Land Art - Andy Goldsworthy style

This mornng we will go outside and make artwork from natural objects in the Andy Goldsworthy style. Keep your sketches and idea in mind, but you can change thigs arouns and try new ideas too.

When we're done we'll take pictures and upload them to a new blog post.

Draw sketches of Ideas for your land art

Draw a page of rough sketches or doodle of your ideas for your land art designs. Take a picture of your sketches and post them to your blog. Write a bit about the materials you plan to use.

Artist Research - Andy Goldsworthy - Land Art

This week we will learn about a very interesting artist named Andy Goldsworthy.

After answering some questions about his life and work you will go outside and create your own artwork based on his style of nature art.

Goldsworthy uses nature and natural settings to create a wide range of artworks.

Here is a cool project that he created last year at the Nelson Atkins museum in Kansas City.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-sculptor-andy-goldsworthy-is-tearing-down-walls-and-then-rebuilding-them

Here is another article that shows more about his work.
https://www.boredpanda.com/land-art-andy-goldsworthy/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic

Use the website below to answer the research questions.
https://www.theartstory.org/artist/goldsworthy-andy/


Andrew Goldsworthy - Artist Research

1. Provide the dates and places of artist's birth and death. 

2. How/where did she/he train? Did she/he receive formal arts instruction? 

3. Discuss some of the people and/or events that influenced their art. 

4. What were her/his political or religious beliefs? 

5. Discuss her/his relationship with artists of the time period. 

6. What art movement(s) are they considered to be a part of? 

7. Describe the artist's style. 

8. Describe any recurring subjects, symbols, images, and/or themes in the artist's work. 

9. Tell 2 or 3 interesting stories or facts about the artist. 

10. If your artist is no longer alive, what kind of legacy did they leave behind? If your artist is still alive, what are they currently working on? 

Find and post 3 artworks that you like and want to base your project on:

Artwork 
a. Title of the work: 
 b. Date of the work: 
c. Location the work was created: 
d. Where is the work now on display: 
e. Media used:
f. What is the style of the artwork? 
g. What is the artwork about? 
Why was it created? 

Artwork 2
a. Title of the work: 
 b. Date of the work: 
c. Location the work was created: 
d. Where is the work now on display: 
e. Media used:
f. What is the style of the artwork? 
g. What is the artwork about? 
Why was it created? 

Artwork 3 
a. Title of the work: 
 b. Date of the work: 
c. Location the work was created: 
d. Where is the work now on display: 
e. Media used:
f. What is the style of the artwork? 
g. What is the artwork about? 
Why was it created? 

Post Your Portrait and Complete the Self Evaluation

Upload your Self Prortrait and the very first portrait from the beggining of the year.

Grade yourself on the items below:

Scale 1-10, 1 being the lowest, 10 the highest

1. Personal Effort
2. Wise Use of Class Time
3. Neatness
4. Correct Placement of Facial Features
5. Attention to Detail
6. Shading, Shadows, and Highlights

Answer the following questions (look back at earlier blog posts of yoyr drawings)
Describe the progress you have made in drawing during this year?

What areas have been challenging or easy?

Describe the strengths and weaknesses in your work.

How did observational skills play an important role in your learning during this unit?

Please provide examples to support your statements. example: Instead of saying "A strength in my work is my hair because it looks good," you should say "A strength in my work is the hair because of how I used highlights and gradation to make it appear 3D."

Here are some before and after drawings from past classess:

 

Experimental Photoshop Creative Day!

I am at an art conference so today you have permission to be as creative as you would like on Photoshop.

Create a 10 in by 7 inch document with 100 Resolution. You may create another collage, or experiment with various special effects. It's ok to try out new tools and experiment.

Save your work as a .jpg.

Post your experiments on your blog 

Finished Collage

Photoshop Collage 1

Today we will work on a collage in photoshop.
We'll make a collage with the photos in this post.
I will give step by step instructions in class.
Next time you will use your own photos to make a collage.

Download the pictures to your computer:

Upload the weeks drawings and answer the questions

The pencil drawing of the manniquin
The big charcoal drawing of the manniquin
The white chalk on black paper of the tubes and spheres
The 30 minute drawing you chose

Answer the following questions:

1. Which drawing was the best? Why?
2. Which one was your least favorite?
3. What was one thing that you learned that you will apply to your self portrait?
4. On a scale of 1-10, how much care and effort did you put in to the work?

Uoload Your Color Theory Practice

Today you will upload the folllowing work from our color practice:

• Color Wheel with Primary, Secondary, and Intermediate colors
• Color Wheel with Hue, Tint, Tone, and Shade
• Organic shapes painting with Monochromatic colors
• Geometric shapes painting with Complimentary colors
• Your choice of Oganic or Geometric Shapes with warm or Cool colors
• Your choice of Oganic or Geometric Shapes with warm or Cool Analogous colors
• Pencil Drawing using Value

Tuesday, February 7 - Design with Colored pencils

I am not in class today. Here is your assignment...

Today you will create a design with colored pencils.

Make a design on the 6x6 inch paper (on the round table) using either organic lines, geometric lines, or a combination of the two.

Choose a color scheme, monochromatic, complimentary, or analogous, using either warm or cool colors.

Color in each lines using values of the color from light to dark. this will create a feeling that the lines have turned into forms.


Look at the examples below:



Complimentary colors, organic forms




Monochromatic color, organic forms

Upload Day

Today I will be checking to see that you've uploaded your Picasso portraits and questions.

Also, 
Upload your Celebrity Portrait. It is now Due:

Answer the following questions about drawing the portrait:

1. How did you feel you have progressed in your drawing skills ?

• At first I didn't understand to.....
• Now I understand to...
• I still don't understand how to....
• What did you find the easiest in your drawings?
• What did you find the most difficult?

2.Grade your WORK ETHIC based on the Rubric.
3.Grade your CRAFTSMANSHIP/QUALITY based on the IMAGE CRITERIA Rubric

What grade do you deserve?

Picasso Cubist Style Self Portrait

Picasso

Pablo Picasso was one of the most well known and influential artists of the 20th century. He was a painter, sculptor, print-maker, and ceramicist.

Take a look at Picasso in action. He was constantly making art, and worked in many different styles:

Picasso at Work Video

Picasso developed a style known as Cubism. Cubism is an abstract art form that was influenced by Egyptian, African and Native American art. Cubist art is very flat and angular, and shows multiple views of an object, such as the front and side, in the same composition.

Cubism

Picasso started as a traditional painter, but his style changed over the years.

Take a look at the many moods of Picasso in the video below:

Picasso's Portraits of Women - Evolution of His Masterpieces

TODAY'S ASSIGNMENT - PICASSO STYLE SELF PORTRAIT

Your assignment today is to draw a Self - portrait based on Picasso's Cubist Style. Watch the video below for instructions:

Self Portrait Picasso Style

There is paper at your desk, there are sharpies in the box for your outlines of your portraits, and there are crayons on the wire shelf in the middle of the room. MAKE SURE YOU PUT BACK ALL MATERIALS WHERE YOU FOUND THEM!!!!

Mr. B will pick up the portraits when you have completed them, be sure to add your NAME and BLOCK on the back of your portrait.