Art III Drawing Syllabus
Course Description
The Drawing III course is designed for students who are seriously interested in the practical experience of making art and wish to develop mastery in the execution of drawing. In this course students experience a variety of concepts, techniques and approaches designed to help them refine their technical abilities and problem solving skills. This course will introduce students to the concept of incorporating themes and meaning into original drawings. This course is drawing intensive and requires work done outside of class.
Objectives:
• Students will understand the elements and principles of art, and apply them to their own drawings.
• Students will gain an awareness of the role art has played in society and history.
• Students will develop critical thinking skills through looking at, and judging, works of art.
• Students will draw until their brains corrode from charcoal and graphite! (Just kidding!)
Class Time
Students are expected to use the allocated class time for developing ideas and completing portfolio quality projects. Excessive cell phone use, lack of preparation and misuse of class time will result in failing participation grades.
Grading Categories
Projects 40% [This includes at least two summative grades per six weeks.]
Disciplined Effort 20% [All effort grades will be included on every drawing project.]
Daily Work 30% [This includes formative assessments and progress grades.]
Quiz Grades10%
Units, Projects and Assignments:
Pretest Drawings
Building a creative mind set
Form Building with Tiki forms
Students build Clay forms
Review
Contour, sketching and proportion from Tiki forms
Drawing from Observation
Tiki drawings Cross Contour and Line Quality
Watercolor resist with marker drawings
Tiki Still Life Drawings
Value review
Eraser drawings on mid-toned paper with charcoal
Abstractions and Composition
Abstract Tiki Drawings with prisma color and elevated sections
Wrapped Tiki Drawings
Realistic rendering of folds and creases.
Student choice of media
Illustration of Themes
Working with a Theme
How can drawing be more than decoration?
Artist Jonathan Darby
Student Research of lyrical ideas and meaning
Student research of thematic art from history
Students generate original artwork based on researched themes.
Cut paper Portraits (Seven Deadly Sins)
Artist Matisse
Self Portrait Drawing with paper
Plywood Portraits with foreshortening
Drawing from the right side of your brain
Faces –grids and upside down drawing exercises
Gesture drawing exercises
Foreshortening
Gesture drawing review
Body proportions
Coil drawing technique
Stained plywood with China
Motifs and appropriate Subject Matter
5 Design Techniques with Soap Crayons – Motifs and Themes
Prisma-color techniques
5 sections of one paper, separate designs of same subject matter
Soap Crayon Drawings
Appling design techniques to student generated subject matter.
Monochromatic Block prints
Appling design techniques to student generated subject matter.
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to call me at 866-4440 ext. 501. You may also reach me by e-mail at . A copy of this syllabus can be found on Mr. MacLean’s website through the High School webpage. If you would like to sign up for the text reminders that your student receives in this course, just text this code @drawingiii to this number 81010