Google Art Project is Wonderful!

What a great place to see and explore examples of GREAT ART!!!!

Here is the link @ http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/asset-viewer/the-cliff-of-aval-etr%C3%A9tat/7AFALGbV2i_P5w?projectId=art-project

I'm Out of School Thursday-

Hello guys,

Sorry, I'm out of school this morning- Here are some choices of what you could work on:

1. Complete the posting of three "color schemes" you discovered in Hockney, or Monet paintings. The directions are at the post below this one.....

2. Complete your design of a "focal point" for the big class drawing hanging in the hallway...

3. Start work on your "Paper Bag drawing". Use the bags off my desk, create THREE planning sketches first, then start the final drawing. Use pencil and graphite drawing tools- work any size you want. The Goal is to describe the Volume (how full is it?) and Weght of your bag....

Here are some examples:

What's That color Scheme?

Explore and discover how artists use color schemes, by reducing their images to a grid of colors. Then organize the colors into their position on the color wheel.

Last, post the colors and write a description of the color scheme on your blog...

Select and post TWO images from both Hockney and Monet's artwork..... this works best on large size images.... do you notice a constant color scheme that they use?

Here's my example....

I used Hockney's painting...... Winter Timber, 2009 oil on 15 canvases 108 x 240inches

Here is the "Mosaic" filter I used to create a grid of colors....

 I experimented with the size of the mozaic pieces to get the best results...

Here is what happened to the painting..... makes it easier to see the source colors..

Use the rectangular selection tool to copy and paste colors from the grid to a new layer....

 

I organized the colors to describe where they fit on to the color wheel...

Looks like Hockney is using a SPLIT COMPLEMENT color scheme of orange and blue- splitting the blue all the way to green and purples, and using shades of orange for contrast.

P.S. Check out this nice article about Hockney I just found.... what a great example of a creative artist!!

See it here @ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/arts/design/18kino.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Artists Working With Color

DAVID HOCKNEY

A British artist, always exploring and pushing the ideas of how art is made and what it means. He was one of the first to us the iphone and ipad as a painting and drawing tool.

Please collect at least three examples of his artwork, post the images and the names of the artwork, to your blog.

See more about him here @http://wadigitaldrawing.blogspot.com/2011/09/david-hockney.html




MONET

French painter, he is credited with being one of the first of the "IMPRESSIONISTS". He developed a new painting technique and an idea about painting what  camera could not see...

See more about him here @http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/monet/

Working with COLOR

Here are copies of the vocabulary sheets, and information about color schemes....

Virtual Desktop INFO for you...

Try these directions from the Technology Office....

Virtual desktops now work from home.  Here are some instructions for getting in:

On a computer (mac or pc), go to view.woodstockacademy.org and download the client that matches your operating system
 

• The download page looks like this for a Mac....






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• For all devices, the connection is view.woodstockacademy.org and your username and password are the same as what you would always use. 

Building A Language of Marks

Sorry I'm out today,

Let's explore another area of drawing- How artists use MARK -MAKING to describe FORM and VALUE.

Collect three examples of each artist's drawings and post it to your blog. Be sure to post the name of the artwork and the date....

The two artists are Albrecht Durer and Van Gogh.... Both are renowned for their drawings.....

First is Durer- Here are some links to info and images of his drawings and prints.... look how precise his drawings are!! 

About Durer... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer

About engraving here @http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engraving

AND some examples of his work.... This is an engraving called "Melencolia", from 1514

Some details.... see the variety of marks?

Now look at Van Gogh's drawings to see how he uses MARK-MAKING to describe TEXTURE and VALUE….. These are INK drawings created with a carved baboo pen.


Here are some examples and links….

http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/vgm/index.jsp?page=98&lang=en

and more here at

http://www.metmuseum.org/metmedia/kids-zone/art-trek/how-van-gogh-made-his-mark

 And this is the best @ 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drawings,_water-colours_and_prints_by_Vincent_van_Gogh

Some Van Gogh examples are:

This is "Garden of the Hospital in Arles", 1889.... ink on paper.

This one is "Fountain in the garden of the Hospital Saint-Paul", Black chalk, reed pen and ink, May, 1889,



Look at the variety of marks in these details!!! WOW!