OUR CURRICULUM

Course Goal

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Course Goals
Upon completion of this course, the student will:
1. Acquire and use working vocabulary that can be used in multiple fields of study and occupation.
2. Gain real world knowledge that can be apply to their specific topic of study.
3. Become proficient in the tools, techniques, and practices of the study of aesthetics.
4. Develop skills that are necessary to investigate and perceive the world around them.
5. Work in a self disciplined manner in completing art projects within a specific time.
6. Develop individual expression and aesthetic.
7. Compile an advanced placement portfolio. Prepare to take the AP class the following year.
8. Understand how to critique and evaluate art.

Course Outline

Hands-On Learning

Course Outline

Schedule subject to change according to classroom needs.

How to Design a Painting Portfolio: will understand the makeup and procedures of a painting portfolio.

Review: will learn on how to draw in proportion, perspective and structure.

Color Charts: will understand how to design and produce color charts.

Monochromatic painting: will learn how to paint realism only using the values of a single Hue.

Intensity painting: will how to produce different intensity of color through a non-objective painting.

Drapery/Fabric painting: will understand how to use value and how to paint soft and hard edges.

Glass Still life painting: will learn the set up in how to paint realism the illusion of glass.

Metal still life painting: will learn the set up in how to paint realism in metal objects.

Combined Still life painting*: will learn the set up in how to paint a realistic still life on Canvas.

Sky painting: will learn how to set up in how to paint the sky

Water painting: will learn how to set up in how to paint water.

Land Painting: will learn how to set up in how to paint the land.

Landscape painting*: will learn how to set up and paint a realistic landscape on Canvas.

Seascape painting*: will learn how to set up and paint a realistic seascape on Canvas.

Mixed Media: will learn to use a variety of media in a single piece.

Figure Painting: will learn how to paint the figure.

Portrait Painting*: the student will learn how to set up and paint a portrait on Canvas.

Art in Response to Social Issues*: will take a Social Issue that is affecting them today.

Projects and Powerpoints

Artists to work from.

Caravaggio: Master of Light and Mood.

Claude Monet: The Lilly Painter.

Georgia O’Keeffe: Mother of Modernism.

Giorgio de Chirico: The abandoned Surrealistic.

Janet Fish: Painting through Plastic.

Paul Cézanne: Complex grids of geometric forms.

Frida Kahlo: A woman that knew how to take a selfie.

Wayne Thiebaud: A painter of common items

Five Qualities in Great Realism

Google Art and Culture

Two Great Resources for Artists - both free  

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