Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Artwork of the Week--Break Edition--Page 30

  • Inside Out
  • BRRRAAAAIIIIINNNNSSSSS (*correction :)
  • Illustrate a Song

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Artwork of the Week--Page 29


  • Design a television for the year 2050.
  • Draw what you see when you close your eyes.
  • Do a page of studies of different facial features (eyes, noses, mouths, ears, etc.)

SAR #7, Period 8 ONLY

Participation
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How has your attitude helped (or harmed) the classroom environment?
In what ways have you participated?
What is working? What isn't?

Progress

✔+, ✔, ✔- (Please, add an assessment mark)
What have you learned?
What have you gotten better at?

Why do you think it was important to learn about social protest artwork? What did you gain? What did you gain from learning about linoleum block printing?

Performance

✔+, ✔, ✔- (Please, add an assessment mark)
What evidence do you have for your creative growth?
Is your sketchbook complete? How is your sketchbook enhancing your learning?

Is your linoleum block showing evidence of:
  • High contrast (even division between black/white/texture--negative/postive space)
  • Texture
  • Strong craftsmanship
  • An editorial stance

SAR #7, Periods 3,4,6,7

Participation
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How has your attitude helped (or harmed) the classroom environment?
In what ways have you participated?
What is working? What isn't?

Progress

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What have you learned?
What have you gotten better at?

Why do you think it was important to learn about Michelangelo and Chuck Close? What did you gain? How do you think about creativity differently?

Performance

✔+, ✔, ✔- (Please, add an assessment mark)
What evidence do you have for your creative growth?
Is your sketchbook complete? How is your sketchbook enhancing your learning?

Are the following artworks completed? How do you feel about each activity?
  • Mixed Media Skeleton
  • Profiles: Front-facing and side view
  • Value Scales and Spheres
  • Shadow Shape Activity
  • Photoshop posterized portrait

Friday, November 12, 2010

Artwork of the Week--Page 27


  • Spend an hour drawing a forward-facing and side profile of someone willing to sit still
Tutorial
  • Homage to Michelangelo's drawings
  • Volcano

Friday, November 5, 2010

Artwork of the Week--Page 24

  • Road Trip
  • Awkward
  • Skeletal studies

Thursday, November 4, 2010

SAR #6, Period 8 ONLY

Participation
✔+, ✔, ✔- (In addition to answering the questions, add an assessment mark)

How has your attitude helped (or harmed) the classroom environment?
In what ways have you participated?
How have in-class activities enhanced your learning?

Progress

✔+, ✔, ✔- (In addition to answering the questions, add an assessment mark)
How do your artworks compare to the artworks you created at the beginning of the year?
What have you learned?
What have you gotten better at?
What elements and principles of art have played a major role in your artworks?


Performance

✔+, ✔, ✔- (In addition to answering the questions, add an assessment mark)
What evidence do you have for your creative growth?
Is your sketchbook complete? How is your sketchbook enhancing your learning?

For Art 1 and 3 Students, did you complete the critiques on your ceramic unit?
Did you post to the blog regarding the social protest artworks? What did you learn?

For Independent Study students, have you been engaged in critiquing? What projects are you currently working on and how are they progressing? What artists/art movements are guiding your process?

SAR #6, Periods 3,4,6,7

Participation
✔+, ✔, ✔- (In addition to answering the questions, add an assessment mark)

How has your attitude helped (or harmed) the classroom environment?
In what ways have you participated?
How have in-class activities enhanced your learning?

Progress

✔+, ✔, ✔- (In addition to answering the questions, add an assessment mark)
How do your Right-Mode drawings compare to the artworks you created at the beginning of the year?
What have you learned?
What have you gotten better at?

How did learning about pure/blind and modified contour, in addition to Right/Left Mode Drawing change the way you create?

Performance

✔+, ✔, ✔- (In addition to answering the questions, add an assessment mark)
What evidence do you have for your creative growth?
Is your sketchbook complete? How is your sketchbook enhancing your learning?

Are the following artworks completed? How do you feel about each activity?
  • Pre-Instruction Drawings of shoes, skull, and self
  • Vases and Monster Faces
  • Two Upside-Down Drawings
  • Pure and Modified Skeleton
  • Mixed-Media Skeleton Drawings