Fall 2008
This class is a 36-week fine art credit or elective course.
Announcements:
FRIDAY,12/19/08 vacation begins at 3pm and we return 01/05/09.
Next 3- week grading period: 12/15/08 - 01/15/08
Next test: Jan 5/6 retake on Human proportions and the critique process // Jan 8/9 test on color and perspective
Visual Arts Scholastic Event (VASE-UIL Art competition) is
February 7th here at Timberview HS
Jan 5/6 Retake
perspective notes given
watercolor notes due
Jan 7 exemption forms due for midterm (20% of semester grade)
perspective notes given
Jan 8/9 test-color / perspective
figure in action due
Claude Monet critique due
week 6 sketchbook due
Jan 11/12 Review / Exam
Jan 13/14 Review / Exam
Jan 20/21 start new semester with oil pastel, watercolor, perspective and clay
January 30 deadline $ for create-skate skateboard project ($15) or industrial design project (free-just found object needed)
Lesson Plans :
Working are finishing the following: color/ perspective notes, Figures in Action, Critique of Claude Monet, and week 5 sketchbook
TEKS: PERCEPTION, PERFORMANCE, HISTORICAL REFERENCE/CULTURE, EVALUATION
also cross-curricular history and English and science
Project Information:
1. Ink / Pattern / Self Portrait / Grid Method
Broken Face
2. Ebony Pencil / Objective to Non-Objective
3. Colored Pencil / Ink / Animal / Manikins / Proportions/ Contour /Ink Techniques for value
did class critiques
4. Pen and Ink/Line/Contrast
Pen and Ink
pick 7 pen strokes and make them
interact with a focus on contrast of line
and pattern
5. Body Proportion/ papier mache/ 3-D
Figures in Action
Day 1: Step-by-Step guided building of the basic armature (8 heads length)
Day 2-3: Student individual problem solves builing and position the muscle mass
and action based on a picture of a human in action they brought in
see notes on Human Proportions
hints were given about location of bmuscles and attachment
Day 4-5: Papier mache
Day 6: Paint
Day 7: hang up/turn in for grade- Dec 17/18 must be turned in
Critique - due week 5 of each 6 weeks
Critique Process Criteria = Notes
2nd 6 weeks artist: Vincent Van Gogh - Impressionist - French Artist
3rd 6 weeks artist: Claude Monet - Impressionist - French Artist
future blog critique process will be implemented here
4th 6 weeks artist: Jacob Lawrence - African American artist- Harlem Renaissance
5th 6 weeks artist: F. Botero, Frida Kahlo, or Diego Rivera - Hispanic artist
6th 6 weeks artist: M. C. Escher - American artist - Optical Art
Extra Credit: Hokusai, or Yoshitoshi or another Japanese artist
Future Google Pages / Powerpoint assignment will go here
Notes:
Perspective Notes
Sparker (Class openers) :
1. Creativity exercise: Imagine your a __(fill in with an object)______. Draw the object at a Rule of thirds composition location. Create a minimum of 8 cartoon balloons around the object telling how the object feels. For example an alarm clock might say, " Hey get up sleepy head I'm tired of hearing my on ring."
2. What body part is most interesting to look at? Sketch what you see in class
(class appropriate)
3.
4.
Sketchbook assignment :
Activities:
(future Gabcast activities will be done 2nd semester)
Manikin Gestures
Blind Hand Contour
Ebony pencil technique page 1 page 2
Composition exercise
Textured Hands
Value boxes
Artists (short summary)/ Art styles we've covered so far:
Chuck Close-modern, huge portraits using grid method
Albert Durer-grid method inventor, landscape, German
Vincent Van Gogh-Impressionist
Claude Monet-Impressionist
Paul Cezanne-Post -Impressionistic, Realism
Tutoring Times
Available upon request; Thursday after school til 4:30 pm
