Today you need

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• ⚱️ 🍲🍯☕🏆🏺Your clay project!

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• 📖 Your clay booklet
• ✏️🖊️🖋️ Something to draw and write with

Ana Mastnak, graphite on paper, Fall 2020

Citadel Creates @mrdrapak

Bea van Leeuwen, graphite on paper, Fall 2020

Citadel Creates @mrdrapak

Mi’kmaw word of the day

Sisip (Bird) @BSyliboy

Other students in other places

Student photography work

from The Westleigh School (UK)

Ruth Cuthand (Saskatchewan)

Trading (Smallpox, Bubonic Plagiue, Influenza, Measles), 2009

beaded micrographs of diseases

Nancy Blum

ROAMING UNDERFOOT

2019

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subway tile mosaic New York

Joshua Mays, 2015

Where is COVID in Halifax? (Student edition)

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• Air Canada Flight 614 travelling from Toronto (2:25 p.m.) to Halifax (5:15 p.m.) on Dec. 5.
• Air Canada Flight 144 travelling on Dec. 9 from Calgary (11:54 a.m.) to Toronto (5:22 p.m.)
• West Jet Flight WS 670 travelling Dec. 9 from Calgary (1:30 p.m.) to Toronto (7:15 p.m.).
• West Jet Flight WS 254 travelling from Toronto (Dec 9. at 9:45 p.m.) to Halifax (Dec. 10 at 12:48 a.m.).
• WestJet Flight 228 travelling on Dec. 3 from Calgary (11:14 p.m.) to Halifax (Dec 4. at 7:06 a.m.).

Friday is flexible attendance in my Art classes

• This is only true in my classes. Most other teachers do not do this. Do not pressure them.
• I AM expected to take attendance. And I will. But you can come whenever you want on Friday to give me your class time.
• The KTS Talent Show should start in the afternoon. �I will be playing it. :)
• For example, you could come before classes (8:00ish), at lunch, or during other class times. Ask your other teachers for permission to come to my class. Don’t mess with their trust. You can bring a non-disruptive friend who follows COVID rules.
• If you are finished your clay work, you can start sketching things for your exam project, or start gathering images.
• I will be leaving the building at 3:30 for the holidays.

Clay Evaluation

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1. Clay skills مهارات كلاي

克莱技能 kasanayan sa Clay 클레이 기술

xirfadaha Clay クレイスキル ทักษะดิน

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The strength, balance, and surface finish of your clay vessel�

• Quality of carving نوعية نحت

雕刻的质量 Kalidad ng mga larawang inukit 조각의 품질

Tayada xardho 彫刻の品質 คุณภาพของการแกะสลัก

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The complexity, quality, fullness, and craft of the patterns and line drawing on your vessel.

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• Daily clean-up habits عادات التنظيف اليومية

每日清理的习惯 Araw-araw na paglilinis gawi 매일 청소 습관

caadooyinka Daily nadiif-up 毎日のクリーンアップの習慣 ทัศนคติต่อการทำความสะอาดทุกวัน�

Cleaning your table and floor so it is clean and streak-free.

Health and Safety

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• It’s going to dry out your hands. Gloves are available.�
• You will look foolish if you eat it.�
• It will stain clothes. Use an apron. Use your usual stain remover to clean your clothes.�
• Clay dust very slowly collects in your lungs. Good clean up prevents this.�
• Throwing clay is creates clay dust in the end. There is an alternate drawing assignment (a still life of clay pots) for people who cannot use clay responsibly, period.

Advice for clay

• Build the coils and basic shape in one day.

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• Oh my gosh wrap up your clay. Once it is gone, it is gone.

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• Make it smoother than you think you need.

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• Avoid flexing your clay. Add bandages over cracks.

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• Make sure you dry your table with paper towel to avoid streaks

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• Add to your idea development or prepare your graphite transfer while your slip dries.

A basic coil pot

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Remember: dry clay becomes unusable. THERE IS ALMOST NO EXTRA CLAY.

Leaving your clay unwrapped dries it out. As well, the more you handle it, the faster it dries. So much of doing clay well is about knowing how to get what you want while touching the clay as little as possible.

1. Squeeze a clay disk about 1cm thick and 5-7cm in diameter.�
2. Make some coils of clay about 1 cm thick. Stretch the coils, don’t squish them. Build the walls of your pot using the coils, leaving no gaps. �
3. Wait until you have things roughly shaped before smoothing. Smooth things out by smearing coils together. �
4. Paddle the sides with a wooden spoon to shape and strengthen them. �
5. Use a rib and your fingers to smooth your pot.

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Today you will get:

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• A nice and smooth clay vessel (takes 10 minutes)�
• The first layer of slip (takes 5 minutes). Expect this to be streaky!�
• Time to finish your idea generation! :)�
• The second layer of slip (takes about five minutes)�
• Wrap up your clay loosely at the end of class!

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Graphite transfer for clay

MONDAY Schedule for Green classrooms

Stay on the third floor or in front of the main doors

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A block

Morning break 10:10 - 10:25

Lunch! 11:30

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B block

Afternoon break 1:50 - 2:00

Goodbye! 3:05 3:00!

TUESDAY Schedule for Green classrooms

Stay on the third floor or in front of the main doors

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C block

Morning break 10:30 - 10:40

Lunch! 11:35

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D block

Afternoon break 2:05 - 2:15

Goodbye! 3:10

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Curt Sarmiento, graphite on paper, Fall 2020

Citadel Creates @mrdrapak

Abi Gadiano, graphite on paper, Fall 2020

Citadel Creates @mrdrapak

Brandon Powell

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graphite on paper

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Fall 2020

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Citadel Creates

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@mrdrapak

May Parlar @mayparlar (UK)

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Photography

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2019

Jack Ross

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2019

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at Argyle Fine Art

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Don’t ask - there’s no time!

The Draw This Again Challenge - 4 years of practice

The Draw This Again Challenge - 11 months of practice

The Draw This Again Challenge - 2 years of practice

The Draw This Again Challenge - 2 years of practice

The Draw This Again Challenge - 1 year of practice

Diedrick Brackens @deedsweaves

(Los Angeles)

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weaving

2019

Alan Syliboy (Truro, Mi'kma'ki)

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Drum series

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ongoing

An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth - Bruce Mau

(www.brucemaudesign.com)

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42. Remember.

Growth is only possible as a product of history. Without memory, innovation is merely novelty. History gives growth a direction. But a memory is never perfect. Every memory is a degraded or composite image of a previous moment or event. That’s what makes us aware of its quality as a past and not a present. It means that every memory is new, a partial construct different from its source, and, as such, a potential for growth itself.

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Impressionism and Post-impressionism

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10. What do you do when technology threatens your job?

Diego Velázquez

Las Meninas

1656

Johannes Vermeer

The Art of Painting

1666

Artemisia Gentileschi

Judith Slaying Holofernes

1611-12

Diego Velázquez

Las Meninas

1656

Jacques-Louis David

The Oath of the Horatii

1784

Francisco Goya

The Third of May 1808

1814

Neoclassical and Baroque Art

Katsushika Hokusai

The Great Wave off Kanagawa 1823-29

Vincent van Gogh

The Starry Night

1889

19th Century Masters

Nicephore Niepce, View from the Window at La Gras, 1826.

Impressionism and

Post-impressionism

Claude Monet, Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise), 1872.

Oil on canvas, 48 × 63 cm, Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris.

Claude Monet, Water Lilies, 1905.

Oil on canvas, 89.5 × 100.3 cm, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

So many water lilies!

Monet was in love with the visual impact of the natural world.

Claude Monet, Reflections of Clouds on the Water-Lily Pond, c. 1920.

Oil on canvas, 200 × 1,276 cm, Museum of Modern Art, NY.

Claude Monet, Water Lilies, 1905.

Oil on canvas, 89.5 × 100.3 cm, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Georges-Pierre Seurat, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884–86.

Oil on canvas, 207.6 × 308 cm, Art Institute of Chicago.

Georges Seurat, Bathers at Asnières, 1884.

Oil on canvas, 201 cm × 300 cm, National Gallery, London.

Claude Monet

Water Lilies

1905

Georges-Pierre Seurat

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

1884–86

Impressionism and Post-Impressionism