Classroom Expectations
- Keep our classroom organized and safe by cleaning up materials everyday.
- Respect other students’ materials, workspace, and projects.
- Help each other brainstorm, create, and clean up projects.
- Students are dismissed by the teacher, not the bell, dependent on table group daily cleanliness and behavior.
- Respect other students’ materials, workspace, and projects.
- Help each other brainstorm, create, and clean up projects.
- Students are dismissed by the teacher, not the bell, dependent on table group daily cleanliness and behavior.
Course Objectives
Students will use a range of art making processes to communicate personal ideas. Students will learn how to use different art techniques and tools in the style of historical and current practices. Moving on from elementary art, students in Art Foundations are expected to commit to projects that may take longer than a few class periods. Curriculum is organized based on the Elements of Art.
Assignments will be graded on satisfactory attempt to master techniques and completion of assignment, positive classroom behavior and responsibility for materials, and genuine effort towards the project goals.
Projects graded on:
- Daily classroom behavior, cleaning up, and following our Social Contract
- Effort towards project, neatness, and care towards doing your best
- Following project instructions and timely completion
Assignments will be graded on satisfactory attempt to master techniques and completion of assignment, positive classroom behavior and responsibility for materials, and genuine effort towards the project goals.
Projects graded on:
- Daily classroom behavior, cleaning up, and following our Social Contract
- Effort towards project, neatness, and care towards doing your best
- Following project instructions and timely completion
Quarter 1
Abstract name sculpture - 20 points
Must be:
- at least 12 inches tall x 8 inches wide
- arrange your letters in a "abstract" composition
- cannot use tape or glue
- Name: Decide on a combination that has at least 6 letters
- letters must be decorated on both sides and base must be decorated
- at least 12 inches tall x 8 inches wide
- arrange your letters in a "abstract" composition
- cannot use tape or glue
- Name: Decide on a combination that has at least 6 letters
- letters must be decorated on both sides and base must be decorated
sketchbook animal contour names - 20 points
About Me Eye drawing - 30 points
Watch videos
In sketchbook: - Draw two practice eyes - 1 in regular pencil with shading and 1 with colored pencil - Write a list of words and symbols/images that represent you
Project:
9x12" drawing paper Draw an eye in the center of the paper, no smaller than a golf ball size. Draw lines outward that divide the paper into 7-9 sections. Complete in either pencil shading or colored pencil. FILL the paper with words and images that represent you. Fill empty space with decorations, patterns, and color/shading. 30 points |
contour Unit
What's the point of this exercise?!
INTRODUCTION TO CONTOUR:
Contour is lines only, no shading. Part 1 - 15 points On a piece of copy paper, practice the three types of contour exercises using a flower. Regular, Continuous, Blind (see right image for the differences) Part 2 - 15 points In your sketchbook Use pen or marker Get a partner and draw your partner's face 3 times in the three different types of contour: Regular, Continuous, Blind Partners can take turns so that there is less movement for the person drawing. Part 3 - 15 points
Place the Picasso drawing upside down. On a piece of copy paper, attempt to draw the Picasso image, also upside down, as accurately as you can. NO TRACING!!! The purpose of choosing this odd Picasso image and forcing you to recreate it upside down is to try to SLOW your drawing process down as much as possible. I want you to look at each individual line and focus on recreating what you see. Do not rush. Do not draw an imaginary person sitting in a chair. Do not turn your paper right side up while you draw, leave the surprise for the end. |
If your drawing goes off the paper, you can attach another piece of paper.
Stop when the class period is finished. If you are doing this exercise correctly, it should take you AT LEAST 30 minutes. |
Part 4 - 15 points
In your sketchbook
Repeat the three types of contour exercise (regular, continuous, blind), this time drawing your opposite hand. Choose an interesting position (not just palm flat). Change your hand position for each contour type.
Use the skills of observation you practiced in the Picasso Brain Challenge. Do not draw an imaginary hand. Do not rush. Draw every line as you see it. Include details like skin folds, bracelets, fingernails, etc.
In your sketchbook
Repeat the three types of contour exercise (regular, continuous, blind), this time drawing your opposite hand. Choose an interesting position (not just palm flat). Change your hand position for each contour type.
Use the skills of observation you practiced in the Picasso Brain Challenge. Do not draw an imaginary hand. Do not rush. Draw every line as you see it. Include details like skin folds, bracelets, fingernails, etc.
Choose a 5-6 letter word.
Draw each letter on 9x12" drawing paper as a contour hand in American Sign Language. You may do either Regular or Continuous contour that we have been practicing. I highly recommend observing your own hand for each letter. Start in pencil. Pay attention to the overall size so that all the letters will fit on the background watercolor paper. Do not draw in a simple cartoon style. Remember, just lines, no shading. There should be details like skin folds, fingernails, jewelry, etc. Go over pencil lines in sharpie. Erase any visible pencil. Cut out each hand. Glue onto background with glue stick. 40 points |
Black out poetry - 15 points
Materials
Sharpie Found Book Page Look through the collage shelving (or any book you're allowed to damage - NOT THE ART LIBRARY) and tear out a page of text. Non-glossy paper will work best. Create a drawing and poem by "blacking out" areas of a book page. Your poem must make some sense, at least five words. Black out enough space around the poem so that those words clearly stand out. Your image should be easy to see and should fill at least half of the canvas. Staple into the inside cover of your sketchbook. 20 points |
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color palette cards - 20 points
Another word for color = hue
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Art Room Color Vocabulary
Monochromatic = shades of one hue Analogous = hues next to each other Warm = Yellow, Red, Orange Cool = Purple, Blue, Green Primary = Red, Yellow, Blue Secondary = Orange, Green, Purple Tertiary: Red-Orange, Yellow-Orange, Yellow-Green, Blue-Green, Red-Purple, Blue-Purple |
MONOCHROMATIC
Analogous
warm / cool
Cartoon Character skeletons - 40 points
Find a reference photo of a cartoon character and print.
Trace the contour (outline) onto 9x12" drawing paper. Do not draw any inside details. If that character is an animal, print a reference photo of that animal's skeleton. Otherwise use a human skeleton. Fill the character with a skeleton. Make an effort to fit the skeleton shape to the character, for some that may mean distorting the skeleton into a funny shape - do that if that's the character's shape! Make the skeleton realistic and detailed. Help each other determine which areas of the body would have a bone, such as ears typically do not have bones. Finish with colored pencil. Cut out and glue onto construction paper background. |
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: MICHAEL PAULUS
Warm and Cool Paintings with silhouette
Dragon's eye
Skills:
Color Pencil Blending Texture in shading Fine detail drawing |
Objective:
Draw an up close view of a Dragon’s Eye with fine detailed drawing in the eyeball and scales; use colored pencil shading to create reptilian texture. |
watercolor eye ball
Iris: 3 Colors
+ black Dark around outside, then light, then small ring of darkness around pupil.
In the example below:
Purple, Blue, Green |
Graded on following instructions, effective watercolor blends, neatness, and classroom behavior. 25 points Due After watercolor, fill pupil with sharpie and draw the iris line details in black pen.
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Quarter 3
Geometric String Art
Drawing unit
grid drawing
3-D Ribbon Explosion
horizon line
One point perspective aquariums
one point perspective names
- Hallway must "end" in something surprising and creative.
- Must redraw aspects of the hallway that are in perspective (trim lines, ceiling tiles, etc.)
- Add something to the floor and something to a wall that is in perspective.
- If not completing in color, then must do shading.
- Must redraw aspects of the hallway that are in perspective (trim lines, ceiling tiles, etc.)
- Add something to the floor and something to a wall that is in perspective.
- If not completing in color, then must do shading.
3D Printing project
Feb 7th - 11th - Valentine's Cricut Card - Origami Gift Box - 3D printed gifts
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Choices:
CLAY
landscape clay tile
Floating Chalk print mandalas
https://www.mandalagaba.com/