Graphics: Animal Mash-up!

This week we will review the self portraits that are composed of five "images".

We are also going to start our animal mash-up, where we will create a, perhaps, cute combination of animals to make one, like this Dubbit.

Check out more cuteness here: http://www.boredpanda.com/animals-hybrids-photoshop/ !

STEAM Lab: Homework Time: How Much?

http://www.psychdadphd.com/blog
/2016/6/20/3-tips-for-managing-homework

As you've experienced from our work with Sheets thus far, you can plan events, make a survey or poll, give your peers a quiz, or collect other information in an easy, streamlined way with Google Forms.

You can create a form from Google Drive or from an existing spreadsheet that can record the responses to your form. Go to docs.google.com/forms. Click Plus Expand icon.
A new form will automatically open. Just as we did with the tool quiz, you can add any questions you want in the form template. You can also organize your form by adding headers and dividing your form into several pages. Learn more about editing your form.

Of course there are 100 ways to do this, and you need only do one: Create a form in Google Drive by going to drive.google.com and clicking New > More > Google Forms.

Or create a form from a spreadsheet in Google Sheets. To poll, survey, quiz, or otherwise collect information using a form from a spreadsheet in Google Sheets:

1. While working with a spreadsheet, click Insert > Form.
2. A message will display at the top of the page notifying you that a new form has been created
3. To begin editing your form, click Add questions here in the message.
4. To get rid of this message and continue editing your spreadsheet, click Dismiss. Note: If you dismiss this message, you can edit your form at any time. Click Form > Edit form.
5. A new form will automatically be created. A new tab will appear at the bottom of your spreadsheet labeled “Form responses,”  where all responses to your form will be added.
6. After you’ve created your form, you can add and edit questions, headers, and page breaks. You can also choose how to collect responses to your form.

Create this survey using Google Forms: How much time do you spend on homework for each class? You will share it with all of your classmates. You will create at least three charts to analyze the data that you've collected. You will present to the class your findings.

Studio Art: Color of the Skull

This week in class we'll continue to work with western, conventional color theory as a means to make our art stronger. Please be aware that there are many theories out there that have led up to our current model, including thinkers such as Goethe:

"Light spectrum, from Theory of Colours – Goethe observed that colour arises at the edges, and the spectrum occurs where these coloured edges overlap." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Colours)


And please remember that there is a whole bunch of peoples' worth of color and what color means in the world to those folks:

Your project for the week is to finish your mandala color wheel using the water color paint. You may embellish them however you wish.

Then you'll draw the buffalo skull focusing on the highlights and lowlights, but you'll use color to define them. You can use the ideas of warm or cool colors, light or dark colors, or some other way to define how you are coloring your image. But you must remain consistent to what you are doing!

For example, you cannot say I'm using a system of lights and darks to define my skull and then use the lightest colors to define the shadows--or can you?!

Art and Mindfulness: Paths of Meditation

Thank you:
 http://www.duelinganalogs.com
/image/dead-link/

We can talk about meditations in terms of style or types, but that seems static to me. So we will us the idea of a path as a way to break up the myriad ways to meditate. How many paths of meditation can you come up with?

When you start any RPG you have to choose a path—which usually leads to your demise on the first few times you start out!

Here is the way that I’ll break them up:
Path Through Intellect
Path Through Emotion
Route Through the Body
The Path of Action

STEAM Lab and Google Sheets

As a class we've been using Google Sheets, which is a powerful tool in several ways. The kids will build a Sheet to practice.

https://docs.google.com/a/claytonbradleyacademy.org/spreadsheets/d/1qAphCruHqb-xlu5052wFE44xZNaLGXlJ43qvwTonXX4/edit?usp=sharing

National Art Honor Society

We have a wonderful opportunity to start the first Honor Society here at CBA. We envision this as an active group invested in community service. Our first meeting will be today!

The NAHS: https://www.arteducators.org/community/nahs-njahs

What other Chapters are doing (starts on page 36): http://digitaleditions.sheridan.com/publication/?i=302160&pre=1#%7B%22issue_id%22:302160,%22page%22:1%7D

Self Portrait Collage

The graphics class will start a new project this week. They will create a self portrait out of at least five different images composited into one finished and polished piece.

To begin I will introduce some really important tools and workflow ideas, like using linear Bézier curves as the prime selection tool: Given points P0 and P1, a linear Bezier curve is simply a straight line between those points. The cure is given by B(t) = P0 + t(P1 - P0) = (1-t) P1, 0 < t < 1 and is equivalent to linear interpolation.

We'll begin by using these images: https://drive.google.com/a/claytonbradleyacademy.org/file/d/0B5B6pBQBS0KidFowc0I1Tlc0Qlk/view?usp=sharing

I've made two rubrics for my graphics class, and here they are: