Friday, February 3, 2012

Feb. 6th

We are going to draw from a still life for our warm up today. With the fruit placed on the desk, and remembering what shape is (we wrote the definition down last class period) we are going to draw the fruit in shapes. If you are absent feel free to draw fruit from your house. I would like the drawing to be as large as your palm, just shapes, no shading. After reviewing the slides we are going to continue working on our shape project.

During the last eight minutes of class we are going to put away our supplies, and complete an exit slip. This is our first exit slip and expect to have one at least once a week. Today's exit slip can be found on the last slide of the Power Point presentation. I want each student to analyze today's daily artist work and write what they feel the piece is about. Remember there is no right or wrong answer, we don't know the artist! Feel free to write exactly what you feel it means.

My example of the project at hand:
From Drawing Two and Painting One

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Feb. 3rd

Today we begin our first project. After going through the warm ups and slides, students are to place their sketchbook image onto the cardboard provided. Carefully, they will use an exact-o knife saving the positive and negative shapes that emerge. Once they are cut, students will begin by taking the charcoal and rubbing it around their image, they will take one finger (and use the same finger throughout) to move the charcoal off of the image onto the 8 1/2 by 11 white paper. To create a beautiful positive and negative shaped, abstract composition!

The Syllabus

Excellent student examples
From Drawing Two and Painting One
From Drawing Two and Painting One
From Drawing Two and Painting One

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Feb. 2nd

Today we will be completing a note card about ourselves. Throughout this semester we will be reading these and guessing who is who (for a candy bonus!). After our warm up we will look at Jean-Michel Basquiat's work (who was also popular the same time frame Keith Haring was, who we looked at yesterday). We will spend the rest of the class period finishing our sketchbooks, stapling in paper, and beginning our first sketchbook assignment. The slides and assignment can be found in the following link.

Feb. 1st

Today we will look at Keith Haring's work and base our sketchbook covers off of his style. Refer to the powerpoint for daily warm ups and slides. After reviewing the slides, what do you think Haring's style is? We notice that he painted using lines, little to no detail, filled the entire page and focused on small lines to emphasize movement. After completing the warm up, create your own sketchbook cover using line, filling the page and using little to no detail. Make your own personalized 'Haring style' sketchbook. Once you have placed the pencil lines down you can go over it either in colored pencil or sharpie.