Artwork of the Week

• Liberty
• A Never-Before-Seen-Music Box
• Alien Baby 

Remember that all your artwork must be original!!!

August 2012 Sketchbook Highlights

Please take a moment to comment on the works of art on display!

Artwork of the Week #2--P21

• The Germ (the kind that makes you homesick or gives you heartache or the one that makes little sisters annoying)
• A tree house
• Self portrait as a doll. Voodoo? Porcelain? Hay? 

Artwork of the Week P19

 

• Terrible Beauty
• Anthropomorphism
• Using Fire

 

 

 

Welcome Back to Bioscience Art 2012-2013

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
--T.S. Eliot

Creativity Starter #3

Did you know that a banana is an herb? That a pineapple plant can only produce one fruit a year?

Dig up your own peculiar food fact and use it as the inspiration for an artwork. Or maybe create an artwork from a piece of fruit!

Creativity Starter #2

• • When it rains in the desert  . . .
  • What happens when a 6-foot-tall squirrel shows up in your yard?
  
   

Summertime Creativity Starter #1

Finish the following with a drawing:
1. At age six I was
2. At age twelve I was
3. At age 25 Iwill be
4. At age 75 I will be

Mask Making 2012

Design a Mask that reveals something hidden.
Some highlights:

Linear Perspective 2012

A few highlights!

Final Art SAR & Presentations

Directions for SAR:

1. You will email stephanie.r.grijalva@gmail.com, replying to our old conversation thread.
2. You will be prepared to present, bringing your sketchbook and your best work(s) starting THURSDAY, May 17. This reflection must be completed and emailed by Tuesday May 15.  
3. If you are missing ANY performance pieces (from sketchbook to portfolio), it is your responsibility to submit them to me digitally or in person. If I show that any performance pieces are missing, you cannot meet expectations for the course.
4. Please carefully read the expectations for presenting (emailed). 
5. Your final portfolio grade, based on three categories: Create; Relate; Evaluate (in bold within the assessment) will be recorded as part of your District CRT.
6. After you have presented, please take your artworks home. I am unable to store student work over the summer.

 Step One

Performance: Explain your overall performance this term for each work created. What project was the most successful in your portfolio? Explain. In what ways did you create? State your claim, support with evidence, and discuss the reasons your evidence supports the ways you’ve created.

• For Art 2 students, the major performance pieces for the semester include: Value Self Portrait, Design Synectics, Rube Goldberg Collaborative Artwork, 40+ forms in linear perspective, Masks, the Independent Project, Aloha Art Connection, and your sketchbook.

Circle One: √+   √    √-

 Step Two

Participation: Based on the expectations for participation, how have you done this term?  State your claim. Include specific examples (evidence) to support your assessment. 

• In addition, what techniques/concepts did you learn?  Use specific examples from projects.
• Finally, how do you now relate to artwork, e.g. what artists, artworks, and/or new art terms enrich your term experience? 
• How did you assess (evaluate) your work and the work of other artists during the term?

Circle One: √+   √    √-

Step Three

Progress: List what you can do to improve success in your portfolio. 

• How have you grown as an artist (Claim)? 
• What goals did you set and did you meet them (Evidence)?
• What have you learned about what it means to make art and be an artist? 
• In what ways might you incorporate your art knowledge in the future? 
• What would you have done differently this last year? 
• How do the Elements and Principles of art influence your work? What is your understanding of the Elements and Principles?

Circle One: √+   √    √-

Step Four

Explain what grade you’ve earned. Use evidence to support your explanation. What, if any, evidence do you have for exceeding expectations?

May Sketchbook Highlights

Artwork of the Week--p 69

Create an artwork that:

• Sums up your first year at Bioscience High School (or)
• Describes how you feel about making or looking at art (or)
• Show your progress (this can be abstract) as an artist

Making Masks Rocks

If I were ever going to start a metal band, I might use this photo as a cover. :D

AotW: p 68

What you see when you close your eyes 
(or)
Things that come from eggs


In addition, please continue to work on your beginning pages! Keep building that evidence!

PUHSD District Show Closing Ceremony

What a wonderful evening! I love celebrating student creativity. Here's me and master artist Regina at the closing ceremony for the annual district show.

SAR #6

Steps: Please find our last email convo in your inbox. Respond using the following questions (attach or add the questions directly to the convo).
Due Monday morning, before school starts.

Participation
✔+, ✔, ✔- (Please, add an assessment mark)

* State where you think you’re at as an artist and how you participate in art class (CLAIM).

* Support your claim with EVIDENCE from in-class and out-of-class participation.

* Discuss why the REASONS your EVIDENCE addresses expectations about the class.

Progress
✔+, ✔, ✔- (Please, add an assessment mark)

* State where you’re at in your understanding of 3D space, mask making, and the creative process (CLAIM). (For 8th period students: Make a claim about your current understanding of elements and principles)

* Support your claim with EVIDENCE.

* Discuss the REASONS your evidence demonstrates progress.

Performance
✔+, ✔, ✔- (Please, add an assessment mark)

* State where you’re at with performance, specifically with mask progress,  and sketchbook (CLAIM).

* Support your CLAIM with EVIDENCE.

* Discuss the reasons why your evidence is in-line with your assessment (REASONING).

*In what ways are you actively engaged in the arts beyond the classroom walls?

*In what ways are you connecting what you've learned in here to your other courses?

Artwork of the Week

As I checked sketchbooks last week, I noticed that some of the first pages (especially regarding the principles art art) had been neglected. Take this week to provide descriptions and evidence of your understanding.
If you're unsure of a principle's meaning, do research rather than guesswork. Go in depth! For example, for balance, do you have an understanding of three major types: asymmetrical, symmetrical, and radial?

Garfield Galleria District Show

Check out this cool slideshow of district student work!

Evening of the Arts

Spread the Word!