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HERE YOU'LL FIND ASSIGNMENTS and REMINDERS FOR
-MS ART 7/8 

-HS STUDIO IN ART

-HS ADAPTIVE ART

HS 1/2 year Art Electives:

-STUDIO in PAINTING I -FALL

-STUDIO in PHOTOGRAPHY -SPRING

-CTE /FACS  PERSONAL DESIGN CORE (THis course is taught as an option to fulfill the NYS Fine Art Requirement.) 

 
ASSIGNMENTS THIS WEEK_

ART 7/8 
GENERAL INFO YOU SHOULD KNOW....... A PENCIL, SKETCHBOOK & ART FOLDER SHOULD BE WITH YOU IN CLASS EVERY DAY. REMEMBER: LET ME TEACH; LET OTHERS LEARN. THESE WERE DUE on MONDAY, SEPT. 14th.

Only written excuse will be accepted this week.

DO ONE SKETCH EACH WEEK:20 of your own works AND complete all assignments related to project work begun in class. These will be due at the end of the semester for a final grade in art. You should complete this work over time during the full semester. Finish 10 works by the end of the first quarter.... More info will be provided in class with details.
 

STUDIO IN ART:

Sketchbooks and a folder were due and should be in class with you each day. Lessons this week: Elements of Art, Principles of Design and Studio Basics, Color Theories and Systems, and Ways to Look at Works of Art.

ADAPTIVE ART:

A folder should be in class with each student daily. We are studying ways to create designs using the Elements of Art: Line, Shape, Texture, Space, Form and Color and Value.

PAINTING I

Sketchbooks and folders are required and should be with you in class each day. After a review of some basics from Studio in Art...(Ways to Look at Paintings, Art Criticism and Aesthetics, Elements of Art, Principles of Design, Color Theories and Systems...) students will begin to learn about  Popular Genres, Subjects and Themes, and the various Art Movements and Periods in Art History. First Assignments: Experiments with color and the medium of paint.

PERSONAL DESIGN CORE

This course has a supply list and some supplies are due here this week.

Chapter One: Complete Assignments A-D. TOPICS: Personality Traits and Preferences- What do our clothing and fashion choices say about our personalities?

Activity One: Redesigning... bring in a pair of old shoes, or flipflops with materials to share and use to redesign them. (buttons, beads, ribbons, trims, fabric scraps.....)Fashion Illustrations are curently being done in class to plan for the actual redesign of this popular modern fashion apparel .

NOTES FOR PHOTO:

THIS YEAR, STUDENTS IN STUDIO in PHOTOGRAPHY SHOULD BE AWARE... THIS COURSE WILL BE OFFERED IN SPRING 2010. INFORMATION ABOUT THIS COURSE WAS NOT PRINTED IN THE HS COURSE GUIDE! ALSO, IF THERE'S ENOUGH INTEREST, AN ADVANCED STUDIO IN PHOTOGRAPHY MAY BE OFFERED IN THE FUTURE. EXPRESS YOUR INTEREST IN CONTINUING YOUR STUDY OF PHOTOGRAPHY WHEN YOU MEET WITH GUIDANCE STAFF TO PLAN YOUR SCHEDULE.


HERE ARE SOME THINGS YOU CAN DO ON YOUR OWN TO BE MORE CREATIVE:

Train your eyes to really SEE. THIS IS THE TRICK TO GETTING THE BEST IDEAS.

Learn from work and examples of ALL the great artists, architects, designers, painters, sculptors and photographers from the past!

Practice using a viewfinder to find those creative ways to portray objects and things you see every day. There are some interesting things out there.

Look at everything.... like you've never looked before!

Start to build a collection of photos, your own and clippings of pics you like from magazines, websites, newspapers and other printed sources. You can collect photos to learn from the professionals. Share and swap them with others and you can learn alot from them, but you can not copy them for personal or commercial use for any other purpose. Copyright laws do apply!




MORE...THINGS TO THINK ABOUT....

BE CREATIVE ...... in whatever you think, say, create,
write, draw, play, share and do.
Look, look, look, and draw, draw.......DRAW....
paint, paint, paint, imagine, imagine, imagine, design, design, design.... click, click, click and get some good pictures with your camera....
and it's especially important to.......think, THINK, THINK!
Color your world every day with an interesting image, picture, thought, idea. CREATIVITY is a key to a very fine and productive life.MAKE LIFE INTERESTING!

You can find many examples of interesting people to learn from in life...
...from famous people in history to those YOU may know and admire from everyday life.......find one to emulate and learn from!

To add excitement to your life, do something creative EVERY DAY.

Ms.Vatalaro


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