Tomorrow we will be having a "Sweet Critique" Please bring in something to share for the critque :) We will be looking at and discussing your line ink drawings as well as your interior drawings.
Next week we will be beginning our unit on VALUE! This is what you will be working up to. We will be beginning with value scales, forms folded paper, eggs, small still life and finally a self portrait from observation.
Examples of the 3 thumbnail sketchs each one has a different color scheme.
The next step the students will be working on next week will be enlarging one drawing to 11x14 and paint it using one of the selected color schemes.
Next week we will be working on the enlarged paitings.
This weeks assignments are: Surrealism and to redo one of your weakest peices thus far. Due date for Critique: Monday Oct.18th
Research to support work should be done in your sketchbook. 2 pages per piece. I want to see working drawings, URL's, writing and anything else you are using in your creative process.
Here is an example of last weeks assignment: Metamorphasis done by Karolina AKimov inspired by her AP Environmental outside reading assignment.
Students turned in their sketchbooks today on Pattern and now will begin Cultural page using technique taught last week. Micro lab with tempra and ink.
In class students are working on thumbnail sketchs for paintings using color scheme and the idea of abstraction. These thumbnails 3 are due Thursday at the end of class. Students will choose best thumbnail and enlarge on a seperate piece of paper and begin painting.
Due date next week. Oct. 8th
Students will be finishing ink drawings in class this week. Friday Crit. Day
I will be grading the interior drawings tomorrow.
We will begin our unit on Value Monday.
DP2 you will be workin on acrylic excercises all week along with homework paintings each night. Tonight you need to paint your portrait using a color scheme no drawing our draw with your paint brush. Only paint for one hour. Must be done in hour.
In class continue to paint from observation a portrait a period using different color schemes.
Full body self portraits and metamorphsis were due today. Tomorrow we will have our critique.
We will also be viewing a power point on Surrealism one of next two assignments.
The next two assignements are Surrealism and to do another piece to one of your first ideas.
Both pieces will be due Oct. 8th.
The rest of the week you should be working in your sketchbooks on research.
Photo students should be working on Color assignment: To redo one of the ideas from last week but this time use color. Sketchbook to support work due the day of critique. Oct. 8th
New Assignment: 2 images due Oct. 8 printed 8x10 in color.
Reshoot one of your ideas from this last assignment. Complete 4 pages of research in your sketchbook. I will be looking for hard evidence of this research, such as print outs, URL's, asking of questions about your subject matter. Please re-read the article The Photogaphers Eye and make connections to your research and subject. What are you shooting? Why are you shooting this? What do you want the viewer to get from your image? How will color choice affect the over all idea and or image?
Right now DP1 is working on Contour line drawings using pen and ink. Emily Jennings has done several preliminary sketches and is now working on her final piece. These pieces will be due next Friday Oct.1st.
Beautiful job Emily!
Cultural Pattern Inspired page and research. 2 Pages are due Oct. 8th.
Directions for Research Page
Research a culture that you are interested in. Find a pattern that is significant to that culture. Print out the example of the pattern and write about what you discoverd from your research regarding your culture. What is the importance of the pattern to the culture?
Print out the URL's and images. Creatively create a page in your sketchbook with the research.
Art Page: Create a page INSPIRED by your research and pattern. DO NOT JUST RE DRAW THE PATTERN. Be creative,think about what your learned from your research. Make a connection between the research and the patteren to make an ENTIRE NEW IMAGE. Full the page. DO THE DRAWING IN CHALK PASTEL. PAINT IN AREAS WITH TEMPERA PAINT, USE IT THICK. LEAVE THE CHALK PASTEL LINES. .
We will be doing a mini lab for the TECNIQUE FOR THS PAGE. WE WILL BE USING TEMPERA PAINT, CHALK PASTELS AND INDIA INK.
I will be uploading an example soon!.
Student drawings by Lista Munthe grade 9
Sydney Chae grade 9
Jessica Dance grade 12
Monday- Studio Day
Tuesday- SAIC coming
Wed-Friday studio working on Metamorphasis, graphs and data, self portraits.
Photos are still due Friday.
Drawings due Monday
DP1 students will work on pen and ink drawings they are due Monday of next week. You will need to take them home over the weekend to have them finished.
Homework- Shaded room due Friday
DP2- Same homework due Friday
Crit on Tuesday on Colored Pencil peices
Start new assignment Wednesday: Expressive portrait from observation using color scheme.
Monday we will have a lecture on color and abstraction. We will begin drawing out our color wheels. Please make sure you have your brushes!
Tuesday-Thursday we will be painting.
Friday- your sketchbooks on Pattern are due at the end of the period.
These area all examples of student work for our first assignment "Line"
Find a culture that you are interested in on line. Document your resource do not use google images. Tell me the importance of the pattern, why is is used? Example it maybe used for hunting or for ceremony. Print out examples of the pattern and glue in your sketchbook.
Create a page in your sketchbook inspired by your research. You may include text and or images. The technique I will teach you will be using chalk pastels, constuction paper and india ink. We will have a mini lab on the tech, next week.
THE SCHOLASTIC ART & WRITING AWARDS
Regional Celebration
Opening Reception &
Awards Ceremony
Saturday
December 4, 2010
Ernest G. Welch School of Art
& Design Gallery will open at
10:00am
Presentation Ceremony
begins at 1:00pm
Ballroom, Student Center
Georgia State University
360 Student Center
44 Courtland St.
Atlanta, GA 30303
Exhibition
November 29, 2010 -
December 4, 2010
Ernest G. Welch School of Art
& Design Gallery
10 Peachtree Center Ave.
Atlanta, GA 30302
Monday - Friday
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Saturday
12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Ernest G. Welch School of Art
& Design
P.O. Box 4107
Atlanta, GA, 30302
Phone: 404-413-5221
Fax: 404-413-5261
Email:
gsuscholastics@gmail.com
Georgia State
University
Online Registration
Please follow the following link to reach The Alliance for Young Artitsts &
Writers.http://www.artandwriting.org/ Information concerning login and upload processes
involved with the 2010 Georgia Regional Exhibit . The site will be open for use mid-September.
Regional Instructions/Announcements
For students over 12 years of age, GSU will only be accepting DIGITAL files submitted ONLINE
through the Scholastics website this year. Instructions for uploading images to the Scholastic site
will be available from www.artandwriting.org/awards on Sept. 15th. For students under 12 years
of age, please review the Portfolio Submission Guidelines at the Scholastic Art & Writing
Awards link for specific instructions concerning the Regional Exhibition Process
All digital submissions submitted using the online system found at
http://www.artandwriting.org/awards AND their accompanying hard copy submission forms
with payment must be received at Georgia State University no later than 5:00 pm on
November 1, 2010.
Submission Deadlines for Students Under 12 Years Old
All mailed submissions must be postmarked no later than Monday, October 24, 2010 to:
Ernest G. Welch
School of Art & Design
P.O. Box 4107
Atlanta, GA 30302-4107
Student and teachers who will deliver the submission must do so by 5:00 pm,
November 1, ,2010 to:
Ernest G. Welch
School of Art & Design
10 Peachtree Center Ave.
Atlanta, GA 30302
Art work selected for Scholastic Exhibition must be delivered to the Ernest G. Welch School of
Art & Design Gallery by: November 20, 2010. In person deliveries will be
accepted Nov.19 from 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm and November 20, 2010, 10:00 am- 12:00 am .
Art work must be picked up following the Reception and Exhibition on:
Saturday, December 4, 2010, beginning at 3:30 pm
Processing Fee
This region adheres to the standardized processing fees established by the Alliance for Young
Artists & Writers, the national nonprofit organization that administers the Scholastic Art &
Writing Awards. Please make checks payable to:
Georgia State University School of Art & Design
Fee Waiver
Any student who currently qualifies under the Federal School Lunch Act for the Free and
Reduced Lunch Program may request a processing fee waiver. Reduced fees are also
available to students for whom fees would be a barrier to participate. A request from the
student or the teacher for the processing fee waiver should be submitted on school letterhead
and be included with the work in place of the processing fee.
Students will be working on expressive ink drawing on Metamorphasis and or the full figure piece. Both due Sept. 24th
Photo should be working on Pattern, Graphs and Data as well as Self portraits.
Next assignmet: Surrealism Piece for High Museum due Oct. 18.
Monday-Friday Students will be working in class on the ink object contour line drawing. Due date is: Sept. 24th. for Critique
DP2 students colored pencil piece is due Monday Sept. 20th.
Homework Due: Sept. 24th for Critque
Draw a view of a room using black and white dry media only. Use a full range of value from black to white. Work only from direct observation, no photographic reference is permitted, no rulers. Free hand only. No blending; let the marks show. no one point perspective;like looking down a railroad track.
Set up in your room or somewhere in the house. Concider lighting and point of view. It would be helpful to make a grey scale with the media you choose to use of 10 values. Do this in your sketchbook. It would also be helpful to do thumbnail sketches in your sketchbook.
Descriptive Marks: Marks describe structures, surfaces, textures, atmosphere and light. make the marks move in the direction that describes the forms that you see.
DP2 may use any media and color. Same due date of Sept. 24.
Monday- Thursday Students will be completing the contour line hand drawings with patterns.
Today I will be grading their first sketchbook assignment "What is Art".
Friday sketchbook #2 will be due. One full page of patterns in a unique composition using color. See example below.
All drawing homework from last week is due today!
Tuesday-Friday students will be working in the studio on their pen and ink drawings using contour, texture, observation. The drawings will be due the following Monday Sept.21.
DP2
Students have homework due Tuesday when they walk into class.
For the next two weeks students will be working from observation using colored pencils to articulate an interesting point of view and color scheme from an area in the room or the court yard. Drawings are due Monday Sept. 21
Tuesday- your 3 thumbnail sketches for the pattern contour assignment are due at the beginning of class.
The rest of the week you will be working on the final piece. Please see the attached lesson plan if you have been or will be absent.
Tuesday- All AP photo students should have all of their contact sheets and 10 prints done from the summer homework. All 10 prints should be hung up on wall.
All Drawing students have 1 or 2 pieces due for critque on Tuesday.
Wednesday-Friday Drawing students will continue to work on "Line" due Sept. 11
New Assignment Photo:Patterns, graphs and data.in color and or black and white and 1 roll on Self portraits in Black and White. 2 prints due for each on Sept. 25. You should have 2 pages in your sketchbook done for research and idea development. Please look at Erin Nelson's Blog. www.ErinJaneNelson.com
New Assignments: Drawing Portfoio
Expressive Ink Drawing using washes, texture and line work.Concept: METAMORPHASIS
Expressive Drawing from observation: FULL BODY POTRAIT FROM FEET TO HEAD LIFE SIZE. You may use any media. Must be Life size.
Critique date for all AP Portfolio students: Sept. 25th
