Art Challenge:
Use pastels to create a drawing of a beach landscape that captures warmth, light and depth

Hello,
Today you need to complete the following:

Sketch the design for your collage inside of the large rectangle that you drew yesterday. Make sure that you include background, middleground and foreground. You may turn the paper and create a horizontal or vertical format.

After you have sketched out your design you need to go through the magazines ( under the table with the pencil sharpener by my desk) and collect the colors, patterns and shapes that you need to create your collage. 

I will show you on Thursday how to glue them down, just focus on collecting all of the colors that you will need. On the large table there are large manila envelopes for you to store the magazine clippings and pieces that you collect.

At the end of the period you will need to clean up any paper scraps and make sure all supplies are put away.

Art History Challenges and other assignments must be turned in TODAY to receive credit. Please EDIT all work prior to uploading it to the folder. Please check your school email for the shared folder link. There are folders for the following assignments:

Art History Challenge #7 David Hockney
Art History Challenge #8 Louise Nevelson
Art Gallery Critique of Laura Philips Photography
David Hockney Photo Collage
Photograph of Color Wheel

The Cambridge Street Gallery is currently exhibiting the work of artist and middle school art teacher, Laura Phillips. 

Please go down to the gallery with the exhibition pass and your iPad and complete the following:

1. Spend time looking at her artwork

2. Study, examine and critically look at her photographs

3. Take a photograph of the work of art that you feel is the strongest work of art

4. In a new document on your iPad answer the following questions in complete sentences: 

Describe the photograph in great detail include a description of the foreground, middle ground an background

How does this artwork make you feel?


What does the photograph tell you about the location of the photo?

What is unique or different about this artwork from other photographs?

Please place the completed assignment in the shared google drive folder

Objectives: Create a series of color collages that create optical illusions and demonstrate your understanding of color theory

Art Challenge:
Create four color collage that illustrate your understanding of color harmonies

1. Color Harmonies - or color scheme is the use of two or more colors in a single composition.

a. Monochromatic - all the same hues or colors, though the value and intensity can be different

b. Complementary Harmonies - hues of directly opposite values on the color wheel are used, i.e.: Red and Green.

c. Analogous Harmonies - color adjacent to one another on the color wheel are used, red and red-orange.

d. Triadic Harmonies - the use of three colors equidistant on the color wheel.

Steps:
1. Read and understand the links on the post " Color Theory Resources"
2. Read and examine the work of artist Josef Albers
3. Cut four squares of colors
4. Cut out other color squares of various sizes and colors
5. Create four collages that show the following color harmonies: Monochromatic, Complementary, Analogous and Triadic
6. Glue collages together 
7. Mat all collages 

Evaluation:
Understanding of color theory
Ability to create a collage that illustrates the color harmony
Craftsmanship
Effort 

Josef Albers was a painter, poet, sculptor, art theorist, and an educator. Through his teachings he introduced a generation of American artists to the European modernist concepts of the Bauhaus. His experimentation with color interaction and geometric shapes transformed the modern art scene, offering an alternative to Abstract Expressionism and inspiring movements such as Geometric Abstraction, Color field painting, and Op Art. - 
See more at: http://www.theartstory.org/artist-albers-josef.htm#sthash.5CSDY5S7.dpuf