evaluation: What challenges did you have using TECHNOLOGY today? Give 3 specifics.

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: CRIT – Let’s Review the PROCESS!

Final Morandi for the Project? What is working – What is NOT? HA – It ALL Works! http://carpetmoss.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/giorgio-morandi-natura-morta-ii-1953.jpg Let’s Read Up HERE: http://www.italoamericano.org/story/2015-5-1/giorgio-morandi

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.
  • Looking at the still life you have drawn, what are aspects that you would talk about if you were critiquing the work as being successful or unsuccessful?

Reflection: What are your thoughts about the idea of the composition / white objects as subject matter? WRITE THAT IN YOUR GOAL SHEETS. Why do you feel this is worthy / unworthy / simple / complicated? What is working? What can you take forward to the next assignment?

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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://korbartwuhs.files.wordpress.com/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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#Day2, Let’s make some #ART and get through some #Philosophy

What is Art? – “Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.” Anges Martin, Art In America (p.124, 1996)

I Could do that

Folder: Everyone – Page 7. Let’s talk about 10 Lessons the Arts Teach Children (everyone).

Painting and Advanced Painting: Preliminary ideas and exercises

Turner Norham Castle at Sunrise: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/images/work/N/N01/N01981_9.jpg – TATE MODERN

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 made it challenging to put that first mark on your paper? Unless you had no problems – then what was it that gives you confidence in painting?

Reflection / Evaluation: What three things did you succeed with today in  your painting? AT THIS MOMENT?

Studio Art 360: Observation Anyone?

ROBERT INDIANA: Love: http://whitecubediaries.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/3923768734_6b16394256_z.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • What was the biggest challenge you found as you began coming up with ideas and drawing your cube, cylinder, or pyramid yesterday?

Reflection / Evaluation: What are 2 skills you have already that are going to make your experiences in Studio Art 360 easier?

AP Studio Art: Bag of Ideas?

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.
  • Where / when in your past have you used the ideas of the repetition of single object in a SERIES of drawings, paintings, artworks… something else?

Reflection / Evaluation: g been successful in TODAY’s beginnings of a CONCENTRATION?

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

Drawing: Observation and Pencils?

Boxes, Objects, COMPOSITION!

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • Most young artists work with their FIRST idea and that’s it. What might the benefit be to begin with MORE ideas? When you sketch in your sketchbooks / artworks… where do you mostly get your ideas from?  How do you define OBSERVATION?

Reflection / Evaluation: What skills do you hope to develop this year in Drawing? What do you feel you will be able to improve on regarding the skills you have currently?

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#LastDayOfClass with the #PleinAirPainting class at #Waterford #HighSchool #WI

Plein Air Painting: Last day out there! What are you doing? How do you WRAP IT UP?

Matt working on a LONG VIEW of Wadewitz.
Mikayla enjoying the ease of watercolors in downtown Waterford.
Kelsey on the path to great paintings – well path to Rochester at least.
Sammy working at the local coffee shop – well, not making coffee – making great art.
Mary capturing the waterfront by the library in Waterford.
  • NVAS: 7.1P: 6.1P: Analyze and describe the impact that an exhibition or collection has on personal awareness of social, cultural, or political beliefs and understandings.
  • Question to begin with: Yesterday you thought about how your 4 weeks of painting have changed your views, maybe even enhanced your view of Waterford. As you continue through the art making experiences, I hope that the “artist’s eye” has really begun to open up in you. No question today… no deep reflection right now… just take an opportunity to consider that idea of “artist’s eye.” I think about it in how we, as artists, see the world through a different set of lenses than others. Please continue working through your painting today and look through those “artist’s eyes.” I lied… How are you seeing things differently today than you were 4 weeks ago.

Thank you for ALL your hard work over these past 4 weeks. Continue to be focused and WORK on your WORK. There is nothing better than working on work to get better at making work. You have all had great successes as well as aspects of the work that has been, well, not so successful – failure may be the better word.

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