Prompts for LP 7: Studio Art

Concepts: ceramics (glazes), Photoshop (combining images, post production), printmaking (stencils and block prints), painting (layers, brushes, details)  and Illustration (perspective and ink)

Artists: Mark Ryden, Salvador Dali
Movements: surrealism, pop realism

1.  Finish your Hero project and print it on poster paper or a t-shirt for critique

2.  Enter the California streaming digital Photography contest:  use the link below.  I have a teacher registration and can help submit all work this week.  Deadline is Friday the 6th.  Prize is a Go Pro camera.
https://www.californiastreaming.org/ContestEntry.aspx

3.  Continue to work on your layered painting for 30 minutes a class x 10 classes. I will start to offer new canvases to students that I judge to be more finished than others.  We are only on our 4th class session this week.

4.  Try a surrealist composition in the style of Ryden or Dali.  Mixed media is fun and you should test different techniques on printed and digital medium.  Consider painting a larger section of the wall to satisfy this prompt or partnering up for a larger canvas and sharing the work with a friend who has a similar vision.

5.  Send your coffee cup to the kiln but take a photo first and try to plan some of the glaze in Photoshop.  We will get them back by Friday the 16th and need to spring into action and glaze quickly.

6.  continue printmaking and use your advanced illustrations to plan block prints or softcuts or foam prints or stencils in layers.  -step up your game and challenge yourself to modify existing designs instead of copying another artists work entirely.  make various colors of your prints and sign and number them for our art show at the end of the year.

lp 6 critique

We are trying a new format for our critiques:

Use this link to fill out three forms for 3 different artists.  I will add to the form next time but I think this will allow mature artists to get better feedback.

https://forms.gle/7TePkYoAAYD18uSR9

Prompts for LP 6: Studio Art

Artist: Diego Rivera
Skills: mural painting, ceramics, printmaking, watercolor
movements: Realism/ Nationalism/ Socialism

1.  Learn about the life of Diego Rivera: begin to study the intense political movements that surrounded him as an artist.  Plan a painting on a larger scale by drawing the scene in miniature on a transparency.  Try to interpret a symbol or use symbolism in your painting.  (I like seeing you guys work in groups and partners)

2.  Hero Project: continue from last month: consider using your finished work in the MOPA contest, Del Mar Fair, or California Digital Streaming Contest.  Create a painted or handmade layer over a reference image in Photoshop and stylize your work so that you can throw away the photo below.  Create a reversed image on an iron-on so that you can apply your design to a t-shirt after you print a poster.

3.  Ceramics: make a coffee mug out of clay........but first research some really cool versions of mugs.  You can make a pour-over coffee filter if you prefer.  This takes a month to get back from the kiln so plan your glazes and add cool details.  These can also be entered into the Del Mar Fair.

4.  Stencil for Spray-paint or subtractive Print: make a stencil that you can use some spray-paint with. or.............create print that uses the subtractive method.  Plan three layers to carve and print on different colored background paper.
Ask Mat for help and use a carving tool for linoleum or softcut.

Prompts for LP 5: Studio Art

Artist : Matisse, Dali
Skills: Paper cutout and various paper making and sculpture techniques.
Concepts: abstraction, surrealism

1.  Continue to finish or modify your sculpture to present at the end of the learning period in a couple weeks.  If you made a miniature, plan a mid sized bust in femo or paper mache-use interesting materials (mixed media)

2.  Work with paper in a 3 dimensional way.  Try to avoid tracing out your lines before you cut and plan a  composition in paper like Henri Matisse.  Continue to mix media and layer materials like paint and string and cardboard to finish your piece.

3.  design a t-shirt based on a portrait of a person you admire/ Hero or Legend t-shirt.  Find a reference of an artist that you admire or a personal hero.  Build a t-shirt design that allows you to explore the features of Photoshop and layer things like text accordingly.  Reverse your image and prepare for an 8 1/2 x 11 print that can be placed on a white t-shirt.  spend part of each class working with your image to print the last day of the critique. export a jpeg to Mat's flash drive and print your transfer.

-Cliff Burton  -Babayaga  -Micheal Cera  -Bruce Wayne -Dorian Electra
-Bjork  -Hercules   -Peter Parker   -Snow White  -Hades  -The Flash Barry Allen
-Princess Lea  -Allen Grant  -Starlord

Prompts for LP 4: Studio Art

Artists: Brothers Quay (tool), Montoya (primus), Tim Burton
Skills: sculpture, planning, armatures, wire, paper mache
plan a mini Holiday workshop

1.  Plan a really cool Holiday craft for kids.  We will have a party in our class with Hot Chocolate and everyone will form art stations for the younger crew to visit and make crafts to take to home for the Holidays.  Make them culturally appropriate and practice making them so you are a master when the kids come. Ask Mat for materials and set up a station when the time comes.

2.  Create a sculpture using one or many of the methods that Mat has highlighted in class.  Use paper mache or femo or found objects to represent a figure with gesture.  Choose an interesting pose that captures action or energy. Display with a pedestal

Prompts for LP 3: Studio Art HS

Artists: Francisco Goya, Ron English, Max Ernst, Duchamp
Movements: Dada, wheat paste, political uprising
Political Cartoons, miniatures, 3d printing, prepping for sculpture, paper mache, illustration

1. Political Poster or Cartoon:  create an original political cartoon.  I prefer this file to be a digital file in Flash or Adobe Animate so that we can edit and update together.  View several examples of political cartoons and posters.  Use text and format this piece in a traditional way.  Revise, edit, and don't avoid feedback.

2.  Mini Sculpture: use any materials that you would like to build a miniature sculpture.  I have polymer and will demonstrate the way to use it without wasting materials.  I will offer it, if you use it the way it is intended.  Feel free to order more through your EF-ask for Sculpey  I will also offer paper mache for those interested in set up and cleanup.  Use The Thinker as a model for your sculpture.  It should be small and tell a story at the same time.  Have fun -ask for feedback along the way.

3.  Design a cover for your phone:  Any kind will do but I like the 3d printed ones as a base.  You can bring your old one and paint over it or make a new one out of unique materials.  I will show everyone thingyverse so that we can all match specs with current designs.  I would like to see some sculptural ones that are non traditional and bigger. (like artsy ones that you can use but make a statement)

4.  DADA Photo/ video option:  explore the roots of the DADA movement and learn about Max Ernst and Duchamp.  Try to understand the origin of the movement and compare the chaos of the time to the chaos around us today.  React to the world around you in a way that a DADA artist might choose.  Use Photo and video to produce an original piece of art that is inspired by the DADA movement.

5.  Painting in the style of Ron English:  super sarcastic commentary about the material and social issues that surround us in POP culture.  Interpret several paintings with Mat and learn to paint a portrait that tells a story like English might.  Take a chance-design a narrative!

Prompts for LP 2: Studio Art

Theme: Animation and Photography
Why do we document our lives?
Who was the first and when?
Who is Ansel Adams?

1.  What does it mean to be an artist who documents the world around us?  Learn the basics of DSLR photography and work on taking pictures with nobody in them.  Turn in a series of 5 Black and White Photos that you have edited with Mat to learn about post-production.  Send these to Costco for a nice print before critique (3 days notice for Mat to print)

-I have some 3d printed box cameras w/ black and white film if anyone is interested in a challenge?

2.  Dia de Los Muertos Art Show: I want to have a party and Art Show on November the 1rst for the Day of The Dead.  I anticipate decorating the back learning center to match the theme and invite everyone to make a proper day of the Dead Artwork for the show.  I am a huge fan of the skateboard deck paintings and have a small collection of my own to display with student Art.  I am open to all genres and would love to see animations or sculptures that match the theme.  We will watch Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas to get some creative ideas.  Talk to me soon so you can spend the month on something grand.

2.  What is stop animation?  Who is Tim Burton?  Create an original animation of your choice based on your skill level.  Some of you are good at this and I expect more than I have seen in the past.  Choose a spooky theme for Day of the Dead or use found objects to create  "ghost movements"

3.  Inktober: get involved-draw everyday and work through your frustration in the name of creativity.  Here is the list of themes for each day.  I will have an award for anyone who finishes all the prompts and I will feature you as a student artist on our blog and instagram.  This is a great portfolio item for juniors and seniors.

-illustrate everyday/ don't give up-save all evidence- no matter how bad you think it is!

-check the site daily for rad examples!

https://inktober.com/rules

4.  Mini ghost sculpture in any medium-clay/ paper mache/ 3d printed/ sculpey/ resin and sheets.

-make a mini ghost and use the idea of the upside down bowl to create a sheet that supports your sculpture.