Ceramics Portrait Part 2 (week of May 11-15)

After emailing me the image for last week's work you should have received feedback on how to continue developing the work.  Please take that advice and continue developing the finished work.  If you did not fit the entire head in the piece try to find a way to resolve that.  If you have not added values, make sure to do that this week.  If you proportions are inaccurate, work to make them more accurate.  Please email me the finished image by Monday the 18th.  Have fun!

Advanced Art MC Escher morphing (week of 5/4-5/8)

Last week we began to investigate MC Escher's, I hope the links were useful.  Before I give you the assignment where we will create a string of tessellations next week, let's focus on transition.  Think about taking two elements that you can find common shapes in.  As an example, please look at a piece called Day and Night.

https://mapdesign.icaci.org/2014/09/mapcarte-268365-day-and-night-by-m-c-escher-1938/

In this piece, not only does the bird form transform, but there is a transition from the bird shape to the patches of grass in the field below.

Choose two elements (not the same as this piece) and create a 5 step transition to morph one object into the other.  Please email me your work by Monday the 11th and email if you have any questions.  Have fun with this!

Ceramics 2 Augustin Preault (week of May 4-8)

Antoine-Augustin Préault was a significant 19th century sculptor from the Romantic movement.  His subjects included figures and fabric as well as decorative borders.

Please read and view the following links and get familiar with Preault's work.  

Your assignment is to find or create references for each element and create a sketch that to the best of your ability depicts a relief.
-a human figure (could just be a head and shoulders if you choose not to do a full figure.)

-fabric around the figure which could be in the form of a hood or anything you chosse to base on one of his specific works. (this needs to have form so it should not be flat)

-a decorative border containing the figure.  You can base it on any of Preault's work but do not copy it exactly, be creative.  

Take this week to find references for your elements and sketch out basic ideas.  Please email them to me by Monday 5/11 so I can advise you on how to proceed.  We will take next week to work on the finished sketch so put the time in this week to plan how your want your piece to look.


http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/sculpture/auguste-preault.htm

https://wikivisually.com/wiki/Antoine-Augustin_Pr%C3%A9ault

https://www.google.com/search?q=Medallion+depicting+Th%C3%A9odore+G%C3%A9ricault+Preault&rlz=1C1GCEU_enUS819US820&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi-2dbas-vhAhWOr1kKHWTUBI0Q_AUIDigB&biw=1281&bih=602&safe=active&ssui=on

Relief- A relief sculpture is any work which projects from but which belongs to the wall, or other type of background surface, on which it is carved. Reliefs are traditionally classified according to how high the figures project from the background. Also known as relievo, relief sculpture is a combination of the two-dimensional pictorial arts and the three-dimensional sculptural arts. Thus a relief, like a picture, is dependent on a background surface and its composition must be extended in a plane in order to be visible. Yet at the same time a relief also has a degree of real three-dimensionality, just like a proper sculpture.
Reliefs tend to be more common than freestanding sculpture for a number of reasons. First, a relief sculpture can portray a far wider range of subjects than a statue because of its economy of resources. For instance, a battle scene, that, if sculpted in the round, would require a huge amount of space and material, can be rendered much more easily in relief. Second, because a relief is attached to its background surface, problems of weight and physical balance do not arise - unlike in statues and other freestanding sculptures where weight and balance can be critical. Third, because reliefs are carved directly onto walls, portals, ceilings, floors and other flat surfaces, they are ideally suited to architectural projects - typically the greatest source of sculptural commissions - for which they can provide both decorative and narrative functions.

Ceramics- Portrait (week of 5/4-5/8)

For this project we will choose a public figure to create a portrait of. This could be of an athlete, musician, politician, actor or anyone who is famous on some level and easy to find good references of. Portraits are challenging because in order for them to look accurate you must focus on all of the unique features and avoid making the face look generic.  We will not be building this project with clay but simply focus on the part we can do from home which is the investigation of our subject.
Begin by finding AT LEAST 2 photo references of your subject from two different points of view and both show their entire head and are well lit. (front view and profile are ideal)  Begin the process the same way as always by doing a sketch of your subject on blank paper.  Develop this drawing to as finished a state as possible as it will help familirize you with their features.  
Of course, there are many other ways to approach portraits so I have included links to a tutorial from a friend of mine, Long Chen who is an amazing watercolor artist and creates stunning portraits.  See if there are any bits of advise you could incorporate into your process.As always, you should be working for about two hours a week and we can take two weeks to complete these for a total of 4 hours of drawing.  Use the same method as always and email a progress shot of this week's work to me by Monday May 11th so I can give you feedback to move towards completing the work next week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36_AwMmPWxs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f1-z88qQ5k

Foundations and Foundations 2 (week of May the 4th be with you -May 8) Draw a house in two point perspective

This week we are going to use what we have learned about perspective and apply it to drawing a house in 2 point perspective.  Please carefully watch the two videos below and see examples of ways you could approach this.  Keep in mind we are going to take two weeks to work on this and you should be putting in two hours per week as in previous projects with remote learning.

Begin by finding a photo reference of a house.  You DO NOT need to replicate it, this is just to refer to so that you do not have to invent all of the details.  Your house must have at least 4 windows and everything needs to be drawing in perspective.  Remember, you can draw vertical lines freely but ALL other lines must come from the two vanishing points.

Start your drawing and email me progress shots of the first two hours by Monday 5/11 so I can look at them and respond to your work.  



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ0IgP25sV8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H4APnHa9Es

DESIGN (week of May 4-8) Architectural design- re-design the art rooms

I hope that the videos you watched last week were helpful in beginning to understand Frank Lloyd Wright's style.  If you did not watch them, make sure you do not skip it, go back and leave a comment.
Let's think about the time we are currently living in with social distancing and incorporate that into this assignment.  
You are asked to develop a plan to redesign the two art rooms at Frontier.  You have no budget restrictions and you have to incorporate as many elements of FLW's design philosophy as possible.  In addition to these considerations, think about how you could design these spaces with social distancing in mind.  We all have to share and touch supplies but are there ways that we could control some of that traffic and maximize safety?
Think about the general space we have with the two art rooms and the space they currently reside in.  You could take a crane and demolish what is there are start fresh or you could simply adjust what already exists.   
Create a general sketch of your ideas for both the interior and exterior of the space.  When you draw the interior think about where you would enter the rooms from the hall, lighting, color (if you can) and the logistics of safety and the reality of the teacher needing to be able to be nearby for assistance and safety.
Please email me a picture of your sketches by Monday May 11 so I can look at them and respond to you so that we can move to the next step of the assignment for next Tuesday.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Frank+Lloyd+Wright+floor+plan+drawings&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiq9d-Joa7UAhUENj4KHSfYCaEQ_AUICigB&biw=1279&bih=608&safe=active&ssui=on

https://www.google.com/search?q=Frank+Lloyd+Wright+floor+plan+drawings&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiq9d-Joa7UAhUENj4KHSfYCaEQ_AUICigB&biw=1279&bih=608&safe=active&ssui=on#safe=active&tbm=isch&q=Frank+Lloyd+Wright+exterior+house+renderings&imgrc=vbMWSCtjkpMTCM:

ALL MIDDLE SCHOOL EXPLORATORIES (week of May the 4th be with you-May 8)

Below are the elements are art which are basic terms that we have used and need to know.  This week our challenge is to create a simple drawing that demonstrates your knowledge of these 7 elements.  If you have questions please be brave and leave them in the comments below (sign in first) so that everyone can benefit as if you have a question, someone else probably does too.  Have fun and be creative!

Value- the degree of lightness or darkness of an object

Line- the path of a moving point through space

Shape- 2d area that is either organic or geometric.  Has height and width but no depth

Form- objects that have three dimensions

Color- derived from reflected light.  Has three properties:  Hue- names of the colors, Value- lightness or darkness  Intensity- purity of the hue or chrome

Texture- degree of roughness or smoothness of an object, can be tactile or visual

Space- referring to the emptiness or area between, around or within objects