Sketches and Color Websites

Sketch of the Week

Art 1: 2012 or Giving Thanks

Art 3: Culture Shock or Bedroom Interior

Art I/S: Mixed Media Collage of Human Figure

Art 1: Intro to Color

Please visit the following websites. At each site, make note of 3 facts about color. List these facts on the back of your color study guide.

• Color Matters: How color affects us
• Color Theory
• Color Symbolism in Buddhist Art
• Color IQ Test

Art 3: Assemblages

Joseph Cornell, Untitled (Dieppe), 1958, Museum of Modern Art

In your sketchbooks, please list the unique characteristics associated with this style of art (analysis). Then, pick one assemblage by Joseph Cornell to critique.

1. Describe: List the title of the work and describe details.
2. Analyze: What grabs your attention? What kind of materials are being used?
3. Interpret: What is this artwork all about?
4. Judge: What does this work teach you? How can you use what you've learned in your work?

Websites (feel free to look up assemblages on your own, too):

• http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/cornell/
• http://www.wa-digital.com/LeoKaplan/index.html
• http://www.artchive.com/artchive/C/cornell.html
• http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_works_32_0.html
• http://altpick.com/spot/binkley/index.php

Pattern and Rhythm Powerpoint

Art 1: Mystery Grid

Lucas (and detail) by Chuck Close, 1986-87

Art 1 classes are using a Chuck Close inspired method to enlarge either: a) an image of a famous artist or b) an artwork by a famous artist. This project is about value and effective collaboration!

To go above and beyond, find out more about your artist/artwork and post comments below (or in your sketchbook).

The classroom with the best collaboration and the most discussion posts wins a prize!

Catching Up

Georgia O'Keeffe Blue and Green Music, 1921
Well, I apologize for not posting as frequently as I should. That will change.

Art 1 Students: Are you missing any of these projects?

• Tessellation
• Papel Picado
• Value Scale and Spheres
• Outdoor Still Life with Skull

Art 3 Students: Are you missing any of these projects?

• Pen and Ink Portrait
• Georgia O'Keeffe Critique
• Monochromatic Oil and Soft Pastel Studies
• Pastel Floral Abstraction

Sketches of the Week

Art 1: (page 38) Battle Frontlines or First Car

Art 3: Interior of the Bathroom or the Kitchen

Art I/S: The Human Figure: A small group of people (Focus on negative spaces)

Discussion: The artist of the work above, Georgia O'Keeffe, said:

“Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.”

• Look up more images by O'Keeffe. How does she make us pay attention to flowers?