Week 11-November 2-6
Monday is a Day Two
D2B1 and B2 – Ceramics.
Students will clean their raku pots from our firing on Thursday, record their project sheets in their pottery diaries, receive information for a quiz on wednesday on raku and the firing process. Continue to work on their Greek Amphoras. Kiln loaded and fired for coil pottery.
D2B4 – Students will begin their final landscape paintings. This is a quick project and should be completed by the end of class on Friday. HO for terminology for quiz next Tuesday.
D1B1 – G21- Collaborative project with Mrs. Gentry’s science class – Mobile Bugs. Biology and art students will use I-carts to select and print out the skeletal insects for use in the creation of their larger than life mobile bugs. Overview of the project will be given to all students including introduction of the artist Alexander Calder who invented the mobile. This project will run through November 20.
D1B2- Art I Image for the Year – students will work on final project paper for this lesson completing no later than November 11. Quiz on vocabulary on Thursday.
D1B3 – Continuation of landscape paintings from Tuckahoe Field Trip. Students should finish these by the end of class November 13. Still Life paintings may be completed if landscapes are done earlier. Everything is due to me by November 13.

Some years ago I was investigating the idea of scarecrows – literally based on a scarecrow that I found erected in a field next to the Goochland Pharmacy (that area is now occupied by self-storage…)

The Scarecrows have been exhibited at the Chrysler Museum of Art, Erector Square Gallery in Baltimore and the Peninsula Fine Art Center. Enjoy the imagery! Happy Halloween! Caroline

Week # 9 – October 26-30
Monday is EARLY DISMISSAL
Teacher Workday
Monday is a Day One
Thursday is RAKU Day – Both sections of ceramics will be with me outside all day firing our pots. (weather permitting)
Friday is field trip day to Tuckahoe Plantation with D1B3 (WEATHER PERMITTING) FOR “en plein aire” landscape painting.
D1B1 – Art II-Students will begin their practice acrylic painting sheets and turn in for grade. Students will tweak their compositions for their landscapes, transfer to the final project paper and begin paintings using techniques used in practice. PLEASE NOTE: THIS PROJECT WILL BE INTERRUPTED SO THAT THE G-21 MOBILE BUG SCULPTURE CAN BEGIN WITH MRS. GENTRY.
D1B2 – ARt I – Image for the Year – Students will create the spherical space on their practice sheet and using their images from their research, collage and cut out the images and glue down within the sphere. Tracing paper will be used to transfer this image to another sphere which will be used for the final project. This will continue for Wednesday and the students will also that day begin setting up their final project starting with the linear perspective part and working their way up to the sphere. This project is due at the end of class next Thursday.
D2B1 and B2 – Preparation for Raku Day on Thursday. All Raku pots have to be glazed by the end of class. All coiled pots should be completed today as well. Continue to work on Greek Amphoras. Students MUST sign up for duties on Raku Day. Sign up sheet provided.
D2B4 – Art II – Students will continue and complete their practice acrylic painting sheets and turn in for grade. Students will tweak their compositions for their landscapes, transfer to the final project paper and begin paintings using techniques used in practice.

Mrs. Long has recently had a clip card published by School Arts Magazine. The article entitled “A Knight in Shining Armor” is directed to beginning art students to reinforce their understanding of the use of textures and light through the medium of scratchboard.

Here are Mary Beth Woodson Flippen, Caroline Long, Sandra Barkley and Kimberly Berry at the VAEA Convention approximately 22 years ago. Mary Beth now teaches art at Veritas School, Caroline still teaches Studio Art at GHS, Sandra Barkley, who taught for more than 30 years at Goochand's elementary schools, has retired, and Kimberly Berry is now our technology teacher at Goochland High School, incorporating many of her art passions into her curriculum.

Second Year students have completed their excellent Greek facades in which they designed a frieze using their own hands to create their name in sign language, create a Greek god or goddess, design their own Greek columns (being inspired by the Corinthian order), Greek amphora, hydria as pottery through scratchboard and create a gold (copper foil) coin to honor themselves through the technique of metal tooling to show bas relief. The media images are long so keep scrolling to see the beautiful art!

Week 9 – October 19-23
Monday is a Day 2
October 23 ends MP 1
October 26 is early dismissal for students and a teacher workday.

D2B1 and D2B2 – Ceramics – students will complete all outstanding work and begin in earnest their Greek amphora pottery. Time will be allowed as well for the over glazing of the coil pottery.
D2B4 – Art II – students will participate in a written critique of the Greek Facade/Sign Language Frieze project. Introduction to Landscapes – overview of what makes up a good landscape and choices artists make in composition. Students are to bring in several photographs or pictures they are vested in to use as the basis for their landscape painting. This week we will begin the structural composition of the painting, learn about color choice and color mixing. Various landscape artists will be studied as well as the history of landscape art and Mrs. Long will bring several of her landscapes in for the students to see as well.
D1B1 – Art II – please see D2B4 above.
D1B2 – Art I – Image for the Year. Tuesday students will complete their on line research on the I carts. All years should have been chosen. Linear perspective diagramming will continue. Students will learn the value scale and how to shade a sphere to make the circle shape look 3D. The final project will begin next week. This week is all practice.
D1B3 – Still Life Interruptus! In preparation for our field trip to Tuckahoe Plantation students will begin the study of “en plein aire” painting. Students will analyze the structure of a landscape painting, learn the history of landscapes, view various paintings and practice with the use of oil paints, learning this terminology, set up their palettes and other materials.

Nick, Kenneth and Guy are bonding with the clay on the potter’s wheel in our fantastic ceramics studio. This is voluntary, exploratory experience. Kudos to all three for persevering! Handbuilders in coil and pinch potters are also lighting up the creativity in our studio as well. Enjoy the pix!

Week 8
Monday is a Day One
October 16 – D1B3 students deadline for Field Trip Permission Form to Tuckahoe Plantation – $20.
D1B1 – Art II – students complete their Greek facades, prepare for exhibition and turn in take home student evaluation equivalent to a quiz grade. Wednesday we hang the work and prepare name tags. Homework: Continue study of landscapes – find a view that pleases you and from observation create a pencil value drawing of that view. Take pictures of several landscapes that you would be interested in painting in the art studio at school. We will look at landscape compositions on Friday and determine what makes up a good landscape.
D1B2 – I carts come in on monday and wednesday as necessary for the beginning of the Image for the Year project. This is a one point perspective lesson in which students choose a year and then relate that visually in a shaded sphere to a chosen theme. Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci is who we learn about and also view the video Masters of Illusion. Students are to have EVERY DAY a # 2 pencil and eraser for this project.
D1B3 – students begin their final still life composition from observational drawing. We will have “still life interruptus” to also learn about landscape composition and observational drawing en plein aire. Field trip planned for 10/30/09 to Tuckahoe Plantation.
D2B1and B2 – Ceramics – students complete all outstanding projects this week altered pinch pots, raku, native american coil pots- begin Greek Amphora pottery project. Complete art and man study guide on Greek pottery. Use template to determine/aid in construction of Greek amphora – black figure ware.
D2B4 – please see d1b1 – this class is one day behind d1b1, but i envision everyone completing project this week as stated above.