Student Work:
Drawing + Painting 1, with assessments
Reflective self-assessment: here's a sculpture with the accompanying artist's statement.
Sculpture 1
Artist statment
Why I do the work I do..... I feel like it represents who I am, or what im feeling in that moment or day. Its hard to produce work that im not feeling in that moment. For example, its hard to think of what to make without feeling the material and knowing what its capabilities are. Then once I know that the material has infinite possibilities I then stretch my artistic capability to try to express what im feeling.
My favorite material to work with is clay. Because it has infinite possibilities. So it gives my artistic abilities a constant challenge. Im never done with a piece before I ask myself did I try hard enough to challenge my artistic ability. The theme of my work is never the same. Day to day I have different techniques and styles so it is impossible to keep a constant theme.
My latest and favorite piece of work is one that has a piece of drift wood placed as a tree, with a wire man hanging from a swing also mad of wire. The symbolism is my favorite part of the piece. It explanes the constant contrast between nature and humanity and how we were at one time together living in harmony but s tecnolagy advances we grow farther and farther apart.
Music Project Assignment,
Drawing and Painting
Drawing and Painting 1, 9/6/11
Music Project
Project Goal: To analyze a song, then create a work on
paper with pastels which visually conveys the mood, rhythm and lyric line of a
song you find exciting, moving or important.
Scoring: This project is worth 10 points
·
4 points for
technique:
o
Blending: Optical
or Literal
o
Application: broad AND pointed
o
Care and Neatness
o
Fill the page!
·
6 points for use
of Artistic Concepts
o
Line, Shape,
Color
o
Balance,
Emphasis, Visual Rhythm
Steps:
- Choose a song.
Try to find one that gives you a strong feeling or puts you in a
particular mood, one that evokes a strong emotional response.
- Write a journal entry. Write a page about how you plan to use
the ELEMENTS and PRINCIPLES of COMPOSITION that we have studied to show
someone else what your song feels like.
You want to communicate:
- Mood
- Rhythm
- Lyric line or shape of the music
- You will be assigned a partner. Have a conversation with your partner
about what you plan to do for your project. Your partner will offer feedback, and
you will give feedback to your partner.
Talking points:
- What elements and principles are you using? Why?
- How does something you see change how you
feel? How about something you
hear?
- Did anything your partner say change how you
think about your song?
- Create three sketches. One sketch should communicate MOOD, one
RHYTHM, one LYRIC LINE. Refer to
your journal entry to use the ELEMENTS and PRINCIPLES you have planned on.
- Review your three studies. Decide what elements of all three you
would like to incorporate in your final work. Is there anything you want to
change? Make bigger or
smaller? Omit? Add?
Write about this in your journal.
- Decide how you want to compose your work: how will the visual elements be arranged
on the paper?
- Use the Full page—fill it up with your work!
- How do you want the viewer to experience your
work? How will their eyes travel
through the work?
- Consider the Elements and Principles of
Composition we have talked about in class.
How can you use these to get your ideas across?
- Elements we have talked about:
i.
LINE
ii.
SHAPE
iii.
COLOR
- Principles we have talked about:
i.
EMPHASIS or FOCUS
ii.
BALANCE
iii.
RHYTHM
Sample student work, with my comments:
Student 1
Very nice job so far; work to finish your projects—balance could have been achieved, but you left a big empty area on the left side of your page!
Student 2
Keep your page clean while working, and try to finish your work in a way that fills the page and takes advantage of all the real estate at your disposal!
Student 3
Be sure next time to try both pastel application techniques!
Nice job!
Student 4
Your blending is particularly smooth—next time, try some more optical blending!
Nice job!