Week 8 Oct. 15-19

Beginning Pottery

Mon. -  Wed. - Finish sculpting your cups, bowls, and face jugs so that they can dry.
Thu. - Fri. - Start researching for your Culture Vessel project.


Crafts

Mon. - Fri. - Continue and finish your Native American Totem Pole carvings.


Introduction to Art

Mon. - Tue. - Continue plastering  your hands.
Wed. - Read article on George Segal and answer the question sheet.
Thu. - Fri. - Continue plastering  your hands and gluing to your boards.


Beginning Painting

Mon. -  Fri. - Continue painting your landscapes.

Week 7 Oct. 8-12

Beginning Pottery

Tue. - Fri. - Continue Face Jugs and Throwing.  Start researching your "Culture Vessels" when ready.


Crafts

Tue. - Fri. - Continue working on your Native American Totem Pole woodcarvings.


Introduction to Art

Tue. - Hands Sculpture project introduction.  Sketch ideas for the rest of class.
Wed.- Plaster bandage demonstration.  Prep your plaster bandage for the following class and finish sketches.
Thu. - Plaster your  hands for the 1st person in each group who is ready.  Must work as a team!
Fri. - same


Beginning Painting

Tue. - Fri. - Finish your Op Art paintings.  We will start landscape painting when class is ready.  Research different pictures of skies, trees, leaves, grass,  mountains, water, and shrubbery and print them out.  You will be making your own original landscape painting. 

Week 6 Oct. 1-5

Beginning Pottery

Mon. - Fri. - Continue working on your Face Jugs, bowls and mugs.


Crafts

Mon. - Fri. - Continue woodcarving your Native American Totem Poles


Introduction to Art

Mon. - Introduction to contour line drawing.  Draw 7-10 overlapping contour drawings of your hands in different positions.
Tue. - Blind Contour introduction and Monochromatic introduction.
Wed.- Fri. -  Work on your monochromatic hands


Beginning Painting

Mon. - Fri. - Continue Op Art designs

Week 5 Sept. 24-28

Beginning Pottery

Mon. - Fri. - Continue making your Face Jugs and throwing bowls and cups on the wheels.


Crafts

Mon. - Fri. - Continue your research and preparatory work for the Native American Totem Pole woodcarvings.


Introduction to Art

Mon. - Tue. -  Continue shading your Nonobjective artworks, focusing on color balance.
Wed. - Thu. - Continue work on your Window Painting drawings.  The theme is Breast Cancer Awareness and Fall.  BE CREATIVE!!!
Fri. - Finish your Nonobjective artworks.


Beginning Painting

Mon. - Fri. - Continue your Optical Art project.

Week 3 Sept. 17-21

Beginning Pottery

Mon. - Watch "Georgia Face Jug" videos to learn a little about the history and how to construct them.  Continue throwing and sculpting your face jugs.
Tue. - Fri. - Continue throwing and working on your face jugs.


Crafts

Mon. - Fri. - Finish your "Found Object Birdhouses" and start researching and carving your Native American Totem Poles


Introduction to Art

Mon. - Wed. - Continue and finish your "Macro" drawings.  We will start our line, color, and balance project when the macro studies are finished.


Beginning Painting

Mon. - Fri. - Finish grayscales.  Read article on Op Art and answer the questions.  Research Optical art designs and start designing your own Op Art design on your Color Triangle background.

Week 3 Sept. 10-14

Beginning Pottery

Mon. - Fri. - Continue "throwing" your cups and bowls and making your face jugs. 


Crafts

Mon. - Fri. - Continue working on your "Found Object" birdhouses.


Introduction to Art

Mon. - Finish verbal critique.  Macro drawing introduction.


Beginning Painting

Mon. - Finish Color Triangles
Tue. - Critique of your  color mixing and craftsmanship.  Continue grayscale.
Wed. - Fri. - Continue and finish your grayscales.

Week 2 Sept. 3-7

Beginning Pottery

Mon. - no class
Tue. - Trimming demonstration.  Continue throwing and getting clay ready for you face jugs.  Face jug sketches due tomorrow at end of class. 
Wed. - Sketches due.  Continue throwing
Thu. - Fri. - Continue throwing, trimming or starting your face jug. 


Crafts

Mon. - no class
Tue. -  Fri. - Continue constructing your "Found Object Birdhouses"


Introduction to Art

Mon. - no class
Tue. - Review shading techniques and finish shading your objects.  Find a new and interesting object for a new drawing of that object.  Turn in sketchbooks.  I will be grading your value scales and shading techniques.
Wed. - Continue and finish drawing your new objects.
Thu. - Finish object drawings
Fri. - Macro project introduction.


Beginning Painting

Mon. - no class
Tue. - Fri. - Continue and finish your Color Triangles.