Friday, October 16, 2009

Week of October 19th - 23rd

Monday: October 19
Portfolio Prep: Introduction of project - Architecture Study in Painting
Pottery: Continue work on teapots
Photography: Continue work on photogram collage
8th Grade: Introduction of project - Printmaking

Tuesday: October 20
Portfolio Prep: Students are to find a composition using architectural design. Use the work of Richard Diebenkorn as reference.
Pottery: Continue work on teapots
Photography: Continue work on photogram collage
8th Grade: Continue drawing fall still life - draw large and overlap objects

Wednesday: October 21
Portfolio Prep: Use a viewfinder to pass over architectural images looking for the principles of design and interesting composition
Pottery: Continue work on teapots
Photography: Continue work on photogram collage
8th Grade: Transfer drawings to oaktag using light table

Thursday: October 22
Portfolio Prep: Look again at the chosen artist - use his sense of interpreting the shapes and angle of the room to the simplest lines and shapes. Enlarge the idea to a rectangle of the same proportion.
Pottery: Continue work on teapots
Photography: Continue work on photograms
8th Grade: Continue to transfer drawings. Cut figures out and then cut each figure into many shapes.

Friday: October 23
Portfolio Prep: Create a value pattern for the design using at least 4 values. Select a color scheme from these 4: Complimentary Pairs, Double Complimentary Pair, Split Complimentary, Analogous
Pottery: Continue work on teapots
Photography: Continue work on photograms - photograms will be due at the end of class
8th Grade: Continue to cut figures into shapes. Glue the separate shapes onto the heavy mat board. Shapes can overlap.