CURRENT ASSIGNMENT ART 5-6

May 17, 2010

Graffiti Verde Video

Is graffiti art?

What is the difference between tagging and art?

May 7th

Homework: Reading -One Man’s Ceiling is Another Man’s Floor Quesitons 1-5 on page 311

May 6, 2010

Sketchbooks due tomorrow

Painting complimentary color pieces with emphasis on Time/Place/light

April 29, 2010

AP Art Gallery visit-Voting for Best of Show

April 15, 2010

Turn in homework from yesterday

Begin Blocking in basic image on canvas board

Compliments and black and white

April 14, 2010

Looking at Photo Journalist pieces-

Time/Place/Light/Invented Color

Homework: The City as a Social Environment  pages 288-306  Reading and questions at the end of the section

April 12, 2010

Clay pieces which are incomplete can be worked on after school

Today:

Looking at Chapter 6 pages 288-206

How are artists’ inspired by the city and its social environment?

How do they respond to the space in which they live?

What do these images represent?

How do they represent the time?

March 31, 2010

Have a great Spring break!

Last day to work on clay sculptures in class. Students may come in the afternoon to finish up any late work.

March 29, 2010

Slides from the City as a Social Environment

Find a current event/Event from History or image which expresses this time period that incorporates an INTERIOR or EXTERIOR. (Perspective) The image should be a value scale image. You can xerox it or turn the image into a gray scale image

March 22, 2010

Anthropomorphic clay forms must be completed before  Spring break or students will need to come in after school to complete this assignment

Homework: Rebirth and innovation Section II: Read pages 285-288 questions 1-7

Look for a black/white image of a current event that includes interior or exterior

March 16 201

Cities and Art

Beginnings Section 1

Questions 1-7

page 284

March 8, 2010

Glazing Anthropomorphic Sculptures

Show examples of Enrichment sculptures

February 26, 2010

Peer Sketchbook Evaluation

Februrary 25, 2010

Sketchbook due tomorrow

February 21, 2010

Glazing and Sculpture

February 17, 2010

Sketchbook check Friday

Self Evaluation on Basic Clay Forms

February 4, 2010

Glazing Basic Clay Forms

January 29, 2010

Sketchbooks due today

January 22 2010

Slab forms

NEXT WEEK YOU SHOULD HAVE YOUR ANIMAL DRAWING AND PHOTOS FOR ANTHROPOMORPHISM

January 20 2010

Review homework reading/assignment

Unusual Interpretations of Nature

What images are presented and why are they unusual interpretations of nature?

Students should have a drawing and photos of the animal that represents some aspect(s) of their personality

Today’s Demonstration: Clay skill building lesson- How to make slabs and slab forms

Continue pinch/coil form

January 8

Brainstorming anthropomorphism

Find image of animal(s)

Animal studies

January 7

What is Anthropomorphism?

December 10, 2009

Review notes/packet for written section of final

December 7 2009

Continue working on Goldsworthy Assignment

Students who did not go to last Friday night’s dance show can still get participation points for  this Friday’s Music Concert!

Support your fellow artists and performers

December 2

Looking at Goldsworthy and past student art pieces

Final Art piece for semester: Goldsworthy inspired art work

December 1

Looking at Edward Burtynsky’s Manufactured Landscapes

Answer questions about Burtynsky and his work

November 24, 2009

Finish watching the video “Rivers and Tides”

November 20, 2009

Begin watching the DVD- “Rivers and Tides” that features the environmental artist, Andy Goldsworthy

Tuesday November 10 2009

Working on Georgia O’Keeffe Enlargement of flowers

Today: Edo Tokugawa Period-The difference between Classical Asian Landscape and Western Landscape art

Use of Gold leaf

Looking at the symbol of Edo Bakufu in gold leaf

Making a clan symbol for yourself working in gold leaf

Wednesday October 27 2009

Sketchbook on Friday

Reading and looking at Georgia O’Keeffe up paintings of flowers in color

Find a flower, bug or bone to enlarge

Friday October 16, 2009

Sketchbook check today

Thursday October 1, 2009

SKETCHBOOKS DUE TOMORROW

Wednesday Sept 30, 2009

Gray scale painting on canvas board of still life

Thursday Sept 24, 2009

Class critique on VISUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY tomorrow in class

Begin still life composition

Wednesday Sept 23, 2009

Demonstration of steps 1 and 2 of still life painting

1. 1.Sketch in overlapping shapes on to the canvas board to show foreground, middle ground and background
   

2. 2.Lay in different values into areas
   

3. 3.Paint brush can be held different ways to produce different results
   

Monday Sept. 21, 2009

Looking at former 5-6 student still life paintings

Examples of excellent still life paintings

Using technology to create a composition

Your piece should incorporate:

Foreground

Middle ground

Background

Wednesday Sept 16 2009

Looking at Dutch Master Still life Painters

The Rijks Museum

Visit this site and look for vocabulary words that incorporated under the various paintings. Enlarge the paintings and look at the detail.

Vocabuary Words

Monday Sept 14 2009

Sketchbooks due Friday

Themes and Foundations of Art

Reading pages 210-228 and answer questions 1-7 on page 228

Wednesday Sept. 9 2009

Demonstration today

Matting artwork using Matt board

Using the professional matt cutter

Friday Sept. 4 2009

Sketchbook Critique today

    Looking at sketchbooks for the use of the elements and principles of art

    Peer comments and suggestions for sketchbook work

Wednesday Sept 2

First sketchbook due this Friday Sept. 4

Wednesday August 26

Demonstration and review using art pencils

Value and the use of the tortillon and shammy

August 24

Pass out sketchbook instructions, expectations and due dates

Working on portfolio construction

First assignment: Visual Autobiography