DRAWING & SCULPTURE STUDENTS:

WEEKEND HOMEWORK is posted on your individual assignment pages (links to the right).

These homework assignments are vital preparation exercises for next week's work!! 

DUE MONDAY FOR UP TO 20 POINTS!!!
RAWR!!

Sculptors: Prep for Paper Mache Creatures!!               Drawers: Value Exercises!!

SCULPTURE STUDENTS:

ALTERED BOOK REFLECTION DUE TOMORROW, 3/14, end of day.
Instructions available on the Sculpture Assignments page or in the art room.

SCULPTURE STUDENTS: Altered Books are due MONDAY (3/12) at the end of the day!
Be prepared to write a paragraph in class explaining the personal meaning in your book and how you attempted to tell your story.

DRAWING STUDENTS: Sketchbook Check #2 is TOMORROW, Friday, March 9th.
6 entries due
Make sure they are fantastic!

Art Show this weekend in Quincy! Extra Credit!

Support Local Art!!
ART SHOW EXTRA CREDIT   (Up to 20 points)       

Due Monday, March 5^th

For her Senior Project, Haley Whitener is organizing a free art show at the Reiman-Simmons house this weekend: 

Friday: 5-8pm / Saturday & Sunday: 11am-4pm

(The Reiman-Simmons house is the little white historic house on the edge of town, going toward Wenatchee.  It’s on Central Ave. across from Subway, next to the auto body shop.)

Attend the show and answer the following questions in complete sentences, covering at least 1 page.  

1)   Describe the overall location, gallery space, and artworks that you see.

2)   Choose one artwork that you are especially attracted to.

a.     Describe the artwork in detail.  Write the artist, title and medium, if the information is available.  If not listed on the artwork or program, ask someone who works there.

b.     Describe what you see in the artwork.  What colors, shapes, and textures do you see?  What objects or activities do you see?  What is the main content, or story?  

c.      Explain how you think the artwork was made.  (If the medium is not listed, make an educated guess.)

d.     Explain your feelings about the artwork.  What is your opinion? Do you like it or not? Why? Use specific details from the artwork to back up your opinion.

Don't Forget!

Drawing students: 
Remember to make time each week to complete 2 independent sketchbook entries!  

Experimental Mondays will give you time to try new techniques in your sketchbook.  Take these experiments and add them to your drawings, or vice versa.  Try something new each week and stay challenged!
Remember:
  1) You can work from the prompt list in any order you want, just label each entry clearly.
  2) You can always draw from life - people, animals, plants, your surroundings - just label clearly!

Altered book links

Peter Callesen: Paper sculptor, one-sheet extraordinaire!
http://www.petercallesen.com/

Dan Eldon: A powerful and short lifetime documented in journals
http://www.daneldon.org/site/?page_id=3023

Short video on book arts as an art form
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItBDO3OylM0&feature=related

Brian Dettmer: Book sculptures
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bOjYc7eps8&feature=related

Altered book sculpture, cut-outs, page by page:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5wVLQrJbZQ&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Get to know Picasso

A quick video by the HIGH Museum in Atlanta:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAoiAbAD5tk&feature=related

Picasso, The Kitchen, 1948

(I just saw this painting in Atlanta during the holidays - awesome!)

Altered Book links

http://www.art-e-zine.co.uk/alteredbook.html

http://briandettmer.com/

SKETCHBOOK CHECK THIS FRIDAY 2/17
You will turn in your sketchbooks and I will be expecting 4 Independent Sketchbook entries IN ADDITION to all the class exercises and homework assignments.
Be sure EACH ENTRY is labeled clearly and dated.
I will return your sketchbooks to you after the long weekend.

What can we learn from a copy of the Mona Lisa?

Time Magazine

Here is the Picasso "Igor Stravinsky" drawing that we copied in class, if you didn't get a chance to finish yours.

1,000 Journals

What happens when 1,000 blank journals are sent around the world and passed from person to person? Find out here. There are amazing images, writings, and ideas for your own work.
How would you feel about contributing to a sketchbook you would probably never see again?  What would you say to strangers through your art? 
http://www.1000journals.com

Sabrina Ward Harrison

Sabrina Ward Harrison's work is an excellent example of the practice of journal-keeping. Her book, "Spilling Open," is a beautiful collection of works developed from her sketchbooks.
http://www.sabrinawardharrison.com/meet/index.html

70 Million by Hold Your Horses (Art History music video!)

This music video depicts a number of famous artworks, created by the band members in costume!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erbd9cZpxps

360 degree view of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, Italy

Such amazing photography and technology together; it's almost like being there!
(The last time I was there, I was fortunate enough to go in January.  There was almost no one there! I actually got to sit down and stare at the ceiling for about a half hour. Amazing!)

http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html

MOMA (Museum of Modern Art)

The MOMA has an incredible site, with tons of resources.  The "explore" and "learn" tabs at the bottom will take you to just about anything you ever wanted to know about modern art.  There is an index of modern art terms in "the collection" page that can be very helpful for understanding some of the work.  Explore, have fun! This is one of my favorite museums. :)

http://www.moma.org

Happy Birthday, Jackson Pollock!

Currently, there is a wonderful Modern Art show at the High Museum in Atlanta, Georgia, where I used to live!  One of my favorite artists, Jackson Pollock, is featured.  Here's a quick video about his work. (originally from 1/28)

http://youtu.be/yc4F3hONdCM

“The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is…an easy give and take.” - Jackson Pollock”

—	Picasso to Warhol: Fourteen Modern Masters. Jodi Hauptman.