AP Class - Blog 2

2D students - spend an extra 2 hours on your drawing this week OUTSIDE of class.  I will check your progress on Friday and assign a deadline

3D - Assemble your bell.  File rough edges, touch up any place where the glaze is off, see me for a rebar pole (Lizzie and Maisy), cut the pole and assemble.

Tesch and Megan - drawing of a tin can or glass jar with a sock

Katherine - watch 5 youtube videos on centering, wheel throwing and trimming.  Post the links in the comment box.

Ceramics - Blog 2 - wheel throwing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9-hAJ8IrmU

Watch the above video on wheel throwing.  It will take lots of practice, but I'm sure you can do it!  The only difference in the video and what Mrs. Causey taught us - cut the bowl off of the bat but do not remove it until the next day when it's time to trim.  Remember, everyone will need to produce something on the wheel.  You will have more than one chance and you can come work whenever you have a free hour.

Art Two - Blog 2 - Photorealism

This motorcycle is not a photograph!  It's a painting by Tom Blackwell.  Amazing.

Watch the following video about Photorealism.  It's a little long but there is some amazing work.  The interview with Tom Blackwell is a little sad but he is a master!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFhJRfJUcUM

Art One - Blog 2 - van Gogh

Watch the following video.  It is a group of Vincent van Gogh's paintings set to Don Mclean's "Starry, starry night" song.  Van Gogh was a Dutch artist who lived in France for the most productive years of his life.  He was born in 1853 and died in 1890 - only 37 years old.  Van Gogh began to draw as a child, and he continued to draw throughout the years that led up to his decision to become an artist. He did not begin painting until his late twenties, completing many of his best-known works during the last two years of his life. In just over a decade, he produced more than 2,100 artworks, consisting of 860 oil paintings and more than 1,300 watercolors, drawings, sketches and prints. His work included self portraits, landscapes, still lifes, portraits and paintings of cypresses, wheat fields and sunflowers.

Grab a comfy chair and enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD1ih3Q9otE

3D AP Art - Blog 1

Look at Andy Nasisse's work.  (btw.... He was formerly married to Mary Engel who made the collaged dog sculptures that we looked at last year in Ceramics.)  Draw one of his expressive face pots in your sketchbook.  You will be creating a work in this same style next.  Come up with a plan.  Your face should convey some sort of expression - sad, mad, glad, frustrated, worried, etc.

2D AP - Friday Assignment 1

Check out a digital camera from Mrs. Butler.  Shoot 30 photos (total) of the following topics.  Make sure the date stamp is off and the quality is set to high.  Lighting is key.  Do not shoot in the shade and watch your background - it is part of the image.  Try different angles, shoot from above and below and even sideways.  Load the images onto your tablet and place in a new folder in your pictures folder.

Hands, hair, feet and/or fabric
Landscape (close up details and a wide expanse)
Cracked, bent, broken or warped
Kitchen utensils
Multiple rooms shown at one time.

Megan and Tesch - Friday drawing 1 (2nd Quarter)

Complete a drawing of hands, feet and some sort of fabric.  Use any materials and use a full sketchbook page.

Ceramics - Blog 1 (2nd Quarter) - and Katherine Bolles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVP4VVQxeJ8

Watch the above video on how to center the clay.

Art Two - Color Theory

The Color Wheel

A color circle, based on red, yellow and blue, is traditional in the field of art. Sir Isaac Newton developed the first circular diagram of colors in 1666. Since then, scientists and artists have studied and designed numerous variations of this concept. Differences of opinion about the validity of one format over another continue to provoke debate. In reality, any color circle or color wheel which presents a logically arranged sequence of pure hues has merit.

 

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There are also definitions (or categories) of colors based on the color wheel. We begin with a 3-part color wheel.

 

Primary Colors: Red, yellow and blue
In traditional color theory (used in paint and pigments), primary colors are the 3 pigment colors that can not be mixed or formed by any combination of other colors. All other colors are derived from these 3 hues. 
Secondary Colors: Green, orange and purple
These are the colors formed by mixing the primary colors.

Tertiary Colors: Yellow-orange, red-orange, red-purple, blue-purple, blue-green & yellow-green
These are the colors formed by mixing a primary and a secondary color. That's why the hue is a two word name, such as blue-green, red-violet, and yellow-orange.

Art One - Color Theory - Blog 1 (2nd Quarter)

Follow the link below and complete the survey.  You don't have to put in your email address if you don't want.

Which question and color comparison was the most interesting?

http://www.colormatters.com/color-symbolism/global-color-survey

All Art Classes - Extra Credit

We will have a blog holiday this week (a drawing holiday for AP).  Instead, bring a jar (or 2) of Peanut Butter that we will donate to Macon Outreach for their food pantry.  I will replace you lowest Friday Blog grade with a 100.  If you have a 100 Blog or Friday Drawing average, I will add 3 points to a project grade instead.

Ceramics - #7 Day of the Dead

Watch these two videos and let me know what you think.  Comment on only the videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUUAgEWeYeI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKjPHV3HEjY

Art Two - #7 Eyes and Noses

Art One - #7 Non-objective Printmaking

AP Art - #7

2D and 3D students need to draw the image of the skull in their sketchbooks by Friday. Use the handout I gave you and include some sort of background. Make sure it is a full page and include lots of details.

Tesch, make a drawing of a free form pot from your imagination.  Maybe even put it in some sort of background or environment.

Katherine, make several (3-5) sketches for a plan for the base of your sculpture.

Ceramics - #6 Blog

I will not show you some masterful creation this week.  Use the comment box to either vent or brag about your slab container.  Tips for each other? 

Art 2 - #6 Blog - More Portraits

Self Portraits by:

Vincent Van Gogh


Paul Gaugin


Chuck Close

Art One - #6 Printing video

Check out the attached video for printing tips.  The girl is a pretty good artist but needs to paint those nails ;)  Also, make sure you watch the video instead of comment on the photo.  You won't get full credit if you don't.



Video link below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl4lmTQJ5uM

3D AP - #6 Friday assignment

We will NOT work on your projects in class past Friday.  I will grade your carved first thing Monday morning.  If you take it home over the weekend to work on it (which is totally fine) you will need to deliver to me before first period.  Katherine, I will discuss yours when I get back.  Keep plastering.

This week's Friday assignment is to recreate a work by Barbara Hepworth.  Remember these drawings should be a full page and should take at least 2 hours.  Some of you have been rushing this assignment.  That will not help you in the end.  It is great practice, has you looking at some really important artists and will stock your sketchbooks with great images.

2D AP - #6 Friday Assignment

We will NOT work on your projects in class past Friday.  I will grade the seated figure painting/collages first thing Monday morning.  If you take it home over the weekend to work on it (which is totally fine) you will need to deliver to me before first period.

This week's Friday assignment is to recreate a work by Giotto or Cimabue.  These are both Italian early Renaissance artists.  Feel free to collage in other papers or put your own spin on it.  Remember these should take at least 2 hours.  Some of you have been rushing this assignment.  That will not help you in the end.  It is great practice, has you looking at some really important artists and will stock your sketchbooks with images that we will use later for a Photoshop project.