Color Theory Digital Flash Cards

Please complete this digital flash card activity to review information about our Color Theory unit.

https://www.goconqr.com/en-US/p/1627614-Color-Theory-Review-flash_card_decks/

Some of the information may be new, since we have not reviewed Properties of Color yet.
You can preview the Color Properties presentation in Canvas (under Modules).

Do your best!

Art II Color Theory Day 2 Activity (Friday 5/29)

You probably already know that colors can affect the way people feel and think. Today you will explore the emotional and psychological meanings of color.

You will work in groups of your choice – every student must be part of a group! No going solo today. Your group must have at least 3 members and no more than 6 members.

Each class must complete the assigned activity for ALL 8 COLORS listed below; you may choose to break into 8 groups, or each group may “study” more than one color:

• Red
• Orange
• Yellow
• Green
• Blue
• Purple
• Black
• White

Your Task: Work as a team to create one cohesive work of art that will instantly show the viewer what that color means. 

Your project should be predominantly monochromatic: you should use ONLY the color your group selected, but you can use tints and shades of that color (lighter values and darker values). I will also allow you to use variations of the hue (pure color), for example: warm green and cool green, perhaps some yellow-green, but no plain yellow!

You can use any media you like (mixed media is great), but remember we are almost out of red acrylic!

EVERYONE in the group must take part in the planning AND making of the project.

Please create a composition (arrangement) that nicely fills the entire page -- I don't want to see a tiny drawing awkwardly sitting in one corner.

HAVE FUN!

Please do the BEST job cleaning up that you've ever done in your life!

I will see you after the weekend!

P.S. Want to know more about how colors are viewed in specific cultures? Check this neat infographic: http://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/colors-and-what-they-mean-around-the-world.html?bd=2015527

One Point Perspective: Project Resources

So you want to do a little extra something for your One-Point Perspective project? Awesome! Here are some helpful links:

Draw a city from above (looking down at the street):

Swingerzetta on DeviantArt

Random student project example I found on Pinterest:

Random college level student example:

JessicaSlay on Deviant Art

Draw a city from below (looking up at the sky):

lamorghana on DeviantArt

Super cool project sample with circular border:

from "artcsara" on thesmartteacher.com

A 5-minute YouTube tutorial (I will make an exception to "no videos in class" for this, obvi):

Remember my tips:

• Your street doesn't have to be the same on both sides
• Your horizon line doesn't have to be in the center of the page
• Your vanishing point doesn't have to be in the center of the page
• Your street doesn't even have to be a street! Just use 1-point perspective!

Make something awesome!

Art 4 - If you are missing something from Marking Period 3

If you need to make up one of the ONLINE POSTS, go here: http://www.ridgefieldschools.com/page/4145

If you need to make up a WORKSHEET, you can download it by clicking here

The MoMA's pages on Fauvism and Cubism can help you finish the worksheet


All of this is also available on our SchoolWires class page:
http://www.ridgefieldschools.com/Page/3865

Anything submitted before 6pm on Monday night (3/30/15) will be accepted for Marking Period 3.

Instructions for 3/24/2015

Ay Dios mio, folks. I hate being out sick.

Here are your instructions for today:

Period 3/4 -- I will still need to collect 2 "art-show ready" pieces on Thursday so that I can give you project grades for this marking period. I can help people choose and attach mats and mounting paper on Thursday, but try to do any touch-ups you'll need today.

Olivia - I did not get to flatten your canvas panel. If you want to do it (so that you can do the feathers next class) use one of Mrs. Neenan's spray bottles to wet the back of the panel (it doesn't need to be soaking, just damp), then put it face down on a piece of the thick, gray "blotting paper" and place the wooden box of reference photo folders on top of it.
Austin - I'm in love with the space man on your suminagashi. Definitely finish him for Thursday!



Periods 5/6 and 7/8 -- Many artists work in pairs and in teams. Since I can't be here today to start the Gesture Drawing unit, I would like you to take a cue from some of these team-oriented artists and do a single-day collaborative project or experiment with one (or more) of your classmates.

(Yes, Gorkem + Dean, as well as Haley + Marissa have already done this kind of thing in period 7/8... did you guys ever expect you'd be role models?) 

YOUR INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Pick a partner or a small group
2. Brainstorm together about what materials you want to use, what ideas/images/techniques you want to explore, etc. *Disclaimer: We are almost out of red acrylic paint*3. If needed, plan out who will do which tasks (delegate)
4. Create some artwork!

5. Optional: Check out the famous artist pairs below via your phones
6. Also optional: Help brighten my day -- email me pictures of the art happening in class! cwalker@ridgefieldschools.com

Pip & Pop

Pip & Pop used to be a team of 2 Australian artists, Tanya and Nicole. In 2011, Nicole left the duo, so now Tanya finds artist friends to help her make her vision as a solo artist come to life.


Christo & Jeann-Claude

Christo and Jeanne-Claude were a married couple who created giant environmental installations, beginning in the 1960s. Most of their famous works involved wrapping buildings or natural objects in giant sheets of (sometimes colorful) fabric.



The Bottom Line:
Even if your result doesn't look like anything awesome, I am hoping that you will learn something by spending a day *truly collaborating.* I know as well as you do that very often, group projects in other classes are more of a hassle than a fun learning experience... let's see how collaborative art can be different!

Instructions for 3/23/2015

I know, I know... I can't believe I am missing ANOTHER B-day!

But trust me, I'd much rather be with all of you today than be dealing with this dental emergency.

Here are your instructions for today:

Period 3/4 -- Please work on your Cubism/Picasso inspired projects.

• You have free choice of media (same as last time), so get whatever supplies you need. **Disclaimer: we're almost out of red paint!** 
• I expect to see progress made on your projects when I return! 
• Don't forget to do an awesome job cleaning up (start at 10:59am)

Gioia - start by cutting out both of those large circles you traced last class and applying them to your canvas. From there you can probably start applying layers of color. Consider using small squares or ripped pieces instead of strips for the moon?
Angie - you have a good eye. Trust yourself.
Alex, Peter, John, and Brandon - get 'er done.

Period 5/6 -- Today is a "ketchup day" for your free choice projects (from before we started contour line drawing)!!

• If you didn't finish your free-choice project, you can find it:
• In the green paper folder on the paper cutter
• In the portfolio folder labeled "B 5/6 not finished" to the left of the paper cutter
• If you DID finish your free-choice project, please spend today doing something artsy and low-mess
• Please do a STELLAR job with clean-up today! (start around 12:32pm)

Paul - if you have a covering teacher, ask them to log into the computer so that you can print the words you want to trace. If you have a sub, ask for a pass to go to a classroom where you know a teacher who will let you print. There should be a light-colored chalk pencil in the very front of my center desk drawer. You can use that to transfer the text. Lauren & Sebastian both used this method recently; ask them for a refresher if you need it.
Victor - produce something tangible to show me, even if it's just pages of experiments or sketches.


Period 7/8 -- I know that most of you did not start your Cubism/Picasso inspired project yet. PLEASE START TODAY.

 I expect to see progress when I return.

The main requirements are:

• Your project should clearly "reflect some visual characteristics of" (look like) cubism or Pablo Picasso's work
• Your project should be your own, unique design. Please do not copy someone else's project that you found online!

• You have free choice of media (same as last time), so get whatever supplies you need. **Disclaimer: we're almost out of red paint!** 
• For ideas & methods you can use, see this blog post
• Do the greatest job cleaning up that ever lived (start around 2:36pm)

Benafsha - start designing your next project, or you can work on your assignment from Crafts class.

I can't wait to see you all on Wednesday. I miss you already!

P.S. Grades will be updated later this week.

Cubism - Project Ideas!

Hey, Art IV! Stuck trying to come up with an idea for your Cubism-inspired project? Here are some ideas, and many include tutorials!

*keep in mind that we are almost out of red acrylic paint*

Do you just want to look at some Picasso works and get inspired?

Go here: http://www.pablopicasso.org/picasso-paintings.jsp

"Shattered Values" project:

Draw an object or image, divide up the picture plane by tracing a ruler in many directions, then shade each fragment with a gradient.

Or variations of colors instead of gradients:

Artist: Emanuel Ologeano 

If you think this looks difficult --- it's not! Here's a video tutorial about this method that was designed for first graders!!!

Another option: divide up the picture by tracing a stencil:

click either picture for instructions and samples

Make a cubist still life:

Here's a method in which you divide your paper first, then as you draw a still life, you translate (geometry term!) the object up/down/left/right a little bit so that the objects' edges don't line up at the divider lines:

click for more examples

Or divide up and apply color in your own unique way, as this teacher encouraged:

"Cubist Music Still Life" summary and samples from another teacher's blog here

Or go the mixed media route with your still life...

Click for more examples of this project

Forget still life, bruh...

Music was a common theme in cubist artwork... you don't have to do a still life, you could also work from a reference photo of a musician, as these two students did:

This method allows you to work from a reference photo; you cut out and move around the fractured sections, then trace it:

click for instructions

This teacher's project blends more use of your imagination and little bit less "rendering" (drawing to recreate something realistically/just as it looks in life or a photo)

"Phase 1: Students crate cubist style sketched from a photo or life.

Phase 2: Students experiment with oil pastels to create value

Phase 3: Sketches are transferred to large paper, the objective is that each square successfully incorporates value. BLACK is added for extra 'pop' and contrast."

 

Like this artist, you could use a relatively simple image from pop culture, replicate it overlapping itself in a variety of sizes, angles, etc.:

Other works by the same artist:

Yeah, this Tom Mervik dude is pretty awesome

Emulate a masterful work of art, but replace the subject (person/objects) with something that's meaningful to YOU! I like this style, which was inspired by cubism, but painted much later than the original cubists were working:

Samson Flexor, Self Portrait, 1947-48

Chop up your drawing, photos, printed papers, etc.!!! Collage them together:

Click for instructions

Or, for slightly less chaos, cut away some sections and replace them with sheet music, textured papers, whatever you can find:

In the style of Picasso's portraits:

Take the concept of this 2nd grade project to a new level... draw different facial features on different pieces of paper and collage them together:

Or a couple more advanced techniques that involve cutting your portrait apart...

 

I don't think this one (above) was a self-portrait... if it was, then poor Carolina

use more than one reference photo; collage them together and draw

No need to just make a drawing... check these out!

More superheroes... I'm a little bit obsessed:

Full gallery of "Picasso Superheroes" series by Mike Esparza here!

And you know Picasso was also a sculptor, right?

(Click here for a gallery of some of his sculpture work)

Pablo Picasso - "Mandolin" (1914)

We might be a bit limited with sculpting materials, but you could get creative with cardboard... Picasso did!

Pablo Picasso, Head of a Woman, 1957, Cardboard, Museum Picasso, Paris

Pablo Picasso - Cardboard Guitar (1912)

Guitar Sculpture by Ron Ulicny

Dog Sculpture by Terrell Powell

Irving Harper

And something fun that you can play with in your free time: Mr. PicassoHead (I didn't check to see if it works on phones)