FINAL PROJECT HANDOUTS!

Here are extra copies of the handouts for the essay and presentation part of the final....

 

I'M OUT TODAY- WEDNESDAY

Hello,

I'm out of school until Wednesday- I'm with my daughter at the National History Day Event in Washington , it's a pretty cool competition for high school kids who create projects (presentations, web sites, posters, video, etc) about events in history. You guys would do well in this competition with your artistic skills and creative ideas.


If you want to see more about it go here @ http://www.nhd.org/About.htm


Please note that your 20 X30 is due TODAY, if you want it in the competition! I set up a sign on the shelf next to our paints to show you where to leave your work. I also told the other art teachers to look for your work when they hang the show today. They are expecting you to pass in the work today! :-) If your work is very wet, you could leave it standing on edge in the art office, or on the shelf next to the sign.

Please take home your older painting work this week!

Wednesday we will be cleaning up the studio, then ALL presentations are on Thursday!

Please check the blog daily for more updates this week! Email me if you have questions.

Have a great day!

Powers


P S Check out this site of other student artists and their blogs- cool stuff!!!

See it here @ https://sites.google.com/a/bcdschool.org/roberts/senior-studio-2012

FINAL EXAM UPDATE

Crunch time!!!

Here are some deadlines,

20 X 30 paintings to be entered are due Monday, the 11^th

Your painting does not have to be entered if it is not complete

All students are presenting on the “senior exam day”, June 14^th

            5 minute presentations each

Paint the edges of your work too!

Look to edline to see handouts for the writing and presentation parts of the final exams…

I will be out of school Monday and Tuesday, June 11th and 12th-  those are work days....

Wednesday, June 13th is Room clean up day- no work during class 

GREGORY MACHNESS

A great example of someone who has a strong foundation in painting with VALUE, Machness is also able to "loosen up" in these paintings. Notice how he manipulates the SHARP and SOFT edges to create a visual distortion of the image......very cool effect.
He was just on the cover of Communication Arts Magazine's Illustration Annual! A very high honor, that will send lots of illustration work his way-

See more of his work here @ http://www.richardsolomon.com/artists/gregory-manchess/?id=1244

Here's his website @ http://www.manchess.com/

And a video of him painting the image above, here @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OVU7tKxki8

Listen to how he talks about "sculpting" the forms in his painting with VALUE, then playing with colors AFTERWARDS. He also talks about how creative people think "differently", and that ability to ENVISION inspires others.

GERHARD RICHTER

Fantastic skill at applying paint combined with creative ideas and expression!! Check out this site to see the HUGE range of paintings created by this one man!!!

See more here @ http://www.gerhard-richter.com/

 Woman Descending A Staircase, oil on canvas, 1965

The Artist

Elizabeth Murray

Known for her shaped canvases, Murray is a skilled painter, who uses her own "language" of shapes, colors and forms to express herself....

Learn more here @http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/102

and here @ http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12822717

 

Here is a nice video of her working and talking about her ideas....
See it here @http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/elizabeth-murray

BO BARTLETT

Another wonderful realist- Bartlett is more traditional, but uses dramatic imagery and subtle references to culture and social issues in his work.

See more of his work here @ http://www.bobartlett.com/