Students had STAAR testing Monday through Thursday, and we met on Friday, a Charger Day. We looked at several artworks by artist Eiko Ojala on ThisisColossal.com. We discussed the method used for creating the illusion-filled artworks made of cut and torn paper, then had a sketchbook assignment based on the last one we saw. Think of something small and something big, then switch their sizes in a drawing. For example: something small like a mouse and something big like a herd of elephants. Draw the mouse extra large and the elephants smaller, inside or on the mouse. JR. VASE: success!Students who had registered for Jr. VASE and were available to attend on Saturday, May 14, were invited to go. That way at least the students who could attend would be eligible for the highest level of award: Silver Medal. (If it's the highest, why don't they call it Gold? I don't know.) It paid off! Twelve of the 18 artworks that were entered received a score of IV (and therefore a red drape medal), and of those 12, 4 entries received a Silver Medal! I'm super proud of everyone and truly appreciate Region 4 West allowing us to participate since we missed the event in Region 4 East. It was a great experience!
Since we are not going to have jurors come to Pin Oak also, those students who were registered but could not attend on Saturday will not participate this year. I'm still proud of each one of you and appreciate your hard work, and I'm glad I included your work in the Spring Art Show recently. Start thinking about ideas for next year!
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This week we continued working on our wearable sculpture projects made from found materials and items brought in from home. Possible materials include cardboard, duct tape, coat hangers, floral wire, printer paper, newspaper, tissue paper, construction paper, dictionary pages, coffee filters, paper plates, styrofoam plates, styrofoam cups, plastic straws, clear plastic sheets, and more! Friday was our second day working on our sketchbook assignment of 5 altered pages: tear, cut, write, collage, and a combination of 2 or more. 1. Tear: example 1, example 2, example 3, example 4, example 5 2. Cut: example 1, example 2, example 3, example 4, example 5, example 6 3. Write: example 1, example 2, example 3, example 4, example 5, example 6, example 7 4. Collage: example 1, example 2, example 3, example 4, example 5, example 6, example 7 5. Combo: example 1, example 2, example 3, example 4, example 5 Jr. VASE updateI have been conferring with the Jr. VASE coordinator, and we have decided to have my students attend a different regional event-- instead of Region 4 East, which HISD did not attend due to dangerous weather warnings, we will take a bus to Jr. VASE at Region 4 West:
Saturday May 14, 2016 Wilchester Elementary School 13618 St Marys Ln Houston, TX 77079 We will have the same plan to meet at Pin Oak at 8:45 AM, with the bus leaving at 9:00 AM. We will again plan on returning in the afternoon around 4, but students who have cell phones should bring them so they can call home when we're on our way back. Those students who are available to attend should still complete the final draft of the Student Intent and Artwork Identification Form. Please be sure to get those forms completed and returned to me ASAP. I'm sorry we had to reschedule, especially to those of you whose schedules don't allow you to attend this new date. You all put in an impressive amount of time, thought, and effort to participate and I'm incredibly proud of all of you. Seventh graders, I hope you will consider participating again next year. Eighth graders, I hope you will consider participating in VASE at the high school level next year. Dear Parents,
I'm very sorry to announce that tomorrow's field trip is cancelled. All HISD buses are not running this weekend, and that includes our trip to Spring, TX for Jr. VASE. At this time, it sounds like the event itself will probably still be going on tomorrow, as not all participating districts have to cancel their travel plans. We will consider ways to make it up before the school year is over. All students put an incredible amount of time and effort into their art works and I am so proud of them. I'm also grateful to all of you parents who have encouraged them to pursue their interest in art and this rigorous artistic competition. Their work will definitely be displayed as part of our Spring Art Show next week on Wednesday, May 4. I hope to see you all there. Please reply (but NOT reply all, for sanity's sake!) to let me know you received this message. Have a safe and restful weekend. May you all stay dry and above water! Monday and Tuesday we started planning our final major project of the semester, a wearable sculpture!
ASSIGNMENT You must construct something you can wear. It may be worn on your head/neck, torso, back, legs/feet, or arms/hand. Standby for examples. For a little cardboard inspiration, see what Ryan Higa made... MATERIALS You have to use a hanger, which I am providing in class. You don't have to use the entire hanger, but you must incorporate it into your piece somehow. Other possible materials include but are not limited to: cardboard, tape, wire, paper, newspaper, tissue paper, styrofoam plate pieces, coffee filters, fast drying clay, plastic cups, etc. I encourage you to also bring in materials from home. No papier mache. GROUPS Optional: you may decide to work in a group with the people at your table. In that case, each student makes a wearable item for different parts of the body. That way, they can all be worn at once by one person when we have our fashion show at the end! Working together, each group member still has to make their own individual wearable art item. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Jr. VASE is this weekend! This semester's big art competition, Jr. VASE (Visual Arts Scholastic Event) is this Saturday, April 30, 2016. About 30 students will be participating, and they are not all from my advanced class. If you are one of those students, please make note of the following! 1. We are meeting at school at 8:45 am instead of 7 am. The buses are leaving at 9 am. 2. We will return in the afternoon, and I don't have a specific time yet. It may be around 4 pm, but it may be earlier or later. If you have one, please bring your cell phone so you can call your parents when we are on our way back. 3. If you are one of the few who still has not turned them in, please return to me your signed permission slip, medical release form, finished art piece, and source(s) which may include sketches, notes, and images you looked at for reference. Every artwork MUST include at least one "source" on the back, even if it's a small, quick sketch. Questions? E-mail me. 4. You must be in uniform for this trip. You may wear a Pin Oak Art Department T-shirt or another Pin Oak shirt as long as the name of the school is on it. 5. Bring money for lunch! Refer to the packet I gave you for a list of prices for the concessions stand. 6. Finish writing your first draft of your answers on the practice page in your packet. Wednesday and Thursday in class, you will receive an official Student Intent and Artwork Identification Form for your final draft. This will be turned in at the competition. 7. There will be a few more pages of paperwork coming your way soon as well, so please be sure to get things signed and returned promptly! School was closed Monday and Tuesday due to flooding. Back in the art room on Wednesday, we created interesting, layered prints using a variety of methods and colors. Layers included watercolor washes; marbled paper dye; metallic powder paint; texture created with rolling pins wrapped in bubble wrap, plastic, or strings and rubber bands; printed linoleum cuttings; alphabet letter stamps; and drawing with pencil or colorful thin sharpies.
On Friday, we watched a short video about where pigment comes from. Then, to begin thinking about the last major project of the semester, we studied several sculptural artworks and discussed what they meant and how they were made. The following were shown in class: -Harvard's Pigment Collection -Rainbow Origami Street Art -Jeff Koons Balloon Dog Orange Sculpture -Anatomical Balloon Dog, Rubber Ducky, and Gummy Bear by Jason Freeny -Jason Freeny's Giant Dissected Lego Men -Jorge Mayet's Tree Sculptures -Glitch Art on Wikipedia -Warped Human Forms Carved in Wood by Paul Kaptein -Banksy's Dismaland (and specifically, the glitchy Little Mermaid) Lastly, we watched a video about artist Stephen Wiltshire, who is autisic and has incredible photographic memory. He was in town and working on a drawing of Houston in the Galleria, which I urged you to go see on Saturday. I collected colorful objects for the color spectrum collaboration. I also began collecting signed Jr. VASE field trip permission slips and medical release forms for those students participating on Saturday, April 30. Homework: Go see Stephen Wiltshire if possible. Begin thinking about things you'd like to make for your sculpture. Come to class with ideas! Continuing to learn about printmaking techniques, we watched a slide presentation and looked at examples of printmakers' artwork in Houston. Here are the links to what we viewed in class:
Presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/mrsbauerart/intro-to-printmaking Houston printmakers: http://www.printmattershouston.org/ http://ladylazaruspress.com/ http://printingmuseum.org/current-exhibitions/ http://www.burningbonespress.com/ http://artsandculturetx.com/printmaki ng-in-houston-then-and-now/ http://hyperallergic.com/246077/remembering-the-forgotten-female-printmakers-from-the-16th-to-19th-centuries/ http://hyperallergic.com/139236/moku-hanga-the-art-of-japanese-woodblock-printing-chicago-botanic-garden/ http://hyperallergic.com/214227/a-century-of-indigenous-printmaking-in-north-america/ http://hyperallergic.com/283179/nine-mexican-women-fight-stereotypes-in-their-printmaking/ http://www.scottish-gallery.co.uk/contemporary/contemporary_printmakers I demonstrated how to make a print using styrofoam and indenting it with a pencil. Students created a small styrofoam plate and printed at least twice using purple printing ink on colorful paper. Then we moved on to a more advanced material, linoleum. Students made 3 sketches, chose their favorite one, transferred their sketch to the linoleum, and cut the image with linoleum cutters. We then printed using a variety of colors of printing ink on white paper. I collected colorful objects for the found objects color spectrum collaboration. This week we continued our study on color. Here are some of the things we looked at in class:
-Pantone Color Book -1692 Color Book -RGB Colorspace Atlas -We are making a color spectrum out of found objects similar to those made by artist Tony Cragg. -To make color charts in our sketchbooks, we looked at this example. Everyone got to do a watercolor painting on a square of watercolor paper. You could paint any animal or any plant, or combine the two. For inspiration on techniques and imagery, we looked at: -Watercolor on ThisIsColossal -Holly Brinkworth -Goldfish on EatSleepDraw -Whale on EatSleepDraw -Hedgehog Hybrid -Georgia O'Keeffe -And any other lovely animal or plant watercolor painting that we Googled. Afterwards, everyone did a watercolor painting on a dictionary page. This could be from observation, your imagination, or from a word you found on the page you received. On Friday, we started our Printmaking Unit by making a quick, one-day monoprint project. We painted on mirrors and then pressed them onto colorful paper to make a unique image. I collected POMS Art Department T-shirt money and colorful found objects for our color spectrum. Final confirmations were made on which students are able to participate in the Jr. VASE art competition. STAAR Testing this week Tuesday and Wednesday! Charger Days Monday, Thursday, and Friday! Friday is also the last day of this grading period and report cards will go out next week.
We are painting with watercolors this week. I did a tutorial on Monday demonstrating correct materials set-up, beginning techniques, and clean-up. After STAAR testing: a watercolor wash on a sketchbook page. Then draw on top of the dried wash using colored pencil or sharpie. We will be continuing our study on color by watching a few relevant videos: -The Effects of Color on Mood -Describing Colors as a Blind Person -Buzzfeed Blue: What It's Like To Be Colorblind -The Science of Colorblindness -Enchroma Glasses for Colorblindness -Colorblind Brothers try Enchroma Glasses -More People Trying Enchroma Glasses -No One Could Describe The Color Blue Until Modern Times Lastly, we have order forms ready for the Pin Oak Middle School 2016 Art Department T-Shirts! The front of the shirt was designed by Brianna Edwards. Short sleeves $15 Long sleeves $20 Pullover hoodie $25 Continuing our study on color, we moved on to oil pastels as students finished their color scheme pages with colored pencils. Videos we watched that demonstrated oil pastel techniques: 10 Oil Pastel Techniques The Rule of 3 Adding to our sketchbook: Oil Pastels Technique Worksheet And 6 squares on a blank page based on the first video with 10 techniques. Early finishers were encouraged to experiment with oil pastels in their sketchbooks and fill a page by illustrating an emotion other than happy or sad. It could be an abstract design or a realistic image. Wednesday this week was Holi, a Hindu religious holiday also known as the Festival of Colors. We watched several videos and discussed the differences we saw in how Holi is celebrated in different parts of the world. Holi in a news report in India Holi slow motion artistic short Holi Festival of Colors in Utah Holi slideshow images of people in India We began studying color! We watched videos to fill in the blank on the Color Theory Notes (see below).
Color Theory Basics Warm and Cool Colors Colors in Art History Music videos about color or that make use of color in creative ways: "Three Primary Colors" by OK Go "Skyscrapers" by OK Go "All Around Me" by Flyleaf We also updated our sketchbooks with notes and practice worksheets: Color Theory Notes Color Wheel Worksheet Monsters Coloring Page- Practice using a specific color scheme and using colored pencil techniques |
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