December 7 - December 11, and December 14

Unit 5 - Bringing it All Together

Current Project: Starbook

Objectives: Create a starbook with the following (click here for the starbook rubric):

• Correctly and creatively follow the directions for creating a the geometric and organic shapes design for the cover of the starbook (Click here for the book cover directions)
• Correctly and creatively follow the directions for creating the four interior pages using color, line, and watercolor
• Correctly and creatively follow the directions for creating the outsides of the interior pages using color, line, and watercolor
• Correctly and creatively follow the directions for completing the starbook

• Monday: Last day to work on paintings in class. Work on Interior Pages for the starbook (click here for directions for the interior pages.)
  
• Tuesday: Make the fronts of the book pages and leave to dry overnight. (Click here for directions to the book covers.)
• Wednesday: Put the foil on the front cover and stain with ink.
• Thursday: Fold the pages (Click here for a video on folding the pages and for finding the exterior pages.)
• Friday: Work on the exterior pages (Click here for directions for the exterior pages.)
• Monday, Dec. 14: Putting the book together! (Click here for a video on putting the book together.)

Quote for the week: There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun. - Pablo Picasso

November 30 - December 1

Unit 4 - Color

Current Project: Abstract Color Theory Painting

Objectives: Create a tempera painting with the following:

• Use 4 color schemes to demonstrate an understanding of color theory: monochromatic, triad, analogous, and split-complementary
• Create an abstract plant drawing from observational drawings
• Create visual movement by using a base color throughout the painting
• Employ good painting and color mixing techniques

• Monday: Complete abstract drawing of your observation plant drawings. Begin painting the final painting using your color scheme worksheet. Focus on using the base color in the negative spaces in order to create visual movement and color harmony.
  
• Tuesday: Work on Abstract plant painting.
• Wednesday: Work on Abstract Plant Painting. When finished, begin the interior pages of your star book.
• Thursday: Last day to work on abstract plant painting in class. Work on interior pages of your star book.
• Friday: Introduce the front covers of your star book. Design each side, one will be an abstract organic form and the other will be geometric. Outline the shape in glue and leave to dry.

Quote for the week: There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun. - Pablo Picasso

Extra Credit Journal Assignment

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You need to complete one double-page spread according to the attached assignment. It is due on Monday, November 30th! No exceptions.

I will replace any journal grade with a higher grade from this assignment.

November 23 - 24

Unit 4 - Color

Current Project: Abstract Color Theory Painting

Objectives: Create a tempera painting with the following:

• Use 4 color schemes to demonstrate an understanding of color theory: monochromatic, triad, analogous, and split-complementary
• Create an abstract plant drawing from observational drawings
• Create visual movement by using a base color throughout the painting
• Employ good painting and color mixing techniques

• Monday: Complete color wheel and color scheme worksheet. Complete journal entry.
  
• Tuesday: Introduce abstract drawing. Make abstract drawing for final painting. Journal due!

Quote for the week: It's a quote-free week! Yeah!

VVJ assignment: Click here for the journal assignment. Create a three double-page spreads using color to activate the backgrounds. One page needs to be analogous, another should be monochromatic, and the last one should have warm and cool spaces. Draw onto the pages different contour drawings of your shoes. Turn them into shoes to match the backgrounds. If you have a red background, make your shoe feel like it belongs. Add whatever designs you need to to make it part of the color scheme. Add text describing the shoe and the environment. Due Monday, November 23.

November 16 - 20

Unit 4 - Color

Current Project: Abstract Color Theory Painting

Objectives: Create a tempera painting with the following:

• Use 4 color schemes to demonstrate an understanding of color theory: monochromatic, triad, analogous, and split-complementary
• Create an abstract plant drawing from observational drawings
• Create visual movement by using a base color throughout the painting
• Employ good painting and color mixing techniques

• Monday: Introduce color with power point. Work on color wheel.
  
• Wednesday: Make 5 observational drawings of plants in class. Work on color wheel.
• Wednesday: Introduce color scheme work sheet.
  
• Thursday: Work on color scheme work sheet.
  
• Friday: Journal Day!!

Quote for the week: It's a quote-free week! Yeah!

VVJ assignment: Create a three double-page spreads using color to activate the backgrounds. One page needs to be analogous, another should be monochromatic, and the last one should have warm and cool spaces. Draw onto the pages different contour drawings of your shoes. Turn them into shoes to match the backgrounds. If you have a red background, make your shoe feel like it belongs. Add whatever designs you need to to make it part of the color scheme. Add text describing the shoe and the environment. Due Monday, November 23.

November 9 - 13

Unit 4 - Color

Current Project: Abstract Color Theory Painting

Objectives: Create a tempera painting with the following:

• Use 4 color schemes to demonstrate an understanding of color theory: monochromatic, triad, analogous, and split-complementary
• Create an abstract plant drawing from observational drawings
• Create visual movement by using a base color throughout the painting
• Employ good painting and color mixing techniques

• Monday: Absolutely last day work on clay sculpture. Complete sculpture study guide and color study guide.
  
• Wednesday: Begin paint mixing and color wheel. Review for Unit 3 test.
• Wednesday: Work on color wheel. Discuss how to complete the journal entry due next week.
  
• Thursday: Complete color wheel. Unit 3 test.
  
• Friday: Journal Day!!

Quote for the week: I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. -Joan Miro

VVJ assignment: Create a three double-page spreads using color to activate the backgrounds. One page needs to be analogous, another should be monochromatic, and the last one should have warm and cool spaces. Draw onto the pages different contour drawings of your shoes. Turn them into shoes to match the backgrounds. If you have a red background, make your shoe feel like it belongs. Add whatever designs you need to to make it part of the color scheme. Add text describing the shoe and the environment. Due Monday, November 16

November 2 - 6

Unit 3- From 2-D to 3-D

Current Project: Expressive Figures in Relief (click here for Rubric.)

Objectives: Create a clay high-relief sculpture with the following:

• Demonstrates planning based on gestural drawings of a human model
• Creates different identiable textures that help to describe the forms and add to the overall sculpture
• Uses good ceramic handbuiltding techniques for the relief sculpture
• Demonstrates an understanding of expressive and emotive sculpture

• Monday: Protest Journal and Collage Human Environment are due!!
  
• Monday-Wednesday: work on clay sculpture. Complete sculpture study guide.
  
• Wednesday: Last day to work on clay sculpture in class. It must be in the kiln room by Monday!
• Wednesday: Review for the test for Unit 3. Introduce sketches from nature.
  
• Thursday: Make 5 detailed nature sketches.Review for a test on Unit 3!
  
• Friday: Journal Day!!

Quote for the week: It's a quote-free week! Yippee!

VVJ assignment: Create a three double-page spreads using color to activate the backgrounds. One page needs to be analogous, another should be monochromatic, and the last one should have warm and cool spaces. Draw onto the pages different contour drawings of your shoes. Turn them into shoes to match the backgrounds. If you have a red background, make your shoe feel like it belongs. Add whatever designs you need to to make it part of the color scheme. Add text describing the shoe and the environment. Due Monday, November 16

Gesture Drawing Power Point

We looked at this power point during class on Tuesday, 10/20. After the presentation, the students had to make 5 gestures from magazine photos of people standing (head to toe). The pictures were glued into their journals, and the gesture drawings were drawn beside the photo.

Gesture Drawing

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October 26 -30

Unit 3- From 2-D to 3-D

Current Project: Expressive Figures in Relief (click here for Rubric.)

Objectives: Create a clay high-relief sculpture with the following:

• Demonstrates planning based on gestural drawings of a human model
• Creates different identiable textures that help to describe the forms and add to the overall sculpture
• Uses good ceramic handbuiltding techniques for the relief sculpture
• Demonstrates an understanding of expressive and emotive sculpture

• Monday: Complete formal critiques. Discuss Unit 2 test. Introduce expressive sculpture. Act out emotions in class and then in pairs work on gestures for your own expressive figure sculpture.
• Tuesday: Unit 2 test. Work on expressive gestures for your sculpture. Claim your shelf and get your space ready for collaging.
• Wednesday: Begin expressive sculpture. We will begin with the torso and create the textured slab for the body.
• Thursday: Work on adding limbs to the sculpture.
• Friday: Journal Day!! Work on both the Protest Collage page and the background for your collage human!

Quote for the week: Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing.. then a work of art may happen. - Andrew Wyeth

VVJ assignment: Create a double-page spread background for your collage person. Use a horizon line and create silhouetted objects on the horizon that create an appropriate environment for your collage person. Experiment with using color - colored pencil, oil pastels, and chalk pastels. Due Monday, November 2 (along with the protest journal).

October 19 - 23

Unit 3- From 2-D to 3-D

Current Project: Expressive Figures in Relief (click here for Rubric.)

Objectives: Create a clay high-relief sculpture with the following:

• Demonstrates planning based on gestural drawings of a human model
• Creates different identiable textures that help to describe the forms and add to the overall sculpture
• Uses good ceramic handbuiltding techniques for the relief sculpture
• Demonstrates an understanding of expressive and emotive sculpture

• Monday: Last day to work on Surreal Collages in class. Homework is to bring in 5 images of people in action. They must be photos from head to toe - no cartoons.
• Tuesday: Introduce gesture. Use magazine images to make gestures. Work on sculpture terms handout.
• Wednesday: Unit 2 test. Make gestures from students in class. Work on sculpture terms handout.
• Thursday: Journal Day!! Work on both the Protest Collage page and the background for your collage human! Surreal Collages are due!
• Friday: Formal critique of collages from different classes. You will work in a group and be given a group grade for following the four step art criticism. Review for the Unit 2: Aesthetics test.

Quote for the week: That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it. - Alberto Giacometti

VVJ assignment: Create a double-page spread background for your collage person. Use a horizon line and create silhouetted objects on the horizon that create an appropriate environment for your collage person. Experiment with using color - colored pencil, oil pastels, and chalk pastels. Due Monday, November 2 (along with the protest journal).

October 12 - 16

Unit 2- Aesthetics

Current Project: Surrealist Collage (click here for Rubric.)

Objectives: Create a surrealist collage using magazine images and mixed media with the following criteria:

• Demonstrate an understanding of the Surrealist movement
• Create a composition with visual movement
• Create a 1 point perspective background that will add the element of space to the collage
• Creatively and correctly use collage techniques

• Monday & Tuesday: Work on surreal collage.
• Wednesday: No class - grades 9-11 will be taking the PSAT and 12th will report to the auditorium. Early Release Day!
• Thursday: Last day to work on the Surreal Collage in class. Collage is due on Monday, October 19th for a class critique. Protest Journal is due at the end of class!!
• Friday: Journal Day!

Quote for the week: Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art. - Leonardo da Vinci

VVJ assignment: Create a double-page spread background for your collage person. Use a horizon line and create silhouetted objects on the horizon that create an appropriate environment for your collage person. Experiment with using color - colored pencil, oil pastels, and chalk pastels. Due Tuesday, October 27th.

Van Gogh's Ear

Here is an ABC News story about what historians now believe to be the actual story behind the myth.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/Story?id=7506786&page=1

October 5 - 9

Unit 2- Aesthetics

Current Project: Surrealist Collage (click here for Rubric.)

Objectives: Create a surrealist collage using magazine images and mixed media with the following criteria:

• Demonstrate an understanding of the Surrealist movement
• Create a composition with visual movement
• Create a 1 point perspective background that will add the element of space to the collage
• Creatively and correctly use collage techniques

• Monday: Learn about 1-point perspective. Use 1-pt perspective and atmospheric perspective. For more information on perspective drawing, visit: http://studiochalkboard.evansville.edu/draw.html
• Tuesday: View the Surrealism Power Point and discuss the next project. Begin your project by coming up with a surrealist concept. Make three thumbnails of the concept.
  
• Wednesday: Work on Collage.
• Thursday: Work on Collage or Journal assignment. Collage Human, Aesthetics Study Guide, and Creating the Illusion of Space is due!
• Friday: Teacher Workday.

Quote for the Week: The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it. - Salvador Dali

VVJ assignment: Protest! Find a cause and make a statement. You will need to make a thumbnail drawing before beginning the collage. You can protest something serious, or silly - from the war in Iraq to not wearing the color blue, but make a stand! You will use a double-page spread. There must be a background - either in tissue paper or paint. You MUST use collage elements. There MUST be a creative title followed by a brief description of your protest. Due Tuesday, October 13th.

Aesthetics and Surrealism Power Points

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Aesthetics

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Surrealism Part2

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September 28 - October 2

Unit 2- Aesthetics

Current Project: Surrealist Collage (click here for Rubric.)

Objectives: Create a surrealist collage using magazine images and mixed media with the following criteria:

• Demonstrate an understanding of the Surrealist movement
• Create a composition with visual movement
• Create a 1 point perspective background that will add the element of space to the collage
• Creatively and correctly use collage techniques

• Monday: Last day to work on the still life drawing in class. Review for the Drawing Unit test will be passed out. Aesthetics Study Guide using your Art Talk book.
• Tuesday: Review in class for the Drawing Unit test. View the Aesthetics Power Point and discuss the 4-step criticism.
  
• Wednesday: Drawing Unit Test. Begin a person collage. You can use only three normal human body parts and the rest must be anything "unhuman." This mini-lab assignment will be graded on how well you cut and create with collage, due on Monday, 10/5.
• Thursday: Discuss next journal assignment- protest collage. Work on Studying an Art History Movement guide using your Art Talk book.
• Friday: Work on study guides, collage human, and Protest Journal assignment.

VVJ assignment: Protest! Find a cause and make a statement. You will need to make a thumbnail drawing before beginning the collage. You can protest something serious, or silly - from the war in Iraq to not wearing the color blue, but make a stand! You will use a double-page spread. There must be a background - either in tissue paper or paint. You MUST use collage elements. There MUST be a creative title followed by a brief description of your protest. Due Tuesday, October 13th.

September 21 - 25

Unit 1- Drawing What You See

Current Project: Value Study Still Life

Objectives: Create a finished still life drawing in pencil with the following:

• A composition with cropped objects that creates visual movement
• Creates perspective between objects by using sight lines and measurement
• Uses values (0-9) to create form
• Uses shadow to create the outline of the forms instead of hard outlines

• Monday: Rhythm Journal is due! Work on still life drawing.
• Tuesday: Work on still life drawing.
• Wednesday: Critique Still Life Drawings. Work on Still Life Drawings.
• Thursday: Last day in class to work on drawings. You must make arrangements to work on your still life drawing outside of class if you are not finished. Complete the Aesthetics Study Guide and read ArtTalk, p. 25 - 37. Click here for the document. Remember the link to the textbook online is on the right side of the blog. Value Still Life Project is due!
• Friday: VVJ - MC Escher Page.

VVJ assignment: Read about MC Escher and create a response page to his art. Find out when, where, and why he created his art. "Activate" the background by using either tempera paint or tissue paper. Take an Escher square and create your own page for his work. Include a reflection of M.C. Escher in the page. Due Tuesday, October 6th.

September 14 - 18

Unit 1- Drawing What You See

Current Project: Value Study Still Life

Objectives: Create a finished still life drawing in pencil with the following:

• A composition with cropped objects that creates visual movement
• Creates perspective between objects by using sight lines and measurement
• Uses values (0-9) to create form
• Uses shadow to create the outline of the forms instead of hard outlines

• Monday: Use sightlines and measurements to make sure the still life is in perspective on your thumbnail. Click here to download the document.
• Tuesday: Transfer your thumbnail to your drawing paper.
• Wednesday: Breakdown dark and light values and begin creating the value transitions.
• Thursday: Work on the still life.
• Friday: VVJ - Complete front cover, Activating Rhythm, and make a value page using one of your value mini-labs. Label highlight, core of shadow, reflected light, and cast shadow. Also include a definition for transitional value.

VVJ assignment: Due Monday, September 21 at the beginning of class.

September 8 - 11

Unit 1- Drawing What You See

Current Project: Value Study Still Life

Objectives: Create a finished still life drawing in pencil with the following:

• A composition with cropped objects that creates visual movement
• Creates perspective between objects by using sight lines and measurement
• Uses values (0-9) to create form
• Uses shadow to create the outline of the forms instead of hard outlines

• Monday: HOLIDAY!
• Tuesday: Begin value sphere and value cylinder.
• Wednesday: Contour Washes Project is due! Complete value sphere and cylinder. Begin thumbnails of still life.
• Thursday: Begin drawing the shapes of the still life and sketching in the values.
• Friday: VVJ - Activating Rhythm (last day to work on this page in class.)

VVJ assignment: "Activate" the background of a two-page bleed through gray tempera paint and masked areas. Glue down a portion of a famous print. Use elements of the famous print sample and create your own design. Remember to create a sense of rhythm through repeating lines and values. Write your definition of rhythm and reflect on how to create it. Due Tuesday, September 15.

Creating a Value Scale Video

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August 31 - September 4

Current Project: Contour Washes

Objectives: Make a layered mixed media drawing of an object that has the following:

• Variety of scale of drawn object
• Outline contours in both negative and positive shapes
• Rhythm and visual movement created through layers of drawings
• Cross-contour drawing in pen as the emphasis of the drawing

• Monday: Work on the second layer of the contour wash.
• Tuesday: Begin final layer of the contour wash.
• Wednesday: Complete the contour wash with an ink outline.
• Thursday: Class Critique of the contour washes. Begin value scales.
• Friday: VVJ - Rhythm and Rembrandt

VVJ assignment: "Activate" the background of a two-page bleed through gray tempera paint and masked areas. Glue down a portion of a Rembrandt print. Use elements of the Rembrandt sample and create your own design. Remember to create a sense of rhythm through repeating lines and values. Due Tuesday, September 8.

Power Point: Principles of Design

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Principles of Design

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August 24 - 28

Current Project: Contour Washes

Objectives: Make a layered mixed media drawing of an object that has the following:

• Variety of scale of drawn object
• Outline contours in both negative and positive shapes
• Rhythm and visual movement created through layers of drawings
• Cross-contour drawing in pen as the emphasis of the drawing

• Monday: Introduce Modified Contour and Contour Wash project. Students will begin the first layer of their project.
• Tuesday: Popcorn Transformations VVJ Assignment and Elements Journal Homework are due! Continue to work on first layer of their project by painting in thinned gesso into the negative spaces..
• Wednesday: View Principles of Design Power Point. Complete the Principles handout. Work on Contour Washes.
• Thursday: Begin the second layer of the contour washes.
• Friday: VVJ - Rhythm and Rembrandt

VVJ assignment: "Activate" the background of a two-page bleed through gray tempera paint and masked areas. Glue down a portion of a Rembrandt print. Use elements of the Rembrandt sample and create your own design. Remember to create a sense of rhythm through repeating lines and values. Due Tuesday, September 8.

Elements of Art Power Point

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Elements Of Art 2009

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Visual Verbal Journaling

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What is a Visual Verbal Journal?

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Week 2: August 17 - 21

Project: Contour Washes

Objectives: Make a layered mixed media drawing of an object that has the following:

• Variety of scale of drawn object
• Outline contours in both negative and positive shapes
• Rhythm and visual movement created through layers of drawings
• Cross-contour drawing in pen as the emphasis of the drawing

Monday: Introduce the Elements of Art and complete the Unit 1 study guide. Assign Elements Journal Homework, due Monday August 24.

Tuesday: Elements Challenge! Introduce blind contour.

Wednesday: Review Elements. Work on blind and modified contour.

Thursday: Quiz over Elements of Art. Begin first layer of Contour Washes.

Friday: VVJ - complete the popcorn transformation.

VVJ assignment: Using pencil change your popcorn drawing into a new object and include a statement about what you think art is. Don't forget to add a background. Use colored pencil to add color in lines. Stain your page using bleeding tissue paper. Due Monday 24.