If you need a rubric or a worksheet or a powerpoint... come here. 96% of the time everything that I've handed you on class made it onto the webpage first.

Also, I'll try to help keep you all updated with the art world in general (the part that I come in contact with) by posting articles under the "news" section-- on your left. I'll try to keep this section either interesting, amusing, or both.

If you have anything to say to me... any articles for me to post, any webpages you think I'd think are cool, drop me a line. An email line.

njohnso1@sowashco.k12.mn.us

An exploration of handbuilding and wheel-throwing techniques using clay as the primary medium. Coiling, slab-building, sculpting, pinching, and throwing on the potters' wheel will all be taught.

Discover what goes into creating posters, CD covers, books and illustrations, magazine cover, t-shirt designs, logos, and more.
Students will work from concept to design to the finished product. This course will provide an opportunity for students to create many projects that could be used to build a portfolio of finished work for the commercial art field.

Links and stuff:

T-Shirt Stencil Links:
http://jonathanbranthwaite.co.uk/portfolio/stencils.php
http://www.designbyhumans.com/shop/browse/
http://www.threadless.com/
http://www.cafepress.com/

Cartooning: Expert village Utube series: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=FA204CA33E06BF00

PHOTOSHOP ALTERNATIVE (way better than aviary)
http://www.pixlr.com/editor/

Font sites that I recommend (because they let you do a preview of the words you want):
www.dafont.com
www.1001freefonts.com

Wednesday nights from 3-4.30.

Projects "maybe":

http://www.tenthousandvillages.com/recycled-coiled-paper-bowl

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen-printing

http://www.knittinghelp.com/

http://www.fimp.net/howtomakealinocut.html

http://www.stencilgraffiti.com/links.html

http://www.animateclay.com/

http://painting.about.com/od/allotherpaints/All_Types_of_Paint_Painting_Mediums.htm

http://www.pburch.net/dyeing/howtobatik.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibori

http://www.macramesuperstore.com/

http://www.google.com/search?q=altered+tshirt&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyOb_nPPlNc

http://crochet.about.com/

http://www.amazon.com/Generation-T-Ways-Transform-T-Shirt/dp/0761137858/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239380675&sr=8-1

DRAWING A
9, 10, 11 or 12
0021T
1 term, 1 credit

(Successful completion of this course meets one of the two fine arts credit requirements.)
This course will help students become comfortable with a variety of drawing materials and techniques by exploring drawing styles and materials used by several different artists. Expect to see skills and finished drawings improve.

Links:
How to Draw in 2 Point Perspective- Video
How to Draw Perspective Shadows- Video

Surrealism.org
The Joy Ballad, Deviant Art.com

How to draw a hand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NQy-a3rvQs

Fine Art Digital Photography

This course is offered to students who are interested in learning about the basics of quality artwork using digital photography as a medium, as well as creating images that have visual impact. Students will learn the elements and principles of design with an emphasis on composition. Throughout the course, we will also cover the basics of digital photography including vocabulary and camera/computer function. Students will be introduced to the history of photography, descriptive analysis of student/professional work, student presentations, class critiques, and the work of influential photographers. Students will learn to develop and expand their aesthetic perception. They will use Photoshop to learn basic digital imaging while also learning to enhance some of their photographic work. The students will create photographic images that will be suitable for working toward an AP studio art 2-D portfolio.

This site: http://www.picnik.com/ is cool. You can edit photos like crazy. And free. Thank you, student, for telling me about this.

Classjumps site for Ms. Coy at East Ridge
http://classjump.com/mscoysclassjump/

Find a black and white photographer!
http://www.betterphoto.com/forms/linkAll.asp?catID=2&pageID=1&rows=30

Photography and Math
http://www.mrmartinweb.com/photomath.html

http://www.georgesteinmetz.com/

PHOTOSHOP ALTERNATIVE (way better than aviary)
http://www.pixlr.com/editor/

New photography & Media at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts http://www.artsmia.org/index.php?section_id=23

Photo Bleaching Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_HXUhShhmY

Our Stop Motion Videos (on a private wall) - http://www.youtube.com/JohnsonsClass

WORLD CRAFTS
9, 10, 11 or 12
0041T
1 term, 1 credit
(Successful completion of this course meets one of the two fine arts credit requirements.)
World Crafts students will focus on crafts from a diverse range of cultures, discovering both the purposes behind these projects and the skills required to create them. Lessons will include two and three-dimensional media through which students will extend knowledge of art history, criticism, aesthetics and process. Student work will be unique to each student, and exhibit a continual focus on the Elements and Principles of Design.


Santa Fe Folk Art Market

Improv Everywhere:
Mobile Desktop (Agent Interview)
Cell Phone Symphony
Mobile Desktop
Frozen Grand Central
Russian Furniture Store Invasion
The Mp3 Experiment San Francisco

Mosaic Links
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B0GueDqaoY&feature=related

Woodbury High School
Nicole Johnson