For you Blog post please reflect on all of your concentration pieces completed to date. Follow the guiding questions below:
1.) Include a picture taken of each piece, as well as images that may have inspired your ideas (clearly taken and cropped) (10 Marks) a.) At least one photo must be of your work, the other(s) can be of work that motivated you 2.) Answer the following writing prompts thoughtfully (30 Marks) 1.) Subject: what is/are your piece(s) of/about? Are you drawing from life, found images, or imagination? 2.) Inspiration: Have you come across any new inspiration since your first concentration piece? Did your first piece inspire you to take a new direction or help you to clarify your concept? Do you feel you made any improvements? 3.) Medium/Materials: What mediums/materials did you use (paper, acrylic paint, graphite etc,)? What were you successful with and what did you struggle with in using these materials? 4.) Concept: How does each piece fit into the overall concept of your concentration? Has creating these images made your idea more clear or forced you to move in a new direction?
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Please take a well lit, well cropped photo of your final piece and post it to your blog.
Answer the following: 1) How was this piece personally meaningful to you? 2) Please explain what you did to research/plan for your project? 3) Was there a 'Big Idea' behind your piece? If so, what was it? 4) Did you experiment with anything new over the course of this project? What did you learn while in the process of completing this piece? If you have finished all of the assignments, you are welcome to complete a visual journal using one of the themes from the '152' handout (posted on my website under 'helpful resources'). This will count as bonus work, and will only add to your current percentage. No write-up necessary, just take a final picture of the piece you did and post it to your blog.
Please take ten minutes to answer and post the following to your blog.
At this stage, include an 'in progress' photo of your piece. Writing Prompt #3: ROADS TAKEN and NOT TAKEN What have been the important decisions in your life? We have all grown, evolved and changed. At times the movement of our lives has changed direction because of the choices we have made, and at other times it has changed because of the choices that others have made. … They are the roads that we have taken and the roads that we have not taken. What have been your stepping stones? What have been the significant moments of change and growth in your life? What have these shifts meant for you and the direction of your life? What have been the opportunities you have pursued – the roads taken? What have been your missed opportunities – the roads not taken? Writing Prompt #4: PERSONAL MYTHOLOGIES What are the stories that you have told yourself over and over again even if they are not true? A myth is a legendary or imaginary narrative that presents our beliefs, and a mythology is a collection of those stories. We have all created myths about ourselves – stories that are imaginary or unverifiable. We have puffed ourselves up with stories of accomplishment and torn ourselves down with stories of lack. We have self-talk, scripts and dialogues running through our heads, reinforcing those myths. Question your own mythology, and see if you can verify the myths. What are your personal myths? What is your personal mythology? What are your stories? Why do you believe them, accept them and perpetuate them? Please answer the following blog prompt, and post it to your blog. This should be in paragraph form, but not take you longer than 15 minutes to complete. There will be two more blog prompts, for a total of four questions.
Writing Prompt #2: PIVOTAL PEOPLE Who in your life has influenced you strongly? This may be in a positive or negative way. Think and write about those people who have had a significant impact in your life and may have been responsible for the direction of your life path. Think about how old you were, how these people affected you, the obstacles that you faced and the way your life has changed. Recognize those that have had a profound effect on you. Who were they? What did they say to you? What do they represent? For those students wishing to look ahead, I have attached the outline for our upcoming project with Colette Lisoway. Feel free to take a peek. Personal Histories and Mythologies Project : (An Artist in Residence Project)
Over the course of Colette's stay, we will be completing four blog posts in response to her visit, the activities she is doing with us, and the A.I.R. project theme of 'Personal Histories and Mythologies'.
Below you will find the writing prompt for your first response: Writing Prompt #1: I AM Who are you? This seems like a very easy and straight-forward questions, but when was the last time you really tried to articulate an answer? Take some time to ponder and write about all the aspects of your “self.” Think about where you come from, who your family is, and what is most important to you. Use adjectives to describe yourself, or describe all of the roles you play or have played in your life. Think about the stories that you build about yourself – the mythology you have constructed. 1) Hang your painting on a well lit wall (I'd suggest the wall by the telephone in the larger art studio), and take a picture of your piece.
2)Crop your image so that it is tidy, and there are no distractions around your piece 3) Post the image to your blog, and if you like, the image that you were inspired by 4) Answer the following questions: a)What do you feel was the most challenging aspect of creating an abstract piece? b)Do you feel your piece was successfull overall? What are you proud of? What is the most outstanding part of this piece of work? c) Do you feel you achieved a sense of unity in your piece (Unity means that all is in Harmony)? d) If you feel that you have achieved a sense of unity, how did you use the elements and principles of design to accomplish this? Elements: Line, shape, colour, value, Form, Texture, Space Principles: Balance, contrast, emphasis, Movement, Pattern, Rhythm, Unity e) What would you change in this piece of Art? What might you do differently next time? f) What did you learn over the process of creating an abstract piece of artwork? Your collections project is due no later than Thursday Dec. 17th-
I will mark it based on a final blog post/photo- Post a photo (well lit and cropped) on your weebly, with a one paragraph artist's statement that includes the following: (yes, many of these things were discussed at the beginning of your post, but this statement reflects what actually took place, and the final product, as well as the message behind your piece) Introduce Yourself:
Focus on your strengths and your learning: 7. Identify a strength of your work or of you as an artist 8. Explain one significant thing you learned about creating this piece, materials, or yourself during this project Today in class, we discussed visual journaling as an art form. You were shown techniques, and various examples of these journals. I have put some links you may find helpful, on the resources page, and I'm sure you will find that there are countless sources of inspiration all over the internet, as visual journaling is taking the world by storm.
You have one week to create your first visual journal page. Steps to Creating your Visual Journal: 1) Start a Visual Journal Board on Pinterest (min 20 pins, and 5 must be from external sources) 2) Consult the document '165 Journal Assignments' (see Art 11/12 Resources), and choose a theme for your journal page 3) In your sketchbook create a 2 page visual journal entry (Due Thursday Oct. 19th) Remember, the key to success with these journal pages is LAYER, LAYER, LAYER!!! |
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