Goal Analysis > Structure

Structure Goal Concept:

Designing is creating conceptual and visual unity by giving order to diverse but interrelated and interdependent parts.  

Access Prior Knowledge:

“The elements of structure are the minute individual parts of forms, and therefore unable to stand up by themselves; they are of value only as part of the structure-forming arrangement and as they contribute to the total structural identity.  Structure is a dynamic texture of non-autonomous parts.” ~ Reinhold Pfenning

In groups, in the comment section, respond to...

Group 1: Define 'giving order to'

Group 2: What does diverse but interrelated and interdependent mean?

Group 3: Explain 'contribute to the total structural identity.'

Group 4: Hypothosize the meaning of 'Structure is a dynamic texture of non-autonomous parts.'

As an individual, in the comment section, respond to...

Analyze and interpret how Reinhold Pfenning's quotation reiterates, in other words, restates the Goal Concept. (Both are saying relatively the same thing - what or how.)

Planning Your Concentration Portfolio

http://www.indyish.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/IaGo_J001ArtdepMindmap.jpg

Planning Your Concentration Worksheet > http://goo.gl/GSts9l
The prompts at the bottom are huge for your thought processes.
Print it as many times as needed as you develop your concentration pieces.


Planning Your Portfolio Worksheet > http://goo.gl/XhZpi2

Contour Line - Ingredients used by the Artist

Contour Line Figure Drawing

Studio Challenge:

Contour Line Figure Drawing

Concept: Contour lines follow the edges of shapes and clearly define the various volumes and parts of the whole form.

Catalysts: Describe, Record

Studio:

-Fold 2 papers to make eight (8) sections.

-Draw a boarder near the edge of each section.

-Arrange a person in a dynamic posture.

-Develop an understanding based on touch.

-Remember the ‘blind contour’ drawing of your hand.

-Keeping your eye on the figure, start with any edge, and follow the contours of the figure with a continuous, contour line.

-Try not to lift your pencil off the paper.

-Try to feel that you are not just looking at but are also touching the figure with your moving pencil.

ADV Painting - Generalize, Publish and Reflect

Generalize, Publish and Reflect:

“The relative degree of similarity in a given perceptual pattern makes for a corresponding degree of connection or fusion.” ~Rudolph Arnheim

Instructional Strategy

• Providing Recognition

Learning Activity

• Promote >

Step 1

• Document > upload images to G+ > http://goo.gl/gr7DJU

Step 2

• Reflect > Include a Reflective Artist Statement > http://goo.gl/y2uKF3
• Goal:  Make certain elements look alike so as to be seen as belonging together
• Goal: Create an allover pattern using only letters or words

Step 3

• Publish > Share your artwork to our Community

Step 4

• Display > Add Photos to our Event > http://goo.gl/NDWkas or http://goo.gl/hk8Cxg
• Guide to Google+ Events >  http://goo.gl/HXorI  

Instructional Strategy

• Providing feedback

Learning Activity

• Critique >

Step 5

• Give peer feedback > Leave comments on images (did it meet the goal?)
• Give positive feedback > +1 every image that deserves it
• Self-assess >

Step 6

• Complete a Reflective Rubric Assessment > http://goo.gl/QSFOCv 

Step 7

• Complete the Life Skills Survey > http://goo.gl/iEUqr 

Reflection Tutorial - Pixlr

Creating a reflection using Pixlr.

Step one: Open an image or add text to blank canvas

Step two: Duplicate the image layer or text layer 
if its a text layer you must rasterize the duplicated layer

Step three: Flip the duplicate layer vertically

Step four: Lower the opacity of the duplicated layer and drag it to wherever you want it

Step five: Using a soft eraser, wipe away the parts of the reflection you don't want. I used a brush with a diameter of 200 and a hardness of 50. I would stick with any brush that has a hardness of less than fifty and a diameter of 100 or up

Generalize, Publish and Reflect: Concentration Critique

Generalize, Publish and Reflect:

Instructional Strategy

• Providing Recognition

Learning Activity

• Promote >
• Document > upload images to G+ > http://goo.gl/gr7DJU
• Reflect > Include a Reflective Artist Statement > http://goo.gl/y2uKF3

How to create an Artist’s Statement for your artwork.  

• Watch > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCjILlqTwA0

Writing prompts for your artist statement.

• Clearly state the central idea of the concentration.
• Integration of my concentration idea and my work is demonstrated by…
• My works relate to each other by…
• Investigation, discovery , and decision making are seen in…
• Transformation and growth are demonstrated by…
• My skills using media and materials are displayed in…
• Originality and innovation are shown in…
• My documentation of references and resources can be found in…
• I transformed any appropriated imagery by...

• Publish > Share your artwork to our Community
• Display > Add Photos to our Event >
• Guide to Google+ Events >  http://goo.gl/HXorI  

Instructional Strategy

• Providing feedback

Learning Activity

• Critique >
• Give peer feedback > Leave comments on images (did it meet the goal?)
• Give positive feedback > +1 every image that deserves it
• Self-assess >
• Complete a Reflective Rubric Assessment > http://goo.gl/MmIEYa    

• Complete the Life Skills Survey > http://goo.gl/iEUqr

Hypothesize Joy Close Up Connection

Access Prior Knowledge:

Instructional Strategy

• Cooperative Learning

Learning Activity

• Hypothesize

1. In the comment section below, hypothesize why the positive emotion 'Joy' has been paired with the photographic technique 'Close Up'.
2. +1 peer comments you believe are the strongest responses.  

Padlet Reflection > Pre and Post Instruction Images

Generalize, Publish & Reflect:

Instructional Strategy

• Identify similarities and differences

Learning Activity

• Compare > Padlet reflection on pre and post instruction images >

1. Go to http://padlet.com/ .
2. Log in with your Google account.
3. Double click and add the URL of one pre-instruction image.
4. Double click and add the URL of one post-instruction Photo Challenge image.
5. On the left make a list of comparisons (similarities).
6. On the right make a list of contrasts (differences).
7. In the middle make a list of reflections explaining your improvements.
8. In the comment section below > Share the Padlet URL to our Photo Community > http://goo.gl/34X4wo   

Notes

http://westoshaart.blogspot.com/2014/10/padlet-reflection-pre-and-post.html

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xDbqGY4dqKM55RfMpVFu2t5r_9r2-urT5e_wnhe_DpU/edit

Phil Hansen: Embrace the shake

Habits of Work - by Prof. Rusty Smith

Self Reliance:

Self-reliance is an active approach in which an individual drives their own learning and working process.  Rather than waiting for directions or blaming others for delays, individuals actively generates possibilities, weighs benefits, and makes choices.

Paul Cézanne, painter.

Organized Persistence:

Beating your head against a brick wall is an example of mindless persistence.  It may take weeks, but eventually organized persistence results in a solution.  It gives us the ability to prevail, even when faced with the most daunting task.

Daily Practice:

Momentum is extremely powerful when you are working on a difficult problem.  Daily practice helps maintain momentum.  For example, when learning a new computer program, practicing for a couple of hours each night is better than working one full day a month.    

Yves Saint Laurent, fashion designer.

Appropriate Speed:

Some tasks are best completed quickly, with brisk decision making and decisive action.  Slowing down to re-frame a question and weigh alternative solutions is necessary in other cases.  Knowing when to speed up and when to slow down is one mark of a ‘master learner.’

Incremental Excellence:

Most design problems are best developed in a series of stages.  Ideas evolve, skills improve, compositions are distilled.  Rather than trying for the ‘perfect solution’ on the first day, it is better to just start with a draft.

Yoshitomo Nara, artist.

Valuing Alternative Viewpoints:

Listening to others, understanding diverse points of view, and considering alternatives expands our capacity to solve a wide variety of problems.  Even when the advice is off base, we can often use the idea as a springboard into a fresh approach.    

Direct Engagement:

Talk is cheap.  Work is hard.  The only way to solve most design problems is to get involved.  You will never win a race when you are standing on the sidelines.  

Learn More:

Workspaces of the famously creative > http://goo.gl/H7oPe1

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