AP/Art 3 - Friday assignment

2D - Diego Velazquez figure - use color

Tesch - finish the yearbook painting by Friday - spend two more hours out of class

3D - make a full page drawing of a Bernini sculpture - include all the awesome texture

Ceramics - Slab?

What are your thoughts about slab construction?  Ramble or rant below.

Art Two - Landscape painting

Below are several examples of landscape painting.  Your next assignment is to complete a landscape painting that conveys a particular time of day or mood.
Which style do you like the best?

Art One - 2 point perspective video

Watch the following video to learn more about two point perspective.  This will help you with your drawing in class.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEEyQJ-c_f4

AP/Art 3 - Friday Assignment

Tesch - work 2 hours outside of class on the yearbook project

2D - Lucian Freud seated figure - use COLOR

3D - fill a page with details from your particular subject.
For example - Madison might examine the suckers, eyes, tentacles of an octopus.  Use a variety of images and complete at least 4 different studies.

Art One - Geometric Forms

Art Two - Collage?

What did you think of the collage process?  How is it similar to painting and colored pencils?  How is it different?

Ceramics - Tripod cup

Watch this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0OaOGgHF0M

I was going to post more slab boxes, but I found this.  Y'all want to try to make one of these after the boxes?  Looks easy!
This is up for a vote.

AP/Art 3

Michelangelo (1475 – 1564), was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. Despite having a few other interests outside of the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with his fellow Italian Leonardo da Vinci.

Michelangelo was considered the greatest living artist in his lifetime, and ever since then he has been held to be one of the greatest artists of all time.  A number of his works in painting, sculpture, and architecture rank among the most famous in existence. 

2D - sibyl or prophet from Michaelangelo's Sistine Chapel

3D - full page drawing of one of Michaelangelo's marble slaves

Art One - Empty Bowls

Before we start on our next project, we will make a simple bowl for the Empty Bowls Project.  This is fund raiser for area food ministries that FPD art students began participating in three years ago.  We have a soup dinner and sell our ceramic bowls, platters and vases.

Below is from the Empty Bowls website to further explain the project.

Why should FPD participate?

Empty Bowls is an international grassroots effort to fight hunger and was created by The Imagine Render Group. The basic premise is simple: Potters and other craftspeople, educators and others work with the community to create handcrafted bowls. Guests are invited to a simple meal of soup and bread. In exchange for a cash donation, guests are asked to keep a bowl as a reminder of all the empty bowls in the world. The money raised is donated to an organization working to end hunger and food insecurity.

It is the collective genius of all the people involved that has made Empty Bowls what it has become. Events have now taken place across the United States and in at least a dozen other countries. Many millions of dollars have been raised and donated to hunger-fighting organizations. We could never have imagined all the things people have done or all the ways the project has touched people.

Each individual or group organizing an event designs it around the needs of their own community and is responsible for their own event. We ask that all such events are called Empty Bowls so that the idea can continue to spread. Please make your event inclusive, insist that it maintain a high level of integrity, include an educational component to raise awareness, and give the money raised to an organization helping to feed people in need.

The largest hunger-relief organization in the United States, Feeding America,  reports that the nation’s food banks could soon be overwhelmed by demand. Statistics show that 1 out of 8 Americans struggle with food insecurity every day. Millions of people have lost their jobs during the most recent recession and the number of food stamp recipients has increased dramatically. Your help is needed now more than ever. Please find the time, make the commitment, get involved. Your single effort can have a profound impact.

“Volunteering is the ultimate exercise in democracy. You vote in elections once a year but when you volunteer, you vote everyday about the kind of community you want to live in.”

-Marjorie Moore

Art Two - Empty Bowls

Before we start on our next project, we will make a simple bowl or platter for the Empty Bowls Project.  This is fund raiser for area food ministries that FPD art students began participating in three years ago.  We have a soup dinner and sell our ceramic bowls, platters and vases.

Below is from the Empty Bowls website to further explain the project.

Why should FPD participate?

Empty Bowls is an international grassroots effort to fight hunger and was created by The Imagine Render Group. The basic premise is simple: Potters and other craftspeople, educators and others work with the community to create handcrafted bowls. Guests are invited to a simple meal of soup and bread. In exchange for a cash donation, guests are asked to keep a bowl as a reminder of all the empty bowls in the world. The money raised is donated to an organization working to end hunger and food insecurity.

It is the collective genius of all the people involved that has made Empty Bowls what it has become. Events have now taken place across the United States and in at least a dozen other countries. Many millions of dollars have been raised and donated to hunger-fighting organizations. We could never have imagined all the things people have done or all the ways the project has touched people.

Each individual or group organizing an event designs it around the needs of their own community and is responsible for their own event. We ask that all such events are called Empty Bowls so that the idea can continue to spread. Please make your event inclusive, insist that it maintain a high level of integrity, include an educational component to raise awareness, and give the money raised to an organization helping to feed people in need.

The largest hunger-relief organization in the United States, Feeding America,  reports that the nation’s food banks could soon be overwhelmed by demand. Statistics show that 1 out of 8 Americans struggle with food insecurity every day. Millions of people have lost their jobs during the most recent recession and the number of food stamp recipients has increased dramatically. Your help is needed now more than ever. Please find the time, make the commitment, get involved. Your single effort can have a profound impact.

“Volunteering is the ultimate exercise in democracy. You vote in elections once a year but when you volunteer, you vote everyday about the kind of community you want to live in.”

-Marjorie Moore

Ceramics - Empty Bowls

Before we start on our slab boxes, we will make a simple platter for the Empty Bowls Project.  This is fund raiser for area food ministries that FPD art students began participating in three years ago.  We have a soup dinner and sell our ceramic bowls, platters and vases.

Below is from the Empty Bowls website to further explain the project.

Why should FPD participate?

Empty Bowls is an international grassroots effort to fight hunger and was created by The Imagine Render Group. The basic premise is simple: Potters and other craftspeople, educators and others work with the community to create handcrafted bowls. Guests are invited to a simple meal of soup and bread. In exchange for a cash donation, guests are asked to keep a bowl as a reminder of all the empty bowls in the world. The money raised is donated to an organization working to end hunger and food insecurity.

It is the collective genius of all the people involved that has made Empty Bowls what it has become. Events have now taken place across the United States and in at least a dozen other countries. Many millions of dollars have been raised and donated to hunger-fighting organizations. We could never have imagined all the things people have done or all the ways the project has touched people.

Each individual or group organizing an event designs it around the needs of their own community and is responsible for their own event. We ask that all such events are called Empty Bowls so that the idea can continue to spread. Please make your event inclusive, insist that it maintain a high level of integrity, include an educational component to raise awareness, and give the money raised to an organization helping to feed people in need.

The largest hunger-relief organization in the United States, Feeding America,  reports that the nation’s food banks could soon be overwhelmed by demand. Statistics show that 1 out of 8 Americans struggle with food insecurity every day. Millions of people have lost their jobs during the most recent recession and the number of food stamp recipients has increased dramatically. Your help is needed now more than ever. Please find the time, make the commitment, get involved. Your single effort can have a profound impact.

“Volunteering is the ultimate exercise in democracy. You vote in elections once a year but when you volunteer, you vote everyday about the kind of community you want to live in.”

-Marjorie Moore

AP/Art 3 - Friday Assignment due 10/17

2D - reproduce a seated portrait by Ivan Albright..... yes, they are a little creepy - perfect for October.

3D - draw out YOUR sculpture that you are working on now.  Show at least two sides and finish off with color.

Remember this should take around 2+ hours.

Since we have had a short and interrupted week - and Albright's is fairly detailed - you may turn these in on Monday 10/20.

Art One - more prints

Below are more examples of block prints.  What do you notice about the process of the artist?  Which ones are more/less successful and why?

AP and Art 3

The the last blog post for your instructions for this week's assignment.  Remember, it counts as two grades.
2D should have two collages and 3D should bring in their sculptural collage.

Ceramics - Slab Containers

We will be making slab containers for our next major project.  We will construct a couple together as a sort of warm up, but you will need to think about what your own personal plan will be.  It will have to be made mostly of slabs but you may want to have a sculptural element as well.  Think about it.  Which one of these containers is your favorite and why?

Art Two - Romare Bearden and collage

Romare Bearden (September 2, 1911 – March 12, 1988) was an African-American artist and writer. He worked in several media including cartoons, oils and collage. Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Bearden moved to New York City at a very young age and went on to graduate from NYU in 1935. He began his artistic career creating scenes of the American South. Later, he endeavored to express the humanity he felt was lacking in the world after his experience in the US Army during World War II on the European front. He later returned to Paris in 1950 and studied Art History and Philosophy at the Sorbonne in 1950.

Bearden's early work focused on unity and cooperation within the African-American community. After a period during the 1950s when he painted more abstractly, this theme reemerged in his collage works of the 1960s, when Bearden became a founding member of the Harlem-based art group known as The Spiral, formed to discuss the responsibility of the African-American artist in the struggle for civil rights.

 

2D AP and ART 3 - seated figure

Next week will will begin a large scale painting/collage piece based on a seated figure.  You will need several photographs to choose from.  You will need to have them on MONDAY!!!!!  For this, you can even use your phone to take the photograph.  It will need to have a good DIRECTIONAL light source like your self portrait.  The light comes in from one direction and creates a light side and a dark side to the face and figure.  That will help you to make it appear 3D.  See the examples below to get some ideas.  Your subject can be anyone - young, old, boy, girl.... whoever.

Photograph this weekend and bring them in on Monday.  You will need to print it out on on full page.

If you don't already have the printer installed, go to your start page (little flag button on the bottom left of your keyboard) and start typing the word "printer".  Go to "Device Settings" or "Devices and Printers" and click on "Add a Printer" (or "add a device").  Select the FA_MS-HS-Art printer.  The printer is in the closet in Mrs. Garrison's classroom.

Sydney Bradley

Megan Sparks - this has no paper but shows how you can distort with the drawing part and not project with the overhead projector

Bentlie Grice

Caroline Stroud

Tesch Jerles

Dylan Lister

3D AP and ART 3 - Parts and Pieces

Next week, we will begin a larger scale sculpture.  It will be based on a realistic version of a body or animal part.  You should depict just enough so that the viewer can tell what it is, but not so much that it is super obvious upon first glance.  You will need to edit out just enough to make it mysterious BUT include enough so that the viewer knows what it is.  We will complete a rough construction using wood and wire.  Then you will add paper mache, plaster strips and joint compound.  We will finish them off with a metal type paint.

Step 1 - decide on your subject - part of an animal or human body

Step 2 - find several pictures of it from various angles - it can be from a variety of online sources

Step 3 - print them out and tape securely in your sketchbook.  If you don't already have the printer installed, go to your start page (little flag button on the bottom left of your keyboard) and start typing the word "printer".  Go to "Device Settings" or "Devices and Printers" and click on "Add a Printer" (or "add a device").  Select the FA_MS-HS-Art printer.  The printer is in the closet in Mrs. Garrison's classroom.

Ceramics - Free Form Feedback

What did you think about the coil and free form process?  What did you learn?  What would you have done differently if you made another one?  What is the best thing about your free form pot?

Art 2 - Four Collage Examples

Look at the collage artists below.  Which one is your favorite?  Notice how they use a variety of tones and textures of the same color.

Art One - Linoleum Cutting

Watch the following video for tips on cutting your linoleum block.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5QuEq8pKnQ