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Friday, November 1, 2013Focus: Mandala - Can we finish?
Awareness: Deadlines and how you make them.
Reflection: Did you make the deadline? If not, why?
Vocabulary:hue, blog, online photo albums, post
Homework: Prepare for the artist statement. Think about the intent of your work and how you would explain that to someone. Due: Monday
Agenda - sequence of tasks
1. Finish laying the white/light
2. Consult with teacher
3. Get the camera that is assigned to your seat
4. Photograph your work. Remember to keep it level.
5. Go to the back and upload your photo into a new album titled
"My Mandala"
6. Get your colors. Store them in your plastic bag.
7. Lay the colors
8. Complete self-evaluation (use laptop to write statement saved as a google doc shared public (not with pvalen). Print it.
Fill out your self evaluation.
Use the additional handout for your artist statement instead of the one on the original sheet. It will help you as it has prompts and a word bank.
9. Finished? Check in with PV for options.
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Focus: Mandala - drawing - finishing white, photographing, color
Friday last class day to work (set up time to work if you will need more time)
Awareness: What a Halloween costume communicates about who you are.
Reflection: What progress did you make on your project today?
Vocabulary:craftsmanship, pride
Homework: Think about your work Due: Friday
Agenda - sequence of tasks
1. Finish laying the white/light
2. Consult with teacher
3. Get the camera that is assigned to your seat
4. Photograph your work. Remember to keep it level.
5. Go to the back and upload your photo into a new album titled
"My Mandala"
6. Get your colors. Store them in your plastic bag.
7. Lay the colors
8. Complete self-evaluation (use laptop to write statement saved as a google doc shared public.
Fill out your self evaluation.
Use the additional handout for your artist statement instead of the one on the original sheet. It will help you as it has prompts and a word bank.
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Focus: Mandala - drawing - finishing white, photographing, color
Friday last class day to work (set up time to work if you will need more time)
Awareness: Ways that you communicate who you are.
Reflection: What progress did you make on your project today?
Vocabulary:complimentary colors: red/------------, blue/----------------, yellow/--------- (fill in the blanks)
Homework: Think about your work Due: Thursday
Agenda - sequence of tasks
1. Finish laying the white/light
2. Consult with teacher
3. Get the camera that is assigned to your seat
4. Photograph your work. Remember to keep it level.
5. Go to the back and upload your photo into a new album titled "My Mandala"
6. Get your colors. Store them in your plastic bag.
7. Lay the colors
8. Complete self-evaluation (use laptop to write statement)
Tuesday, October 28, 2013
Focus: Mandala - drawing - finishing white, photographing, color
Aim for Friday drawing completion.
Awareness: signs and symbols you see as you go home
Reflection: What progress did you make on your project today?
Vocabulary:primary, secondary, tertiary, analogous
Homework: Think about your work Due: Wednesday
Agenda - sequence of tasks
1. Finish laying the white/light
2. Consult with teacher
3. Get the camera that is assigned to your seat
4. Photograph your work. Remember to keep it level.
5. Go to the back and upload your photo into a new album titled "My Mandala"
6. Get your colors. Store them in your plastic bag.
7. Lay the colors
Monday, October 28, 2013
Focus: Mandala - drawing - finishing white, photographing, color
Awareness: signs and symbols you see as you go home
Reflection: What has been the greatest challenge for this project?
Vocabulary: intensity, saturation
Homework: Think about your work Due: Tuesday
Agenda - sequence of tasks
1. Finish laying the white/light
2. Consult with teacher
3. Get the camera that is assigned to your seat
4. Photograph your work. Remember to keep it level.
5. Go to the back and upload your photo into a new album titled "My Mandala"
6. Get your colors. Store them in your plastic bag.
7. Lay the colors
Friday, October 25, 2013
Focus: Mandala - drawing - finishing white
Awareness: signs and symbols you see as you go home
Reflection: Did you finish the white?
Vocabulary: diameter, angle, circumference
Homework: Think about your work Due: Monday
Agenda - sequence of tasks
1. Finish laying the white/light
2. Consult with teacher
3. Get the camera that is assigned to your seat
4. Photograph your work. Remember to keep it level.
5. Go to the back and upload your photo into a new album titled "Mandala"
6. Get your colors. Store them in your plastic bag.
7. Lay the colors
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Focus: Mandala - drawing and filling of white due Friday
Awareness: recycle symbols in your environment
Reflection: Where are you with your mandala? Plan?Sketch on black? Other? Need help?
Vocabulary: symbol, sign, ideogram, icons
Homework: Think about your plan and the colors scheme Due: Friday
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Focus: Mandala - start on black - drawing and filling of white due Friday
Awareness: recycle symbol
Reflection: What symbol in you mandala communicates best?
Vocabulary: symbol, sign, ideogram, icons
Homework: Think about your plan and the colors scheme Due: Thursday
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Focus: Mandala - get ok, paper, begin to sketch LIGHTLY
Awareness: bilateral symmetry
Reflection:What is your astrological sign?
Vocabulary: diameter, angle, bisect
Homework: rework your plan be Prepare to start
Due: Wednesday
Monday, October 21, 2013
Focus: Mandala - review plans (all color exercises should be completed), demo dividing a circle
Awareness: radial symmetry
Reflection:What is your Chinese birth animal?
Vocabulary: radius, circumference, angle
Homework: think about your mandala plan
Due: Tuesday
Friday, October 18, 2013
Focus: Mandala - plan, share, critique, self-evaluations
Awareness: symmetry
Reflection:Name one thing that you learned in class today.
Vocabulary: radius, circumference, angle
Homework: rework you mandala plan
Due: Monday
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Focus: Mandala - skill building - light/white- symmetry
Awareness: symmetry
Reflection:Name one thing that you learned in class today.
Vocabulary:bitlateral symmetry, radial symmetry, base 3, base 4
Homework: rework you mandala plan
Due: Friday
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Focus: Mandala - skill building - light/white
Awareness: how light affects color
Reflection:How does you plan reflect who you are?
Vocabulary:white, light, tone
Homework: identity worksheet
Due: Wednesday(if not finished)
Log in (laptop9), attach power adaptors. Close the lid once you have logged in
Friday, October 11, 2013
Focus: Mandala - planning and research
Awareness: symbols, ideograms, images, color schemes
Reflection:What is a favorite symbol that you found today?
Vocabulary:color scheme, symbol, ideogram
Homework: identity worksheet Due: Tuesday
Finished? Check out the information about symbols here
Log in (laptop9), attach power adaptors
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Focus: Mandala - planning and research
Awareness: symbols, ideograms, images, color schemes
Reflection:What is a favorite symbol that you found today?
Vocabulary:color scheme, symbol, ideogram
Homework: identity sheet Due: Monday
Finished? Check out the information about symbols here
Log in (laptop9), attach power adaptors
Wednesday, October 9th, 2013
upload images from field trip into two picasa webalbums, mandala and Asian Ceramics, write the signage information in the caption
Awareness: symbols
Reflection: What was your best source for Asian ceramics?
Vocabulary:color scheme, symbol
Homework: think about how you will represent yourself in symbols Due: next week
Log in (laptop9), attach power adaptors
Tuesday, October 8th, 2013
ISA/STEM - WED 10/9 1st - 4th tomorrow
1st and 2nd Period- SAMA Trip Makeup Assignment
Focus: You are not going on the field trip so use this time to do the work that the others will do on the trip.Google presentation - symbols, Asian ceramics
4th,6,7 Period- Focus Keep working on your mandala research slides that you started on Friday. See how many slides you can create. Remember - no duplicates and see if you can find examples that you can identify the country of origin.
Awareness: symbols
Reflection: What was your best source for Asian ceramics?
Vocabulary:color scheme, symbol
Homework: think about how you will represent yourself in symbols Due: next week
Monday, October 7th, 2013
Lee SAMA TU 10/8- 1st - 4th Tomorrow
ISA/STEM - WED 10/9 1st - 4th
Focus: Preparation for the trip, groups, explore SAMA, what do you want to see? Chaperon support 2 for each group.
Awareness: decision making in groups
Reflection: What do you want to see at the museum?
Vocabulary:docent, gallery, Museum Reach,curator
Homework: prepare for field trip Due: Tuesday/Wednesday
Friday, October 4th, 2013 Lee SAMA TU 10/9- 1st - 4th - Last day for slips 3PM
Focus:mandala research, video
Awareness: cultures & symbols
Reflection: What did you like about the mandalas that you found?
Vocabulary:Dali Lama, Buddhism, monk, mandala
Homework: notice symbols Due: Monday
Turn in any field trip permissions that you have. Last call.
Thursday, October 3rd, 2013
Focus:Field Trip Form Link Everyone should have done this by now, if not please DO IT! It tells us about cameras for the trip.
Finish today:Self-evaluation Picasa web album
Introduction Mandalas
Awareness: symbols
Reflection: What symbol do you see in this room?
Vocabulary:mandala, symbol, sign, Tibetan, Tibet
Homework: field trip signature parents and teachers Due: NOW!!
Turn in any field trip permissions that you have. If you know you can't go, turn in sheet. Needed: 2 students to help check permissions in
Field trip permission slips!
Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013 Focus:Field Trip Form Link (do this first if you didn't yesterday)
Picasa web album - put images in, crop, finish captions, tags, set to public and put the url in the TURN in BASKET
Awareness: You have ways of figuring out technology.
Reflection: How would(or could) you use Picasa web or another photo sharing site outside of school?
Vocabulary: blog, webpage
Homework: field trip signature parents and teachers Due: NOW!!
Turn in any field trip permissions that you have. If you know you can't go, turn in sheet. Needed: 2 students to help check permissions in
Tuesday
1. Log into Google!!!! 1st thing
2. Field Trip Form Link if you didn't yesterday
3. All photos in a Picasa album titled: Drawing Unit
4. Photos:
- cropped
- captions with: title, medium, date (see handout)
- tagged
5. Make public (see handout)
6. Turn the album into the TURN IN BASKET (see handout)
7. Complete self-evaluation
When You Are Finished
- Scribbles posted here. Can you figure out how to get that drawing into your Drawing Unit?
- look at options on the last page of the handout.... create a album cover
- Make a new album. Title it experiments. Play with effects and editing options in Picasa .... or another editor of your choice. Upload the images
Field trip permission slips! If you CANNOT go, hand me teacher sheet with "Can't Go" and why. Leave computers as is.
Monday, September 30, 2012
Focus:Picasa web album - put images in, crop
Awareness: photo sharing websites
Reflection: How confident are you using Picasa web? Could you teach someone else? Need help?
Vocabulary: bookmark bar, crop, Picasa Web Album, tag (the legal kind), Chrome, browser
Homework: field trip signature parents and teachers Due: NOW!!
Turn in any field trip permissions that you have. If you know you can't go, turn in sheet. Needed: 2 students to help check permissions in
Thursday, September 26 Focus:intro digital photography
Awareness: composition
Reflection: Name three new things that you learned or experienced today
Vocabulary: rule of thirds,macro, micro, resolution
Homework: field trip signature parents and teachers Due: Friday
Turn in any field trip permissions that you have. If you know you can't go, turn in sheet.
Needed: 2 students to help check them in
Rule of thirds from Jayne Whitelock on Vimeo.
Wednesday, September 25DO NOT OPEN windows. AskFocus:shading techniques
Shading - white/light
Awareness: highlights inside of shadows
Reflection: Did you draw in the negative or the positive?
Vocabulary: cast shadow, reflected light, highlight
Homework: field trip signature parents and teachers Due: Friday
Check google log in today as students work.
Tuesday, September 24DO NOT OPEN windows. AskFocus:shading techniques
Shading - white/light
Awareness: light, reflected light
Reflection: What do you think about the prisma color pencil and the paper?
Vocabulary: cast shadow, reflected light, highlight
Homework: share parent letter Due: Wednesday
Check google log in today as students work.
Monday, September 23 Copy the agenda.
Focus:shading techniques
Shading - white/light
Awareness: light
Reflection: What do you think about the prisma color pencil and the paper?
Vocabulary: highlight, shadow, crosshatch, swirling, stipple, tonal, smudge, tooth of paper, gestalt
Homework: Notice cast shadows Due: Tuesday
Friday, September 20 Copy the agenda.
Focus:Turn in Drawing Packet with self-evaluation
Shading - white/light
Awareness: the space around an object
Reflection: What do you think about the work that you have done for your drawing unit?
Vocabulary: highlight, shadow, crosshatch, swirling, stipple, tonal, smudge, tooth of paper, gestalt
Homework: Notice Highlights Due: Monday
Sequence of Activities Today
1. Turn in the drawing unit. Remember to use complete sentences and correct spelling. 15 minutes of class
2. Video shading techniques
3. Demo table - paper - tooth of paper
4. Exercise - white on black
5. Introduction to light spheres
Thursday, September 19
Copy the agenda
Focus: negative space
Awareness: the space around an object
Reflection: How did negative space drawing compare with blind contour?
Vocabulary: media, medium, negative space
Homework: Look for the negative Due: Friday
Wednesday, September 18Copy the agenda
Focus: Contour - grapes/other
Awareness: shadows have edges
Reflection: Which medium do you prefer for drawing?
Vocabulary: media, medium
Homework: Notice the space around an object Due: Thursday
Tuesday, September 17Agenda - vocab and temp
Whose parents are coming?
Focus: Modified contour- get out your homework item
Awareness: edges
Reflection: Is seeing the edges getting easier or not? Explain you answer.
Vocabulary: modified contour, composition
Homework: Continue to notice edges Due: Wednesday
Monday, September 16
Copy the agenda... including the vocabulary AND check it "temperature"
Focus: Blind contour, modified contour
Awareness: edges
Reflection: How did modified contour compare with blind contour drawing?
Vocabulary: blind contour, right mode, left mode, modified contour
Homework: look for an object that would be interesting to draw its edges Due: Tuesday
Friday, September 13 Copy the agenda- You will turn them in at the end of class TODAY!
Focus: Progress Reports, Drawing Unit S.E. Blind contour (Picasso upside and vase/face should be finished)
Awareness: edges
Reflection: How did you respond to blind contour? How did it make you feel?Was it easier the second time?
Vocabulary: blind contour, right mode, left mode, Betty Edwards
Homework: look at the edges of things, think what it would be like to draw Due: Monday
Thursday, September 12
- Copy the agenda- You will turn them in Friday! Remember to write the vocabulary.
Focus: Blind contour (Picasso upside and vase/face should be finished)
Awareness: edges
Reflection: How did you respond to blind contour? How did it make you feel?
Vocabulary: blind contour, right mode, left mode, Betty Edwards
Homework: look at the edges of things Due: Friday
Wednesday, September 11
- Copy the agenda- You will turn them in Friday!Don't write on the handout. Remember to write the vocabulary.
Focus: upside down picasso (16 vase/face drawings should be completed
Awareness: edges
Reflection: What does the information on your brain function survey tell you about the way that you have to work on your upside down drawing?
Vocabulary: Betty Edwards, Richard Sperry, brain functions
Homework: look at the edges of things Due: Friday
Tuesday, September 10
- Copy the agenda- You will turn them in Friday!Don't write on the handout. We use it each class period.
Focus: vase/face activity and upside down picasso
Awareness: perception of lines in shapes
Reflection: What are your thoughts about vase/face drawing?
Vocabulary: perception exercises, r-mode, l-mode
Homework: think about left and right functions Due: Wednesday
Leave laptops as is PLEASE!
Monday, September 9
- Copy the agenda- You will turn them in Friday!
Focus: brain function inventory and vase/face activity
Awareness: which side of the brain dominates for you
Reflection: How accurate do you think the survey was?
Vocabulary: Betty Edwards, Richard Sperry, brain functions
Homework: think about the brain function survey and if it was accurate Due: Tuesday
2. Take the survey
3. Print the results - only pages 1-2
4. Put you name on it, class number, and table number. You will turn it in at the end of class.
5. Work on the vase/face drawings
Friday, September 6 - Copy the agenda- not what it is RED!
PINK Sheets (former orange) due MONDAY!
Focus: brain functions and perception skills
Awareness: brain functions
Reflection: What was the most surprising thing about today's class?
Vocabulary: Betty Edwards, Richard Sperry, left and right brain
Homework: notice who you know that is good at keeping track of time Due: Monday
Remember to check on your art fee if you haven't given it and/or an orange piece of paper. Thanks.
Thursday, September 5
- Copy the agenda- not what it is RED! Just read that!
Focus: setting norms, brain, art fee
Awareness: What others need
Reflection: What was most important for you about working in the artroom?
Vocabulary: norm, brain functions, creativity
Homework: smile at someone you don't know Due: Friday
Remember to check on your art fee if you haven't given it and/or an orange piece of paper. Thanks.
Wednesday, September 4- Get tools. Copy the agenda. Get your scribble, whirlwind out, paper clip together with your self-evaluation on top.
Focus: Turn in work
Jackson Pollock. Pollock video
Awareness: how it feels to complete a work
Reflection: What do you think about abstract expressionism? Art or not?
Vocabulary: abstract expressionism
Homework: Notice value on wall Due: Wednesday
Remember to check on your art fee if you haven't given it and/or an orange piece of paper. Thanks.
Tuesday, September 3
- Get tools. Copy the with pencil or pen agenda (not ebony). Start working!
Focus: Complete drawing and self-evaluation
Awareness: how it feels to complete a work
Reflection: How was the pace of this project? Too fast? Too slow? Just right?
Vocabulary: abstract expressionism
Homework: Notice value on wall Due: Wednesday
Remember to check on your art fee if you haven't given it and/or an orange piece of paper. Thanks.
Tuesday, September 3
- Get tools. Copy the with pencil or pen agenda (not ebony). Start working!
Focus: Complete drawing and self-evaluation
Awareness: how it feels to complete a work
Reflection: How was the pace of this project? Too fast? Too slow? Just right?
Vocabulary: abstract expressionism
Homework: Notice value on wall Due: Wednesday
Remember to check on your art fee if you haven't given it and/or an orange piece of paper. Thanks.
Friday, August 30
- Get tools. Read the agenda. Start working! Pick up self-evaluation.
Focus: Full range of values on your work.BLACK to WHITE!
Awareness: balance
Reflection: Is your work complete?
Vocabulary: contrast, balance, unity, Wassily Kandinsky
Homework: Think about your drawing and a title for it Due: Tuesday
Remember to check on your art fee if you haven't given it and/or an orange piece of paper. Thanks.
Thursday, August 29 - Get an ebony and a regular pencil. Read the agenda. Get out your homework. Start working!
Focus: Adding white/light to black to your scribble.
Awareness: value - light and dark, contrast
Reflection: Thoughts about starting your drawing.
Vocabulary: Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism, contrast, balance, unity
Homework: Think about your drawing Due: Friday
Remember to check on your art fee if you haven't given it and/or an orange piece of paper. Thanks.
Wednesday, August 28
- Get an ebony and a regular pencil. Read the agenda.
Get out your homework.
Focus: Demonstration laying out value scribble
Awareness: value - light and dark
Reflection: Thoughts about starting your drawing.
Vocabulary: contrast, value, format, composition, Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism, Robert Motherwell
Homework: Think about your drawing Due: Thursday
-Find your seat (seats are in alpha order by last name) -Get your work out of the folder.
-Put your bag under the table or on an empty chair
Focus: Questions about syllabus, Jackson Pollock videos, critique whirlwind exercises
Awareness: value - light and dark
Reflection: Thoughts about today.
Vocabulary: contrast value, format, composition, Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism
Homework: Remember a significant time or person with which you have a strong positive or negative emotion. (You will use this as a stimulus for the subject matter of your drawing.) Due: Wednesday
Monday, August 26th WELCOME!
Find your seat (seats are in alpha order by last name)
- Pick up a handout, a piece of paper, and a an ebony pencil and regular pencil
- Put your bag under the table or on an empty chair
- Check phones are off, earphones out
- Enjoy the gallery!
Very soon you will have created pieces added to it!
Vocabulary: value, ebony pencil
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