Weekly Art and Photography Letter - April 27th - May 1

Weekly Art and Photography Letter

April 27^th through May 1^st

Hello Everyone! I hope you all are enjoying school online! We might as well, right! You know the old saying, “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” So, are you ready to make some more delicious lemonade this week!? I have noticed more and more participants jumping into the arena, and I have also seen a lot of you really step up your games!! NICE WORK!!!

This week we are all going to start putting some time into our final projects again. I saw some great ideas before we left in March and I can’t wait to see what comes out of some of those early sketches. If you weren’t at this week’s Zoom Meeting, we reviewed the expectations and guidelines for the final project. All of this information can be found on the art website at www.https://clovergardenart.blogspot.com/

Art students, you will also have another weekly exercise due this coming Friday (May 1). I have been very pleased to see all of the great work that has come out of these exercises. I hope you all are enjoying them. And again, if you had issues getting on the classroom in the beginning or whatever, I am not penalizing for work turned in late, so keep it coming. The due dates are really there more to help keep you all on track.

This week I will also put up a link for the Final Projects. On this link you may post work in progress, if you would like feedback; or if you finish your final project early you may post it there. Please just be sure to specify if it is finished or not by writing “complete” or “work in progress”. Later, I will be sending out a self-critique form that will accompany the final project. Now that we know that we will be finishing out this school year online, both of these things (final project and self-critique) will be due on May 15^th.

Photography Students

I would like you to continue with what we started last week, only this week once you’ve selected that special photo that you will post, both onto Google Classroom and your photography blog, I would like you to select one element and one principle of art to use as the focus of your written comment. I’ve written a sample to illustrate what I mean by this. Please have a look at the photography and this sample below.

                                                                                                                                         

This is a photograph of a Tree by Ansel Adams. I am going focus my comments on the element of LINE and the principle of MOVEMENT.

To me this photograph confirms the awe aspiring respect I have for nature. It’s powerful and delicate beauty need only to be recognized and then captured in expert precision to become art. But how it is captured here by Adams cannot be taken for granted. The soft tones and uncomplicated background serve as the perfect stage to feature this complex beauty whose playful branches offer an endless variety of lines to entertain its audience; but that is not even what fascinates me most with this photograph. The fact that other than the wind, this tree is basically still, yet the twisting, turning, reaching movements that it has experienced are so well written in its energetic lines. These lines express movement, and Adams has done such a beautiful job to accentuate their energy by contrasting them against this solemn backdrop. Once again Adams has found such a beautiful way to show tribute to one of earth’s most basic, yet essential living things, the Tree.

I hope Everyone has a great week and I look forward to see you all in the Zoom Meeting on Friday. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you,

Ms. Norton