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THIRD NINE WEEKS

Symbolic Collage Painting

Choose a meaningful subject that can dominate your composition.  You will experiment with mixed media painting and collage techniques to build layers that can create the illusion of depth on your canvas.  Your final composition can have no more than three main colors.

Journal Assignments: 
#24 Planning Guide: Person, Place of Thing (identify your best concept)
#25 References: 2-3 printed photographs of your chosen subject - Due Monday 3/13
#26 Sketches: Plan 2-3 compositions using your chosen subject - Due Wednesday 3/15
#27 Collage Pieces: Create several pockets using folded/stapled paper to hold your magazine and paper scraps - Due Friday 3/17
#28 Color Swatches: Glue three main color swatches to your paper - label each HUE and describe the SCHEME using the vocabulary - Due Tuesday 3/21
#29 Color Value Scales: Using your three main colors, blend your tints and shades to create a full value scale for each hue - Due Thursday 3/23

SECOND NINE WEEKS

Week 1-4: Woodblock Thank You Card Print Set

PRINTMAKING CRITERIA:
  • Print Consistency: All 5 similar prints
  • Solid Black/White shapes - Not too much/too little ink
  • Craftsmanship - No finger prints

Journal #17: Printmaking Artist Proof

Week 5-9: Ceramic Cell Phone Amplifier

Journal #18: Ceramics Planning + Maquette

Sgraffito Technique

Journal #19 - Use 1-2 colored pencils and add color to your final ceramics sketch.  The white that you do not color will be scraped away once you coat your piece with underglaze. Concentrate on having a balance of solid white areas, solid colored areas, and thin line details.  The principles of pattern and contrast are crucial for a successful sgraffito design.

EXAM REVIEW

Instructions: Once you have completed the color scheme in your journal for your sgraffito technique, you are ready to begin your exam review.  You will work on this each day until it is complete.  It will be due at the end of class on Thursday, January 19th.  Log into your Google Drive and click on "Shared With Me."  Find the Art II Exam Review Assignment, open it up and edit directly on this assignment.  There are specific instructions for your to follow at the top.  This is an independent assignment, so be sure you are working on your own.  Good luck!

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FIRST NINE WEEKS

Week 1

WED 9/7 - Syllabus, Art Guild/NAHS
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HW = Get syllabus signed, Bring in Journal, turn in Art Guild/NAHS fees (optional)
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Drawing Exercise 1:
  • Create 14 different variations of an apple drawn from life using the elements and principles of design as inspiration (move through them in order)
  • You must change the composition each time spending no more than 15 minutes on each one
  • At least 1/2 of the compositions must be in color - materials include graphite, colored pencil, oil pastel, sharpie - charcoal and chalk pastel can be used with spray fix under the vent
​FRI 9/9
​Journal Entry #1: Elements & Princples of Design
Staple definitions on page 2 & on (Page 1 keep track of "Table of Contents")

​Journal Entry #2: I am Poem
Poetry deals with the emotions, just as music. An autobiographical poem is personal—it reveals something about the person writing the poem. It does not have to rhyme. Below is a simple plan to write your own autobiographical poem. Just follow the steps and—before you know it—it’s done.

I am Poem

I am (two special characteristics you have)
I wonder (something you are actually curious about)
I hear (an imaginary sound)
I see (an imaginary sight)
I want (an actual desire)
I am (the first line of the poem repeated)

I pretend (something you actually pretend to do)
I feel (a feeling about something imaginary)
I touch (an imaginary touch)
I worry (something that really bothers you)
I cry (something that makes you very sad)
I am (the first line of the poem repeated)

I understand (something you know is true)
I say (something you believe in)
I dream (something you actually dream about)
I try (something you really make an effort about)
I hope (something you actually hope for)
I am (the first line of the poem repeated)
​HW = Bring in one object from home that has personal significance relating to you I Am Poem -  Challenge yourself with the complexity of the object, but don't bring in something that will overwhelm you - we are trying to keep it simple and recognizable - We will be working with this object for several weeks to create a variety of compositions - Consider keeping it in your locker so you can bring it to class daily!

Week 2

TUE 9/13 - ​Journal Entry #3: Real vs. Imaginary
Part I: Tell a story about a real experience connected to your still life object
Part II: Tell an imaginary story connected to your still life object

​THU 9/15 - Complete Elements of Design Apple Compositions

Week 3

MON 9/19 - Complete Principles of Design Apple Composition
WED 9/21 - Journal Entry #4: Apple-A-Day
Which composition is the most successful?  Why?
How did you demonstrate that element or principle of design?
EXTRA CREDIT: Recreate your most successful composition with your personal still life object

Introduction to Surrealism & Surreal Objects\
Journal Entry #5: Draw Still Life from 2 different Viewpoints
HW = Bring 2 or more reference photos for Surreal Still Life
FRI 9/23 - Plan final Still Life composition - Real + Imaginary
Journal Entry #6: Staple two photo references for Surreal Still Life setting and other subject matter
Surrealism's Beginnings: Andre Breton, who is occasionally described as the 'Pope' of Surrealism, officially founded the movement in 1924 when he wrote "The Surrealist Manifesto."  " What Breton proposed was that artists bypass reason and rationality by accessing their unconscious mind. 
Surrealism & Writing: The Surrealists began as a literary group.  They relied heavily on automatic writing as a way to tap into the unconscious and embrace chance, the unexpected, and the unpredictable.  They emphasized the power of the imagination.
Surrealist Concepts: By employing fantasy and dream imagery, surrealists generated creative works in a variety of media that exposed their inner minds in eccentric, symbolic ways.
Surrealism & Color: The color in these works were often either saturated or monochromatic to convey a dream state.
Surreal Objects: The strategy was not to make Surreal objects for the sake of shocking the viewer but to make objects "surreal" by displacement.  If the object is removed from its normal circumstances, the viewer is "defamilarized" with it.  The subject matter was often depicted in bizarre scenes with unsettling juxtapositions, which were meant to disturb and baffle.
RENEE MAGRITTE (1898-1967) Belguim
GENNADY PRIVEDENTSEV (1955 - ) Russia
GREG MORT (1952 - ) United States
VLADIMIR KUSH (1965 - ) Russia
BJORN RICHTER (1977 - ) Norway

Week 4

TUE 9/27 - Journal Entry #7: Sketch two separate compositional arrangements for your Surreal Still Life
Optional:  Begin adding color to plan color scheme
​THU 9/29 - Journal Entry #8: Value Studies
Definitions:  What is a value?  What is a hue?  Does a hue have value?  What is contrast?
Glue in a nine step value scale on colored paper* with your chosen color scheme
Options:  Monochromatic (one color), Analogous (warm or cool), or Complementary (opposites)
​*Your paper must be one of the values on the scale (leave an empty box)
(Greyscale not an option) Monochromatic or Analogous Color Value Scales
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Complementary Color Value Scales (add white and black)
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Week 5

MON 10/3 - Journal Entry #9: Surrealist Techniques
Par I - Definitions:
Juxtaposition - Place objects that aren't usually found together side by side
Dislocation - Place things in a setting where they usually aren't found
Metamorphosis - Draw objects that seem to turn into something else
Transformations - Draw things that change in strange ways
Part II - Explanation:
How is your still life composition surreal?

WED 10/5 - Journal Entry #10: Light and Value - Staple handout and complete sphere on back of composition
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FRI 10/7 - Completed outline for composition - begin working with highlights and light values - NO DARK VALUES!!

Week 6

TUE 10/11 - Journal Entry #11: Apple-a-Day Definitions (Label and define each of your 16 boxes on your final project and staple into your journal)

THU 10/13 -Surreal Still Life - begin working with midtone values (remember to let paper show through at appropriate value!)

Week 7

MON 10/17 - ​Journal Entry #12: Corrected Definitions Challenge #1 (staple into your journal) 
WED 10/19 - PSAT TESTING
FRI 10/21 - Surreal Still Life Compositions Due
Begin Woodcut design planning

Journal Entry #13: I am thankful for...(list all the things you appreciate in your life including people, places, objects, events/memories, knowledge/ideas)

Week 8

TUE 10/25 - Journal #14 and #15 Due 
THU 10/27 - Early Release (Journal #16 Due)
*Surreal Still Life Compositions must be turned in by FRIDAY!!

Woodcuts: Relief Printing Process

Journal Entry #14: Design Requirements 
  • Subject Matter = One or more things you are thankful for
  • 2 design references (glued on page - Journal #15)
  • 2 opposite values (black + white)
  • 2 different textures
  • Create the illusion of space (foreground + middle-ground + background)
     - Overlapping: objects on top appear closer
     - Size: objects that are bigger appear closer
     - Placement: objects that are lower on the picture plane appear closer
     - Perspective: objects converge to a vanishing point

Example Woodcut Designs

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