Advanced Ceramics

It's teapot time!

 Your teapot must have a lid that works, a spout that pours and a handle that works!

Yearbook Vine Videos!

Check out the Graphic Design/Yearbook class's Vine Video Commercials! Search  #mansfieldyearbook

Ceramics 2- new project : ANIMAL PLUS+ ?!

For your next project you will be making a realistic animal sculpture that....

It must be:

§  Detailed (texture, attachments, features)

§  No larger than 10” in any direction

§  Have something “PLUS” ***

§  Have good craftsmanship

§  Be interesting and creative!

§  Based on a realistic animal  

***

A costume   A “prop”    A friend    Something from its habitat    

Something totally opposite  Something funny

 

Art 2 - Week 3 Masterpiece and Quote of the Week

POP Art!

 Andy Warhol is our artist of the week with "Four Colored Campbell's Soup Cans" 

Here's a picture of our friend Andy... check this link out for more info and his artwork

Homework for tonight  due Thursday September 19...3 contour drawings of things from popular culture

Our QOTW "The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history" Robert Rauschenberg

Art 2 and Painting People!

Here's some interesting stuff on new ways of applying different media.... who wants to be the first to dip their hair in paint?!

Historically Inspired Essay Outline for Ceramics 2

History Inspired Piece Essay Outline

Your essay must include answers to all of the questions listed below in sentence form and offer additional important information. Make it interesting to read! 

You must also pass in a picture of the original piece.

I.              Introduction:  Briefly introduce your topic. 

            What is the object you chose to research?

            What country is the object from?  What time period?

Why did you choose this piece?

II.            Question 1: Explain what the object looks like.

What is it made of? All clay? Does it have additional materials? What kind of clay/glazes?

Explain the form of the object?  Use vocabulary (geometric/organic, symmetrical/asymmetrical, etc…)

What size is it?  What color/s is it?

Does it have texture?

Does it have a pattern or decoration? Explain.

III.           Question 2:  Purpose

What was the object used for? What purpose did it serve?

How did it fit into everyday life or was it used only for special celebration?

IV.          Question 3:  Artist

Who made this object? Person, group or company? (If you cannot find specific name then write about what kind of people made these pieces, what was the role of the artist in that community at that time?)

When the piece is done answer these questions and include them in your essay!

V.           Conclusion:

Talk about the piece you made in response to the original.

**How does it relate to the original? Is it very similar or did you do a lot to make it different? (Be specific. Write about specific points)***

How did it turn out?  What are you most proud of? What could be improved? What would you have done differently?

Remember this should be in your own words- no plagiarizing!!!

Ceramics 1 Final Exam: Food Specific Serving dishes

There's a long tradition of serving dishes being made for specific food.  Many are made from clay but there are lots in silver, wood and other materials.  Here is an asparagus server to get you thinking

and then a photo of my daughter when she was little....I couldn't resist...

Mixed media madness

Art 2 :  great work on your mixed media practice pieces and the paste papers look great!  More goopy mess on Monday!  Here's some inspiration for the final exam project....
 I found these two cool sites with mixed media examples...
Here are some older pieces that I have done with mixed media...

Painting people

Hi! Here's the artist I was talking about today...Barry McGee...

He's got a show at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston right now. He's also been on Art 21 and there's a movie he's in called Beautiful Losers that's about a new art scene the emerged in the 1990's.  It's great with a lot of artists I think you will like.

Awesomeness!

What a great Art Show we had last night and everyone's work looked amazing! Good work!
We're approaching the finish line but we're not there yet so stay focused. Here's what's going on and coming up...

Ceramics 1= Realistic food...and thinking about the final exam project which will also make you think of your favorite food and the ideal way and place to eat it...

Ceramics 2= finishing historical projects and writing the ESSAY then finishing your celebrity coffee sets...
  final exam project will be introduced next week

Art 2= we're going to start working on the final exam project so we know we get it done and then we'll work on the next project (which may or may not involved going outside ;)  )

Painting= we're working on portraits and I may have to hurry you a bit on this so we can fit another (or 2) project in before the last day! You're all doing great work and I want you explore lots more stuff .... I am going to jam as much as I can before I release you to the world ;)
HOMEWORK: DUE FRIDAY MAY 31  "SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS" see below for description

Significant Objects

Painting people!  I just gave you a sketchbook assignment but I've already decided on the next so you can start thinking about it...
Find your "SIGNIFICANT OBJECT" and draw it...draw it with importance.  This means you should find something that is important to you.  It should not be a person (although those are the most important things, right?) or a place.  For this drawing it should be an object...something that may not mean anything to anyone else, it may be worthless or priceless...expensive or free... just some thing that means something to you.  I'm thinking about my first teddy bear that still sits on my nightstand 38 years later or the doll arm I found in some gravel. 
When you draw it really think about how you want to present it.  Is it in bright light and reflecting lots of light? Is it hidden in a lots of shadows?  Do you draw it sitting on the shelf you keep it on? In your jewelry box? Or does it sit on a pedestal or in your sock drawer? Give us a sense of it's importance with the background, the light (or the lack thereof), how detailed you draw it, how big, how small, etc....
Take your time and really think about it...

“Look at the subject as if you have never seen it before.  Examine it from every side.   Draw its outline with your eyes or in the air with your hands,  and saturate yourself with it.”

-John Baldessari

 

DUE THURSDAY MAY 30TH

Sketchbook Assignments

Art 2= Something "Summer" you must draw from life...put an object in front of you and draw it..include all the lights and darks, shadows and highlights. Do not draw a sun with sunglasses on!
DUE MON 5/20

Painting= Draw yourself ...using a mirror....and value.  Draw three thumbnails for possible portrait paintings...look at some examples below.

New Painting Assignment

It's Self-Portrait Time!
I know what you're thinking....booooo.  I get it but this time it's different, kind of, if you want it to be.  Your assignment is to do a self-portrait in paint.  I am open to how you interpret this but I would like to see you challenge yourself and get experience in painting portraits.  Here are some examples to get you thinking...

Spring has sprung!

Sorry it's been a while since my last post!  Here's what's going on...
Ceramics 1 is working on finishing up the Greek vessels and they look great!

Ceramics 2 is working on Historically Inspired pieces. It's great to see a variety of different things from different cultures and time periods.

 

Painting students are working on Candy Still Lifes...one of my favorite projects and Art 2 is working on Portraits. Everyone is doing great work and I'm really impressed. Check out my instagram" msmartinelli" to see peoples' projects and the art I see out in the world!

TRIMESTER 3!

Hi everyone and welcome to trimester 3!  There's only 60ish days left until beautiful vacation! Ahhh.... but until then it's all about making amazing artwork!

Here's what's going on this week in room 233:

Ms.Cuneo is our student teacher and working with all classes on...

Ceramics 2- Cookie Jars!  What's yours going to look like?!

Painting- Chromatic Neutrals aka Complimentary Colors painting. One of my favorite projects. This is the assignment given to me in graduate school that got me excited about painting and mixing colors!

Art 2- exploring lines, mixing colors and figuring out how to unify a piece with color, repetition, value, pattern and texture

Ceramics 1- pinch pot containers....I see some cool things being made from just a simple pinch pot!

Just wanted to share with you these amazing boots....cool right? They are made of CLAY! See the amazing things you can do with clay?!  They are by artist Marilyn Levine...check her out. Some incredible stuff!

Congratulations!

Congratulations to

Maya Tajchman

and 

Lauren Baldwin 

for winning awards in the 

Scholastic Art Awards competition!

It is a tough contest so it's quite an honor to win this award!