Mrs. Knight's Smartest Artists: Free Art Friday workshop 2014

Saturday, March 22, 2014

Free Art Friday workshop 2014

Today I was lucky to attend a workshop for art teachers that was given by four Atlanta artists who participate in the Free Art Friday movement, which celebrates creating, collaborating, and sharing art in the local and global community. Last year, our school also participated and you can find that info HERE - http://dolvinartknight.blogspot.com/2013/05/finally-free-art-friday.html and http://dolvinartknight.blogspot.com/2013/05/what-show.html

We are looking forward to participating again this year, and art from Evereman, Sad Stove, Ms. ATL, and Crazy Monkey Trucker will be up for grabs, free to the finder, around our building on May 9! Stay tuned for more info!

Sad Stove:

Evereman: (with my husband and son on wood branding duty)

Crazy Monkey Trucker:

My daughter Kinsey with a variety including some by Ms. ATL

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Laura KimMarch 22, 2014 at 7:45 PM
So amazing! I hope I can come next year!!
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Mrs. CMarch 22, 2014 at 7:49 PM
What a cool event! :)
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Inspiring Artist Quotes

"I always loved art teachers because they were so bizarre. They were like the homeless people of the faculty -- all disheveled, wearing smocks, covered in paint, always digging through the garbage, looking for bottles and egg cartons and things." -Ted Alexandro

"Give me a museum and I'll fill it." - Pablo Picasso

"If I could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint." - Edward Hopper

"Creativity takes courage." - Henri Matisse

"One eye sees, the other feels." - Paul Klee

"I paint life as I would like it to be." - Norman Rockwell

"The way to get started is to stop talking and begin doing." - Walt Disney

"From the age of six I had a mania for drawing the shapes of things. When I was fifty I had published a universe of designs, but all I have done before the age of seventy is not worth bothering with. At seventy-five I'll have learned something of the pattern of nature, of animals, of plants, of trees, birds, fish and insects. When I am eighty you will see real progress. At ninety I shall have cut my way deeply into the mystery of life itself. At a hundred I shall be a marvelous artist. At a hundred and ten everything I create: a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign myself 'The Old Man Mad About Drawing' (Gakyo-rojin)" - Katsushika Hokusai

"Word Wall"

Elements of Design:
Line -a path made by a moving point
Shape - an area defined by its outline, geometric or organic
Form - a three-dimensional shape
Value - the lightness or darkness of an object
Color - hues on a spectrum; we use a color wheel made of primary, secondary, and intermediate colors
Texture - the way something feels or appears to feel
Space - the illusion of depth in an artwork

Figure - a body form or shape

Composition - an arrangement of lines, shapes, colors, etc. on a surface

Craftsmanship - using materials correctly and taking care in the production of a piece of art so that it is neatly presented

Studio - a room or space where an artist produces and stores work

Portfolio - a collection of work, or the container that holds the collection

Positive Space - the shape or object that is the focus

Negative space - the area around the positive space; also "leftover" space or background

Media - materials used to make art. Most of our art in the classroom is one, or a combination of, the following:

Drawing: pencil, ink, pastel, chalk, charcoal

Painting: tempera or watercolor

Printmaking: creating multiple images by transferring ink from a stamp or plate

Collage: shapes that are cut and pasted to a surface

Sculpture: clay, metal, cardboard, or other 3-D materials

Textiles: stitchery or weaving

Technology: photography, computer art

Styles of art -

Realistic: objects look as they do in real life

Abstract: objects are based on real-life, but are changed artistically

Nonobjective: a design; no recognizable objects are found other than lines, shapes, colors, etc.

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Saturday, March 22, 2014

Free Art Friday workshop 2014

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