Monday, March 30, 2015

Mar. 30 - Apr. 3

Advanced Painting

Mon. - Thu. - Students continue to work on their surrealist paintings.


Beginning Painting

Mon. - Thu. - Students continue to finish project #2 and start project #3.


Beginning Pottery

Mon. - Thu. - Students continue to work on their face jugs and start to glaze their bowls and mugs.


Advanced Pottery

Mon. - Thu. - Students continue to work on their abstract animal bowl project.


Foundations of Art

Mon. - Tue. - Students finish up their color wheel projects.
Wed. - New class!  Introductions/rules/expectations.  Students are introduced to the elements and principles of art.
Thu. - Continue lesson on the elements and principles of art and introduced project #1.  Students sketch ideas for the Memorial Sculpture project.


Introduction to Art

Mon. - Thu. - Students continue practicing their watercolor paintings for the silhouette project and start painting.  DUE THURSDAY!!!

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Mar. 23-27

Advanced Painting

Mon. - Fri. - Continue to work on your surrealist paintings

NO HOMEWORK!


Beginning Painting

Mon. - Fri. - Students continue to work on project #2

NO HOMEWORK!


Beginning Pottery

Mon. - Fri. - Students continue to work on your Face Jugs and face jug sketches.

NO HOMEWORK!


Advanced Pottery

Mon. - Fri. - Continue to work on your animal bowls, animal bowl sketches, and glazing your bowls project.

NO HOMEWORK!


Foundations of Art

Mon. - Fri. - Continue to work on your color wheel drawings.  Friday will be your color wheel quiz!

NO HOMEWORK!


Introduction to Art

Mon. - Students continue to work on their watercolor exercises.
Tue. - Introduction to the Sunset Silhouette project.  Research ideas and collect visual references.
Wed. - Fri. - Students finish up their watercolor exercises and continue to research ideas for the sunset silhouette painting.



Monday, March 16, 2015

Mar. 16-20

Advanced Painting

Mon. - Tue. - Finish your Pollock paintings.  Continue sketching and researching ideas for the surrealist dream painting.
Wed. - Fri. - Start painting your surrealist dream painting.

NO HOMEWORK!!!

Beginning Painting

Mon. - Fri. - Continue to paint project #2

NO HOMEWORK!!!

Beginning Pottery

Mon. - Fri. - Students continue to work on your bowls, mugs, and face jugs.

NO HOMEWORK!!!

Advanced Pottery

Mon. - Fri. - Continue to glaze your stacking bowls project and start sketches and research for the animal bowl project.

NO HOMEWORK!!!!

Foundations of Art

Mon. - Tue. - Continue to glaze your clay sculptures.
Wed. - Review for the drawing quiz.
Thu. - Take quiz on drawing and shading.
Fri. - Introduction to the color wheel.

NO HOMEWORK!!!

Introduction to Art

Mon. - Introduction to the Watercolor painting unit.  Start exercise 1 in class after demonstration.
Tue. - Exercise #2 review and demo.  Paint exercise 2
Wed. - Exercise #3 review and demo. Paint exercise 3
Thu. - Exercise #4 review and demo. Paint exercise 4.
Fri. - Exercise #5 review and demo.  Paint exercise 5.

NO HOMEWORK!!!

Monday, March 9, 2015

March 9-13

Advanced Painting

Mon. - Fri. - Continue to research the artworks of Jackson Pollock and Hans Hoffman and start painting your abstract expressionist painting.

NO HOMEWORK!!!


Beginning Painting

Mon. - Fri. - Continue project #2

NO HOMEWORK!!!


Beginning Pottery

Mon. - Fri.- Students will continue their sketches of their face jugs and start construction of their face jug.

NO HOMEWORK!!!


Advanced Pottery

Mon. - Fri. - Continue to finish up your negative space vases and stacking bowls.  Research contemporary glaze designs to apply to your stacking bowls as well as your vase.

NO HOMEWORK!!!


Foundations of Art

Mon. - Review of shading objects.  Introduction to drawing hands.
Tue. - Fri. - Students continue to draw and shade their hand.

NO HOMEWORK!!!


Introduction to Art

Mon. - Fri. - Students continue to work on your portraits.

NO HOMEWORK!!!

Monday, February 23, 2015

Feb. 23-27

Advanced Painting

Mon. - Fri. - Students continue the Mood Painting project.


Beginning Painting

Mon. - Fri. - Students continue to work on project #1.


Beginning Pottery

Mon. -  Fri. - Students continue to work on the mugs and bowls project.


Advanced Pottery

Mon. - Fri. - Students continue to work on the negative space vase project and the stacking bowls project.


Foundations of Art

Mon. - Introduction to shading.  Students pick an object from the room and draw to the best of their ability.  Students who were absent last friday get another day to finish their clay sculptures. 
Tue. - CLAY QUIZ!!!   Continue introduction to shading.
Wed. - Fri. - Students work on their shape shading project.


Introduction to Art

Mon. - Fri. - Students continue to work on the portrait project.

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Feb. 17-20

Advanced Painting

Tue. - Music paintings due.  We will be having a class critique on the paintings.
Wed. - Introduction to Abstract Expressionism/Color Field Painting and Mood Painting.  Students will start experimenting with watercolor paints to express an emotion.
Thu. - Fri. - Work on watercolor painting. 


Beginning Painting

Tue. - Fri. - Continue working on project 1.


Beginning Pottery

Tue. - Fri. - Continue working on your bowls and mugs.


Advanced Pottery

Tue. - Fri. - Students will continue to work on the stacking bowls project and the negative space vases.


Foundations of Art

Tue. - Fri. - Students will continue to work on their Memorial Sculptures.


Introduction to Art

Tue. - Fri. - Students will continue to work on the portrait project.

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Feb. 9-13

Advanced Painting

Mon. - no school
Tue. - Fri. - Students continue to work on their music paintings.


Beginning Painting

Mon. - no school
Tue. - Fri. - Students continue to work on the color triangle and the abstract painting


Beginning Pottery

Mon. - no school
Tue. - Fri. - Students continue to work on the bowls and mugs project


Advanced Pottery

Mon. - no school
Tue. - Fri. - Students continue to work on the stacking bowls project and the negative space vase project.


Foundations of Art

Mon. - no school
Tue. - Fri. - Students continue to work on the memorial sculpture project


Introduction to Art

Mon. - no school
Tue. - Wed. - Start the powerpoint presentation on color meaning and symbolism (working as a group)
Thu. - Project presentations
Fri. - Start painting your portrait project.