Intro to 2d and 3d Art

week / Content / Standards Taught / Skills for Achievement / Assessment / Resources
1-2 / Drawing from life
How to create contour drawings. Timed Contour practice. Use of a variety of subjects and still life.
STUDIO: Life Drawing. / Students will / Rubric.
Classroom Observation / You Tube video: Contour Drawing.
Classroom examples.
3-4 / Tools and techniques for pencil
STUDIO: Overlapping Shapes. Ribbon Value Drawings. Photographic Texture and value Execise. / Students will draw shapes an d create values and textures using a variety of learned pencil techniques / Observation of work in progress. Criteria for value evident in work. / Pencils, Value Techniques handout.
8 or more different pencil weights.
Pencil Drawing Slide show.
5-6 / How artists use Grids. Grid drawings
STUDIO: Resize and copy photograph of student choice using grid methods.
ART HISTORY: Photo Realism. / Introduction to the use of grids by artists to reproduce and resize artwork.
Choosing an image to represent. Drawing using a grid / Observation of work in progress, Evidence of value techniques. / Handouts on grid techniques and Grid Scramble.
Drawing Pencil Palette
7 / Pen and Ink Introduction. Creating value using pen and Ink. Preparing drawings for pen and ink techniques.
STUDIO: Pen and ink exercises. Pen and Ink Life drawing. / Students will draw shapes and create values using a variety of learned ink techniques. Students will learn transfer techniques to create multiple images for Ink techniques. / Observation of work in progress. Criteria for ink evident in work. / #56 pen nibs, India ink
Ink exercise handouts.
8-9 / Pen and Ink optical Illusion project. Using pen and brush.
STUDIO: Optical illusion in ink.
ART HISTORY: Bridget Riley. / Create optical illusion design based on Op Artist Bridget Riley. / Scholastic Art Bridget Riley. Handouts on optical illusions. Power point and internet examples.
10 / Drawing with Color.
Marker drawings
Marker techniques, enlargement techniques.
Studio: Marker drawing. / Students will use opaque projector to enlarge image. Drawings will demonstrate marker techniques. / Criteria set forth by instructor. Final products created by the student. / Slides: Marker Drawing
11 -12 / Physical properties of color, Color theory, Color mixing
Creating a color wheel by only using primary colors of red, yellow, & blue / Where does color come from, what are pigments?
How are various hues created? How does a colors intensity effect mixing? / Observation of students mixing color. Final color wheel design. Plan, craft, color. / Handouts, lecture, red blue and yellow tempera paint.
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