Asian Artists

Here is a great link to some artists to look at.

This is great stuff!

"Photoshop is an extremely versatile application and offers and endless number of ways to accomplish the same task. With so many ways of producing the same effect, it can be difficult for users to understand which technique is the best for the task at hand. In this tutorial, we will explain 10 bad habits that you can break in Photoshop to help you work a bit more efficiently."

Tutorials for this week.

Do three of the tutorials on this page. Make sure to turn the piece into art that is distinctly yours.

http://digitalartanddesign.org/

This kid watched his neighbor make a propaganda piece and fell in love with the work. So he decided to make a piece with his name. Great job, I think.

Use text an a graphic...

...to create a pleasing and yet informative message. You are to do one of the following:

make graffiti on a wall
put a disclaimers on a shipping crate
create a cautionary diagram on street a sign or instruction manuals.

Context matters!

Remember that you should do something that you have an emotional attachment. That is, if you don't care about dogs then don't make something about dogs. You should love or hate your subject matter. 

Also, consider how you will deliver your message should be delivered to your audience. Where would your audience be most likely to see it?

They've seen the light!

Yeah, my kids are just great. This piece was done by an Honors kid who is doing amazing work this year. I wish I could have had her one more year so that she could do AP, but she needs to move on to college. Where ever she goes that place will be better for having her!

bust male sculpting clay ceramic

We will use this method, but we will fill the body with newspaper first.

Kids work!

It is great to watch a kid's work as she puts the ideas and together and begins to construct the piece. I'd love to feature all of my kids' work, but that will be impossible. So check out the links on the right to see each kids work. Katie's work!

Workin' away!

The classes are moving forward and making art. The 3D kids have started blogging, and I hope that you get to check out their work.

As usual, I'm amazed by what the kids come up with.

In this one, Alex found an artist, Eugene Soloviev, with whose work he became smitten. "I really enjoyed making this piece because Soloviev's style really appeals to me. The idea behind Soloviev's pieces is that he takes two things that don't belong together and put them in a "different" background. In my piece I took a tiger and a house cat and put them underwater to portray a cat's distaste for water. Furthermore, it's sort of ironic that the tiger is chasing a house cat. I had a slow start to this piece, but I am pleased with how it turned out." Alex

Pickle Boy

This is a beginning tutorial that the graphics kids will do. I had some fun putting it into context, and I learned a new trick, which I always love. I cannot wait to see the kids' efforts.

And we begin!

I'm having the sculpture kids blog this year, too. And I plan on using this blog to communicate and post information, so I hope that it is even more lively with kids' art and thoughts.

This is what we've been working on in sculpture. The kids are drawing cubes and shapes and rotating them on the 2D surface. As a school we're now a 1:1 iPad campus. So I've had the kids drawing in Notability, which is lovely and fine and works. But I offered the use of a traditional sketchbook, and everyone in one of my classes took one. Go figure. So they'll still use the iPads for research, music, communicating thoughts and ideas through social media and emails, and anything else we can think of.

Here we go!