Visual Arts 4 Advanced, Week 1, January 23-27, 2017 Creativity Test
Tuesday
1. Welcome to art class! (First day powerpoint and teacher & class introduction.)
2. Please read and complete the following papers:
a. Artist Trading Card #1: Using a Sharpie, please write your first and last names and draw symbols that stands for you. You will introduce yourself to the class with your ATC.
b. Student Information Form
c. Art Room Excellence-sign the class poster!
d. Required Supplies: pencils and sketchbook due Monday, science board due May 1st.
e. Class Policies, Capturing Kids’ Hearts contract next week.
3. Clean-up procedures:
Your table team is responsible for cleaning your table, floor, sink, and counter, cubbies, cabinets, drawers, and supplies. We will have a Friday Cleaning Frenzy every week.
Please push your chair or stool under the table and stand behind the tape line until the bell rings.
4. Seating:
a. AP gets two back lab tables.
b. Art 3 gets one lab table under the TV.
c. Art 4 gets the low tables, no more than three to a table.
d. Please move bookbags, purses, and other belongings off table an out of aisles.
e. Seating will change the first of every month for Arts 3 & 4.
5. Art Room Policies: Each table reads and paraphrases one policy for the class.
6. Clean-up procedures.
Wednesday
1. Creativity Test:
Using only scissors, pencil, rubber cement, and three different shades of paper provided, create an artwork that symbolizes you in a struggle you are engaged in, for instance, staying alert for morning classes or not having enough funds to purchase something you want.
You must use all three papers in an aesthetically pleasing composition.
You must use symbols for yourself and elements of your struggle.
Your objects must have shading and excellent form.
No pencil or rubber cement may be visible on the final picture. Use the rubber cement erasers to clean
Up your image. Your name must be written on a back corner in pencil only.
2. Notice your ATC, if you received a checkmark, you earned 100 points for your first assignment!
3. Trash, recycling, supply and turn-in box locations, drawers, cubbies.
4. Sinks, paper towels, soap: proper use, drills: fire, tornado, lockdown.
Thursday
1. Finish Creativity Test.
2. Creativity Test Assessment:
a. Tape your artwork to the hallway wall. How did you do? Did you follow directions? Did you use space well? What is the best part of your drawing?
b. Creativity Test Rubric:
1. Full name on back corner in pencil, legible= x/5
2. Visually symbolic of self and struggle= x/25
3. Used all three papers= x/10
4. Shading= x/20
5. No rubber cement or pencil visible on image= x/20
6. Excellent form/original, not plagerized=20
Friday
1. Baroque Art of Italy and Flanders, ch. 19-1
a. Intro to art history format and art history test.
b. Find countries on map.
c. Read Art in Focus, chapter 19, Baroque Art, lesson 1, pages 418-428.
d. Documentation:
1. Vocabulary:
a. Please write the terms and their definitions as you come to them in the book.
b. Cut out and hang the vocabulary terms and artists' names on the Art 4 wall.
Memorize these words in the course of your reading for you will be assessed on your knowledge of not just art skills, but art history as well.
2. Artists:
a. Write the names of the artists
b. List the artworks they created
c. List the year created
d. List the place (if architecture), media (if not architecture)
e. Sketch the artwork using a gesture line approach.
3. Discover Questions: Please write and answer the Discover questions.
2. Enrichment 19-1: Experimenting with Chiaroscuro
Set up a still life display so objects overlap and have strong core and cast shadows. You will need to dim the lights and shine a strong spot light on the still life.
Draw the still life large on 18x24” manila paper using neutral charcoal, chalks, or conte’ crayon only: no pencil! Start with major contours and then move to shading in hatching, cross-hatching, or scumble. Be sure to show the table surface. You may use a contrasting color conte’ or chalk as a wall and/or table color.