Sketchbook Entry Prompt for Jan 5

1. Divide your spread into 8 windows (any size, any shape). Devote a window to each day of winter break.
2. Illustrate Christmas morning and the presents you would get if you lived on Mars in the year 3010.
3. Your winter break is a movie. Design a promotional poster for it on your spread.

Portfolio Day- Sunday December 5

Just a reminder... this weekend (Sunday) is Portfolio Day at MICA.
http://www.mica.edu/Admission_and_Financial_Aid/Undergraduate_Admission_and_Financial_Aid/Visit_Campus/Visiting_MICA/National_Portfolio_Day_in_Baltimore.html

HOCO Scholarship Deadline 12/13

Go to:
http://www.hocoarts.org/grant_programs.php
to download an application.

Due Dates! Hooray!

Claywork for your shoes must be completed by 2:15 Friday December 3!!!

ARTAY PARTAY! Alternative Option

Life Drawing/Painting Sessions - Drop In Monitor: Jim Adkins Adult $12.00 ( member: $12.00 )
Start Time: 7:30 PM / End Time: 10:00 PM
Days: Tuesdays Location: Room 9
A live, nude model is provided at each session. A monitor coordinates all sessions, however, instruction is not provided. The sessions consist of a single pose with the same model over a multiple week period for detailed figure study work. One day, multi-pose sketching sessions will be held on occasion. Bring your own art materials. There are a limited number of easels, which are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Sessions purchased in advance are only good for one year from time of purchase. Pre-registration is not required.

Figure Model Sessions - Drop In

Participants under age 18 must have parental consent to participate.

$12 per session (purchased in advance)

$60 for 6 sessions

LOCATION:
Howard County Center for the Arts
8510 High Ridge Road
Ellicott City, Maryland 21043

Portfolio Day- Sunday December 5

If you are a junior or senior planning on going to art college, you should bring your portfolio to:

http://www.mica.edu/Admission_and_Financial_Aid/Undergraduate_Admission_and_Financial_Aid/Visit_Campus/Visiting_MICA/National_Portfolio_Day_in_Baltimore.html

ARTAY PARTAY!

There will be no Artay Partay the week of Thanksgiving.
Why?
A) I have glorious dates with your parents
B) I have to bake pies.

Use this time off to work on your sketchbook entry or perhaps some of the contests listed in previous entries. Happy Thanksgiving!

Art Opportunities

Gigacon: A Multimedia Convention
http://www.gigacon.aiwdepts.com/


Images of Freedom Poster Contest
Area middle school and high school students are asked to
interpret what Images of Freedom means to them. Winning artwork will be
displayed on the side of a Howard County Transit vehicle for the entire
month of February! Again this year, all artwork will be featured in a
February 2011 gallery show at Columbia Art Center.
RULES FOR ELIGIBILITY
• Open to all Howard County middle and high school students
• Finished artwork must be submitted to CA headquarters no later than Wednesday, January 5, 2011
• Artwork must be submitted on white 8.5”x11” paper, landscape format
• Artwork should display images, controversial words not allowed (non-abstract artwork preferred)
• Artwork may be done in pencil, colored pen, ink, colored ink, markers, colored markers, colored paint
or original photography
• Winning images will be reproduced and displayed on Howard County Transit buses, and should therefore,
provide sufficient contrast and color intensity
• Required: Please include name, age, school, home address, email and phone number on a separate
sheet of paper
Send entries to: Images of Freedom Poster Contest
Columbia Association • c/o Kelly Cooper • 10221 Wincopin Circle, Columbia, MD 21044
For more information, please call 410-715-3104.

AP Students-

AP Art Students

Homework/Sketchbook Assignment due Tuesday November 23. 50 points.

Find 5 artists who a working similarly to your concentration. Print at least one artwork from each artist, attach in your sketchbook on one spread. Record the name, artist, and date for each work as well as the source you got it from.

If you do not have a color printer at home, plan ahead to use the one in 707 after school.

Sketchbook Entry Prompt for December 14

1. Design your own fragrance, create a 2-page spread advertisement for it.
2. Design your own sandwich (as far from 'normal' as possible- This should make the McRib look healthy and normal), create a 2-page spread advertisement for it.
3. Design a tool or object that makes art class easier, create a 2-page spread advertisement for it.

Behold Caroline's edible art. Mmmmm.

Sketchbook Entry Prompts for November 30

1. Thanksgiving Dinner, Before and After (This does not necessarily have to do with food)
2. A place I visit that I do not live in.
3. Thanksgiving Break Travel Log.

You rock.

Thank you those of you who check the blog regularly. You are awesome students !!
Monday we will be finishing up the interior drawings. They are looking great-- a huge improvement over the first round! You should be proud!!

AP Students-

11/18 Is your In-Process Homework check-- 50 points

Sketchbook Entry Due Tomorrow.

Nuff said.
Bring your sketchbook tomorrow.

Seniors--

If you are planning to apply to Towson and enroll in an art program, see me ASAP.

ARTAY PARTAY!

There is no Artay Partay at OMHS the week of November 8, but you do have another exciting opportunity for evening art making fun-

2 Seminars are being offered- If you wish to attend, you are more than welcome- just please sign up on the window (outside of my classroom) by the end of school Monday so we have an accurate head count for supplies.

Both are at Howard High School, 6:30-8pm
Tuesday November 9, 2011- Expressive Drawing Techniques
Thursday November 11, 2011- Narrative Traditions and Cinematic Compositions

Sketchbook Entry Prompts for November 11

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•Capture a sense of calm with blue colors. Theme: raindrops and cats wearing clothes.

The theme of this corpse-cold moon, while incorporating mist coiling through a wood and sailboats.

Show a sassy servant, and swords. The piece should not contain any sort of rusted but functional machinery.

Try to create a sense of reluctance with a vampire in a leaning pose.

Your theme is: perfume. Depict any emotion or quality except urgency.

ARTAY PARTAY!

There will be no Artay Partay at OMHS this week, however there is another opportunity at Howard High Tuesday 11/9 and Thursday 11/11. Details forthcoming.

Due Dates! Hooray!

Monday 11/1- AP Homework #3 is due
Wednesday 11/3, beginning of class- completed interior drawing is due.

No work will be accepted for quarter one after Wednesday 11/3.

Art Opportunity

The Interior

Interior Drawings

Field Trip October 22

Just some info about our art-cation:
We leave at 8:30, come to the Art room after first period.
We should return by 2pm, but have a back up plan if we do not.
We will be outside for at least 30 minutes doing a sketchbook activity, so dress appropriately.
Bring money or a bag lunch.
Menu with prices for the Cafe at the National Gallery:
http://www.nga.gov/pdf/cascadecafe_menu.pdf

Sketchbook Entry Prompts for October 29

Capture a sense of sin with achromatic colors. Theme: eternal connection.

Prepare a piece in a folk art style. Using green colors, evoke a sense of worry and place the subject in a dark alley.

Prepare a piece in a mannerist style. Using dark colors, evoke a sense of hope and place the subject in the Barbary Coast.

Show a priestess, and hugging. Theme: burning bright. It should contain a bald head or Chia pet, and use primarily neutral colors.

This is a picture of a governess and a boy who cries in a lush garden, with a theme of eternity.Use a limited color palette.

Using a predominantly complementary color scheme, show a character in a mood of nervousness. Experiment with the amount, angle, harshness, origin, source, or color of the lighting.

Using a predominantly purple color scheme, show a bishounen (beautiful boy) in a mood of rejection. Listen to a style of music that you usually don't listen to while creating.

Using grey colors, evoke a sense of disgust and place the subject in Venice.

ARTAY PARTAY!-- Change in meeting time!!!

Studio Night
October 19, 2010
MINOR CHANGE IN MEETING TIME!!!! 4:30-7pm. Feel free to bring some nibbles!
I apologize for the change, but I have to accommodate another appointment.

Field Trip October 22

Please remember-- your slip and 10$ is due to Miss Leatherman by October 19.
This includes signatures from all of your teachers-- don't forget!!!

Newspaper Composition

Have these finished Monday 10/18 for a critique in class!

College Night TONIGHT!!!

Fine Arts College Night
TONIGHT
Long Reach High School
7-9pm
6:45 Registration

AP Students-

You must show me your in-progress Concentration work Monday October 11, 2010 for a 50 point grade.

Contest! Win Dinero!

Examples of festival posters

Sketchbook Entry Prompts for October 14

•Create a realistic portrait of a cartoon character. Prompt: love and loss.

Portray a sense of deviousness with a field of roses and a kung-fu fight.

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Show a woman with long nails, and a band of rebels. The piece should not contain any sort of chivalry.

This picture depicts a haggard woman and an elf and either mirrors or the texture of leather. Prompt: illusion.

Using purple colors, create a picture of a demon in a gondola. Theme: the leaves are falling.

•Your picture is set in a carnival during winter and involves two of these three elements: a black leather trenchcoat, elaborate clothing that means things, or synchronized swimming.

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Sketchbook Inspiration!

sketchbooks nicole brisco

ARTAY PARTAY!

The next open studio night will be Tuesday October 5, 2010, 5:30-8pm.
Please be prepared and bring something to work on independently. No instruction will be given. This is a chance for you to work on independent portfolio works or get caught up on class assignments.

Due Dates! Hooray!

Reminder-- Sketchbook Entry due Thursday September 30.

A Visual Voice!

A Visual Voice: A printmaking unit tackling social injustice.

<---Artist: Colin Matthes
Presidential Debates

I never thought I would make a print about presidential elections, but here it is. I made this print for a travelling show called art of democracy.

The recent financial bailouts have have added to this pre-bailout print.

There are a few different versions of this print-black and yellow on brown, just black on brown, black and yellow on grey, and black on grey. ..they all look pretty similar.

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Artist: Melanie Cervantes
Title: A Slingshot to Defend Your Life?

A solidarity piece with the young Palestinian children who must use slingshots to defend their lives and their land from the Israeli tanks, "Apache" helicopters and machine-gun toting soldiers who continue to invade, "settle" and colonize Palestine.

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A few more examples...



























References for print images of this theme:
http://www.graphicwitness.org/group/tgp.htm
http://graphicwitness.org/ineye/index2.htm
http://www.justseeds.org/

AP Concentration Examples

AP Visual Art Portfolio Concentration Examples

ARTAY PARTAY!!

Miss Leatherman's painting (to be titled)

Don't forget- Open Studio Night this Thursday! You can paint juicy sliced fruit with me or bring something else to work on independently.

Open Studio Night

September 23
5pm-8:30pm
There will be a still life to paint, otherwise you may work independently. Please take advantage of this three hour block to work!
Sign up sheet is outside my room on the window.

Due Dates! Hooray!

Sketchbook Entry- Thurs 9/16
AP- In Process Homework must be shown to me by Friday 9/17 end of class
AP Homework- Friday 9/24
Sketchbook Thursday 9/30

Sketchbook Entry due 9/16- Thursday!!!!!
For visual ideas on what complete spreads should look like:
http://www.1000journals.com/index.php?view=Journals%2FIndex

Still Life Examples by Carol Marine

Carol Marine Paintings Still Life

Syllubus, Due Dates