1. 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

3. HARVEST CREATIVITY
Inspire
Explore
Plan
Edit & Address
Create
Rework

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

5. Inspiration Boards Visualizing Ideas Between Student and Teacher

6. Focus On Themes

7. Focus on Mentor Artists

8. Collections of Objects or Color

9. Three Dimensional Walls Using objects to create a story

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

11. EXPLORE

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

13. Studio Spaces

14. 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.

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

16. Visual Mapping Mind, Eye, and Hand

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

18. PLAN How Do You Create Ideas?

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

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

21. 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.

22. Thumbnails to Communicate Establishes all aspects of a finished work

23. EDIT & ADDRESS Sketchbooks Finished Work

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

25. Both Works Can Serve as a Finished Piece Process Result

26. 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.

27. Rethinks

28. Looking at Progress Timeline Work Rethink

29. Full Circle Four Works from One Concept Explore Plan Create Rethink