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? 

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. 

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. 

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.

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

All Art Students - Blog 2

Because of our snow days and I will be out Thursday (because my husband is having surgery), there will be no blog assignment this week.  Enjoy your time off and hopefully we will have some snowflakes!!!

Also, I have changed the grading policy regarding daily grades.  All blog assignments will count as ONE Project grade.  You will start at 100, and points will be deducted for missing blog assignments.  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 students will need to glaze their bowls on Thursday.  Mrs. Garrison will fire them that afternoon so that they will be ready for Friday.  Remember to paint 2-3 good layers.  Dylan, your handles did not stick, so I filed them off.

See y'all Friday!!!

Ceramics - Empty Bowls - Blog 1

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 - Blog 1

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 One - Empty Bowls - Blog 1

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 class - Blog 1 Semester 2

2D students and Tesch - recreate a landscape painting by Andre Derain in your sketchbook.  He was a French Fauve painter that used crazy colors.  Use a full page and remember, this should take some time..... more than 20 minutes - more like 2 hours.  Don't wait until the last minute.

3D students - Use sticks, bark and leaves to create a small shack or dwelling.  Photograph it, print it and tape in your sketchbooks.  Remember to use good (directional) lighting.  It could even be photographed in a natural environment.  Do not bring the sculpture to class.  When you photograph the object, you should save it in your AP folder in your Pictures library.  This will be the method used for the rest of the Friday assignments.  Again, do not bring it to class.  I only want to see it photographed and in your sketchbook.

Katherine, you may choose either assignment.