Welcome to Intro to Art -
This is an entry level art class for the high school students who has not had the opportunity for an art class since the 8th grade. Emphasis will be placed on the language of art and building skill sets. No prior art experience is necessary.Elements of Art Basic Vocabulary
Objective: Students learn the elements of art and how to identify them in a work of art.Big Idea: The skills, techniques, elements and principles of the arts can be learned studied refined and practiced.
Essential Question: What are the elements of art?
To Do: Students draw a six inch box. Subdivide the box with a variety of at least 6 - 8 lines (zig zag, curly, horizontal, broken, etc.) Use a sharpie to thicken some of the lines. Use color pencil and graphite pencil to add color, texture, value and space to the created shapes. Try to make some of the shapes have depth or show form. In Class we will discuss how students use the elements of art to create successful works of art and why the control of the elements is important.
Key Vocabulary: Line, Color, Shape, Value, Form, Texture, Space
Balance and Value
Objective: Students investigate 3 forms of formal and informal balance - symmetry, asymmetry and radial balance and apply value and monochromatic color schemes.Big Idea: The skills, techniques, elements and principles of the arts can be learned studied refined and practiced.
Essential Question: What are the 3 forms of balance? How can color be used to show value?
To Do: Students draw 3 6 inch squares 1/2 inch apart from each other. Using a letter as a template, students will trace the letter to create a variety of overlapping shapes that illustrate the 3 forms of balance -Symmetry, Asymmetry, and Radial Balance. Students will use Contrast with black and white, Gray scale - mixing white and black to create a range of values, and monochromatic color using a hue and the grey values mixed to add color to the balance designs.
Key Vocabulary: Line, Shape, Value, Color, Tint, Shade, Tone, Monochrome, Balance, Radial, Symmetry, Asymmetry, Composition, Contrast
Handout- Complete Color wheel and tints shades and tones
Pattern and Color Harmony-
Big Idea: The skills, techniques, elements and principles of the arts can be learned studied refined and practiced.
Essential Question: How can color be organized and controlled to create visual harmony?
To Do: On a piece of illustration board, students measure a 10 inch square. Each square is subdivided into 6 different sections. Students select a series of motif patterns and combine them into each section by tracing designs. Use graphite paper to transfer and trace motifs. Each section is assigned a color harmony using ONE common color throughout the design. Students use color pencil blending techniques.
Key Vocabulary: Color Harmony, Triad, Tetrad, Complement, Analogous, Split Harmony, Double Complement, Burnish, Color blending, Unity, motif
Handout- Complete Color wheel and color harmony pages
Perspective
Objective: Students understand the laws of perspective as developed during the Italian Renaissance.Big Idea: The skills, techniques, elements and principles of the arts can be learned studied refined and practiced.
Essential Question: How can you show a 3 dimensional object in a 2 dimensional space?
To Do: 1st Quarter Extra Credit Assignment
Students establish a horizon line and 2 opposing vanishing points. Using block letters, students use the laws of perspective to write a 4 letter word. Students apply color theory to accentuate the idea of space. Warm colors proceed, cool colors recede.
Key Vocabulary: Perspective, One point perspective, Two point Perspective, Horizon Line, Vanishing Point, Orthagonal lines, Convergence
Hand out- Complete 1 and 2 point perspective pages
Art in Focus pages 360 -364
Value Sculptural drawing
Objective: Students apply 2 point perspective to observation drawing. Include control of value variation and aerial perspective to create a 3-D object on a 2-D surfaceBig Idea:
Essential Question:
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Key Vocabulary: Value, Proportion, Contrast, Perspective, Composition, Highlight, Shadow, Mid tone, Implied line.
Watercolor
Objective: Students learn basic water color techniques and combine prior knowledge of color and perspective.Big Idea: The skills, techniques, elements and principles of the arts can be learned studied refined and practiced.
Essential Question: How do artists control layout, color and media in design?
To Do: Design a "greetings from" travel postcard. Include the name of the place and the words greeting from in your design. Embellish the interior letter spaces with images from the place. Use a variety of water color techniques to complete your painting.
Key Vocabulary: Composition, Layout, Wash, Drybrush, texture
Projects Under Construction . . .TBA
Students explore basic hand building methods including pinch, coil and slab construction. Students select a method to create a vessel. Vessel is decorated using sgrafitto. Students investigate the Mimbres culture and designs on Pottery.
Key Vocabulary: Score, Slip, Slab, Bisque, Greenware, Kiln, Glaze, Sgraffito
Relief printing combining ides of positive and negative space and shapes with line and texture.
Key Vocabulary: Plate, Lino Cutter, Registration, Brayer, Baren, Edition, Signature
Texture
Students investigate the concept of real and implied texture through copper repousse and drawing.
Key Vocabulary : Repousse, Texture, Implied texture, Patina, Burnish.
Portraiture
Students explore facial proportions and contour.
Sculpture
Students create an armature and use additive sculptural methods paper mache to make a Mexican folk art Alebrije.
Observation
Grid Copy
Sculpture
