CREATING AN ARTISTIC IDENTITY THROUGH IDEA “Art is not an easy “A”, you will think so hard in this class you may think your brain is going to explode.” - Brisco CREATING AN ARTISTIC IDENTITY THROUGH IDEA Master Art Educator Series Texas Art Education Association San Antonio, Texas 2012 Nicole D. Brisco NAEA Secondary Western Division Chair School Arts Contributing Editor Pleasant Grove High School, Texarkana Texas nbrisco@pgisd.net www.pgisd.net

HARVEST CREATIVITY Inspire Explore Plan Edit & Address Create Rework

INSPIRE It is not as difficult as you make it sound!!

Inspiration Boards Visualizing Ideas Between Student and Teacher

Focus On Themes

Focus on Mentor Artists

Collections of Objects or Color

Three Dimensional Walls Using objects to create a story

Fill Your Personal Space and Take Photos if Classroom Space Does Not Permit.

EXPLORE

Using Artists to Explore COLOR.COMPOSITION.MEDIA.CONTENT.TECHNIQUES

Studio Spaces

100 Hour Drawing Prompt Exploration Through Surroundings Write down 5 of your core beliefs Create a small portrait of yourself using a mirror. Use modified contour line. Look for small details to document. Begin a small intricate pattern that promotes movement Small value study of a tool that could symbolize you. Use a full range of value Bring in a small object that brings back nostalgia (HOMEWORK) Draw an environment from your surroundings and its contents. Introduce a non traditional media. Write a letter to yourself in 20 years. Find 3 small objects that begin with the same letter and do studies of each. Create a drawing of a person in class that’s personality is similar to yours. Listen to the music in class, create a doodle that follows the melody. Write a statement of your personal vision and draw on object that relates Open your cell phone. Notate 50 cell phone numbers. Text as value.

Build a basic line “armature” to work your composition around.

Visual Mapping Mind, Eye, and Hand

Variations on Mind Maps Could be used in intro Elements of Art Artist Research

PLAN How Do You Create Ideas?

T Thumbnails as finished work T Thumbnails as finished work. Consider composition and design as you build an idea.

Planning to Create. Consider working small and doing many small studies like the old masters did.

Ask a class to do one small work of art or a variation on an idea Ask a class to do one small work of art or a variation on an idea. This short assignment will demonstrate how easily multiple small pieces can come together as a finished work.

Thumbnails to Communicate Establishes all aspects of a finished work

EDIT & ADDRESS Sketchbooks Finished Work

CREATE By creating process based work students have a higher level of success within a project. While also bettering their final work.

Both Works Can Serve as a Finished Piece Process Result

Make One Work into “2”!!! Consider revisions as opportunity to create something new or to revisit an old idea. The mark of a good artist is when they push an idea past the obvious solutions.

Rethinks

Looking at Progress Timeline Work Rethink

Full Circle Four Works from One Concept Explore Plan Create Rethink