Tessellations!

David Hockney-Inspired Still Lifes (thanks to Ken Veith for the idea!)

Mandalas: Art 1

Chenrezig Sand Mandala created at the House of Commons of the United Kingdom on the occasion of the Dalai Lama's visit in May 2008

Representation of the Unconscious Self

Radially Balanced Design Symbolic of the Universe

• Step 1: Color Workshop with examples of color wheel; color preferences; value scale, intensity scale, and watercolor techniques
• Step 2: PowerPoint with Video and Mini-Mandala Activity
• Step 3: Radial Balance Play. Visit the following websites and explore:

Mandala Maker

Kaleidoscope Toy

Radial Balance Toy

Make Your Own Kaleidoscope (for this site, please use one of your own photos to avoid copyright issues)

1. First Steps Extension: Make a digital mandala! You can use the software on your computer (I recommend Gimp). Here is a tutorial on creating a mandala using Photoshop, and you can modify the instructions for your software preference. Email the result!
2. More to come . . .

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?

Late October Sketches

Please Stand By: Technical Difficulties

Thank you for your patience as I recover from the flu. I became quite ill Thursday evening and have been incapacitated for the last few days. I was able to get a prescription for Tamiflu, but I need one more day to recover. Please keep doing what you do best!

First off:

Sketches of the Week

• Art I: Free Choice or Phobias
• Art III: Free Choice or Objects wrapped in foil
• Art I/S: From the list or Try a Collaborative Sketch with another student!

Art I

On Friday, you went to tessellations.org and shared two facts about tessellations. You also sketched 3 plans for a tessellation on Page 32 of your sketchbook.

Monday's Objectives:

• First, check out the Jim McNeill demo to learn about rotation and translation.
• Second, check out the "Do It Yourself" section on tessellations.org for more ideas.
• Which technique appeals to you? Why? Choose a technique that you feel you can use to create a successful tessellation
• Grab one sheet of 12" x 18" drawing paper and a 3" x 5" index card from the gray cart. Today, you should get started with the basic outlines.
• Although you might use different techniques to create your tessellation (due this Friday), your work will be assessed by:

1. Accurate and well-crafted tessellations.
2. Understanding of geometric and organic shapes.
3. Effective use of repetition, pattern, and one of the following techniques: translation, rotation, reflection, or glide reflection
4. Use of a simple color harmony
5. Creative subject matter. "But WHAT should it be about?" It's up to you and your wonderfully creative minds!

Art 3

Have you finished your portrait? If not, please take today to complete. If you are complete, it's time for the assessment.

Fall Break

Congratulations on completing the first quarter! Enjoy your break.

Culture Pass

Do you have plans for the week? How about using the culture pass? You can go to the public library, check one out for four people, and head to the museum! The program is only happening for a limited time, so take advantage of this awesome opportunity to go check out:

• Arizona Museum for Youth
• Arizona Museum of Natural History
• Arizona Science Center
• The Bead Museum
• Cave Creek Museum
• Children's Museum of Phoenix
• Desert Botanical Garden
• Heard Museum
• Mesa Contemporary Arts
• Phoenix Art Museum
• Phoenix Zoo
• Scottsdale Museum for Contemporary Art
• Taliesin West

Congratulations to Students Exhibiting Art at CES!

Sketches

Reflections and Reviews

Dear students:

• Take time this weekend to thoughtfully fill out Week 8 Reflections!
• Organize your sketchbooks! Update Table of Concepts and page headings. Above is the Art 1 Sketchbook Tracker.

Discussion Post: Please visit the National Gallery of Art, and experiment with the interactive tool. These objects are from masterworks. Are there any paintings you recognize? Find one of the original works and post your comments about the interactive tool and the original artwork.

Welcome To Your Brain

Discuss Analyze Interpret Judge

I have to say that I am totally impressed by our first group art critique! Well done, Art 1.

Sketch of the Week--Page 23

Art 1: My reality or Foot

Art 3: 5 layered drawings

Art I/S: Reflective Surfaces #2--Contour Line and Color

Discussion Post:

• Complete this drawing exercise. You can either print the exercise or do the online version. Post your comments about the experience.

Interconnectedness Project: Rock Garden

Students worked as individual and collaborative artists on this project inspired by Ken Veith.

Interconnectedness Project: Timeline Weaving

Students worked as individual and collaborative artists on this project inspired by Ken Veith.

Alrighty, It's Friday!

Picasso's Igor Stravinsky

We've completed Week 6! Don't forget to complete your assessment over the weekend.

Sketch of the Week

• Art 1: Rivalry or Animachine
• Art 3: Fabric with Pattern or Insects
• Art I/S: Reflective Surfaces #1--Expressive and bold lines

Discussion Post

Look for an inspirational art quote. What is it, and why did you pick it?

Art 3 Project Update

Sketchbook Check Tomorrow:

1. Page 19A: Pure Contour Self Portrait
2. Page 19B: Modified Contour Self Portrait
3. Page 20: SOTW--Pile of Pillows or Free Choice
4. Page 21: Modified Contour--Emotions

Figure Drawing Workshop

• We will continue to focus on line and the human form. Excellent resource.

Art 1 Project Update

Sketchbook Check Tomorrow:

1. Page 19: "Water Sketch"
2. Page 20: SOTW--Nightmare or Free Choice

"Water" is the culminating project in our Line Workshop.

What we are assessing:

• Does my artwork have a variety of line personalities and types?
• Does my artwork use line for textures and patterns?
• Are there at least five types of water depicted?
• Did I use the Rule of Thirds to create my composition?
• Did I demonstrate a mastery of the medium?

Friday Wrap

Printer Drama

• Due to tech issues, self assessments were filled out today electronically. Paperless is better, at any rate.

Sketch of Week

• Art 1: Aggravation or Science Disaster
• Art 3: Opposites Collage
• I/S: 5 things I love about you #4--Create a drawing that uses repetition to achieve rhythm. Be creative!

Hokusai Discussion Post

• After viewing and discussing Hokusai's artworks, Art 1 students were asked to focus on the treatment of water.

Do an image search for Hokusai's works. What types of lines are used by Hokusai to create water? What emotional response do the lines create?

Check out these amazing sketches!

Weekly Update

A big thank you to everyone who came out for Open House last night. Parents took the opportunity to answer one of our essential questions, which is what you see above.

Project News

• Personal timelines will be assessed on Tuesday, August 25th. Your timeline should be nonrepresentational, demonstrate craft consciousness, have appropriate use of media, be complex and introspective. Whew!
• If you're confused about craft consciousness, just think about creating (practicing) your artwork with skill and awareness. For example, avoid smudges, tears, folds and other minor disasters that may detract from the overall quality of your work.

Sketch of the Week

• Art 1: What's in the fridge? or Oops!
• Art 3: A chair as a self portrait
• Art I/S: 5 things I love about you #3--Create a drawing with strong contrast in an unfamiliar medium.

And, finally . . .

8th period students are creating a Japanese-inspired rock garden. Students wrote haikus in response to researching gardens, a few of which follow below.

Peace with no limits

Tranquility is found here

A green zen garden

--Miguel

small white waves lapping

dryly at rocky shores a

tide of ground down land

--Candace

beauty crosses a

japanese zen garden that is

majestically peace

--Julie

dripping on the moss
the rain patters on slowly
cloudy wet and cool

--Kiersten

The wind blows fiercely,

Leaves dancing around my feet,

Lightning cracks the sky.

--Jaycob

waters splash on the rocks

creating serenity for all

making us peaceful

--Cassandra

Beautiful garden

Let's one have relaxation

From the harsh real life

--Lettie

The cherry blossoms

flow through the garden leaving

peacefulness behind

--Melissa

Eli's Poem

Thanks to Eli for sharing his poem with our BHS community!

Everything is beautiful

Everything is art

Of this great picture we all have a part

From the doctor who saves a patient's life

To the farmer who finally found a wife

The man who walked on the moon to

A man on the street playing a tune

We each have a purpose

We each have a life

Each day we have has its strife

We must remember

Everything is beautiful

Everything is art

Especially the love given from the human heart

An amazing week

Bioscience students rock!

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you: 'I am here to live out loud.'” –Emile Zola

Weekly update:

Sketch of the week

• Art 1: Anime self portrait/City of Tomorrow
• Art 3: A word and a visual description
• I/S: 5 Things I Love About You: Strong contour line and color with a center of interest

Assessments were filled out today. Please get yours signed and placed on page 10 of your sketchbook.

• Your computer has applications worth checking out. "Pencil" is a fun 2D animation software. The website has some cool galleries.
  
• Our creativity workshop continues next week!

Creativity Workshop: Activity #1

I will create 3 original artworks that:

• demonstrate creativity
• use color pencils effectively
• demonstrate depth of thought
• have craft consciousness

Art 1:

1. Olympic Game Symbol
2. New (or altered) Student Mascot
3. Personal Symbol

Art 3, I/S:

1. Personal Symbol--Past
2. Personal Symbol--Present
3. Personal Symbol--Future

Due Thursday, August 13.

Weekend Notes

1. Have you started your Sketch of the Week (due Thursdays)?

• Art 1: Tattoo or Video Game Design
• Art 3: Manmade vs. Natural
• I/S: 5 Things I Love #1--Expressive Line

2. Are you going to First Friday? Don't forget to collect evidence.

3. Enrichment Activity: Create a Dada Hat!

4. I found this fantastic website that I thought you might enjoy.

Notebooks and Portfolios

Personalize your sketchbooks and portfolios.

Tuesday tidbits

• Please sign and return Plans for Success by Friday, August 7th.
  
• Check out course outlines for Art 1 and 3.
• Pencils!
• Something to ponder as we begin our journey:

I can take care of myself,

I can make my own decisions,



I am strong and independent,



I am intelligent and capable,


No one can take care of me like I can take care of myself.

Welcome back!

I hope your summer has been restful and filled with fun.

Are you ready for an exciting journey? I am. Get ready to experience a process-driven approach to making art and exploring our creative selves.