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DAVE WEGENERVisual Arts @ BHHS since 1997 (and @ THS in 1996-97)World Studies (4th period) Room#: 75 in "A" (Main) Building Phone#: 360-709-7847 Email: dave.wegener@tumwater.k12.wa.us Favorite Artists: Wayne Thiebaud, Richard Diebenkorn, Paul Cezanne, Jim Dine, Elizabeth Murray, Claes Oldenburg... Favorite Foods: Rice, Corn, Beans, Potatoes, Apples, Bananas, Melon, Asian, Mexican, Italian, Indian, Native American... Welcome to STUDIO ART!
Earn credit (and a grade) by producing the following during the 90-day (18-week) semester:
- SKETCHBOOK... a quality page of sketching every day for 80 days. (mixed media in a book no larger than 8x10" and no smaller than 4x6")
- ART HISTORY... a quality rendition with display information every 2 weeks for 16 weeks. (mixed media on 8.5x11", 90-160# watercolor paper in a portfolio provided by the course fee)
- PROJECT... a grid-made self-portrait from a printed photograph, painted one piece at a time throughout the semester. (acrylic on 16x20" canvas)
This course emphasizes two things: process and presentation.Let your work show how it was made, and take care to respect your viewers.1st Assignment (due within the first 5 days of class)Studio Art SYLLABUS for 2023-24 (Scroll down to see grades earned by the previous semester or year's art students.)
Studio Art SUPPLY LIST for 2023-24Studio Art Updates (what students have accomplished so far):Today in Studio Art... Day 1 Sept 6Today in Studio Art... Day 2 Sept 7So far in Studio Art... Week 1 Days 1-3 Sept 6-8Today in Studio Art... Day 4 Sept 11Today in Studio Art... Day 5 Sept 12Today in Studio Art... Day 6 Sept 13Today in Studio Art... Day 7 Sept 14So far in Studio Art... Week 2 Days 4-8 Sept 11-15Today in Studio Art... SKETCHBOOK Progress Check Day 10 Sept 19Today in Studio Art... ART HISTORY Progress Check Day 11 Sept 20So far in Studio Art... Week 3 Days 9-13 Sept 18-22So far in Studio Art... Week 4 Days 14-18 Sept 25-29So far in Studio Art... Week 5 Days 19-23 Oct 2-6So far in Studio Art... Week 6 Days 24-28 Oct 9-13So far in Studio Art... Week 7 Days 29-33 Oct 16-20So far in Studio Art... Week 9 Days 39-43 Oct 30-Nov 3So far in Studio Art... Week 10 Days 44-47 Nov 6-9So far in Studio Art... Week 11 Days 48-52 Nov 13-17So far in Studio Art... Week 12 Days 53-55 Nov 20-22So far in Studio Art... Week 13 Days 56-60 Nov 27-Dec 1Studio Art PRACTICE Assessment (due periodically and midway through the semester)Studio Art FINAL Assessment (due between weeks 14 and 18 of the semester)the SKETCHBOOK assignment (16 ways to "earn points")VIDEO EXAMPLES:SAMPLE SKETCHBOOKSPRACTICE 3-D Subjects: 8 PRACTICE FORMSPRACTICE Grid Images: 8 GRIDDED PHOTOSthe ART HISTORY assignment (17 ways to "earn points")
SAMPLE Portfolios of ART HISTORY Renditions
"THE LIST" of Artists for Renditions from ART HISTORY
Display Info Format for Renditions from ART HISTORY
SAMPLE of Display Info for Individual Renditions
SAMPLE of BASIC / MINIMAL Cover Page for Page 1 of Portfolios
SAMPLE of STRONGER Cover Page for Page 1 of Portfolios
How to Safely Remove Tape from Mounted Artworks
the PROJECT assignment (19 ways to "earn points")
PROJECT PREPARATION STEPS
BLANK GRID in MSWord that might be useful for digitally gridding an 8x10" cropped photo before printing it. If not, a grid can be measured and drawn directly on to the printed photo with accurate measuring and a fine-tipped permanent pen. (See demo videos below.)
PRINTABLE 8x10" BLANK GRID of 80 one-inch squares that can be printed onto transparency film and secured over an image
VIDEO DEMO: How to Make the Photo & Canvas Grids
VIDEO DEMO: How to Draw a Grid onto an 8x10 inch Photo
VIDEO DEMO: How to Draw a Grid onto a 16x20 inch Canvas
WAYS TO HELP YOUR BRAIN with the grid system and get a good resemblance to your source photo
VIDEO DEMO: How to Make the Window/Blinder Tools
VIDEO DEMOS: How to Paint One Square at a Time: Sq#1D Sq#1E Sq#5 Sq#12
VIDEO DEMO of an ALTERNATIVE "LATTICE" GRID (just the PHOTO) Little or No Measuring Required
VIDEO DEMO of an ALTERNATIVE "LATTICE" GRID (just the CANVAS) Little or No Measuring Required
EXTRA VIDEO DEMOS (OPTIONAL / NOT REQUIRED) - How to Combine Collage w/ Acrylic: PART 1 & PART 2
PROJECT EXAMPLE by Laura Schopfer, 2003, 16x20" (eighty 2-inch squares)
STUDIO ART PLAY - PRACTICE - PRODUCE - PRESENTStudents earn fine arts course credit by producing and by exhibiting their art.Course credit - a grade of "D" or higher - is earned by......efficiently using class time - about 90 class periods - to produce daily, weekly and semester-long assignments......and by formally, conventionally displaying those assignments at the midterm and final.Higher grades are earned by completing a higher quantity and/or a higher quality of the assigned work.The instructor facilitates, monitors, documents, assesses, photographs and models productivity in the studio.The $5.00 course fee is small, so that students can provide their own art supplies to work with.
The studio fee helps pay for the provision and maintenance of shared-use studio supplies, tools and furnishings.Art students are expected to use their own art supplies to work on their art when present in their art class.Art supplies and artworks in progress can be stored in studio lockers.Larger projects can be stored on studio shelves.A locker partner is expected, and a shared combo-lock is recommended.Final grades are determined by a combination of student and instructor assessments.The main assignment categories - SKETCHBOOK, ART HISTORY and/or PROJECT - are equal parts of the semester grade.(The main assignment categories remain equal parts of the semester grade, when one or more of them are waived or eliminated.)GRADES EARNED in 2nd Semester (S2) STUDIO ART 2022-23:
10 students earned a grade of "F" in Studio Art.
38 earned a grade of “D”15 earned a “C”
36 earned a “B”
25 earned an “A”
The above grades are also the product of the school district's grading scale that includes 50% - 69% earning a "D" and automatically rounds up grades within 0.5% of the next letter grade.
Classroom Policy on the Use of Personal Electronic Devices in the Visual Arts RoomPERSONAL ELECTRONIC DEVICES "Amazing tools require amazing self-control." - Anon.
People who carry the power of a telephone, camera, stereo, computer, video game system, television, video player, tracking device, e-mail, internet, etc. - all in one - with them at all times, must also exercise the qualities of good judgement, etiquette, and self-control.
When device users do not exercise such consideration, others may step in to exercise it for them.
Device users who lack good judgement, etiquette, self-control and/or consideration tend to...
...say with their body language and conduct, "I'm done with you... I'm not interested... I'd rather be somewhere else."
...miss information, examples, demonstrations, displays, directions, instructions, due dates, appointments, etc....use work/study time poorly and inefficiently (and are often in denial about it).
...claim they do their assigned work at home (so they can spend more time on their devices at work/in class).
...do their work haphazardly and hurriedly (so they can spend more time on their devices).
...accomplish less, as they work one-handed and are often distracted or side-tracked....have a distorted, warped or inflated sense of actual time and effort invested in their work....regard multi-tasking as a virtue, when it is more likely to decrease the quality of their work on any one task....be impatient, procrastinate, fall behind and settle for low-quality work....excuse their lack of effort with quips like, "I'm just no good at this."
...do their work at the last minute and then complain of having too little time....settle for "good enough," instead of their best (i.e. "A" students settle for "Bs," "B" students for "Cs," etc.)
...participate poorly and/or are not fully "present," but disengaged from work, study and conversations.
...decline or refuse help from others (and may later complain that no help was given or offered).
...have heightened anxiety and stress levels due to control issues and fears of missing out (FOMO)....lack civility and good manners when they ignore those who greet or make eye contact with them....develop greater difficulty distinguishing and/or establishing genuine contact and interaction with people....have numerous perceived "emergencies."...show minimal or unsatisfactory progress and earnings at work and/or at school.
...leave the workplace/classroom more often than others....have difficulty making plans ahead of time and sticking with those plans....suddenly change plans without informing others in a timely manner....hide or stash their devices, try to look busy and/or throw red-herrings when a supervisor/teacher approaches....distract individuals or entire groups and hinder their progress as well as their own.
...create uncomfortable, tense and/or hostile environments with the inappropriate use of their devices.a solution for parents of kids addicted to smartphones:the CEO of a major computer corporation chooses not to own a cell phone:a Seattle-based rehab center for internet, gaming & technology addiction:a documentary and a website that explore the gains & losses of technological tools:
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