Art Honor Society Field Trip: Southampton

Today was the final Art Honor Society Field Trip of the year to Southampton where we strolled through a classic sculpture garden, visited some galleries and hit the beach to take pictures.  Our last meeting of the year will be next Wednesday, the day before the final day of classes.

Art Honor Society: Congrats to our new inductees!

Our 2016 Art Honor Society Induction Ceremony was held this week so congrats to all our new inductees and award winners!  We have a few projects to finish and our spring field trip to the Hampton's is Tuesday.  We'll be visiting the Parrish Museum of Art as well as some local galleries and we'll be leaving first period so be ready to learn!

Art Honor Society: Induction Ceremony

Today is our Art Honor Society induction ceremony and we will be having our 2nd to last art gallery opening.  We really did a number of projects this year and we have some great learning and art to show for it!  Take a look at the year in review video above edited by Rosalie to look back at our creative year!

Studio Art: New York State Pavilion Design Project

In Studio Art we are working in groups to design a new 21st century purpose for the classic World Fair architecture in Queens as we take part in the New York State Pavilion Design Ideas Competition.  We will work in groups of 4-5 to think of ways to utilize and revitalize the space and make it meaningful for the future while preserving the architecture and history of the past.  The groups will begin by brainstorming and then we'll use 3D printing technology to virtually build our designs and actually print them out.

New York State Pavilion [Documentary] from Matthew Silva on Vimeo.

Digital Media: Portrait Photography

In Digital Media class we will be editing the Light Painting and tiltshift images today and tomorrow we will be created the filters with handwriting that was demonstrated in class last week.  This week's challenge is portraits- we are going to take 10 images 5 interior in a studio situation and 5 exterior in the courtyard.  The images are due Thursday and we'll edit Friday and Tuesday.

Film: Film Research Project

In Film class we have been sharing our Film Research Projects and learning about the notable actors, writers,showrunners, and directors of the film world. We also learned a bit about Long Island history such as Marilyn Monroe's summer home in Mount Sinai and Long Islander, Judd Apatow's college radio show. The list below is all of the people that we learned about and will be responsible for on th Tuesday's test.

1. Isabella- Lenny Abrahamson
2. Jordyn- Katharine Hepburn
3. Taylor- James Cameron
4. Morgan- Martin Scorsese
5. Veronica- Marilyn Monroe
6. Victoria- Woody Allen
7. Frank- George Clooney
8. James- Clint Eastwood
9. Kayla- Jason Reitman
10. Emma- Alejandro G. Iñárritu
11. Thomas- Steven Spielberg
12. Derek- John Wayne
13. John- David Fincher
14. Nicole- David O. Russell
15. Thomas- George Lucas
16. Kevin- Adam McKay
17. Alana- James Dean
18. Christopher- James Stewart
19. Anthony- Steven Spielberg
20. Anthony- Quentin Tarantino
21. Needles- Philip Rosenthal
22. Showrunners- Judd Apatow
23. Showrunners- Kurt Sutter
24. Showrunners- Joss Whedon

AP Art: Collaborative Jon Burgerman Mural

In AP Art it's service week so we are completing our collaborative Jon Burgerman mural as well as our hallway mural, class wall paintings, and our collaborative coloring book.  Choose whichever project you'd like to work on and we'll complete these projects to benefit future students!

Digital Media: Light Painting

In Digital Media class we will begin to learn the basic of Light Painting today using the iphone app LightBomber and the DSLR camera (the same technique with both).  Students will work in groups of three after our quiz to create digital illustrations with ligh, each student should create at least one good light painting image but you are free to take as many as you like and get creative.

We will be editing on Monday and Tuesday next week so make sure you finish all the images before then below is what is due this week:

• 5 Tiltshift images
• 1 Lightpainting Image
• 1 Lightpainting Group image
• 2 Double Exposure Images
• 1 Handwriting filter self-portrait
• 1 Handwriting filter landscape

National Art Honor Society: the 10th Biennial Global Mural Conference

The National Art Honor Society will collaborate with students throughout NY State to work paint a mosaic mural for the 10th Biennial Global Mural Conference (GMC).  The GMC will take place in Fairport, NY in September 2016 and the theme is “Preserving Heritage Through Community Art”.  The mosaic mural above from Sherbrooke, Quebec home of the 2014 Global Mural Conference and it gives a glimpse of what to expect.  Our society will ask for 6 student volunteers to paint a 6” square for the mural which already has a baclground that will create a larger image of Erie Canal history in the background.  

Each student will choose a colored tile, and decide what image/scene will add visual texture to the 
under-painting. The topics can be your local heritage, Erie Canal history, Underground Railroad, 
Womens’ Suffrage, Native American culture, flora and fauna or symbols of New York State.
 

Studio Art: Every Day Drawing Challenge Extra Credit

In Studio Art this month's extra credit assignment will be to join in on the #k12artchat daily drawing challenge.  Below are the daily prompts and you can share them on twitter or instagram using the hashtag #k12artchat along with #eddc (every day drawing challenge) and tagging me in the image

May 15   #164         Draw a camera

May 16   #176         Draw something summer

May 17   #179         Draw an onion

May 18   #184        Draw a park bench or other outside bench

May 19   #199        Draw a toe

May 20  #207        Draw a shell

May 21   #215         Draw your thumb

May 22   #226        Draw a screw

May 23   #246        Draw some gloves

May 24   #253        Draw your socks

May 25   #283        Draw something shiny

May 26   #295        Draw some toast

May 27   #314         Draw something with a knob

May 28   #343        Draw a bridge

May 29   #348        Draw some things that remind you of your favorite song

May 30  #349         Draw an illustration of your favorite poem

May 31   #355         Draw something in a jar

AP Art: Finding Vivian Maier

In AP Art class we watched the Oscar winning photography documentary Finding Vivian Maier about Vivian Maier.  Today we will conclude the film and begin writing a short 250 word, typed reflection which will be due on Monday.  You might want to take a closer look at some of her photographs at vivianmaier.com before writing about her work.  When writing talk about her work and her story but also how you relate and what you find most interesting.

Studio Art: Origami Paper Box

This week in class we are designing and creating a unique origami paper box, my example from our class demonstration is pictured above.  The first step is using writing and watercolor to create an original design the cutting the paper into a square (be sure to keep the extra piece because we'll be using it to create beads later). Below are the video instructions on how to fold the box, you can play it and go back to any part you have a difficulty with in case your having trouble.

Digital Media: Photographing Enviornment

In Digital Media we are focusing this week on creating environmental photographs that have a emotional potency.  The images above and below by Rosalie are great examples of using environment and the elements of photography for impact.

Using the environment to tell part of the story and set the stage for an image can have a big impact- this week's challenge is to create 10 photos that can act as writing prompts which incorporate the environment.  The photos can contain portraits, animals, or just nature itself but they should have an element of narrative.

As with the other images they will need to be editing in Photoshop and include a small boarder and we will now be copyrighting all of the images in Photoshop as well (I'll demonstrate hoe in class).

Studio Art: Paper Craft

In studio art we are beginning a paper craft unit in which we will be creating origami paper boxes, paper jewelry, and paper vases using recycled materials and some of the previous lessons we learned such as Gelli printing and dry brush painting.

After learning the basic forms we'll get creative and experiment with creating new paper craft art in unique ways and try out some different techniques.

AP Art: AP Test Day

Its the big day, in AP Art it is finally AP Test Day!  We will be finalizing and submitting our work online and via portfolio so make sure you are prepared with all of your art and writing.

Studio Art: Artist Research Project

Aakash Nihalani - STOP from Picasso Pictures on Vimeo.

Today we completed the majority of the artist presentations for this semester's Artist Research Project so tomorrow we will write a short reflective essay on what was learned and what stands out in the artwork we viewed.  The full list of artist is on the blog in an earlier post but you can choose which artists you want to discuss to answer the three reflective questions.

Included in this post are some of the films on the artists we watched in class but had to be cut short for time.  The video above shows Aakash Nihalani's full process in creating a street art piece and below is our friend Sean Leonard interviewing Dima Drjuchin about his art and illustrations including some of his epic album covers- Enjoy!

Digital Media: Photography

In Digital Media class we are beginning our Photography unit by learning the elements and principals of photography.  The video above by legendary photographer Steve McCurry shows how to incorporate some of this learning into taking pictures and the video we watched with student examples is also linked above.  This month you will be given a photo challenge each week that needs to be completed by Thursday at the start of class and Thursday and Friday will be in the computer lab where we will learn more about editing with Photoshop.  This week's challenge in to incorporate the 12 elements and principals into photographs, photograph each of the following with the exception of the first two which we'll learn more about later.

We will also be learning the terms associated with the DSLR camera which can be found here: B&H website.  We'll be going over these basic terms in class and they'll be on the camera test next week.

The Principles:

• Emphasis
• Unity/Variety
• Balance
• Contrast
• Movement
• Rhythm/Repetition

The Elements:

• Line
• Shape/Form
• Space
• Value
• Texture/Pattern
• Color

Media Art: Storytelling Docs

In Media Art class we are begin to learn about storytelling and screenwriting and we are starting with StoryCorps Short Docs.  We will discuss how to craft good questions and develop a story and then use the StoryCorps App to record a true short story and a short interview.  We will then take some of those interviews or short stories and develop them into short film documentaries.

AP ART: It's AP Art week

Today in AP art class we will begin uploading the AP Studio Art Submissions for the AP test, on May 6. Below is the information you need to know to "forward your portfolio to teacher":

School Code: 335001
School: SMITHTOWN HIGH SCH E CAMPUS
Teacher Key: xwt0100

Make sure all the work is sized and the media is stated and the concentration statements are set before submitting your work to me.  Additionally you need to have your 5 quality pieces prepared to send in the AP portfolio case.  Good luck, we're almost there!