End of the day refresher......Inspiration

http://www.visualnews.com/2014/03/youll-never-believe-ballpoint-pen-drawings/

Mixed Media Art Inspiration

https://www.pinterest.com/ameliak29/mixed-media-artwork/

Art Careers Project: Do Now: Read chapter 12 about the art careers. 1st..... Sign up for the Art Career you will create a powerpoint presentation or poster for. 2nd..... Begin researching online and taking notes. Guidelines for Poster: The Art Career should be the focal point, create as much Emphasis on the art career as possible. ADD LOTS OF COLOR!!!!! These will be on DISPLAY in the Hallway. You may add drawings and/or printed pictures from the computer. BE CREATIVE,you should aim for wanting your poster to stand OUT! Print your First and Last name on the back right corner. BE ready to PRESENT your poster to class by MARCH 27. GOOD LUCK!!!!!!! Guidelines for PowerPoint: You should include designs, shapes, color, definition of the selected Art Career, and transitions between each slide. You may include school appropriate music to each slide. 1st Slide should state which Art Career your gone to present and presented by YOUR NAME! The rest of your slides(minimum of 5 slides,may be more) should include pictures, information about the career such as salary amounts, type of jobs they can get, what colleges/universities offer degrees in that particular field of work, etc. Last slide should include references of websites, books, and a short reflection statement. BE ready to PRESENT your powerpoint to class by MARCH 27. GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!

Thornton Dial

Born 1928, Emelle, AL Born in a cornfield to an unwed teenage mother, Dial grew up in rural Emelle, in Alabama's western flatlands. He began full-time farm work at age five and managed to attend school only rarely. On the eve of World War II, he was sent to live with relatives in Bessemer, just outside Birmingham. There, he married, raised a family, and worked for half a century in heavy industry, building highways, houses and ultimately boxcars during a thirty-year stint at the Pullman Standard Plant. Dial's life encompasses many of the most consequential episodes in twentieth-century African-American life - sharecropping in the Black Belt, migration from country to city, the upheaval of the civil rights era, and the ethnic conundrums of a rapidly changing postmodern America. As John Beardsley writes, "Dial's life is inseparable from history, because he had made it his business as an artist to be a historian. Dial lived history, then he represented it in paintings and sculptures. From childhood on, Dial built "things" using whatever he could salvage, recycling even his own work to reuse materials in new creations. Dial referred to what he made only as "things," though late in life he found out that others call them "art." Having developed during the era of racial segregation, Dial's style is both personal and culturally rich, and it speaks with a resolute voice that was denied him through the years as a black factory worker. In Dial's art, intense surfaces, multilayered narratives, shifting compositional relationships, and a metaphysical concern with issues of recycling and ancestry exist hand in hand with an ironic, earthy wit and an almost religious determination to make art's complexities and mysteries central to the human understanding of reality.