CURRENT ASSIGNMENT

ADVANCED ART

THIRD TRIMESTER

Today is: Monday May 7, 2012

final assignment

Create a complex form that has a lid, spout and handle that expresses a political or social issue

Today is:

Photo examples of Richard Notkin’s ceramic vessels

Today is: 

Scholastic magazine examples of complex clay forms done with the “fool the eye”, trompe l’oeil technique

Karen Dahl

Eunjung Park

Red Weldon Sandlin

Joan Takayama-Ogawa

Today is:

Looking at Viola Frey giant ceramic figures

and Patti Warashina’s work

Today is: Friday April 27, 2012

Sketchbooks are due today

STudents are continuing work on Anthropomorphic Sculptures or Reliquary Box forms.

Today is: Tuesday April 24, 2012

Ceramic processes and vocabulary test

Critique and self evaluation for COILED VASE

Today is: Monday April 23, 2012

Vocab quiz tomorrow

Pass out review sheet for vocab list

Today is: Wednesday April 18, 2012

Demonstration today on how to make the beginning of a sculptural form

Today is: Tuesday April 17, 2012

Demonstration today on how to make a slab form for a special box container.

Today is: Thursday April 5, 2012

Ceramic vocabulary sheet passed out today in class.

When we return from holiday we will have a short vocab quiz.

In class we watched, “Jugtown Pottery” from   PBS American Crafts

Students should be thinking about what they would like to do for their next clay assignment. Students have the option of making an ANTHROPOMORPHIC CLAY sculpture or a RELIQUARY BOX FORM WITH SCULPTURAL ELEMENTS

Today is: Tuesday April 3, 2012

Today in class students “tested” out their tea-bowls and began planting veggies in the planters we made for PEACE and JUSTICE week

Students are continuing to glaze and finish forming the coil pots

Today is: Monday March 26, 2012

Glazing tea bowls and coiled pots

Today is: Friday March 23, 2012

Sketchbooks are due today!!

Today is: Thursday March 22, 2012

Sketchbooks are due tomorrow!

Today is: Wednesday March 21, 2012

What are glazes?

Reading the safety labels

Glazing demo

High fire

Low fire

Leather hard

Bone dry

Bisque

Today is: Thursday March 15, 2012

Coil pots

Minimum size: 4 inch base and 10 inches tall

Today is: Tuesday March 13, 2012

Working with clay

Pinch pot tea bowls

Second Trimester

Today is: Tuesday Feb. 21, 2012

New reading and questions for Thursday

Chapter 5 Section III  NATURE AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT questions on page 258

Today is: Friday Feb. 18, 2012

Exemplar for the final project was shown in class today. Students final project is to make an ENVIRONMENTAL ART PROJECT

Today is: Thursday Feb 16, 2012

Reading and Questions CHAPTER FIVE Section II

Pass out information on the last few days of the semester

Short video on the ANDY GOLDSWORTHY

INFORMATION on FINAL for class passed out today

Today is: Monday Feb 13, 2012

Working on Georgia O’Keeffe style painting-

Enlarging to the point of ABSTRACTION

Demo: Review of how to mix paints today

Tints

Shades

Compliments

Different types of paint have different qualities.

We saw the difference between paints with lots of pigment verses paint with less pigment

Review the care of brushes

Today is: Thursday Feb 9, 2012

Sketchbooks are due tomorrow

Students began working on the Georgia O’Keeffe painting assignment

Today is: Wednesday Feb 8, 2012

SKETCHBOOK ARE DUE FRIDAY

We looked at photos of the finished clay pieces that we made for the auction

How do you create value changes with charcoal?

Drawing flowers with charcoal and examining the value changes that are within the form of the petals

Examples of personal and past student art work were shown as exemplars to the students.

Today is: Tuesday Feb 7, 2012

Today in class we reviewed answers for the worksheet from yesterday

We read a short piece of writing about Georgia O’Keeffe

We looked at paintings by Georgia O’Keeffe

We started preliminary charcoal drawings of real flowers for an acrylic painting

Today is: Monday Feb 6, 2012

In class today students read the current magazine on Georgia O’Keeffe and answered a worksheet

Today is: Tuesday Jan. 31, 2012

Today in class students were working on Functional clay pieces for the CRAB FEED AUCTION

Today is: Monday Jan. 30, 2012

Today we were working on clay pieces with a “nature motif”. 

Using a color wheel to think about color relationships.

Today is: Friday Jan 27, 2012

Sketchbooks were due today

HOMEWORK FOR MONDAY

Chapter 5 Section I

Today is: Thursday Jan 26, 2012

In class today students are working on a clay canvas with a Nature Motif for the school auction

Today is: Tuesday Jan 24, 2012

Chapter 5 Nature and Art pg 210-228 questions 1-7  Due on Monday

SKETCHBOOKS DUE ON FRIDAY

Today in class we looked at example of “Motif”

Students were asked to create a motif inspired by nature to apply on a clay form (as canvas) for student auction

Today is: Monday Jan 23, 2012

Class critique on “My Journey so Far” art  and “Doorway” piece

Peer and self evaluation

Today is: Friday Jan 20, 2012

Work on Chapter 5 reading

Matt artwork

What is a motif?

Today is: Thursday Jan 19, 2012

Matting art

Chapter 5 pages 210-228 questions 1-7

Today is: Tuesday Jan 17, 2012

Homework due

Reviewing the way Modern artists interpreted the human form

Duane Hanson

Ernst Trova

In class discussion:

How do they modern artists interpret the human form and what does it mean? How do we as an audience feel about what they have created?

Today is: Thursday Jan. 12, 2012

Reading article by John Carroll

The Paleolithic Art Class, Wednesday Jan 11, 2012 sfgate.com

Today is: Wednesday January 11, 2012

Homework Chapter 7 Human Image in art-Section III Reading and questions

Today in class we looked at three slides

Edvard Munch

Ivan Albright

William de Kooning

How does the artwork of various artists express the mood of the time in which they live?

How does the artwork inform society and express aspects of history?

Why steal artwork from a museum if the artwork can’t be sold?

Today is: Thursday January 5, 2012

In class today directed teacher lesson and review of Chapter 7 section II  Survey of Portraits

Continuing on our Self Portraits-”My Journey so Far”

Today is: Tuesday Dec 20, 2011

Homework due: Packet on the survey of portraits thru time

Today is: Monday Dec. 19, 2011

Work day for SELF PORTRAIT

Today is: Thursday Dec.15, 2011

In class today we reviewed information from Chapter 7 section 1

First images included

Venuses

Hierogylphics

Greeks

Romans

Today is: Dec. 12, 2011

Sketchbooks are due again this FRIDAY

In class we looked at some art work by the Renaissance artist Giuseppe Archimboldo.

Studio Production today-We continued working on our “Journey so far...” art pieces

Today is: Dec. 9, 2011

Sketchbooks due today

Today is: Dec. 7, 2011

Today I showed my personal example of “My Journey so far...” art work

We put pencil sets together today

Review on different ways to hold pencil

Different tools for blending

Today is: December 6, 2011

Sharing portfolio quotes in class

Today is: December 5, 2011

Looking at exemplars for COMPOSITION

What makes a good composition?

Today is: Dec 4,2011

Students should gather images for their next art assignment

“My Journey so far...

December Dec. 1, 2011

Students are working on Quotes for their portfolios

First assignment: make a portfolio

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Today is: Wednesday Nov. 16, 2011

Critique of Landscape paintings on Friday

Final Environmental (Andy Goldsworthy inspired) art project due Friday

Today is: Monday Nov. 7, 2011

Andy Goldsworthy Video

Advanced Art Final-Environmental Art Piece

Sketchbooks are due THURSDAY

Today is: Tuesday Nov. 1, 2011

Quiz this week on Chapter 5

Today is: Tuesday October 25, 2011

LANDSCAPE painting

Today is: Friday October

Reading and Questions-Unconventional Interpretations of Nature

Today is: Thursday October 20, 2011

Video Demonstration on Landscape painting

Today is: Monday Oct. 17, 2011

Review and collect homework-

Nature and the Built Environment

Group critique of Watercolored toned paper and Ink “PLEIN AIR” sketches from last week

Practice ANALYZING A WORK OF ART

Terrace at Sainte-Adresse by Claude Monet

New Assignment Sheet-Landscape painting

Today is: Friday Oct. 14, 2011

Sketchbooks were due today

Plein Air Sketching with Toned paper and ink

Today is: Thursday October 13, 2011

SKETCHBOOKS TOMORROW

Homework for MONDAY

Nature and the Built Environment pages

250-258 questions 1-5

Today in class we reviewed artists from the past who have inspired us to look more closely at our environment.

We began TONING watercolor paper for PLEIN AIR watercolor/pen and ink landscape works on small paper

Today is: Friday October 7, 2011

Class critique of Georgia O’Keeffe style paintings

Self and Peer evaluation

Today is: Wednesday Oct 5, 2011

Homework: Due Friday October 7

Reawakening Nature Through Art Section II

Page 228-250

Questions 1-7 pg 250

Today is: Friday Sept. 30, 2011

Sketchbooks due today

Today is: Tuesday Sept 27, 2011

Review the care and handling of acrylic paint brushes

HOMEWORK FOR THURSDAY-Write a paragraph for each of the following types of art inspired by NATURE

Paleolithic cave paintings

Mogul miniatures

Ukiyo-e art works

Today is: Monday Sept. 26, 2011

Homework due today

In class we went over the homework packet-

Nature and Art page 209-228 (total 14 pgs) answer questions at the end Section 1 Review 1-7

Students continued working on the Georgia O’Keeffe style painting working on EASELS

Today is: Thursday Sept 22, 2011

Reading about GEORGIA O’KEEFFE

Every Detail is Worth Seeing

Looking at a flower image and cropping it in for a CLOSER VIEWPOINT

Today in class some students began their CLOSE UP painting of a form from NATURE

Today is: Wednesday Sept 21, 2011

HOMEWORK FOR MONDAY: Nature and Art page 209-228 (total 14 pgs) answer questions at the end Section 1 Review 1-7

Today we looked at examples of Georgia O’Keeffe’s flower and skull paintings

The studio production work today we did today was to draw REAL flowers.

Blind Contour line drawing

Modified Contour line drawing

Charcoal Value drawing

Today is: Monday Sept. 19, 2011

Today in class we looked at examples of CAVE PAINTINGS from Lascaux, France

    We as humans have an innate need to         create art.

Activity: Making Paint using raw materials

Theme: Hands across Time

Today is: Friday Sept. 16, 2011

Sketchbooks due

Class critique for MY JOURNEY SO FAR

What do we mean when we say, “That’s a piece of art?”

When is an art work finished?

Adding your special signature and a mat board around the outside tells your audience that this piece is DONE!

Today is: Tuesday Sept. 13, 2011

Sketchbook and JOURNEY PIECE due on Friday

DEMO TODAY: MAT ART PIECES

Today is: Tuesday Sept. 6, 2011

Sharing quotes today on portfolios

Reminder of time limitations for current assignment. This piece should be in full swing now.

Today is: Friday September 2, 2011

Sketchbooks due today

Today is: Tuesday August 30, 2011

Assignments

#1 Sketchbook due FRIDAY SEPT. 2

In class assignment: MY JOURNEY SO FAR