December 2, 2011 by cameron.petke
Name:
Cameron Petke
Phone:
240-236-7716
Email:
cameron.petke@fcps.org Welcome to my teacher homepage...
Inside you will find image resources, sketchbook assignments, links to gallery and artist websites,
and project powerpoint presentations for Ceramics 1-4 and AP Art History. Enjoy.
Inside you will find image resources, sketchbook assignments, links to gallery and artist websites,
and project powerpoint presentations for Ceramics 1-4 and AP Art History. Enjoy.
IDEA GENERATION & THE IMPORTANCE of RESEARCH...In the classroom, we often talk about the importance of research and the gathering of visual resources to inspire us and direct our focus toward a particular personal style in the studio. For example...I am particularly interested in Eastern Temple Bells. Below, you will see images of several ceramic bells I've created, which were directly inspired by the study of Chinese and Japanese bronze bells.
As you look at the work of different artists and cultures this semester, try to discover what their inspirations were that led to their stylistic development. Ask yourself, "What influenced that body of work? What was their jumping off point?"
Please visit the Freer+Sackler Gallery: one of my favorite sites for the history of Near East and East Asian Ceramics.
Want to see more? Please visit my personal artist website, to check out the direction of my own work: www.BakedClayStudio.com
Please visit the Freer+Sackler Gallery: one of my favorite sites for the history of Near East and East Asian Ceramics.
Want to see more? Please visit my personal artist website, to check out the direction of my own work: www.BakedClayStudio.com
Bell (bo zhong), ca. 12th-11th centuries B.C.E., Shang dynasty, Bronze, H: 31.0 W: 24.8 D: 15.2 cm, South China, China.
AND Great Temple Bell, Chionin Bell, Kyoto.
AND Great Temple Bell, Chionin Bell, Kyoto.
Project Powerpoint Presentations
When we begin a new project, we study the artists that have come before us and the contemporary artists doing exciting things with their craft. These presentations are given at the beginning of each new project along with the actual project demonstrations. You will also find links to the sample Art Historical Art Critiques that we write throughout the semester, links to Contemporary Artists' websites and feature articles, and specific Research + Sketchbook Assignments given for particular projects.
When we begin a new project, we study the artists that have come before us and the contemporary artists doing exciting things with their craft. These presentations are given at the beginning of each new project along with the actual project demonstrations. You will also find links to the sample Art Historical Art Critiques that we write throughout the semester, links to Contemporary Artists' websites and feature articles, and specific Research + Sketchbook Assignments given for particular projects.
Yixing Teapots Presentation
Mishima Presentation
Bernini Portrait Bust Sculpure Presentation
4 Steps of Art Criticism
Laocoon, Ugolino, St. Teresa, Pieta, David images for Art Critique Essays
Contemporary Artist Study
Artist of the Day: Kevin Crowe
Kevin Crowe is one of many contemporary artists we will look at this semester for inspiration and direction in your search for your personal style. Kevin is a woodfire specialist, working out of his Virginia studio (Tye River Pottery), and I am lucky enough to say he was my first wheel-throwing professor.
I love his philosophy about the importance of doing what we do as ceramic artists. His artist statement is as follows:
Mishima Presentation
Bernini Portrait Bust Sculpure Presentation
4 Steps of Art Criticism
Laocoon, Ugolino, St. Teresa, Pieta, David images for Art Critique Essays
Contemporary Artist Study
Blackboard Illustrations + Objectives
Students keep a working sketchbook thoughout the semester and create a personalized textbook of sorts filled with research, ideas, and vocabulary. I use chalk illustrations to present the project objectives and vocabulary that students see when they enter the room before beginning each new project. Students reproduce the illustrations and take the notes in their sketchbooks, followed by an art historical or contemporary artist powerpoint presentation to give further context to the project we are about to create.
Students keep a working sketchbook thoughout the semester and create a personalized textbook of sorts filled with research, ideas, and vocabulary. I use chalk illustrations to present the project objectives and vocabulary that students see when they enter the room before beginning each new project. Students reproduce the illustrations and take the notes in their sketchbooks, followed by an art historical or contemporary artist powerpoint presentation to give further context to the project we are about to create.
Artist of the Day: Kevin Crowe
Kevin Crowe is one of many contemporary artists we will look at this semester for inspiration and direction in your search for your personal style. Kevin is a woodfire specialist, working out of his Virginia studio (Tye River Pottery), and I am lucky enough to say he was my first wheel-throwing professor.
I love his philosophy about the importance of doing what we do as ceramic artists. His artist statement is as follows:
This century will bring an even more digitized life to the developed world. The information river will be up and out of its banks, and the pressure to eat in the car will seem normal.
Many of the functions we make pots for will merge, transform and disappear. Making pots will be an act of civil disobedience. Time has become money. Our pots will be needed more than ever before.
A bowl of tea between silent lovers, the salad bowl at the table of noisy friends and family, the coffee mug just before the kids rise---all quietly keep our souls alive. They make love stay.
When the moon is right, we make pots that recognize and define sacred spaces, mystery and tenderness.
At this brittle and exciting edge of the 21st century, we will make pots with a renewed awareness of how essential our work is. What we do matters.
We make a quiet difference and sometimes ----that’s all it takes.
~Statement by artist, Kevin Crowe
Artist of the Day: Dalton Ghetti
Form + Function. Creativity + Craftmanship. In ceramics we must think of how the objects we make are to be used, as well as their aesthetic impact. Craftsmanship is about practicing the techniques until they become 2nd nature and presenting a final project with no visual distractions.
We too often say a great artist is "talented." In actuality, it takes time, practice, and patience...attributes difficult to develop in our fast-paced modern lives.
Form + Function. Creativity + Craftmanship. In ceramics we must think of how the objects we make are to be used, as well as their aesthetic impact. Craftsmanship is about practicing the techniques until they become 2nd nature and presenting a final project with no visual distractions.
We too often say a great artist is "talented." In actuality, it takes time, practice, and patience...attributes difficult to develop in our fast-paced modern lives.
Dalton Ghetti is an artist using an unusual medium, but he demonstrates an amazing level of skill and craftsmanship
(as can be seen below in his miniature sculptures carefully carved from the end of graphite pencils).
If he can do that with an unforgiving and delicate bit of a pencil...
Subject of the Day: Be Curious. Work Hard.
"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."
Michelangelo
“I have not failed. I have found 10,000 ways that won't work."
Thomas Edison
Dorothy Parker
"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."
Michelangelo
“I have not failed. I have found 10,000 ways that won't work."
Thomas Edison
"Learning without thinking is useless. Thinking without learning is dangerous."
Confucius
Confucius
"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas."
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
"I have no special talents, but I am profoundly curious."
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
"Success is learning to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."
Winston Churchill "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
Confucius
"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."
Winston Churchill "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
Confucius
"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."