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.