Jean Wheeler Portfolio/Semester Review

• Jean Wheeler

• Portfolio/Semester Review

• Fall 2011

Vanitas-in art, a genre of still-life painting that flourished in the Netherlands in the early 17th century. A vanitas painting contains collections of objects symbolic of the inevitability of death and the transience and vanity of earthly achievements and pleasures; it exhorts the viewer to consider mortality and to repent.

• Vanitas-in art, a genre of still-life painting that flourished in the Netherlands in the early 17th century. A vanitas painting contains collections of objects symbolic of the inevitability of death and the transience and vanity of earthly achievements and pleasures; it exhorts the viewer to consider mortality and to repent.

Other Artists who are famous for Vanitas Still Life art:

• Other Artists who are famous for Vanitas Still Life art:

• Audrey Flack Glennray Tutor

Visual Culture Vanitas Still Life

• Visual Culture Vanitas Still Life

Visual Culture Vanitas Still Life

• Visual Culture Vanitas Still Life

• For our first assignment we got together in groups and brought in objects that had meaning/importance to us and worked together to set up a Vanitas Still Life. At first, I had mixed feeling about the assignment in that it was going to be too much, but in the end, I really enjoyed it and I think my still life is one of my favorite pieces I did this semester.

Visual Culture Vanitas Still Life

• Visual Culture Vanitas Still Life

• Final Drawing

Lesson Plan

• Lesson Plan

• Popcorn Art- My Honors IV class does a project where I pop popcorn and they select 10 pieces and from that choose 5 that “represent” a animal, object, thing, etc. From their 5 they choose 3 and sketch the popcorn and the image it represents. Finally, they choose ONE sketch to draw as their Final Project.

Teaching Drawing from Art

• Teaching Drawing from Art

• Chapter 13

• Key Points from the Chapter

• 1) Drawing from words should be a central part of drawing programs for students of all ages.

• 2) Using verbal stimulus to create inspired art is key

• 3) Earl Barns (1892) did a major study on children and how they relate stories, poetry to drawing an art piece.

• 4) Marion Richards-created the concept of word pictures

Alfred Kubin

• Alfred Kubin

Where the Wild Things Are

• Where the Wild Things Are

• “ And an ocean tumbled by with a

• Private boat for Max and he sailed off

• Through night and day.”

For this project we had to select a story, poem or music lyrics: I selected the book, Where the Wild Things are. I selected the page that says, “And an ocean tumbled by with a Private boat for Max and he sailed off through night and day.”

• For this project we had to select a story, poem or music lyrics: I selected the book, Where the Wild Things are. I selected the page that says, “And an ocean tumbled by with a Private boat for Max and he sailed off through night and day.”

Verbal to Visual

• Verbal to Visual

• Final Drawing

Lesson plan

• Lesson plan

• This Project is titled Art Synector and my Honors III do this project. I have a list of 100 words and they cut them out and place them in a bin and pull 10 words. From the 10 they have to choose 7 and create a cohesive art piece using their 7 words.

• For this project her words were:

• Portrait

• Destruction

• Freedom

• Chain

• Time

• Transparency

• Eyes

Teaching Drawing from Art

• Teaching Drawing from Art

• Chapter 10

• Key Points from the Chapter

• 1) The book: Drawing From Memory, was written by Madame Marie Elizabeth Cave

• 2) There are a variety of methods can help students memorize a work of art.

• 3) It’s important as an artist that you “store and call upon information”.

For this project we had to work from our memory. We had to first draw our self-portrait and pay VERY close attention to our features: eyes, lips, hair, etc. Then on a larger piece of paper, we had to draw, sketch, paint, etc our self-portraits 10+ times strictly from memory. This assignment was a great challenge in that I really dislike self-portraits!!

• For this project we had to work from our memory. We had to first draw our self-portrait and pay VERY close attention to our features: eyes, lips, hair, etc. Then on a larger piece of paper, we had to draw, sketch, paint, etc our self-portraits 10+ times strictly from memory. This assignment was a great challenge in that I really dislike self-portraits!!

• Definition of Memory- the power or process of reproducing or recalling what has been learned and retained especially through associative mechanisms

Image used for Memory Drawing/Self-Portrait

• Image used for Memory Drawing/Self-Portrait

Memory Drawing: Multiple self-portraits

• Memory Drawing: Multiple self-portraits

Lesson Plan

• Lesson Plan

• For this assignment, I had my AP students think about memories from their past and write them down. *They can be good or bad memories. Select 3 memories and come up with creative ways to illustrate them. They will then pick one sketch to turn into their Final Project.

• *This student selected her memory

• Of her fear of bugs and how her mom

• Killed them and in her art reversed the

• Roles of the bug and people.

Vladimir Kush

• Vladimir Kush

A Fantasy Myth Assignment

• A Fantasy Myth Assignment

• Using a person in your life who exhibits a certain Idiosyncratic behavior, do research on fantasy creatures whose characteristics and traits either exemplifies or is opposite of your chosen person based on the description found on the site.

• I chose my husband: JOSH

• His qualities/traits: Always wears blue, VERY protective, caring, strong, twisted sense of humor, hunts

Research of Fantasy Creatures

• Research of Fantasy Creatures

• * DROP BEARS (or drop bear) is a fictitious Australian marsupial.[1] Drop bears are commonly said to be unusually large, vicious, carnivorous koalas that inhabit treetops and attack their prey by dropping onto their heads from above.[2] They are an example of local lore intended to frighten and confuse outsiders and amuse locals, similar to the jack lope, hoop snake, wild haggis, or snipe hunt.

• *AKHLUT is a spirit that takes the form of both a wolf and an orca. It is a vicious, dangerous beast. Its tracks can be recognized because they are wolf tracks that lead to and from the ocean. Often, dogs seen walking to the ocean and/or into it are considered evil. Little is known of this spirit, other than that it changes from an orca to a wolf when hungry, not many myths relate to it.

Drop Bears Akhlut

• Drop Bears Akhlut

Drawing From Imagination

• Drawing From Imagination

• Final Drawing

Lesson Plan

• Lesson Plan

• For this project my Honors III had to select a Myth, Fairy Tale or fantasy creature and change it to make it their OWN version/design.

• * This student selected the story

• Of Romeo and Juliet and changed

• The characters from people

• To animals

Teaching Drawing from Art

• Teaching Drawing from Art

• Chapter 4

• Key Points from the Chapter

• 1) “Drawing is a symbol system that carries its traditions, but it also carries with it the seeds of its future.”

• 2) Battleship Potemkin (1925) a vivid and unforgettable images in cinema.

• 3) “Every work of art-every drawing, painting, sculpture, photograph-is potentially the source for dozens of drawing projects.”

Imagery I used for the Assignment: Combining famous paintings to create ONE image

• Imagery I used for the Assignment: Combining famous paintings to create ONE image

Experimental Drawing

• Experimental Drawing

• Final Art Piece

Lesson Plan

• Lesson Plan

• For this project my Studio II class had to find images in magazines, on-line, etc. The images have to be on large scale in that their image will make up at least ½ of their final art piece. They then have to crop the picture in some way and finish the other ½ of it in a particular art style: Surrealism, Impressionism, Fauvism, etc

• * This student selected

• Surrealism as her art style