Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Art One - Blog 5 - Maria Martinez

 
Maria Martinez (1887, San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico – July 20, 1980, San Ildefonso Pueblo) was a Native American artist who created internationally known pottery. Martinez (born Maria Antonia Montoya), her husband Julian, and other family members examined traditional Pueblo pottery styles and techniques to create pieces which reflect the Pueblo people’s legacy of fine artwork and crafts.
Martinez was from the San Ildefonso Pueblo, a community located 20 miles northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico. At an early age, she learned pottery skills from her aunt. During this time, Spanish tinware and Anglo enamelware had become readily available in the Southwest, making the creation of traditional cooking and serving pots less necessary. Traditional pottery making techniques were being lost, but Martinez and her family experimented with different techniques and helped preserve the cultural art.
Creating black ware pottery is a long process consisting of many steps requiring patience and skill. Six distinct processes occur before the pot is ready to be sold. According to Susan Peterson in The Living Tradition of Maria Martinez, these steps include, “finding and collecting the clay, forming a pot, scraping and sanding the pot to remove surface irregularities, applying the iron-bearing slip and burnishing it to a high sheen with a smooth stone, decorating the pot with another slip, and firing the pot."
 
 
 

Art 2 - Blog 5 - 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

Ceramics - Blog 5

So..... what's the plan for your big coil pot?  Describe what your plan is for the rest of your pot.  What will the top look like? How do you think you will glaze it? 

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Art Two - Eyes and Noses - Blog 4

Ceramics - Blog 4 - Coil



What do you think?  How was this made?

Art One - Blog 4 - Clay



What do you think?  How was this made?

AP Art class - #3 #4 and #5 Friday Assignments

Work for two hours outside of class (and in my room) on you current Concentration project.  Project 3 is due Thursday, February 20 and Project 4 is due Tuesday, February 25.  You may come anytime during or after school.  This will be next week's Friday assignment as well so we can catch up. 


Below is the 2/14 Friday assignment.  Have these in your sketchbook by Friday, 2/21.  I will check them then.

2D, Katherine, Megan and Tesch - Kandinsky is your artist this week.  Have fun!!!!

3D - Use any found materials to create a face.  Remember to make it a three dimensional object - activate the space.  Photograph it and tape a copy in your sketchbook.  You should also be saving these Friday assignment images in your AP folder on your tablet. 

Monday, February 10, 2014

Ceramics - Blog 3 - Coil method

Look at these three images.  Which one do you like best and why?

 
 
 

Art One - Radial Symmetry Photo - Blog 3

What is this?  How was this made?

Art Two - Rembrandt - Blog 3


Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch 15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669) was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art and the most important in Dutch history. His contributions to art came in a period of great wealth and cultural achievement that historians call the Dutch Golden Age when Dutch Golden Age painting, although in many ways antithetical to the Baroque style that dominated Europe, was extremely prolific and innovative.
Having achieved youthful success as a portrait painter, Rembrandt's later years were marked by personal tragedy and financial hardships. Yet his etchings and paintings were popular throughout his lifetime, his reputation as an artist remained high and for twenty years he taught many important Dutch painters. Rembrandt's greatest creative triumphs are exemplified especially in his portraits of his contemporaries, self-portraits and illustrations of scenes from the Bible. His self-portraits form a unique and intimate biography, in which the artist surveyed himself without vanity and with the utmost sincerity.





AP - Friday Assignment #3

2D, Katherine, Megan and Tesch - Kandinsky is your artist this week.  Have fun!!!!

3D - Use any found materials to create a face.  Remember to make it a three dimensional object - activate the space.  Photograph it and tape a copy in your sketchbook.  You should also be saving these Friday assignment images in your AP folder on your tablet. 

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Ceramics - Blog 2 - free form coil pot



What do you think?  How was this made?
Please note - I have changed the grading policy regarding daily grades.  All blog assignments will count as ONE Project grade.  You will start at 110, and points will be deducted for missing blog assignments (this will allow for one to drop).  Please also remember that you have a Clean Up grade that counts the same way.  You begin with a 100, and I deduct points for a mess that you leave for me to clean up. 
In other words, there are no daily grades - only project grades.  Please let your parents know this, and have them contact me if they have any questions.

AP Class - Blog 2 assignment

2D, Katherine and Tesch - Reproduce a landscape scene (his winter ones are really beautiful) by John Henry Twachtman.  He was an American Impressionist.

3D - Take a recognizable household object with a recognizable form. Wrap it in fabric, rope/ribbons/twine.  Photograph it and put a copy in your sketchbook.  See Christo.

All AP students - Please note - I have changed the grading policy regarding daily grades.  All Friday assignments will count as ONE Project grade.  You will start at 110, and points will be deducted for missing blog assignments (this will allow for one to drop).  Please also remember that you have a Clean Up grade that counts the same way.  You begin with a 100, and I deduct points for a mess that you leave for me to clean up. 
In other words, there are no daily grades - only project grades.  Please let your parents know this, and have them contact me if they have any questions.

Art Two - Blog 2 - Self Portraits


Watch the short video.  Natalia Stefanek creates a very realistic portrait drawing of Derren Brown.  He starts with a sketch that is shown at the 30 second mark.  This is the stage to work out proportions.  It looks like he has traced and transferred his own sketch onto the drawing paper and then completed it using a variety of pencil grades.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5GFb_Sivzk

Please note - I have changed the grading policy regarding daily grades.  All blog assignments will count as ONE Project grade.  You will start at 110, and points will be deducted for missing blog assignments (this will allow for one to drop).  Please also remember that you have a Clean Up grade that counts the same way.  You begin with a 100, and I deduct points for a mess that you leave for me to clean up. 
In other words, there are no daily grades - only project grades.  Please let your parents know this, and have them contact me if they have any questions.

Monday, February 3, 2014

Art One - Blog 2 - Mandala

Please note - I have changed the grading policy regarding daily grades.  All blog assignments will count as ONE Project grade.  You will start at 110, and points will be deducted for missing blog assignments (this will allow for one to drop).  Please also remember that you have a Clean Up grade that counts the same way.  You begin with a 100, and I deduct points for a mess that you leave for me to clean up. 
In other words, there are no daily grades - only project grades.  Please let your parents know this, and have them contact me if they have any questions.


Tibetan monks create a mandala (sand painting) as a ritual.  Watch this short video.  What do you think about the image and the symbolism?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QItAyepAnI