Art Two - ink and watercolor

Below are examples of watercolor paintings.  Which is the most and least successful?

Ceramics - Even more teapots

Here are even more teapots.  Notice how the cup shape is related to the teapot.  Which is your favorite?

Art One - Picasso and van Gogh videos

Watch the following video about Picasso.  Which painting is your favorite and which is your least favorite and why?  Picasso was the founder of the Cubism art movement along with George Braque.  Advances in art had been made by the Impressionists (Monet, Renior, Degas) and Post Impressionists (van Gogh, Seurat, Gauguin) to allow room for this new way of painting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR7liV4O9-4



Watch the following video about van Gogh (we also looked at his work last week here on the blog).  Enjoy.  It's very relaxing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD1ih3Q9otE

Art One - Vincent van Gogh

Below are works by Vincent van Gogh.  He lived 1853-1890.  He was only 37 when he died from a self inflicted gun shot wound.  He grew up in Holland but moved to France as an adult.  He only sold one painting in his lifetime but is one of the world's best known painters.  (This is not always the case.  Monet, Picasso and Matisse were all famous in their lifetimes.)













His very last painting.

Art Two - Animal Sculpture

Which is your favorite and why?

Ceramics - More Teapots

More ceramic teapots.  Which is your favorite?

All Classes

No blog this week

Art Two - Animal sculptures

Below are sculptures of animals in a variety of materials.  Feel free to add anything you like in terms of found materials.

Art One - Time Lapse painting

Watch the video to see the progress and building of a painting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HrQP4kQShs

Ceramics - Teapots

Here are some great teapot examples.  Which do you like or not like?  Begin thinking about what your design will be.



 

Art One - Perspective in Art

Notice how the following artists use perspective in their paintings.j

One point perspective on the ground - Italian artist Perugino
This painting is in the Sistine Chapel in Rome.



The School of Athens by Raphael
This painting is in the Vatican in Rome


The Music Lesson by Vermeer


Two point perspectve by Edward Hopper



Also by Edward Hopper - American artist

Ceramics - Reminder

Your blog assignment this week is to simply acknowledge that you have another wheel thrown piece due at the end of this quarter.  It will need to be thrown and trimmed well before we leave for Christmas break.  We will only have a couple of days in January.  Do not wait until the last minute.  This grade is based on merit not completion.  I will be looking for a symmetrical form with a trimmed foot that is as thin and large as possible.  A cereal or soup sized bowl is fine but will not earn you an "A".  You can work almost anytime in or out of class.  If you want to come after school, just check with me first.  There are a few days that will not be good.  Get started!

Art Two - paper mache sculpture

Below are examples of sculpture created with paper mache.  Which is your favorite and why?