Studio Habits of Mind
One of the three parts of "Developing Craft:" Learning to use tools (viewfinders, brushes), materials (paint, charcoal).
Learning to reach beyond your capabilities, to explore playfully without a preconceived plan (spontenaety), and to embrace the opportunity to learn from mistakes and accidents.
What is "Stretch & Explore?"
Making words look like what they are. This is a great way to boost comprehension and to emphasize important terms when using #sketchnoting
What is "Visual Mneumonics?"
This 20th century American artist from Louisiana is most famous for creating the iconic "Blue Dog" based on a bayou myth about a werewolf.
Who is George Rodrigue?
Taking care of art supplies & cleaning up after yourself.
What is "Act Responsibly?"
Another part of "Developing Craft:" Learning about things like perspective, color-mixing, the elements & principles of design etc.
What are "Artistic Convententions?"
Question and Explain: Learning to think and talk with others about an aspect of one's work or working process. AKA "Feedback"
What is "Reflect?"
These were used first by the Romans to identify which soldiers were in which, unit. Later, medieval European families adopted this form of branding to show whether or not they were royalty. They often included symbols like lions, dragons, bears, boars and vultures.
What are "Coats of Arms?"
Creator of the 'Peanuts' comic strip featuring Snoopy, Woodstock, Charlie Brown and his neighbors Linus & Lucy.
Who is Charles Schultz?
Be creative, develop an 'Art Mindset;' in other words try having a Growth Mindset and try applying the Studio Habits of Mind.
What is "Be a Problem Solver?"
The third part of "Developing Craft:" Learning to care for tools, materials and space. (Fits well with the PBIS Expectation, Respect).
What is Studio Practice?
Learning to picture mentally or imagine how you want your artwork to turn out- to plan it inn your mind.
What is "Envision?"
You can improve your memory, better understand things you learn and not be distracted as easily if you combine words and pictures in this way. The main elements involved are words, pictures, and structures.
What is "Sketchnoting?"
Reclusive creator of the popular comic strip, 'Calvin & Hobbes.'
Who is Bill Waterson?
What is "Show Respect?"
Learning to think of problems as challenges. Developing focus (stretching your attention span) so that you can show grit and "stick-with-it-ness." Taking assignments seriously and not quiting or or giving up, even when they're hard or when you get bored.
What is Engage & Persist
Evaluate: Learning to judge one's own work and the work of others in relation to standards (criteria or goals) of the art field
ALSO: What is "Reflect?"
Neurological condition when two or more of your five senses overlap in your brain so that, for example you may "see" sounds or "taste" colors.
What is "Synesthesia?"
Belgian surrealist painter who painted a pipe and then wrote under it (in French) "This is not a pipe."
Who is Rene Magritte?
Engage & Persist. Mindfullness, attentiveness (not just attendance)... you might even call it a sort of "Zen."
What is "Be Here?"
Domain: Learning about art history and current practice. Communities: Learning to interact as an artist with other artists (in the classroom, local arts organizations or accross the art field).
What is "Art Community?"
To not just glance at things but to learn to really pay attention- to look and examine, to visually explore a subject in such a careful way that you'll notice and see things that other people wouldn't notice. The most important part of drawing realistically.
What is "Observe?"
The phenomenon by which we interpret familiar patterns from randomness — explains why the human brain sees faces where there are none.
What is "Pareidolia?"
Russian painter and art professor at the German college, Bauhaus, who used lines, shapes and colors to spontaneously illustrate pieces of music. Historians now suspect that he may have had some form of synesthesia.
Who is Wassily Kandinsky?
According to the Chinese zodiac, 2018 was the year of this.
What is the Dog?