Draw sketches of Ideas for your land art

Draw a page of rough sketches or doodle of your ideas for your land art designs. Take a picture of your sketches and post them to your blog. Write a bit about the materials you plan to use.

Artist Research

Andrew Goldsworthy

1. Provide the dates and places of artist's birth and death. 

2. How/where did she/he train? Did she/he receive formal arts instruction? 

3. Discuss some of the people and/or events that influenced their art. 

4. What were her/his political or religious beliefs? 

5. Discuss her/his relationship with artists of the time period. 

6. What art movement(s) are they considered to be a part of? 

7. Describe the artist's style. 

8. Describe any recurring subjects, symbols, images, and/or themes in the artist's work. 

9. Tell 2 or 3 interesting stories or facts about the artist. 

10. If your artist is no longer alive, what kind of legacy did they leave behind? If your artist is still alive, what are they currently working on? 

Find and post 3 artworks that you like and want to base your project on:

Artwork 
a. Title of the work: 
 b. Date of the work: 
c. Location the work was created: 
d. Where is the work now on display: 
e. Media used:
f. What is the style of the artwork? 
g. What is the artwork about? 
Why was it created? 

Artwork 2
a. Title of the work: 
 b. Date of the work: 
c. Location the work was created: 
d. Where is the work now on display: 
e. Media used:
f. What is the style of the artwork? 
g. What is the artwork about? 
Why was it created? 

Artwork 3 
a. Title of the work: 
 b. Date of the work: 
c. Location the work was created: 
d. Where is the work now on display: 
e. Media used:
f. What is the style of the artwork? 
g. What is the artwork about? 
Why was it created? 

Post Your Portrait and Complete the Self Evaluation

Upload your Self Prortrait and the very first portrait from the beggining of the year.

Grade yourself on the items below:

Scale 1-10, 1 being the lowest, 10 the highest

1. Personal Effort
2. Wise Use of Class Time
3. Neatness
4. Correct Placement of Facial Features
5. Attention to Detail
6. Shading, Shadows, and Highlights

Answer the following questions (look back at earlier blog posts of yoyr drawings)
Describe the progress you have made in drawing during this year?

What areas have been challenging or easy?

Describe the strengths and weaknesses in your work.

How did observational skills play an important role in your learning during this unit?

Please provide examples to support your statements. example: Instead of saying "A strength in my work is my hair because it looks good," you should say "A strength in my work is the hair because of how I used highlights and gradation to make it appear 3D."

Here are some before and after drawings from past classess:

 

Experimental Photoshop Creative Day!

I am at an art conference so today you have permission to be as creative as you would like on Photoshop.

Create a 10 in by 7 inch document with 100 Resolution. You may create another collage, or experiment with various special effects. It's ok to try out new tools and experiment.

Save your work as a .jpg.

Post your experiments on your blog 

Post your collage - Due Today

Post your completed collage. Make sure to save the file as a .jpg

Photoshop Collage

Today we will work on a collage in photoshop.
We'll make a collage with the photos in this post.
I will give step by step instructions in class.
Next time you will use your own photos to make a collage.

Download the pictures to your computer:

Upload the week's drawings and answer the questions

Upload the following drawings we did this week...

The big charcoal drawing of the manniquin
The white chalk on black paper of the tubes and spheres
The erased black charcoal drawing
The drawing you chose

Answer the following questions:

1. Which drawing was the best? Why?
2. Which one was your least favorite?
3. What was one thing that you learned that you will apply to your self portrait?
4. On a scale of 1-10, how much care and effort did you put in to the work?

Upload your Color Theory practice

Today you will upload the folllowing work from our color practice:

• Color Wheel with Primary, Secondary, and Intermediate colors
• Color Wheel with Hue, Tint, Tone, and Shade
• Organic shapes painting with Monochromatic colors
• Geometric shapes painting with Complimentary colors
• Your choice of Oganic or Geometric Shapes with warm or Cool colors
• Your choice of Oganic or Geometric Shapes with warm or Cool Analogous colors

Tuesday, February 7 - Design with Colored pencils

I am not in class today. Here is your assignment...

Today you will create a design with colored pencils.

Make a design on the 6x6 inch paper (on the round table) using either organic lines, geometric lines, or a combination of the two.

Choose a color scheme, monochromatic, complimentary, or analogous, using either warm or cool colors.

Color in each lines using values of the color from light to dark. this will create a feeling that the lines have turned into forms.


Look at the examples below:



Complimentary colors, organic forms




Monochromatic color, organic forms

Upload Day

Today I will be checking to see that you've uploaded your Picasso portraits and questions.

Also, 
Upload your Celebrity Portrait. It is now Due:

Answer the following questions about drawing the portrait:

1. How did you feel you have progressed in your drawing skills ?

• At first I didn't understand to.....
• Now I understand to...
• I still don't understand how to....
• What did you find the easiest in your drawings?
• What did you find the most difficult?

2.Grade your WORK ETHIC based on the Rubric.
3.Grade your CRAFTSMANSHIP/QUALITY based on the IMAGE CRITERIA Rubric

What grade do you deserve?

Upload Your Mask and Self - Assessment

1. Take a picture of your mask and upload it.

2. Write a brief description of the your mask masking process. Use at least 5 vocabulary words from the clay vocabulary blog post.

3. Grade yourself according to the Work Ethic and Image Criteria rubric above

Gridded Celebrity Portrait

Today we will continue the gridded celebrity portrait.

Last time we worked on the outline of the face, hair, and clothing.

Today work on the eyes, and nose. Pay close attention to where details of the eues and nose cross the grid lines.

Draw very lightly and do not add any value or shadow. 

Scholastic Magazine Assignment - How To Read Art

Read the Scholastic Magazine - How to Read Art
Answer BOTH worksheets.
Write down the questions and answer them in a new blog post.
Title it "Scholastic Magazine  - How to Read Art"

Upload day - Drawing Progress

Upload the following drawings:

1 Grid drawing - Flower, Hand, etc
Eye Video Drawing
Eye Freehand Drawing
Eye grid Drawing
Nose Video Drawing
Mouth Video Drawing
Female Face Video Drawing

Answer the following:

Answer the following questions:
Grade your WORK ETHIC based on the Rubric.
Grade your CRAFTSMANSHIP/QUALITY based on the IMAGE CRITERIA Rubric

How did you feel you have progressed in your drawing skills ?
At first I didn't understand to.....
Now I understand to...
I still don't understand how to....
What did you find the easiest in your drawings?

What did you find the most difficult?

Mask Progress

Take a picture of your mask today. Post it to your blog. Title it Mask Progress.

Mask Mold

Take a picture and post it - Due today

Post Final Kumihimo

Take a picture and post it.Due today.

Upload Kumihimo Progress

Upload a picture of your Kumihimo in progress and answer the following questions:

What was country where the Kumihimo was invented?
What does the word Kumihimo mean?
How long ago was Kumihimo invented?
What was the first use of Kumihimo for?

Design Your Mask

Before we start to actually use clay, we need to draw rough sketches of our mask ideas and then create a final idea for the mask.

• Spend some time looking for masks that you like. Use the links from our blog or search for your own.

• Copy and Paste the photos of the masks you liked that you want to use in your own design

• Next, draw 5 small sketches of different ideas based on the masks above

• Then pick your favorite from above and draw a full size skecth with all of the details you will add to your mask.

Explore Masks

For this unit we are going to create a mask based on a tribal culture.
Print out this graphic organizer and use the links below for your answers:
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson395/organizer5.pdf

After you complete the questions you will create 5 thumbnail sketches of mask ideas. Discuss your ideas with me then draw a full size sketch of the mask design.

AfricanMasks
African Mask History, Rebirth African Art:http://www.rebirth.co.za/African_mask_history_and_meaning.htm

 Art of the African Mask, University of Virginia: http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~bcr/African_Mask.html

Faces of the Dead: Egyptian Mummy Masks: 
http://www.akhet.co.uk/faces.htm

Masks of Africa, Museum of Ancient and Modern Art: http://www.mama.org/collection/afc/afc001.html

Asian Masks
Ceremonial Masks from Java and Bali Indonesia:
http://www.art-pacific.com/artifacts/indonesi/masksjbc.htm

Ceremonial Masks of Mongolia:
http://sites.asiasociety.org/arts/mongolia/tsam.html
http://www.himalayanart.org/search/set.cfm?setID=1617

Masks of India:
http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/masks/

Masks: Reflection of Culture and Religion (India): http://www.dollsofindia.com/mask.htm
New Guinea Masks:
http://www.art-pacific.com/artifacts/nuguinea/maskspko.htm
http://www.jungleoutpost.com/cart/masks-papua-guinea-c-23.html

Japanese Noh and Oni Masks:
http://www.nohmask21.com/
http://www.thefind.com/movies/browse-japanese-noh-mask
Noh Mask History, Media Information Science Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan: 
http://www.nohmask21.com/

Central and South America
Dominican Republic:
http://dominicanmasks.com/
Guatemalan Masks:
http://www.coloresdelpueblo.org/Masks.htm
Maya Masks;
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/mayan-masks.htm

European Masks
Masks in the Ancient Greek Theatre:
http://www.greektheatre.gr/masks.html 

Venetian Masks: http://www.bergencounty.com/costumes/maskitalia/history.html

North American Masks
Alaska: The Living Tradition of Yup'ik Masks: http://www.tribalarts.com/feature/riordan/
Mexican Masks:
http://www.mexicanmasks.us/
Aztec Masks:
http://aztec-empire.com/masks.htm
West Coast Indian Art Tribal Masks: http://www.freespiritgallery.ca/nwartmasks.htm


More Masks Examples
Masks from Around the World