U-32 Middle and High School Pilot Project Learning Plan Painting

PROJECT: Painting
Improving painting skills, I will build an art gallery to get money for my syrian
refugee fund.
Researching other artists
Mentoring a middle schooler

1. What questions are you addressing in your study?

To see how I get better at painting? (I know I can) and what i can improve upon.
Shading
Foreshortening
Proportionality
And use of colors
2. Why are you interested in this study?
Because I love painting and art in general and I know I can get better
3. Transferable Skills:
List all skills that apply to your project work:

Transferable Skills Application

Effective Expression and I will summarize my paintings with little
communication- communicate Writing piece that are my interpretations
effectively and creatively using oral are of the painting on the side during the
or written language art gallery

Working independently and I will spend most of my time painting

collaboratively-Exhibit the skills to alone but I am learning from Meg and
work independently and taking a figure drawing class every
collaboratively with efficiency and wednesday or thursday.
effectiveness.

4. Content Standards: please list all that apply (use your advisor and content
area specialists for help with this!) Add the name of the teachers who will
approve of this.

Standard
Developing craft- Demonstrate
understanding of process and
concepts through effective use of
terminology, tools and practice
Connecting- relate artistic ideas and
work with personal meaning or
external content.
Indicators
I will learn how to do different styles of
painting and how to do it what tools to
use etc.
I will have an artist statement about my
work.
Art History: Monet for color and theme,
Michelangelo for skin tones and body
shading
Kehinde Wiley for skin tones, see

Performing, Presenting, Producing
bibliography for more
I will make a collection of paintings to put
in a gallery outside of U-32.
10-15 painting by the end of the year
20x30ish
Some of these will be at the January 6,
2017

Responding Critic my own artwork and see what I can

Describe, interpret, understand, and do better and others
evaluate art.

ACTION and EXPLORATION

7. What activities does this project require you to conduct outside of U-32? (Ex.
Interview experts, participate in a work-site visit, collect survey data, collect scientific data)
Finding a mentor, art show and figure drawing class, painting designing
paintings.

Which methods of information gathering do you plan on using? (Check all that
apply)
o Interviewing
o Internship
o Observing, documenting, and/or surveying
o Video or audio-taping
o Gathering and reviewing published information (reading)
o Searching online and electronic databases
o Creating a symbolic representation (g/g/, model building, map
making)
o Discussion
o Experimentation
o Writing, and reflecting
o Other

PROOF
8. How will you apply the knowledge that you have gained? What will you
produce to document your work? (Ex. design a product, organizing an event, produce a
CD, create a portfolio)
I will be able to be a better artist, A portfolio.
9. What will you show to advisors and mentors to show what knowledge and
understanding youve gained by creating this project?
A slideshow of the progress of my work, pictures of note from researching other artists

BUILDING CONNECTIONS & MENTOR RELATIONSHIPS

10. What experts would be relevant to your work? Who can best address
questions, provide feedback, etc.? Where in the real world might one see the
problem or question addressed by the project tackled by an adult at work or in
the community? (Ex. Local fish and game scientists also study species in our local creek.)
Im sure artists that are big now probably had to learn from someone in their
lifetime.
11. How will you develop a sense of the real world standards for this type of
work?
Talk to other artists
12.Whats your plan for connecting to an adult mentor?
Meg Scherbatskoy (my friends mom)

AUTHENTICITY
6. What type of audience might you share your work with? (Ex. Industry experts,
community decision-makers, parents, other staff members, local service clubs, other students)
Community anyone who will come in to see my art

BIBLIOGRAPHY
13. Make a list of the resources you plan on using in your study. Make sure that
you maintain and update this list as your study progresses.
Books:
1. Drawing on the right side of the brain Betty Edwards
2. Latin american art in the twentieth century
3. Mexican art masterpieces
4. Woman artists nancy heller
5. Michelangelo the complete sculpture etc.
Sites:
1. https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/u/0/theme/XwISmlY5uQWdJQ
2. http://kehindewiley.com/
3. https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/u/0/search?q=Monet
4. https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/u/0/entity/m07_m2
5. http://www.delempicka.org/
6. http://www.jean-baptiste-camille-corot.org/
7. http://www.luciaperez.info/gloriagallery-paintings.html#
8. http://www.luciaperez.info/luciagallery.html
9. http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/sculpture/auguste-preault.htm
10. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gian-Lorenzo-Bernini
11. http://thedali.org/
12.

PEOPLE:
1. Meg Scherbatskoy
2. Lucia Perez
3.
14. Who might help you find and refine your resource list throughout your study?
My mom
Annotated Bibliography for this study that you hope to earn
credit for, with at least 3 people, four books, and ten internet sources

Books:

Edwards, Betty. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: A Course in Enhancing Creativity and Artistic
Confidence. Los Angeles: J.P. Tarcher, 1979. Print. shows how to draw faces and body parts.

Sullivan, Edward J. Latin American Art in the Twentieth Century. London: Phaidon, 1996. Print. Shows
different art styles including chicano art.

Burke, Marcus B. Mexican Art Masterpieces. New York?: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 1998. Print.
Look at different styles of artwork around latin america and try to incorporate it into my pieces.

Wallace, William E., and Michelangelo Buonarroti. Michelangelo: The Complete Sculpture, Painting,
Architecture. New York, NY: Universe, 2009. Print. People positions and skin tones.

Heller, Nancy. Women Artists: An Illustrated History. New York: Abbeville, 1987. Print. See how
women's styles have changed and see shading techniques and realism.
SITES:

Krueger, Maude Bass. "Nudes in Art." Google Arts & Culture. Google, n.d. Web. 28 Sept. 2016.
Anatomy, proportions.

Wiley, Kehinde. "Kehinde Wiley." Kehinde Wiley. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Sept. 2016.Skin tones!!!

"Monet." Google Art and Culture. Google, n.d. Web. 29 Sept. 2016. Use of colors to create a certain
atmosphere.

"Vincent Van Gogh." Google Cultural Institute. Google, n.d. Web. 29 Sept. 2016. Shapes and use of
lines

Bachinger - Com Satz Multimedia - 4920 Schildorn. "Tamara De Lempicka. Home." Tamara De
Lempicka. Home. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Sept. 2016.Fabric/ smoothing textures.

"Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - The Complete Works." Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - The Complete

Works. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Sept. 2016. Body shading/ skin.

Perez, Lucia Angela. "Gloria's Gallery." Lucia Perez. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Sept. 2016. Styles and skin
tones/ wrinkling shading.
 Perez, Lucia Angela. "Lucia's Gallery." Lucia Perez. N.p., n.d. Web. Contrast of colors, what pops.

"Auguste Preault (1809-1879)." Auguste Preault: French Romantic Sculptor, Biography. N.p., n.d. Web.
29 Sept. 2016. Emotions/ facial expression.

"Gian Lorenzo Bernini." Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Encyclopedia Britannica, n.d. Web. 29 Sept.
2016. Displaying emotion.

PEOPLE:

Scherbatskoy, Meg. "Painting Mentor." Interview by Isabel Victoria Poulson. n.d.: n. pag. Print. She is
my mentor I just cited her as an interview because I don't know how to cite a mentor.