Feldman's Method Homework

Select an image from the slideshow below to use for your individual Feldman's Method Art Analysis. You can see the artwork on a larger scale by clicking on the slideshow. This is also how you find out the artist, title, date and material for the work you choose.

Print out the Feldman's Method Worksheet, and complete it based on the artwork you have selected.

For Step 4 (Judge) of Feldman's Method, select another image from the slideshow and compare the two works of art.

Completed form is due Wednesday, Dec. 22. (Pd. 4-A)

Completed form is due Thursday, Dec. 23. (Pd. 1, 2, & 4-B)

Feldman's Method Worksheet

Slideshow of Artworks:

Feldman's Method

Feldman's Method

The Elements of Art and the Principles of Design

Elements & Principles

Art & Making a Difference: Handouts & Guidelines

Aamad Rubric

Aamad Guidelines

aamad_selfcheck

Aamad Research

How to Be an Explorer of the World

Periodically throughout this year, we will be taking a "break" in between our highly structured units of study to focus on "Explorations." These are specific artistic challenges designed to be largely self-directed, and to help us improve in the areas of problem-solving, critical thinking, self-reflection, divergent thinking, and choice-making.

The "Explorations" are drawn from such inspirations as Keri Smith's How to Be an Explorer of the World, Yoko Ono's instruction paintings, and students' own suggestions.

The premise of the "Explorations" is supported by the celebrated art educator and researcher Elliot Eisner's "10 Lessons the Arts Teach:"

1. The arts teach us to make good judgments about qualitative relationships. Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it is judgment rather than rules that prevail.

2. The arts teach us that problems can have more than one solution, and that questions can have more than one answer.

3. The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.

4. The arts teach us that in complex forms of problem-solving, purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.

5. The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numbers exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.

6. The arts teach us that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.

7. The arts teach us to think through and within a material. All art forms employ some means through which images become real.

8. The arts help us learn to say what cannot be said. When we are invited to disclose what a work of art helps us feel, we must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.

9. The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source, and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.

10. The arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.

Sketchbook Follow-Up: The Elements of Art

This sketchbook assignment will be due on Monday, October 4th (for Periods 1 & 2), Tuesday, October 5th (for Period 4-A), and Wednesday, October 6th (for Period 4-B). Make sure you have the right due date for your period!

When you turn in your sketchbook, the rubric (on the assignment sheet) must be FILLED OUT and ATTACHED (stapled, taped, etc) in your sketchbook.


SB: Elements of Art

UNIT: Drawing With Shape and Value

In our second unit, we will learn how to use SHAPE and VALUE in order to create FORM - the illusion of 3-dimensional space!

In this unit, we will learn about and use:

• Observational drawing (drawing what we see)
• Composition
  
• The "Keys to Composition:" Size, View, and Placement
• Line, Shape, Value, and Form
• How to draw WITHOUT Line
  

The introductory presentations for this unit can be viewed here:

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Value

Sketchbook Follow-Up: Logo Design (UPDATE)

This sketchbook assignment will be due Friday, September 17 (for 4-A and Periods 1 & 2). If you are in 4-B, the sketchbook assignment will be due Monday, September 20. Remember that your logo design should be SIMPLIFIED into positive and negative space. It helps me to think about this as though I am designing something for a stencil or a stamp (bold, clear lines) instead of making a sketch or drawing, which could have lots of teeny tiny light lines.

Need help? You can always ask me in school or email me at caroline_sturges@hcpss.org !

Sketch Book Follow Up-Logo Design

UNIT: Portfolio Design

This is our first unit together: Portfolio Design!

In this unit, we will learn about and use:

• Crop & zoom
  
• Thumbnail sketches
• Positive & negative space
  
• Fonts
• Logos
  

The introductory presentation for this unit can be viewed here:

Portfolio Design (Unit Intro Presentation)


Homework assigned today:

• Three finished thumbnail sketches of portfolio designs
• Choose one sketch to be your final design
• SHADE IN either the positive OR negative space of this design

Many of us finished this in class!

Welcome to Art 1!

Welcome to Art 1! Read through our syllabus (which is easiest to do if you click "fullscreen"), show it to your parent or guardian (you can click "print" FROM THE FULLSCREEN if you like), and then VIEW and PRINT OUT the contract.

Both you AND your parent or guardian need to sign the syllabus contract (which is the second document) to indicate that you both have read and understood the syllabus.

Art 1 Syllabus

Syllabus Contract