week seventeen...

Keep on keeping on...

Art IV will keep working on their breakfast drawings.
Art III will keep working on their black and white portraits.
AP Art will keep working on concentration # 3.
Everyone will work on Scholastic Art Awards.

week sixteen Art III...

The most riveting books, movies and play all have one thing in common - a little drama. The use a dramatic lighting in a work of art is also a great way to pull in the viewer. The Art III students will begin a black and white acrylic painting using the technique Chiarosuro. Their subject is a portrait. They will use a photograph that they took for reference. Artists known for this style include Carravagio and Giovanni Baglione.

Art III week fourteen...

Art III will begin Christmas themed paintings in the style of Don Tiller. Tiller begins with black gesso, creating a background that makes colors even brighter.

by Don Tiller

ART IV week fourteen...

Art IV  will continue to work on their toy paintings this week.

Art III week thirteen...

Art III will CRITIQUE their black and white charcoal drawings on MONDAY. We will have a post it note critique. Afterwards we will go back to our sketchbooks to complete our STRATA/STENCIL project.

Art III week twelve...

We will spend Monday and Tuesday completing our charcoal drawings. We will CRITIQUE on MONDAY,  NOVEMBER 5th.

We will also work in our sketchbooks this week. Our focus will be on using a STRATA compositional format and making STENCILS.

For extra credit, tell me who designed the Che Guevera stencil.

Art III week eleven...

This week we will start a black and white charcoal drawing using colored paper. Our subject is white objects: a bowl of eggs, baby shoes or a man's white collared shirt.
Students want to use shape and value to create their drawings.

Art III 'weave' requirements...

Weave Sketchbook Assignment DUE: MONDAY, 10/22

SUBJECT: TO WEAVE

MATERIALS: SKETCHBOOK (2 PAGES NEXT TO EACH OTHER) AND ANY OTHER ART MATERIALS

REQUIREMENTS:

• ·      USE RULE OF THIRDS
• ·      LITERALLY WEAVE ANOTHER TYPE OF PAPER INTO THE PAGE
• ·      DRAW A SIMULATED WOVEN TEXTURE – IN AT LEAST TWO DIFFERENT SECTIONS
• ·      MAKE A LIST OF THINGS THAT ARE WOVEN
• ·      WORK THE WORD W-E-A-V-E INTO THE DESIGN
• ·      INCLUDE THE DEFINITION OF WEAVE

SUGGESTIONS:

·      TECHNIQUES: HATCHING, DRY BRUSH, OVERLAPPING

ART III week ten

ART III will work in their sketchbooks the first part of the week. 
      SUBJECT: to weave
      CONCEPT: using the rule of thirds

Sketchbook Covers will be graded Tuesday, October 16th.

There is testing going on this week. Therefore, class schedules are a bit unusual. So, if time permits, we will begin a black and white charcoal drawing on colored paper using white household objects as the subject matter. Students will demonstrate understanding of value and shape/form in the drawings.

Art III week nine...

We will spend one last day in class working on our stipple drawing. CRITIQUE IS THURSDAY 10/4/12.

On Tuesday, we will spend several days working in our sketchbooks. 

• We will make TAPE TRANSFER for the cover.
• We will use the RULE OF THIRDS and the theme WEAVE as well.

Art III week eight...

still stippling!!

Art III week seven...

Keep stippling!

Art III week six...

Stippling is a drawing technique that uses clusters of small dots to create the illusion of form and value. Art III students will use this technique over tea stained paper. Each student is working from a photo he/she took.

stipple example

detail

Art III week five...

After students complete their 'Review Collages', which are due Thursday, 9/6/12, they will make landscapes using NEVER DULL and PAGES FROM MAGAZINES.

 NEVER DULL +

 PAGES FROM A MAGAZINE =
 MAGICAL LANDSCAPES

Art III week four...

Art III students will spend Monday completing their drawings of the blocks of wood and nails. We will CRITIQUE ON THURSDAY, 8/30/12.

Students will finish the week creating collages in their sketchbooks. The collage must include...

                  PIECE OF CROSS-CONTOUR LINE REVIEW

                 PIECE OF SHAPE & COLOR REVIEW

                 PIECE OF MARBELIZED PAPER

                 ONE OF YOUR BLIND or MODIFIED CONTOUR LINE PORTRAITS

                 A FOCAL POINT – CENTER OF INTEREST – SOMETHING EMPHASIZED

                COVER TWO PAGES (next to each other)

     The collage may include...

                 PEN

                 WATERCOLORS

                 COLORED PENCIL

                OTHER COLLAGING MATERIAL

                DRAWING MEDIUMS

Art III - week three

Art III students will create drawings that demonstrate NON-LINEAR & LINEAR PERSPECTIVE. They will draw over the marbelized paper we created last week using pen, pencil and white 
prismacolor.

Art III - Week two

Art III will continue reviewing COLOR HARMONIES this week.

color review

The color reviews reference Henri Matisse's cut paper collages and Pablo Picasso's anti-war painting, Guernica.

Matisse, Sorrow of the King

Picasso, Guernica

We will also use the ancient Japanese technique of Suminagashi to create marbelized paper.

We will end the week with a review of LINEAR AND NON-LINEAR METHODS FOR CREATING PERSPECTIVE.