ART8+Projects+and+Assignments

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Click on the ART8 Calendar to see abstracts of the day's events for Art 8.

=Project: ART8 Web Browse= __//Due Date: April 12, 2011//__

In an attempt to make art more accessible, I have created a website to be used as a learning tool inside and outside of the classroom. Please allow twenty minutes for your child to familiarize you with the site's details. Your child (or you) may wish to visit this site several times throughout the semester and may choose to bookmark the site to the your web browser. If you have bookmarked this website, please place a check in the box on the form (a bright colored paper) and sign your name. My hope is within this short time you will have good understanding of the site and the general ART 8 experience.

=Project: Art Equipment Responsibility Form= __//Due Date: April 12, 2011//__

The Art Equipment Responsibility Form is a sheet stating that students will learn to use art materials and tools appropriately and are responsible for their care.

Click on Art Equipment Responsibility Form to see the document in full.

=Homework: Artist Board= __//Due Date: Artist Board Due Dates//__

The Artist Board will be your only formal homework of the quarter. I understand that middle school students are requested to perform tremendous amounts of work to demonstrate their learning. In response to your workload, I designed the due dates for the project to be towards the end of the quarter. This time span allows you plan and budget your time efficiently and effectively for success with the ART 8 homework.

You will be working in pairs and due dates will be staggered. Click on Artist Board Due Dates to check the week your project is due. Remember, you need to set a meeting a week before your project is due. This meeting ensures that I can assess your progress and assist you with preparing for a successful presentation. Click on Artist Board Progress Report to see what needs to be prepared for our meeting.

The three main objectives of this assignment are for you to demonstrate your research, design, and presentation skills. You will reveal your research skills by finding concise and unique information about the artist, their artwork, their life, their thinking and what others think of them. You will express your design skills by taking a particular style from that artist and making an original work of your own. You will exhibit your presentation skills by organizing a board to capture attention and impart information.

For more detailed information click on Art Board Description Click on Artist Board Rubric to see your assessment tool. Click on Artist Board Exemplar to see an example of a successful bulletin board.

=Value Study= __//Due Date: April 19 (Value Study Final)//__

Practicing and building your color blending skills is the objective of this study. You will demonstrate the skill of making shades and tints in the form of a value scale. This is done in a variety of art materials (oil pastel, color pencils, chalk pastels, pencil, water color and acrylic paint). Value scales are blocks of color that gradually get darker or lighter. (Very similar to swatches you pick up at the paint store) Value can be created by pigment material's pressure to a surface, but more technically by the amount of color pigment that is placed on the art surface. Further practice will get you in the habit of adding white to lighten a color (a tint) and black to darken the color (shade).

Click on Value Study Rubric to see your assessment tool. Click on Value Study Exemplar to see an example of a successful art piece.


 * Note:** During your value study time, I will be playing an informational videos. The objective of this videos is purely for exposure. Actively watch what you are interested in and passively ignore anything that does not interest you. A couple of the videos are from a series call “art21 – Art in the Twenty-First Century.” These videos do an amazing job of trying to correlate what it means to be an artist in the present. What it means to be a living and working artist… now... contemporary art. For a more detail description click on art21 Season 1,2 and 3 Reviews

Another video “Who Gets to Call it Art?” covers the periods of abstract expressionism and modern art. It also deals with the timeless questions of “what is art?” and “who says that is so?” For a more detailed description click on Who Gets to Call it Art? Reviews

Value Study Progress Report (pencil)
__//Due Date: April 10, 2011//__

Progress report’s main objective is to give you credit for working efficiently within the art room. You need to have a 9 step graphite pencil value scale finished by end of the period. Credit (5 points) is all or nothing for this report and has nothing to do with [|aesthetics].

Click on Value Study (pencil) Exemplar to see an example of a successful art piece.

Value Study Progress Report (color pencil)
__//Due Date: April 17, 2011//__

Progress report’s main objective is to give you credit for working efficiently within the art room. You need to have a 18 step, 9 step tint and 9 step shade, color pencil value scale finished by end of the period. Credit (5 points) is all or nothing for this report and has nothing to do with [|aesthetics].

Click on Value Study (color pencil) Exemplar to see an example of a successful art piece.

Value Study Progress Report (choice)
//__Due Date: April 19, 2011__//

Progress report’s main objective is to give you credit for working efficiently within the art room. You need to have a 18 step, 9 step tint and 9 step shade, choice value scale finished by end of the period. Your choices are water color, oil pastel, paint, pastel or paper. Credit (5 points) is all or nothing for this report and has nothing to do with [|aesthetics].

Click on Value Study (choice) Exemplar to see an example of a successful art piece.

=Applying Value= __//Due Date: May 4, 2011//__

The objectives of this study is for you to practice seeing shades (shadows) and tints (highlights) on simple forms and place your understanding on paper in the form of sketches. Many artists argue that seeing is the first and thus the most important skill to becoming an artist. They urge students to draw from their eyes. Basically to draw what you see is there, not what you think is there. Since value is the single greatest component to viewing the world in 3D it can prove to be very important for artist to understand.

I would like to address //seeing// for a moment. Being able to see is very different from //seeing// like and artist. Click on [|Seeing Like an Artist] to learn more about this valuable skill. It is highly important that you take a moment to look at what you are about to draw and study it like a CSI.

Next you need to know what you are looking for, clue per say. Click on [|Identifying and Seeing Tonal Value] to learn more about how to look for value. You may find that to produce value you need a little practice in holding a pencil. Click on [|Holding Your Drawing Tools] to learn more about how to grip can have a big impact on the types of lines you draw.

Finally, you look at a still life and try seeing all the value changes across the surface. Then with your value scale beside you, see if you can place all your value changes upon the objects surface (visually). Lastly, you draw the object and apply the visual skill of seeing the values and the technical skill of making value by placing shades and tints in darker and lighter areas. By seeing and placing value purposely, you can transform a 2D space into a 3D space or at least fool the eye to believe that.

Click on ART8 Applying Value Exemplar to see successful art pieces.

=Free Form Sculpture Study= __//Due Date: May 8, 2011//__

The objective of this project is to introduce you to sculpture and for this experience to provide the least amount of anxiety. Anxiety will come naturally in the Value Studies. Your sculpture is free form and therefore can be just about any shape, form, or size. Since the sculpture’s success can be slightly subjective, you will self assess this project.

Click on Free Form Sculpture Study Rubric to see what you will be assessing yourself on.

=Value Final, Free Form Study= __//Due Date: May 19, 2011//__

Finally, you will demonstrate your understanding of value and challenge your gradation skills when you draw a still life of your free form sculpture. A compositional challenge is place on top of this. You will have to ask yourself “what is the most advantageous viewpoint of my sculpture.”

Click on Free Form Value Study Exemplar to see successful art pieces.

=Value Final, Hands Study= __//Due Date: Not being assigned this quarter//__

This study will be placed within the Challenge Program. Please see me if you wish to take on this challenge.

The game has stepped up a level. The human face and hands are the most recognizable images on the planet. Believe it or not, you have spent over ten thousand hours staring and study the human face. (Average PhD = just over 5000) Therefore, your challenge is to realistically draw an image that everybody knows very well. You will demonstrate your //TOTAL// understanding of value and challenge your gradation skills when you have to draw a human hand or face.

=Positive and Negative Space Study= __//Due Date: May 26, 2011//__

Positive space is the space that an object takes up. Positive space can be a three dimensional space that a sculpture takes up or space that is defined by a drawing. On the other hand, negative space is space that is left around your object. There can be several objects within artwork and therefore several positive spaces. The same goes for negative space.

During this study, you will be force to focus on both the positive and negative space. It is difficult to focus on both at the same time, so you may find yourself only focusing on positive space and then almost feel a flipping sensation to see negative space. You will probably feel this "flipping" several times as you draw, cut and paste your positive and negative spaces on you background. You may also notice that a color will be positive space on one side of the symmetry line and negative on the other.

Click on ART8 useful links to find more information on positive and negative space. Click on Positive and Negative Space Study Rubric to see your assessment tool. Click on Positive and Negative Space Study Exemplars to see examples of successful art pieces.

=Independent Study= //__Due Date: Not Applicable__//

After going through three years of the Middle School Art and Design Program, grade eight students deserve a bit of uninhibited time to create projects of their liking. The last four class periods are dedicated for you to create an art piece (or several small pieces) with out the added anxiety of being assessed on the quality of the work. This is a chance for free expression and experimentation. You can create an artwork from ideas that you have already done in previous art projects or try something completely new.

You will be assess, however, it will be on you work habits. Your learning objectives will be responsibly, participation, attitude and use of class time. Click on Art 8 Independent Study Work Habit Rubric to see you assessment in full.

Click on @Independent Study Examples to see the variety of art that previous students have created.


 * Note:** During your independent study time, I will be playing several informational videos. The objective of these videos is purely for exposure. Actively watch what you are interested in and passively ignore anything that does not interest you. The videos cover abstract expressionism, modern and contemporary art or simply the most recent three art movements.

The videos come from a series call “art21 – Art in the Twenty-First Century.” This video does an amazing job of trying to correlate what it means to be an artist in the present. What it means to be a living and working artist… now. For a more detail description click on art21 Season 1,2 and 3 Reviews

=Summer Vacation= __Due Date: June 10, 2011__