RHS ART: Advanced Portfolio

Welcome to Advanced Portfolio!

This is a serious upper level art class that will prepare the student for art in post secondary education. Emphasis will be placed on independent growth and artistic development, both in art making and critical analysis. The beginning of the year will focus on observation skills and college portfolio requirements.

We will also participate in monthly workshops at the Goggleworks Center for the Arts. Students will have the opportunity to participate in full day workshops such as glass blowing, raku firing, figure drawing and painting. Check the Calendar for field trip dates.

Sketchbooks are due every Wednesday. Get in the habit of bringing the sketchbook to class every day. If you use it for working out ideas and brainstorming regularly, then you will complete your homework. Sketchbooks will be checked for usage on Wednesdays ONLY. There are no set assignments however, 3 pages minimum will be expected weekly - One page of observation, one page of open, what ever you want, and one page of thinking on paper. (The calendar has weekly reminders.)
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Observation - Charcoal Subtractive

Objective: Students use charcoal and subtractive drawing to identify value contrasts and apply the rule of thirds to composition.
Big Idea: The skills techniques, elements and principles of the arts can be learned, studied, refined and practiced.
Essential Question: How does an artist create value contrast through subtractive drawing?
To Do: Demonstrate knowledge of composition and value use with charcoal. Students will be introduced to a subtractive drawing technique - laying a ground of medium and using erasers and charcoal to draw. Students will learn to rely less on line for drawing but look at value and how contrasting edges and value create form.
Key Vocabulary: Value, Form, Composition

Observation - Pen and Ink

Objective: Students explore pen and ink media to define value tone and texture of a series of objects.
Big Idea: The skills techniques, elements and principles of the arts can be learned, studied, refined and practiced.
Essential Question: How does an artist create value and texture when using pen and ink.
To do: Students work out thumbnails of composition of objects. Students select a singular object or a series of objects to create a pen and ink study. Review pen and ink techniques - hatching cross hatching contour hatching stipple inventive. Students complete value scale with each technique. Students use prior knowledge from subtractive drawing and less reliance on line to begin working with pen and ink to show value and texture.
Key Vocabulary: Hatching, cross hatching cross contour, stipple, inventive, value, contrast

Observation Perspective

Objective: Students understand and apply the laws of perspective when drawing an interior space
Big Idea: The skills techniques, elements and principles of the arts can be learned, studied, refined and practiced.
Essential Question: How does an artist make things appear 3 dimensional on a 2 dimensional surface?
To do: Students Choose an architectural corner space and use the laws of 1 and 2 point perspective to render the space using line. Discuss line weight and precision when using perspective.
Key Vocabulary: Line, Line weight, Perspective, One point perspective, two point perspective, horizon line, vanishing points, orthogonal lines, convergence, Space

Projects Under Construction. . . TBA

Observation - Pastel
Demonstrate knowledge of working with color and composition. Drawing multiple views of similar items and working them together to create an strong visual composition.

Abstraction - Pastel and Starch
Students work with a previous less successful drawing and use the base to create an abstraction from that drawing. Students also investigate a combination of medium by adding liquid starch to the pastel they can create deeper richer tonalities and work with the pastel in a more painterly fashion.

Non-Objective - Watercolor
Students investigate watercolor techniques and experiment with the medium to create a non-objective work that demonstrates mastery of composition, color, and the elements and principles of art.

Contour - Mixed media
Students draw a series of contour portrait drawings using only line to describe the volume of the figure. Using this coloring book students add color and value by adding a variety of medium that may include watercolor, pen, collage,