Art 4    Sgraffito

Sgraffito PP

Getting Started..........

View the Power Point for more information about the Sgraffito process.

Then Use the "Zentangle" Website to help you create a design for skill development that you  will complete on a small clay slab.

Official Zentangle Website

Sgraffito Examples

Art 2 Exam Period:  "Birds Research"

Mrs. Brisby Helps Jeremy the Crow

Pinterest: Ceramic Birds

Use the following links to research your "bird" for your clay sculpture.

Copy and Paste your resources  (images) into your personal slide (s) and then print out your images.

Several images can be placed on one page--Remember our sketchbooks are rather small.

--At least 2 images of your chosen "bird" images.

--At least 2 images of textures that you wish to consider as surface treatments.

--At least 2 images of ceramic sculptures that "inspire" you.  See suggested links below.

Cut and paste your images in your sketchbooks.  Then draw:

--one sketch of your bird (at least)

--one of a texture (at least)

When you have completed these tasks and you are satisfied that you have a good plan for your bird sculpture, Fill out the Planning Rubric and print it.  Place it in your sketch book and turn it in.

Art 2 4th Period Research Presentation

Art 2 6th Period Research Presentation

Birds PP

More Ceramic Birds

Photogram "eye-candy" Research

Using the assignment sheet below, research more about the "Photogram" process.

Find an artist and photogram image that you like.  Using google docs, "copy and paste" an image
you like. (Insert image)

Underneath the image, copy and paste the questions in "Photogram Research."  Answer the questions in a thoughtful and complete manner.  (Use complete sentences, proper grammar and punctuation.)

Please use spell check, too.  Make sure that your name and class period is on your doc.  Share it with me via email  Michele.Carr@wilmington.k12.oh.us.


Photogram Research



Example Assignment

Cinderella's Revenge

Cinderella’s Revenge

Objects of daily use are the subject of even the most favored and highly desirable artwork. Shoes are familiar, recognizable and necessary objects around the world.  Even though a shoe is a necessary and functional object, it can be decorated, colored, shaped and crafted in hundreds of different ways.

Bata Shoe Museum
http://www.batashoemuseum.ca/

Visit this site and look at the history of shoes to get a really good idea of variety and design constants through the ages.

SHOES become…..

• wings (butterfly, bird, angel….etc)
• elevated platforms
• an animal
• architectural, buildings, castles, skyscrapers, etc
• People (Mr. and Mrs., guy and gal, ying and yang, opposites, etc.)
• conceptual (anti-something, making a statement, etc)
• Time-specific (roaring 20’s, pop art 60’s, seventies etc.)
• re-incarnation of famous artwork or time period
• Portrait of yourself

Your assignment:  Transform one shoe into an original piece of art.

Begin with a real shoe.  Use it as a blank canvas.  Attach, cut away, (Manipulate) embellish with additional objects, paint, collage, photographs, etc. to create a specific original idea.

Steps……

1.    Research:  Take notes and sketch ideas as you go.

2.    Develop a theme/idea/source of inspiration.

For example, you may explore a period in art history, a particular culture, or create some type of social statement, or express a particular belief. You may also interpret a pun or saying like, “Walk a mile in my shoes”; “If the shoe fits….”, or any other quotable quote. You can just paint the shoe or boot with designs that work toward your theme, but try to experiment and push your ideas into an interesting 3-dimensional piece with a theme, interesting message, or interpretation. It can become a sculpture within itself. The shoe does not have to be an adult shoe, but try to use a style that works with your overall theme. You may use two if the theme requires it.

3.    You will have to prime the shoe like a canvas. Use gesso, or any household white primer. You will need to use acrylic paint for this project. You can use the craft paint, as long as it is acrylic. If you wish a gloss finish, you can use gloss medium to coat it. There are also sprays that can give a glossy finish as well.

Search the web, and look at the book, Cinderella’s Revenge.  Look at the Bata Shoe Museum, and other listed websites.  Then create some sketches of your ideas.  The art department has many, many materials.  Make a list of materials needed in addition to your sketches.

http://www.roberttabor.com/shoes.htm

http://www.gabrieldishaw.com/

http://www.marinadempster.com/artist.html

Clouds

Copy and Paste three different sky images with clouds:

1. Daylight--obvious cloud formations--blue sky

2. Sunrise or sunset with dramatic clouds and color

3. Clouds at night with moon and stars

Put them in the Google Presentation linked here.  These will be the images you will use as a resource for your "Cloud" Series (oil paintings).  Make sure you put your name in the title box at the top.  Use a single frame for each image if possible without destroying the resolution of the image.
Cloud Presentation

Artist Trading Cards

Artist Trading Cards—ATC’S

                                       

Research:

Use the internet to discover more about Artist Trading Cards. Take notes on your own copy of this handout......

--History

    --where/when came about

-Rules

-Why Made?

-For what are they used?

Look at Examples:  Find one you like and copy/paste it into the Google Presentation for your class period.  Make sure to include your name in the title box.

Art 2 6th period Presentation of ATC's

Art 2 4th period Presentation of ATC'

You will create a “suite” of four cards exploring the over-arching theme of Identity.

Theme:  Personal Identity

1.  Make a portrait of the person you think everyone sees most    of the time.

2.  Make a portrait of the person you might want to be.

3.  Make a portrait of the person you don’t want to be

4.  Make a portrait of the person deep inside of you that no one has seen.

On the back of this paper, make four lists of words or phrases that correspond with these different “portraits” for you.

Use the lists to help determine the specific attributes that you will illustrate when you create your ATC’s.

Raku loading and firing

Do You Fly in the Sky? Do You Fly in the Sea?

Art 4 Visual References


Helpful websites for Ohio Birds and Fish

Ohio Birds

Ohio Fish


Have a Look at "Word Birds"


Art 2 Caricatures: A Walk down Memory Lane

Caricatures: Birds and Fish Examples

Raku Clay Bird and Fish Examples

Memory Story Descriptive Writing

Please read the introduction in this document.  Then create a Google Doc and write a descriptive paragraph. Make sure that you share it with me, so that I can print it for you.  


Memory Story Descriptive Writing

Art 2 Color Scheme Designer Assignment

Color Scheme Designer Website


Mrs Stanforth's Art 2 Class Presentation

Mrs. Carr's Art 2 Classes Presentation 

Mrs. Carr's Art 2 Memory Story Resources for Students

Zombie Self-Portrait

The first in a series of self-portraits....illustrate yourself as a "Zombie."

 

  Some DEFINITIONS

One of the most famous zombie-themed television appearances was 1983's Thriller, a Michael Jackson music video featuring choreographed zombies dancing with the singer. Many pop culture media have paid tribute to this scene alone, including zombie films such as Return of the Living Dead.  

Zombies are fictional undead creatures regularly encountered in horror and fantasy themed works. They are typically depicted as mindless, reanimated corpses with a hunger for human flesh, and particularly for human brains in some depictions. Although they share their name and some superficial similarities with the zombie from Haitian Vodun, their links to such folklore are unclear and many consider George A. Romero's seminal film The Night of the Living Dead to be the progenitor of these creatures. Flesh-eating zombies have a complex literary heritage, with antecedents ranging from Richard Matheson and H. P. Lovecraft to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, all drawing on European folklore of the flesh-hungry undead.

The zombie apocalypse, the civilized world brought low by a global zombie infestation, has become a staple of modern popular art. By 2011 the influence of zombies in popular consciousness had reached far enough that the United States government's Center for Disease Control used the idea as a theme to promote disaster preparedness.

Some RESEARCH SITES:

zombie sketches

How to Draw Zombies

More Tips 

 

 

Zombie Stuff 

 

Zombie Blogs

Blog

Blog

Blog

Blog

Art 4 Sketchbook Research

Sketchbook Websites-- Art 4

Spend some time looking at various examples of sketchbook ideas.

Keep in the following ideas:

Materials

Styles

Techniques for creating continuity from page to page

Themes

These basic things will help you decide what to do with your own “Maze” Book.

Look at these websites before you investigate on the web on your own, please.

http://blog.sketchbookproject.com/


http://gasp2011.wordpress.com/2011/03/17/great-garden-sketchabout-9-revised-plan-for-themed-sketchbook/

http://gasp2011.wordpress.com/category/sydney-sketching/page/11/


http://sketchbookchallenge.blogspot.com/p/themes.html

http://danieladistantstitch.blogspot.com/2010/10/chapter-10-investigating-book.html


http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/faculty/reese/classes/artistsbooks/shereenlaplantz.pdf



http://stamphenge.wordpress.com/minibooks/meander-accordion-folded-book/

OGT Enrichment: Constructing An Image

During the 7 weeks before my school's OGT testing, once a week students attended various one-period classes on Wednesdays, at the end of the school day.  The Art Department decided to team together and provide all juniors and seniors an experience where they would be required to use the four "C's of 21st Century Skills:  Creativity, Collaboration, Cooperation, and Communication.  Senior, Matt Moore produced this video assembling their final "products":  lighted torn paper sculptures.  Each one started as a series of torn paper objects created individually.  From those, students created one construction.  Then students moved places and manipulated the construction in front of them.  Finally, students worked together at their tables to produce one pleasing, and mutually agreed upon paper construction.  Students then lighted their works, and took photos of them from various angles and points of view with their cell phones.  Enjoy!

Teacher Tech Camp: Assignment One

Technology...I am fascinated at how easy it is to do things now in minutes or even seconds that a few years ago would require hours of frustration.  I like to use it.  I need to use it.  It is the language of the new world.  I still NEED to touch and smell art materials, books, and paint, and I get tired of looking at a screen.  You get the idea.  I am a fan of the seeming democracy of the web, the idea that everyone can put themselves out there (good or bad).   While I often miss the touch of books, the use of technology for information, inspiration and communication is boundless.

• In the recent past I have used a blog to create a place where students could complete photography assignments given with a specific prompt.  Currently I want to expand on using a blog with my Art classes.  By attending this class I hope to expand on my knowledge of blog use, and meet other teachers who are using them. Specifically I hope to steal/ borrow some ideas to jump start my Art 4 blog-plan.  I really want it to be awesome.