synthesizingTo transform is to use the many creative thinking tools at the same time to produce almost any kind of object, product or idea in any field. This is true for science, technology and art.
The video located on the Fresh Art from the Studio blog is a good example. It is a video done with origami to tell the story of how Asics shoes were developed.
Build your own task.
Look and draw.
Look at a person, place or thing, draw it. Then change it into something new!
You may make it 2D or 3-D. You may photograph or video it if it is fragile or too large.
Media: You choose.
When: Due the week of January 30th on your art day.
Where: Art Studio at your art time
Please always bring your art journal to art class!
This week ALL journal assignments from #8-#18 need to be handed in.
Art grades are due on your art day beginning Monday, January 31!
is doing something because it is fun and you enjoy it. There is no success or failure involved.
It is important to play! It can improve thinking skills by practicing. Role playing helps you to improve your skills of modeling, making analogies,, play acting & being empathetic. Game playing teaches you how to make rules that define how you behave & think…and also how to break them creatively to discover something new!
Modeling is…to make things smaller, life-sized or bigger, physical or mathematical, realistic or abstract. It is used to explain something that is difficult to experience easily.
It is important to model …in every discipline. Modeling teaches imaginative skills and insists on careful, intense observation. It is important to initially shape material with your own hands.
Build your own!
Observe and…
1.Draw something
that is 3 dimensional or
2.Make a sculpture
from paper, clay or
other material
then draw it or take
a photo of it. It must
be in your journal to
get credit for the
assignment!
Due: on your art day week of January 16, 2012. No loose pages !
Please create your work ON your journal page correct #(16)
Please bring your journal to art class on every art day.
We see a lot of reflected light at this time of year because it is dark so much more . We see reflections in puddles of water, on the snow, in windows, from the light of our windows, from candles. i think you can think of a lot of others if you just begin to observe and recognize patterns.Some of the reflections may beabstract,like the shapes thrown by crystals or chandeliers.
Build your own!
Observe and…
1.Draw how light is reflecting on a darker surface.
Dimensional thinking means understanding that you can describe an idea or image from
3-D to 2-D ( as above) by mapping or transforming it; by changing the scale or proportion of things or by having the idea that there may be space & dimension that extends beyond what we know.
It is important to think dimensionally like artists, engineers, architects, and scientists do!
Build your own!
Observe and…
1.Draw something
that is 3 dimensional.
2.Make a 3-D object and draw or photograph it!
3. Describe an idea by mapping it. For example, make a map for directions ; for understanding a problem better, like the map above.
