Mr. Rice's Art Classes

Week of December 6-10:

Graphic Design: Students finished Self Portraits using only numbers or letters that represent each student. Students used filters, and layers to produce artwork inspired by Jasper Johns. Students will work in photoshop next week creating landscapes based on Salvador Dali.
Students should be bringing home binders next week.
Final for 1st hour class: Tuesday Dec. 21. Final for 3rd hour class: Friday Dec. 17

Foundations of Drawing: Students continue working on the 3 sided designs using their flower Drawings. Projects will be due Wednesday December 15.
Final for 2nd hour class: Monday Dec. 20. Final for 5th hour class: Friday Dec. 17

Visual Art: Students are working with positive and negative space designs. We will begin using watercolor techniques this week that will be used on the final design.
Remember this is a year long class. We will have mid semester final tests.
Fijnal for 4th hour class: Monday Dec. 20. Final for 7th hour class: Friday Dec. 17

Mr. Rice's Art Classes Nov. 29 - Dec. 3.
Graphic Design: Students finished CD covers. Students re design CD covers for musical artists. Students start work on self portraits based on Jasper Johns art work. Example above:

Foundations of Drawing: Students finished Grid Drawings this week. We are starting on drawing plants and working them into a 3 sided design. Students will transfer drawings onto design and then add graded value.

Visual Art: Students turned in portraits this week. We are starting on a color unit next. Students should be working on sketchbook assignments at home. Students have 4 portraits that are due Wednesday Dec. 8. The portraits should have correct proportions, graded value and 1 portrait per page in the sketchbook.

Mr. Rice's Art Classes: Week of November 22. Happy Thanksgiving Everyone !!!

Graphic Design: Students finished Time Magazine covers, and are working on U.S. Postage stamps. Students need to bring in CD covers for next week's project. We are starting to use Photoshop and learning new skills.

Foundations of Drawing: Students finished their Portraits. We are working on grid drawings from photos. Students will draw grid by grid matching the lines from the photo and then add color and value using the photo as a guide.

Visual Art: Students are working on portraits and proportion. Students are finishing up packets to practice facial features, and shading facial features.
Sketchbook Assignment: 4 portraits in sketchbook. 1 per page. Face should fill a page. I will be looking for correct proportions, and correct shading. Students must draw from life. Sketchbooks are due: Wednesday Dec. 8.

Mr. Briscoe Visual Arts – 11/01/2011

Foundations of Drawing & Visual Arts
Over the last few weeks our visual arts class has been discussing one and two point perspective. Students have been learning about how the use of perspective rules can cause the visual illusion of depth.

One Point Perspective

Two Point Perspective

We’ve done two projects dealing with the use of perspective drawings. One Pt. Perspective DUE:10/28 & Two Pt. Perspective DUE:11/4

Foundations of Design
Foundations of Design students have recently finished a project dealing with color theory and symmetry (Radial Design Project). Students have recently reviewed the Elements of Design. The Elements of Design serve as the basic building blocks of all aesthetics. Everything in our visual world, from art & design to the natural world, contains one or more element of design.

Elements of Design Definitions:
Space – The areas between, around, above, below or within something.
Line – A continuous mark on a surface.
Color – An element of design with three properties, hue, value, and intensity. Color is created by reflected light.
Shape - An enclosed space defined by other art elements such as line, color and texture
Texture – an element of art that refers to the tactile quality of a surface. “The sense of touchability”
Form – Refers to the visual appearance or configuration of a composition.
Value – An element of art that refers to the relative darkness and lightness of an area.
Type – Type is the use of letterform to add a message that would be otherwise challenging to create through the other elements.

Students current project deals with the elements. The project divides the page in seven sections, each section representing a different element. Project DUE: 11/15

Mr. Klausing's Classes 11/8-11/17/10

Drawing I

We have recently completed our unit of study on Perspective Drawing. The final drawing of the school building or Summit Ridge is due Friday, Nov. 12th. On Tuesday, Nov. 9, students did a check for knowledge over perspective drawing. If you were absent that day, you will need to make it up.

Drawing I students are currently working on beginning activities of drawing portraits. Students received information on basic facial proportions on Monday, Nov. 8th. Students are now completing studies of eyes- 1 of their own and 3 from fellow students. These studies should be shaded and not look the same. Remember, everybody's features are different. When drawing eyes, for instance, include and be aware of the differences in length of eyelashes, color and value of iris, size and thickness of eyebrows, etc.

Drawing I students also did a study drawing of the different planar surfaces of the human head and face. This example will be up on the board through the end of the week. If you are gone from school during the time this is up on the board, you will need to get it from a fellow student.

After completing studies of the different features of the face, students will begin work on a self-portrait. We will also do portraits of fellow classmates over the next week as well.

Painting II

In Painting II, students are finishing up work on their self-portraits using arbitrary color. The class critiqued on Wednesday, Nov. 10th, and will continue the critique on Nov. 11th. Students will be allowed the rest of the class period on Thursday the 11th to work and the paintings will be due on Thursday, November 18th.

Painting II students also took notes and received information about 20th century art history, beginning with Cubism and going through Abstract Expressionism. Students will be presented with slides of master paintings they will need to memorize beginning the week of November 15th.

Painting II students will begin working on Abstract Landscape painting beginning the week of November 15th.

IB Visual Art and Portfolio I

During the week of November 8th -12th, students turned in their Investigation Workbooks, then did a variety of different life drawing exercises. This short drawing unit will end with a final figure/portrait drawing done on gray paper with black and white charcoal

Students will begin work on their next theme-based Independent Study Project beginning the week of November 15th.

Students who will be attending the Ray-Pec Art Contest on November 18th need to turn in their permission slips to Mr. Klausing no later than Tuesday, November 16th.

Mrs. Graves' art classes, Nov 8-12

Pottery I - Group A & B, you are working on your coil container and/or glazing your relief tile and thrown work.
Group C, this is your last week on the pottery wheel. You will watch a trimming demo on Tuesday. Make sure you fill oust a self-assessment on all finished work and place your bowl and cylinder on the green-ware cart.

Drawing I - We are still in the hall working on the perspective drawings. You should have all the structural lines drawn and be adding details the first of the week and be shading by Thursday.

Foundations of Design - Your abstraction project is due in class on Tuesday, the grace period due date is Tuesday, Nov. 16. We will begin a unit on Color on Wednesday. We will learn to mix colors and paint a color wheel on Thursday and Friday.

Visual Arts - We are continuing self-portraits. Your portrait should be drawn by Tuesday, 11/9. Once the drawing is complete pick up a shading packet to practice hard and soft edges with value. Have the packet approved then begin shading your self-portrait. Tentative due date: Wednesday, Nov.17.

Mr. Rice's Art Classes:
Week of Nov. 6 into Nov. 8-12.

Graphic Design: Students finished LSW IB design. Students are working on Travel Posters. Travel posters should be printed and in binders by Friday of this week. Travel posters include images and slogans to persuade people to travel to the student's chosen destination.

Foundations of Drawing: Students are working on proportions of the face. Students are working on worksheets covering proportion and shading of facial features. Monday we will begin final portraits from life. Students will draw each other during class.


Visual Art: Students finished practice Optical Illusions and are working on layout of their final optical illusions. Projects must use symmetrical balance. We will finish final Optical Illusions on Friday of this week.

Mrs. Graves' art classes, 10/25-10/29

Pottery I - Some of you are getting very far behind, your absences or late arrivals are really hurting you. Remember, if you miss a class, that time is supposed to be made up before or after school or during a learning lab time. If you come in late you are missing important instruction.

This week: All 3 groups are taking the MID-TERM TEST on Thursday!! Study your terminology folder notes.
Group A: You are working on your slab containers, the sides should be leather hard and you should attach them the first part of the week. Make sure you seal the inside corners with a coil and seal the outside seam by smoothing the clay. After the sides are together roll another slab for the base; cut and attach by scoring and slipping. After everything is attached you need to BURNISH, use the back of a spoon to compress the leather hard clay to a smooth, shiny surface. Make sure the corners are sharp and straight. Pay close attention to the lip, smooth and shape as you burnish.
Group B: You are on the wheel through Wednesday. We review trimming on Monday, remember you have to choose your best cylinder and bowl, fill out a self-assessment and place them on top of the self-assessment and put on the green-ware cart for me to grade. Thursday you are taking the mid-term and Friday you are going back to finish your slab container.
Group C: You are continuing to Coil through Thursday. You will watch the wheel throwing demo on Friday and throw on Monday, Nov. 1st.

Foundations of Design
This week you are finishing your Op-Art project, make sure you are adding color that is high contrast. On Wednesday we are beginning a new project about abstraction. We will learn the 3 styles of art and learn why talented artists would choose to create artwork that is abstract.

Visual Arts
We are working on self-portraits. Monday we continued drawing correct self-portrait proportions in our sketchbook. We are drawing from mirror's. We also reviewed Visual measuring as a tool to make sure you have accurate proportions in your drawing. Picture day is Monday and Tuesday, I took high contrast photos of you to use in your final large self portrait. After you draw a portrait rough draft on Wed and Thursday you will begin your final drawing on Friday.

Mr. Briscoe Visual Arts – 01/10-14

Visual Arts

Over the last few weeks our visual arts class has been discussing two major concepts: line and value. We discussed line as the basic structural element of any drawing. Students have done gestural and contour line drawings to explore the raw nature of line.

Recently we have been focusing on value and its role in creating the illusion of reality and depth. Value is defined as the relationship between dark and light. Students discussed two different types of value: flat value and graded value. Flat value is a single tone while graded value is the subtle shift between dark and light tones. See example below:

FLAT VALUE

GRADED VALUE

Students have been working on a Ribbon Project that deals with depth, overlapping and the effect that a single lightsource has on an image. The rubric for this project is below:

Ribbon Drawing
1. Student demonstrated basic knowledge of drawing ribbons with depth and overlapping – 15 pts.
2. 2. Student used value according to the light source – 15 pts.
3. 3. Student used high degree of detail – 10 pts
4. Effort – Good use of class time and focused development of project – 15 pts
5. Craftsmanship – Neat, Clean, Complete

Value - Graded vs. Flat on Prezi

Foundations of Drawing
Value is the relationship between light and dark. Many students think of shading when they think of value but shading is just one way of showing the relationship between light and dark. Using a basic understanding of value one can create a sense of depth in their drawings. For instance, lighter areas tend to pop off the page or come to the forefront of the drawing. Darker areas tend to recede and move into the back ground.

Students discussed two different types of value: flat value and graded value. Flat value is a single tone while graded value is the subtle shift between dark and light tones.

We’ve done two projects recently:

Ribbon Drawing – Graded Value Project
1. Student demonstrated basic knowledge of drawing ribbons with depth and overlapping – 15 pts.
2. Student used value according to the light source – 15 pts.
3. Student used high degree of detail – 10 pts
4. Effort – Good use of class time and focused development of project – 15 pts
5. Craftsmanship – Neat, Clean, Complete

Circles & Ellipses – Flat Value Project
1. Student demonstrated basic understanding of flat value – 15 pts.
2. Effort – Good use of class time and focused development of project – 15 pts.
3. Craftsmanship – Focus on neat, clean, complete. – 15 pts

Foundations of Design
So far this semester we’ve discussed positive and negative space, graded value, symmetry and color theory. Our current project incorporates all of these concepts. We are working a radial design that allows the students to demonstrate. All of these concepts will be presented on next weeks quiz.

Radial Design Rubric
1. Student demonstrated a knowledge of symmetry and radial symmetry. – 15
2. Student demonstrated a knowledge of positive and negative space, graded value and color theory (primary, secondary and tertiary). - 15
3. Student demonstrated high degree of detail – 10
4. Effort – Good use of class time.
5. Craftsmanship – Focus on neat, clean, complete. – 15 pts

Mr. Klausing's Classes

Week of October 18-22

Drawing I
Drawing I students have their still-life drawing due on Monday, Oct. 18th. During the week of October 10-14, Drawing I students began working on perspective drawing in their sketchbooks. Students drew 9 forms in 1-point perspective and 9 forms in 2-point perspective. We also identified different parts of 1-point perspective in photocopies of LSW building areas. On October 29th, students will be turning in sketchbooks with all activities done over the past three weeks.

On Thursday, October 14th, students went outside to sketch and photograph different compositions from around the building. These sketches and photos will be developed into a project drawing over the next several weeks.

If you have any unfinished sketchbook work, you need to have those completed and turned in by October 29th.

Painting II
Students completed and turned in their Expressionist self-portraits on Thursday, October 14th. After this project, students completed an intensity/value scale using two complementary colors in acrylic paint. This scale should be turned in during the week of October 18th. Beginning on October 18th, students will be working on a representational portrait that communicates a mood or emotion. Students will use dramatic lighting, body position, facial expression, dramatic lighting, and strong value contrast to create the mood and emotion.

IB Visual Art and Portfolio I
Students completed and turned in their first Independent Study theme-based project on Monday, October 11th. Students will be working on their Investigation Workbooks one more day on Monday, October 18th, then be involved in the development of their next theme-based project. Investigation workbooks for the second 6 weeks will be due on November 8th.

Mrs. Graves' class 10/18-10/21

Pottery I- We are still working in 3 separate groups, eventually everyone will get their chance to work on the pottery wheel.
Group A- You are beginning your slab containers. By the end of the week you should be connecting the sides using one of the 3 techniques taught in class. Don't forget to score and slip and also place a coil in the inside corner to make sure the corner is joined permanently. Begin burnishing when everything is connected.
Group B - You are on the wheel! Remember, you must create one cylinder and one bowl to be graded. The dates have changed, you are throwing until 10/27. You are not throwing on the half days.
Group C- You are working on your themed coil pots. Remember to score and slip each layer. If your slab containers are not finished yet, they must be in by Monday.

On the half days we are going to update our notes in the terminology folder to prepare for the mid-term exam coming up. We will also be doing some mid-term cleanup, going through supplies and cleaning out cubbies.

Drawing I - We are finishing the still life, complete with high contrast with cast shadows and high lights. The still life is due on Tuesday. Wed, and Thurs. we will be working on perspective.

Foundations of Design- Your Op-Art design is due on Tuesday. New project on Wednesday.

Visual Arts - Yeah, it is portrait time!! We are working on individual features first then moving onto full face self-portraits. Remember, you can always do extra credit in your sketchbooks by drawing a portrait of someone at home!

Mr. Rice's Classes 6 Weeks

Foundations of Design: Students are working on shading techniques. Value Scales will be created so students can refer back to compare values on their drawings and designs. Value design: Taking simple patterns and designs and creating graded value to create depth. Hand Drawings have just been turned in. Students draw from life working from worksheets and continue onto drawing from life and shading.
Students are drawing bottles from life right now in class.

Visual Art: Students are working on Shading techniques. Students created value Charts as guides for future projects. Students created radial designs using symmetrical balance, then using graded value in color to create depth. Students are working on drawing from life drawing hands. Students are painting the background using watercolors.

Graphic Design: Students have created textile designs using adobe illustrator. Students created Olympic Pictograms representing Olympic sports. Students used artist Catalina Estrada as inspiration for art work. (link to Catalina Estrada's website. http://www.katika.net/ Students create designs using inspirational quotes. (Creative text, typing on a path, and emphasizing important words or letters in the quote) Students are now creating individual logos that represent each student. Studens will use their logo on business cards, letterhead, and in a resume'.

Mrs. Graves' classes - 9/27-10/1

Pottery I- Group A is continuing the work on the wheel, you should be working on making a bowl and we will have a demo on trimming the foot of your work on Thursday and Friday, your last day on the wheel is Tuesday (10-5). Groups B & C are putting together their slab container and beging the process of burnishing when the work is leather hard.

Drawing I - We are still in our still life unit, finishing up working in our sketchbook on individual objects, trasparent, reflective and textured. Thursday and Friday we are drawing rough drafts in the sketchbook of the final still life, 2 views. Geometric form composition is due on Wednesday.

Visual Arts - We are continuing our shoes and legs project. The goal: creating the illusion of depth.

Mr. Rice's message

Mr Rice hopes everyone has a safe and happy summer !!!

Mrs. Graves says "Have a great summer!"

Have a nice summer and I will see you back in class on August 18. I will be teaching Pottery I, II & III; Drawing I, Visual Arts, and Foundations of Drawing.

Mr. Klausing's Art Classes

Painting I
The monochromatic watercolor self-portrait is due Thursday, February 18th. If you have had extended absences during the time we've worked on these, please talk to Mr. Klausing about arranging a new due date for your painting project. Remember, the grading criteria for the monochromatic self-portrait. They are:
- Quality of Drawing/Likeness
- Use of Value Contrast in Painting
- Craftsmanship/Control and use of Watercolor Techniques
- Detail/Complexity/Difficulty of Challenge
- Neatness and Presentation of Project

All students need to provide a high-contrast photo for their next watercolor activity- Lift-Off Painting in Watercolor. Students should have these photos with them when they come to class on Tuesday, February 16th.

Students will also be doing a reading activity from the ARTFORMS textbook which will cover the background and history of various painting techniques. This activity will be done in class Monday and Tuesday of the week of February 16th - February 19th.

IB Visual Art and Portfolio II
Students have their Investigation Workbooks for the first 6 weeks due Tuesday, February 16th.
The second Independent Study Project for the 6 weeks is due Thursday, February 18th. During the next week(February 14- 19), IB Visual Art students will begin to work on their Candidate Statements which are part of the required materials which will be turned in with their Candidate Record Booklet prior to their IB Visual Art Exam.

The IB Visual Art Exams/Interviews for 2010 have been extended to include Saturday, March 27th as well as Monday, March 29th. All IB Visual Art and Portfolio II students are required to participate in the set-up on Friday, March 26th, and also expected to be in attendance at the IB Visual Art and Portfolio Art Exhibit and Reception on Sunday, March 28th, at 7:00 pm. The reception will begin at 7:00 pm and run till approximately 9:00 pm. Friends, family, and faculty are invited to attend the event. IB Visual Art students and Portfolio students are expected to help provide the refreshments for the reception.

Mr. Briscoe's Class: 12/18-1/11

Well, life is hectic and I haven't had a chance to post in a couple of weeks...I apologize. What we've been up to...

Foundations of Drawing:
Foundations of Drawing has been continuing to work with contour lines. Contour line drawings are drawings that defy the outer and inner line by prohibiting lifting of the pencil. In other words contour line drawings teach you to view all lines as significant, forcing the artist to focus on detail. This is important because many people tend to focus on just the outline or just the obvious lines...well, not in my class!

Creative Hands Project:
We began a project using sign language letters to guide our drawing. Each student chose a series of words or a phrase, perhaps even their name, to sign with one hand. With the other hand they were asked to draw a contour line drawing of their own hand. Again this was used to practice focusing on detail by forcing the artist to look back and forth between the object and the paper.

Rubric:
1. Student demonstrated basic knowledge of contour line, value & overlapping. - 15 pts
2. Student used 10 or more hand gestures - 10 pts
3. Student used high degree of detail - 10 pts
4. Effort - Student took time to develop idea and complete project - 20 pts
5. Craftsmanship - Neat, Clean, Complet - 20 pts.

Shoe Drawings
Foundations of Design also started another contour line drawing but this time of shoes placed in a still life.

Rubric:
1. Student demonstrated basic knowledge of contour line - 15 pts.
2. Student filled space and used overlapping. - 10 pts
3. Student used high degree of detail - 10 pts
4. Effort - took time to develop idea and complet project. - 20 pts
5. Crafsmanship - Neat, Clean, Complete. - 20 pts

Foundations of Design:
We have spent the last two weeks talking about positive and negative space. Positive space is the space that represents the "object" or the space occupied. Negative space is the area all around the the "object".

We did a packet that practiced this concept worth 50 pts.

We also started a new project dealing with pos/neg relationships using transfer paper. The class is overlapping lines and reversing out the pos/neg space.

Rubric:
1. Student demonstrated basic knowledge of pos/neg space. - 15pts
2. Student filled space and used overlapping. - 10 pts
3. Student used high degree of detail. - 10 pts
4. Effort - took time to develop idea and complete project. - 20 pts
5. Craftsmanship - Neat, clean, complet. - 20 pts

Again, feel free to e-mail me with questions: brandon.briscoe@leesummit.k12.mo.us

Mr. Briscoe's Class: 1/11-1/15

Hello Class,
This blog is used as a way for you to stay up-to-date on what is going on in my class. If you've missed school or if you have questions about an assignment or project this site is intended to help you. The title of your class will always appear within the content of the posting. Look under your class for instruction regarding that weeks lessons and assignment.

Have a great semester!

Foundations of Drawing:

This week we introduced you to two basic elements of art: line and value. We discussed how line, more specifically the stroke of a line, is used as the basic structure for a drawing. Stroke refers to the weight of the line that gives variance (or difference) to the structure of a drawing. Differences of stroke can give a drawing a sense of texture, expression or the illusion of three-dimensions if used correctly.

Value is the relationship between light and dark. Many students think of shading when they think of value but shading is just one way of showing the relationship between light and dark. Using a basic understanding of value one can create a sense of depth in their drawings. For instance, lighter areas tend to pop off the page or come to the forefront of the drawing. Darker areas tend to recede and move into the back ground.

Our current project employs both your basic understanding of line and value to create a drawing on the front of your semester portfolio. This project is worth 75 points.

Portfolio Drawing Rubric: 75 pts
1. Student demonstrated basic knowledge of line, stroke & value - 15 pts
2. Student did 5 or more drawings/designs on their portfolio - 10 pts
3. Student used a high degree of detail - 10 pts
4. Effort - Student took time to develop their idea and completed the project - 20 pts
5. Craftsmanship - Student was neat, clean & complete in their project - 20 pts

Foundations of Design:

We started the class this week discussing four major ideas: line, value, repetition and color.

The element of art known as line is simply defined as a continuous mark on a surface. We discussed how differences of stroke (or difference of the weight of a line) can be used to give a drawing a sense of texture, expression or the illusion of three-dimensions when used correctly. The line is the basic structure for most drawings and will be addressed throughout the semester.

We also discussed value. Value is and element of art that refers to the relative lightness and darkness of an area. We discussed how value relationships between black and white as well as in light and dark colors can create a sense of depth on the page; lighter values creating the illusion of nearness, darker values the illusion of distance or recession.

Color is also very important to design. There are many theories about color and many different concepts to discuss. Our focus this week was on the differences between warm and cool colors. We discussed how warm colors (ex: red, yellow, orange) tell our minds that an image is close or in the foreground. Cool colors (ex: blue, purple and some greens) tend to have the opposite effect, telling our mind that a image is in the background or farther away. In our project we are focusing on this contrast between warm and cool colors. I want to see you use warm and cool colors as a way of pulling objects to the front of your design and pusing other objects or space into the background.

Lastly we are using all of these elements and applying them to the principle of repetition. Repetition is simply the recurrence of elements within a piece. In your project you've been asked to take your elements (line, values, color) and repeat them in order to creat a sense of pattern.

We are currently designing the covers of our semester portfolios. The rubric for this project is below:

Portfolio Design Rubric: 75 pts
1. Student demonstrated basic knowledge of line, color, repetition & value.
2. Student used 5 or more patterns - 10 pts
3. Student used high degree of detail - 10 pts
4. Effort - Student took time to develop their idea and completed the project - 20 pts
5. Craftsmanship - Student was neat, clean & complete in their project - 20 pts

Lee's Summit Fine Arts Challenge

The LSW Art Department would like to thank every student who participated in the work submission for the Lee's Summit Fine Art Challenge. We had over 140 works submitted and the juror, Jim Smith (MCC-Longview Fine Arts Dept. Head) had a very hard time deciding what to include. Approximately half of those works submitted made it into the exhibition and we want to congratulate those students.

We also want to thank our partners at Longview Cultural Arts Center for giving our talented students an opportunity to show in such a wonderful space. We greatly appreciate Jim Smith for his participation as well as Dan Reneau, Director and Curator of the Longview Cultural Arts Gallery, for spear-heading the organization of this event.

YOU'RE INVITED TO THE EXHIBITION!
We would also like to invite you, your family and your community to join us January 22 for the Opening Reception & Awards Ceremony. There will be food, drinks and lots of conversation about art. There will also be prizes awarded for those works that were exceptional.

First Place - $100
Second Place - $50
Third Place - $25

Exhibition Opening: January 22nd, 5-8 pm
Awards Presentation at 6 pm

Directions to Longview Community College
Longview Campus Map

If you have any other questions please get in touch with Brandon Briscoe - brandon.briscoe@leesummit.k12.mo.us