Charcoal Portraits on Brown PaperBy the end of the unit, all students will learn:
- how to use the grid for drawing support - how to use a variety of charcoal, especially when creating values & textures - how to recognize shapes and values through careful study - relay deeper meaning through text (Blackout poetry activity) Click here for Lesson Detail. |
Landscape DrawingsYou choose the scene.
It must be horizontal, utilizing the rule of thirds. Include color. Can use oil pastels, chalk pastels, or colored pencils. Guest artist will visit, providing techniques using colored pencils. Click here for detailed information on the Landscape Drawing Unit. Wanna watch an expert? Click here for Emma Colbert timelaspe Sunset Landscape in Pastel. |
Color Complementary Project: colored pencils
Blue and orange, red and green, or purple and yellow...how much do you know about complementary colors? You see them all the time. Click here for more information on this project.
What you will learn:
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Observational Drawing of Eyes: what ties us all together
Student created lesson.
What will you learn?
Why should you care:
How will we make this? Click here for details.
What will you learn?
- How to draw eyes: improve the techniques. Click here or here for resources.
- Learn how to reflect emotion (mood) in your art.
- Learn advanced techniques in: watercolor, acrylic, pastel, charcoal, oil pastel and colored pencil.
- Use of art elements: color, shape, size, direction
- Principles of design: contrast, repetition, and dominance.
Why should you care:
- It helps bring out our differences while highlighting our similarities as humans.
- How to look at others through a different lens.
- How to appreciate each other and honor one another.
- People’s feeling and emotions can be quite similar…
- Unless you are a robot.
How will we make this? Click here for details.
Second Semester Projects
Zentangle/Mandala Patterns and Textures using Watercolor
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What will you learn?
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Tempera Batik
What you will learn:
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Printmaking Project
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Missing pieces painting: last project
Missing pieces painting...What is it about? Well...it's abstract, it includes different perspectives, and reveals the empty spaces. They tell stories about what is missing, what needs to be fulfilled...this is an acrylic painting and it will take you a long time. Put your best self into this pieces. It's your final piece.
Minimum size: 8x10"
Medium: acrylic
How will you do this:
1. take some photographs of yourself, from different angles, different perspectives...determine one that you like.
2. print it out, 8x10 paper.
3. draw it out using pencil, line drawing.
4. begin thinking about which pieces should be painted, which pieces include color. On a separate paper, draw out a mini drawing, and use pastel to determine which sections include color. DO NOT BEGIN PAINTING UNTIL YOU DO THIS.
5. Start painting...
6. Give this time...
7. Clean your brushes...because if you don't, they will die.
Medium: acrylic
How will you do this:
1. take some photographs of yourself, from different angles, different perspectives...determine one that you like.
2. print it out, 8x10 paper.
3. draw it out using pencil, line drawing.
4. begin thinking about which pieces should be painted, which pieces include color. On a separate paper, draw out a mini drawing, and use pastel to determine which sections include color. DO NOT BEGIN PAINTING UNTIL YOU DO THIS.
5. Start painting...
6. Give this time...
7. Clean your brushes...because if you don't, they will die.