All art classes!

Hi Gang,

Congratulations to a very good semester in Draw Paint. You are almost to the finish line.

Remember everything is due on Friday! I know it's a big push, but you can do it!

Don't forget to turn in your sketchbooks too!

G block: Sketchbooks due FRIDAY!

End of the year wrap up:

1. Watercolor due end of class Friday
2. Sketchbooks due Friday.

Then you are finished!!! Yes!

We will critique the watercolors on Monday in small groups.
Congratulations to a great semester! Have a great break.

G block: Last semester sketchbook assignments

3 free draws! Graded on effort, creativity and observation.

Each drawing should show 1/2 an hour of effort minimum.

Only One can be a collage

Here are some prompts:

Draw an orange with the peel unraveling ( good practice for overlap) in line only

Draw a flower with values

Self portrait in the mirror

Draw your favorite childhood toy

Draw your favorite pair of shoes

Draw a corner of your room including the objects in that corner

Sketches E block Nov. 30th or Dec. 2nd

3 sketches due: extension December 2nd.

E block Art homework: REVISED! Due Nov. 5th

In keeping with Halloween and Day of the dead:

Draw one fear that you have:

you can do these two drawings in any media you wish

you can do both drawings facing each other in your sketchbook

or

you can do an "add on drawings: where you find an image out of a magazine and add on around it.

The image on the left is the famous painting by Edvard Munch The Cry or the Scream 1893

the image on the left is a famous painting by Arnold Bochlin 1878

G block: 200 Level Experimental doodle/ sketch

Option 1
1 experimental doodle fill the page!

Use three different colored pens ( ballpoint, felt tip, highlighter) color pencils.

Option 2: Drawing ontop of book page.

Due: Thursday 10/14

E block 400 Level; 2 experimental sketches

Subject matter your choice.

3/4 way finished by Friday 10/15

C block: Mirror Face drawing and experimental sketches

Finish mirror face drawing in sketchbook; and do 1 experimental drawing

( it doesn't have to be a face!)

LK, NB, OG,CB, AK: do two experiemental drawings

left sketch: is part collage, drawing

right sketch is done on a page of a book.

3/4 way finished by Thursday 10/14

400 level E block

E block sketchwork

Develop a Final idea for your interior/exterior ( include smaller preliminary sketches, source material, inspiration artist) what mediums and size... Due Friday for final presentation.

Weekend: Spend 1/2 an hour on each sketch.
Develop 3 experimental pages using different mediums to create an image.

Sketcbhooks due: Thursday October 13th ( quarter 1 check in)

C block drawing of your eyes

As one of your three sketches do a realistic drawing of your eyes... Make sure you do both eyes and that you use the whole page. Do both eyes in relationship to one another. Due 9/29 Use any drawing medium include your eyebrows too!

E and C block: sketchwork

Either choose something from your sketchbook prompts for 3 sketches or develop 3 experimental pages using different mediums to create an image. These sketchbook ideas can be for developing your next project

Revise any earlier sketches as well...

Don't wait till the last minute...

Check in date: C block: 9/29 Wednesday; E block 9/28

Course Expectations all drawing/painting classes

v Further develop your drawing skills and painting skills

v Make effective use of the principles and elements of art.

v On-going critical analysis of work through individual and group critiques.

v Being consistently and constantly productive.

v Push and challenge yourself artistically.

Class membership
In this classroom, you are expected to behave as a respectful, responsible individual. You are also expected to have fun. I will expect to see you push and challenge yourself rather than fall back on what comes easy to you or what has been successful in the past.

Food for thought….

Work hard,keep up with the pace of the class.

Don’t procrastinate.

Work at home.

Remember you’re in this class because you love art.

Keep a journal to help remember ideas, make sketches.

Don’t give up, you will progress.

You will be expected to produce art while you are in this class. You will be expected to keep a sketchbook at all times failure to do so will result in the loss of participation points. You will be expected to complete drawings outside of class. You will be expected to visit art galleries.

The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning. Paul Gauguin 1848 - 1903

Drawing/Painting projects:35%Projects are evaluated in three areas of individual growth: Technique, Concept, and Presentation

(fullfilling the requirments of the project, risk taking, elements and principles of art in project, craftspersonship,focus and homework spent on project)

written essays/quizzes/sketchbooks35%:
(completing assignments, following directions with check system risk taking)

Class membership 30% studio clean up help and participation and how you are in class

Sketchbook

You are required to keep a sketchbook throughout the duration of this class. Y. The purpose of this sketchbook is to record your visual thoughts, work through ideas, brainstorm or just doodle. I would also like to see evidence of ‘process’ for your outside class drawings. There will also be weekly assignments on the blog, so review it weekly
Always bring your sketchbook with you to class – you will lose participation points if you don’t.

Late work: All late work will drop a 1/2 grade for each class day late. Work more than two weeks late may not be accepted and can't be made up ( unless due to unforeseen circumstances, illness,etc.). Should you be absent ( excused only) the day something is due, it is expected that it will be ready upon your return. Should you be absent ( unexcused, if you cut class or are on suspension) the day something is due, your project is late. If you are absent for a studio class demonstration day, it is up to you to get the assignments from the class blog, or classmate and make it up on your own time.

Please don't turn in anything to Lindsay or the attendance desk. Turn it into me personally or you may turn it in on my desk in the art office.

Critique: Work not presented for critique is an automatic O. Have something ready to show. This is sacred time for feedback from your peers. Your art doesn't have to be perfect, but ready for critique.

Resubmits: Work submitted late cannot be resubmitted. Only work that is complete by the orginal due date can be resubmitted. Resubmits are due at the end of the week of the original due date. If the re-drawn work is superior, the lower grade will be dropped. If you are absent ( excused) you can resubmit late work. Resubmits are done on a case by case basis.

Gallery Visit on your own
A portion of your grade for this class constists of a gallery visit. This will be due at the end of the first term. The gallery visit is simple a report on a gallery or museum show that you visited sometime during the first term. We will be going on a field trip to the SFMOMA in the spring or fall and that will NOT count. The purpose of this assignment is to have you experience art outside of the classroom and to see what practicing artists within your own community are doing. The shows you choose to write about can be of any media and from any gallery or museum.

G block: 200 Drawing: sketchwork due: Sept. 30th

Drawing of household object: inspired by artist Jim Dine

Jim Dine is considered one of the figureheads of the pop-art movement (exhibited along with Andy Warhol who is probably the most famous contemporary). Much of his work is the simple re-creation of "mundane" everyday objects in interesting and dynamic ways. Below I've included an excerpt from the National Gallery of Art's exhibition bio along with a link to a collection of his works and a sample.

Once again, some images may be NSFW.

National Gallery Bio

Gallery of Work

Drawing is not an exercise.
Exercise is sitting on a stationary bicycle and going nowhere.
Drawing is being on a bicycle and taking a journey.
For me to succeed in drawing, I must go fast and arrive somewhere.
The quest is to keep the thing alive...
--Jim Dine, 2003

C block: Critique of Still life

Drawing finished by the BEGINNING of Class on Monday 9/21

we will critique and mount drawings on board.

Wednesday: hanging drawings over in BBLC

Friday: Intro to portrait drawing/proportions of human face

Next sketchbook check in: Sept. 26th

Pepper drawing

We will have four class days to complete a drawing of a bell pepper.

Your drawing should incorporate what you have learned about light and shadow.

The requirements:

Drawing ( including cast shadow) should fill 75% of the page

Show careful observation and execution of translating 2D form to 3D form

Not have heavy outlines

use 7-9 tones of value

Craftpersonship

Drawing Due: Sept.22nd

G block: 200 Drawing

Homework Due: Thursday, Sept 16th

1. Revision of value scale if necessary ( resubmit opportunity)

2. watch video of drawing sphere ( this will help with drawing the egg) same concept

3. draw 1 egg with form and cast shadows ( must use 75% of sketchbook page)

in pencil 4B ( no outlines)

work on transitions, and set up your egg using a single light source ( no back lighting); this is an observational drawing exercise

G block 200 level drawing Due Sept. 7th

Value scale 9 tone Due: Tuesday

9 inch by 1 inch squares... no heavy outlines and careful shading using 4 B graphite pencil no use of fingers to smudge tone together.

Graded on tonal observation, neatness and following directions

Draw Paint 300-400 C and E blocks

Fall 2010 Sketchbook prompts: C and E blocks

--Enlarge something small ( i.e. popcorn, insect, wing nut,etc.)—not from photograph( use magnifiying glass)
__Create a two page drawing of a scene while sitting inside a car… what is outside the window
--cut out a magazine picture and add on a drawing or drawings ( extend the edges of a magazine picture by adding on a drawing
--Draw 6 personal fears either realistically or using line to create emotion
--a self portrait
-- Do blind contour drawings of your hand, self portrait, objects
--draw something you think is ordinary or ugly and make it beautiful ( dead flowers, insects, kitchen utensils)
--Fill a page of different line qualities that express emotions
--in pencil or pen draw objects that suggest these texutures:
cloth, wood, reflective, paper,
 draw value scales in pen using crosshatching
 draw value scales in pencil using blending
draw your hand holding an object
Transform an ordinary kitchen object into something imaginary
Sketch your cat, dog or other pet
Draw views of favorite landscapes
Copy an old master painting as a drawing ( focus on the head or hand)

1st check in

E block: Sept. 14th: 3 drawings in sketchbook

C block Sept 15th: 3 drawings

G Block: Draw Paint 200: Contour drawing sketchbook assignment

Due: 8/31


Requirements: Done in pen, full page, Continuous line, no tracing, done from observation: to be done in the following order:

3 blind contour drawings of your hand ( spend 5 minutes on each one)

2 continuous line blind contour of a rose, or lilly ( 5 minutes on each one)

1-2 blind contour

Successful Examples below:

Draw Paint 300/400 sketch assignment: GESTURE DRAWING

Due: C block 8/30

Due E block: 8/31

http://www.sketchingeveryday.com/

In your sketchbook do at least 10 gesture drawings... spend no longer than 5-10min. per drawing.

Use any of your preferred drawing mediums... The goal is exploration! I recommend that you do this when you won't be interrupted, put on your favorite music and make sure that you look at the object that you are drawing, not the paper so much.

Draw Paint 400 sketchbook requirements

Student sketchbooks

Please bring your sketchbook it to every art class and Field Trip .Students are expected to generate 3-5 ideas (in this journal) for each assignment BEFORE you begin to develop a final piece. If you do not have it in class each day, your grade for class membership will reflect this. Growth, in terms sketchbook usage, is part of your evaluation for review each semester. There will be some days where we will work solely in our sketchbooks as part of these assignments.

Draw Paint 400 GRADE SKETCHBOOKS

Individuals at this level should be well on their way to independent work. I will review each student’s

journal and discuss it’ use with them. If the instructor determines that the student has a satisfactory grasp on how to make the journal work personally productive, that student will meet as needed with the instructor to discuss journal progress. You will be given a weekly sketchbook prompt that can be interpreted in any dawing medium. At the minimum, students at the 400 level should have 15 -20 pages completed in their sketchbooks per semester. This is a MINIMUM REQUIREMENT. It is evaluated twice per quarter. If your assignments show growth, care and investigation you will earn a B+ for your sketchbook grade. If you do five additional drawings on your own that also show care and investigation you will earn an A in your sketchbook grade.

Draw Paint 300 sketchbook requirements

Student sketchbooks

Please bring your sketchbook it to every art class and Field Trip .Students are expected to generate 3-5 ideas (in this journal) for each assignment BEFORE you begin to develop a final piece. If you do not have it in class each day, your grade for class membership will reflect this. Growth, in terms sketchbook usage, is part of your evaluation for review each semester. There will be some days where we will work solely in our sketchbooks as part of these assignments.

Draw Paint 300 GRADE SKETCHBOOKS

-Students are expected to complete at least ten-twelve pages of life drawings per semester (a drawing done from observing persons, places and/or things) only three drawings can be from photographs. They should show serious investigation and show time and effort, fill the page and show technical progress.

-These pages are in addition to (and may not be part of) any class assignments and/or instructor assigned idea development for class projects (as mentioned above). -This is a MINIMUM REQUIREMENT. It is evaluated twice per quarter. If your assignments show growth, care and investigation you will earn a B+ for your sketchbook grade. If you do five additional drawings on your own that also show care and investigation you will earn an A in your sketchbook grade.

Draw Paint 200 sketchbook requirements

Student sketchbooks

Please bring your sketchbook it to every art class and Field Trip .Students are expected to generate 3-5 ideas (in this journal) for each assignment BEFORE you begin to develop a final piece. If you do not have it in class each day, your grade for class membership will reflect this. Growth, in terms sketchbook usage, is part of your evaluation for review each semester. There will be some days where we will work solely in our sketchbooks as part of these assignments.

+++++ Draw Paint 200 GRADE sketchbooks (MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS)

Students are expected to complete at least ten pages of life drawings per semester (a drawing done from observing persons, places and/or things) only three of these sketchs can be from photographs. These different assignments will be given on the blog or as a handout.

-In addition, five pages of experimentation and/or development of personal issues by the end of the semester -These pages are in addition to (and may not be part of) any class assignments and/or instructor assigned idea development for class projects (as mentioned above). . If your assignments show growth, care and investigation you will earn a B+ for your sketchbook grade. If you do five additional drawings on your own that also show care and investigation you will earn an A in your sketchbook grade.

-This is a MINIMUM REQUIREMENT. It is evaluated twice per quarter

Grades Draw Paint 2010-2011

Quarter 1:

Drawing/Painting projects:35%Projects are evaluated in three areas of individual growth: Technique, Concept, and Presentation

(fullfilling the requirments of the project, risk taking, elements and principles of art in project, craftspersonship,focus and homework spent on project)

written essays/quizzes/sketchbooks35%:
(completing assignments, following directions with check system risk taking)

Class membership 30% studio clean up help and participation and how you are in class

Late work: All late work will drop a 1/2 grade for each class day late. Work more than two weeks late may not be accepted and can't be made up ( unless due to unforeseen circumstances, illness,etc.). Should you be absent ( excused only) the day something is due, it is expected that it will be ready upon your return. Should you be absent ( unexcused, if you cut class or are on suspension) the day something is due, your project is late. If you are absent for a studio class demonstration day, it is up to you to get the assignments from the class blog, or classmate and make it up on your own time.

Please don't turn in anything to Lindsay or the attendance desk. Turn it into me personally or you may turn it in on my desk in the art office.

Critique: Work not presented for critique is an automatic O. Have something ready to show. This is sacred time for feedback from your peers. Your art doesn't have to be perfect, but ready for critique.

Resubmits: Work submitted late cannot be resubmitted. Only work that is complete by the orginal due date can be resubmitted. Resubmits are due at the end of the week of the original due date. If the re-drawn work is superior, the lower grade will be dropped. If you are absent ( excused) you can resubmit late work. Resubmits are done on a case by case basis.

Gallery Report: more info coming on this, much the same as last year. You will have two due a semester.

Class membership/Critique participation: 30%
class preparedness, individual focus ( i.e. not talking and creating distractions) ,studio clean up:

Art Show requirements EVERY STUDENT

Art Show participation Grade:

Here is an A:

1. Every student helps clean up the studio, assists in hanging the show, makes themselves readily and consistently available throughout the show.

2. Attends the art show on Thursday night and checks in with me that night). ( if you can't make it tell me individually and privately)

3. Verbally participates in critiques.

B block Paint homework

1 hour of work outside of class on your painting BEFORE Thursday's B block

400 Level: Homage to Artist Presentation

ThFormat: Powerpoint

Length: 7-10 minutes

Content:

historical information: 2 minutes on artist/historical significance in art

5 images of important art works by the artist ( 5-8 minutes); you should have titles of piece, information about media and important info about the art.

What you are turning in to me: notes, outline, and citations

Your presentation:

you are graded on:

knowledge the material ( not relying too much on notecards)

Following directions ( i.e. having all the materials ready that day of presentation)

Preparation for presentation

Friday April 30th: ( students on senior project)

Danielle: Robert Rauchenberg

Sarah: Hokusai

Mia: Wayne Theibaud

Isabel: Lucien Freud

Thursday May 6th:

Cindy: Alice Neel

Dylan: Lucien Freud

Emily: Larry Rivers

Taylor: Wassily Kandinsky

Midori: Roy Lichtenstein

G block: Photo for Homage to Human Behavior Assignment

Due: Monday March 22nd

a good picture of your subject... well lit, NO BACKLIGHT

No tiny heads either.... Good detail:

NO To photo on the top

YES to photo on bottom

gallery report

Gallery Report:

Due: Feb 16th: D block

Feb 17th B block

Feb 18th G block

requirements: 1 and 1/2 pages typed; uses the elements of art language ( line, color, movement, pattern, depth, etc.) includes the name of the artist

must send me a text or email a picture of you at the gallery or museum.

kboyd@ma.org

Must have supplemental materials: including brochure, card, or other image of artist work.

Art Gallery Links for Gallery write up.

Please remember to call the gallery first to check when they are open!

Marin County:

http://www.marinmagazine.com/Marin-Magazine/About-Marin-County/Art-Galleries/

San Francisco:

http://art-collecting.com/galleries_ca_sanfrancisco.htm

Richmond: The Richmond Art Center

http://www.therac.org/

Oakland: Pros Arts Gallery

http://www.proartsgallery.org/

Beginning drawing B block: Back pack drawing

Do a drawing of your backpack in pen or pencil. Emphasize overlapping shapes, detail and some shading. In your drawing emphasize line quality, focus on an object either spilling out of your back pack or placed infront ( as seen in this example). Be creative with angle, and your choice of still life selection ( you could place your waterbottle, ipod, favorite shoe, sports item, your hand holding your backpack.

Your drawing should fill the page and use the space in an interesting way... you can also draw the drawing across two pages.

You should plan on spending 1 hour on this drawing

Your drawing can be precise and clean or gestural and expressive... it should look observed and not "symbolic"

Due: Tuesday beginning of class.

Two Point perspective tutorial B block

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMNG2xBq8dA

Your drawing: on 12 X 18 inch white drawing paper

8-10 buildings ( overlapping)

two -three intersecting streets

Graded on accuracy, erasing orthogonals ( lines to vanishing points 1 and 2), and completion

Due Wednesday... beginning of class.

D block: Sketches for 1st painting still life Due Tuesday Jan 13th

at least 10 sketches for a paintings of objects. Due Tuesday 1/13

The images I am showing are Unfinished Oil paintings by professional artists.

Consider composition, and lighting as important elements of your sketches. ( nothing backlit!)

Keep it simple!!!! Even these two paintings are fairly complex. We are going to be doing underpaintings for this small painting, not a final painting.

onions by: Joann Brandy

Still life: Susan Spar

B Block: Getting back into drawing!

10 gesture drawings of different objects ( hands, shoes, etc.)

in pen or pencil. Graded on gestural quality and observational drawing development

Spend three to five minutes on each one. Each drawing should be on a different page in your sketchbook full size ( filling the page.)

Due Monday B block

Due Tuesday, D and G blocks.