Week of Oct. 29- Nov. 2

     The Ferry Street Freak Show has been going quite well. A lot of you have worked or stopped by. We will be continuing the house until Halloween night. Closed sunday. We re-open monday through wednesday. This has become great fun for this time of year. It makes us incredibly busy but, it a labor of love. This year's house has been close to my own heart. I love the old school carnival and side show environment. It's made me live a bit of my own fantasies of being a bolly man for a side show.

     This week inside the art room, we will critique for our alter books for New Media this friday, Nov. 2. As usual, this assignment has caused some slight controversy. Which is fine with me. At least we are being thought about and talked about. If art isn't making you think then it's a waste of creative time....sort of. Nonetheless, our critiques for our color theory lesson will be thursday. When working with color theory most students get a bit concerned. Dealing with non-representational color can be challenging on many fronts. However, in the long run it forces us to look at color for what it is; an art form.
   
RHS Art students can ----->
1- 2D/3D: Work until critique wednesday. Then a new color theory lesson dealing with closed palette.
BREAKFAST
2- New Media: Continued work on out altered books. Critique is this friday.
3- PLANNING
4- 2D/3D: Work until critique wednesday. Then a new color theory lesson dealing with closed palette.
5- Advanced Art: Work until critique wednesday. Then a new color theory lesson dealing with closed palette.
6- AP Art Studio: continued work on concentration
7- Art I: Work until critique wednesday. Then a new color theory lesson dealing with closed palette.

As always, 

Our Week Beats Your Year.

Mr. Jeremy Grizzle 

Week of Oct. 22-26

     The week of our haunted house is at hand. We will be working everyday until it is finished and ready to go. Our opening night will be this thursday at 7:30. The following days are:

Saturday 27 7:30 to 11
Monday 29 7:30 to 10
Tuesday 30 7:30 to 10
Wednesday 31 7:30 to 10

     There will be a sign-up sheet for those those that would like to work. We will need a lot of 'extras' to deal with this year.

     As for the 'regular' art room, we will be shifting gears a bit. I have been noticing quite a few of us having some general issues with color. This week is most classes, we will be dealing with landscapes and the use of color groups. Fall is a great time to deal with this subject. Some classes will be dealing with warm and cools. While others will be dealing strictly with primary. Either assignment would work pretty well with anyone submitting a 2-D AP portfolio as well.

RHS Art students can ----->
1- 2D/3D: Color Theory- students will create a fall landscape using only warm and cool colors. Mini-lecture on the color wheel will be heard. Also, students will be asked to create a landscape from the 'real' world, as opposed to online this assignment.
BREAKFAST
2- New Media: Altered Books- students will begin work on an altered book. After seeing a slide presentation and hearing a discussion, students will begin working on this assignment, in class, that will be due the following week.

Kathryn Robinson's Altered Book- 2nd Place Winner : Ohio University Southern Juried Art Show

3- PLANNING
4- 2D/3D: Color Theory- students will create a fall landscape using only warm and cool colors. Mini-lecture on the color wheel will be heard. Also, students will be asked to create a landscape from the 'real' world, as opposed to online this assignment.
5- Advanced Art: Color Theory- students will create a fall landscape using only warm and cool colors. Mini-lecture on the color wheel will be heard. Also, students will be asked to create a landscape from the 'real' world, as opposed to online this assignment.
6- AP Art Studio- Portfolio work. Students may also opt to do the assignment from other classes as well.
7- Art I- Color Theory- students will create a landscape (of their choosing) then it must be colored using only the primary colors. This assignment will be abstracted in nature. All work is to be done in class.

Week of Oct. 15-19

Halloween, hopefully, has hit the art room full swing. The short week threw us off a bit in relation to assignments and critiques. Most critiques from this past week will be this monday or tuesday. For the most part we are creating some really nice work. The photography we've been getting from New Media has been off the charts good. I've been pleased. However, there are still some of us that aren't getting the rhythm of the class yet. It'll come.
     This week will be hit a miss in relation to our own artwork. We will be working on some in class assessments for our 'haunted house'. This years theme is 'The Ferry Street Freak Show'. We are located directly beside the Presley Barber Shop on Ferry St. in downtown Russell.

Work days are as follows---

Monday Oct. 15: 5-7pm
Tuesday Oct. 16: 5-7pm
Wednesday Oct. 17: 6-8pm
Thursday Oct. 18: 5-7pm
Friday- Optional

Performance times-
Thursday Oct. 25
Saturday Oct. 27
Monday Oct. 29
Tuesday Oct. 30
Wednesday Oct. 31

We will also be working the week of the shows to fine tune our performances.


RHS Art Students can --->
1- 2D/3D: Critiques for last weeks work. Haunted House work.
BREAKFAST
2- New Media: Critiques for last weeks work. New assignment given: Documentaries- What is your Refuge?
3- PLANNING
4- 2D/3d: Critiques for last weeks work. Art Room & Beyond Show work. Haunted House work.
LUNCH
5- Advanced Art: Critiques for last weeks work. Haunted House work.
6- AP Art Studio: continued concentration work. Haunted House work. Art Room & Beyond skits shot.
7- Art I- Critiques for last weeks work. New assignments given: What is your Refuge?


Plus, if you can, try to go see 'Evil Dead the Musical'. This is a performance by the MSU Theatre department. Two of the art rooms own, Caroline Clay & Sam Perkins, are in this production. Support our own, support the arts.


As always,
Our Week Beats your Year,
Mr. Jeremy Grizzle

Week of Oct. 9th

     Welcome to Halloween in the art room. Various individuals would like to demean and lessen the fun that Halloween is. In fact, being scared is actually one of the fundamental feeling of being alive. Our body doesn't know the difference between certain 'feelings'. What is 'exciting' to our body is exciting. No matter what. Halloween fits into this category. Granted, it has been commercialized from certain fall pagan ceremonies. However, the spirit of what Halloween is, is the joy of being frightened and entertained. I, for one, enjoy this and from what I have seen most of us in the art room do as well.
     Since this is a 'short week' we will be starting several lessons, with the hope of having a 'good critique' the following friday. However, as this year as gone, that may not happen.

     RHS Art student can ----->
1- 2D/3D: Horror Movie Posters- students will begin work on a poster type work that is based off an actual movie or one that is created from their imagination. Work must be vertical in nature. Contrasting warm and cool colors will be stressed.
BREAKFAST
2- New Media: Halloween Legends- student will begin work on 10 separate digital photos of a certain Halloween or Urban legend (that is macabre in nature). These images must be directly related to the the story as an illustration for a possible 'book'. Images must be edited and submitted to jeremy.grizzle@russellind.kyschools.us by due date.
3- PLANNING
4- 2D/3D: Horror Movie Posters- students will begin work on a poster type work that is based off an actual movie or one that is created from their imagination. Work must be vertical in nature. Contrasting warm and cool colors will be stressed.
5- Advanced Art: Horror Movie Posters- students will begin work on a poster type work that is based off an actual movie or one that is created from their imagination. Work must be vertical in nature. Contrasting warm and cool colors will be stressed.
6- AP Art Studio- Concentration work.
7- Art I: Horror Movie Posters- students will begin work on a poster type work that is based off an actual movie or one that is created from their imagination. Work must be vertical in nature. Contrasting warm and cool colors will be stressed.

As always,
Our week beats your year,
Mr. Jeremy Grizzle