JACK PINE SECONDARY SCHOOL

Course Outline

Course Title: Drawing and Painting

Course Code:AWM3M1

Course Level:11 University/College

Department:Arts

Policy Document:The Ontario Curriculum: Grades 11 and 12: The Arts

Ministry Course Code: AWM3M

Credit Value:1

Course Developers:Lauren Jewell & Natasha Nickel

Date:November 6, 2007

Drawing & Painting, Grade 11, University/College Preparation(AWM3M)

This course provides students with opportunities to further develop their skills and knowledge in visual arts. Students will explore a range of subject matter through studio activities, and will consolidate their practical skills. Students will also analyze art works and study aspects of Western art history, as well as art forms from Canada and other parts of the world. This course will focus on drawing and paintingtechniques and will further exercise and expand the students’ artistic knowledge, ability and portfolio. Aspects of drawing and painting will combine traditional and alternative elements of theory and practice.

Prerequisite: Visual Arts, Grade 9 or 10 Open

UNITS:

1. Expressing Emotion with Colour: 20 hrs

  • Internet Research Exercise
  • Cross-Cultural look at colour symbolism: Western and Asian Culture and the medicine wheel
  • Painting Exercise: Choosing Colours based on Music
  • Art History: Impressionism, Post Impressionists, Fauvism and German Expressionism
  • Unit quiz
  • Culminating project: Choose a current event and do a small research on it, or a topic you are interested in. Create a painting using imagery and choose colours that reflect that topic

2. Pastels: 22 hrs

  • History of pastel
  • Oil pastel methods: reviewing colour theory and mixing oil pastels
  • Still life study of fruit: whole and cut in half
  • Chalk pastel methods: learning about layering
  • Culminating project: Distorted grid image in choice of oil or chalk pastel

3. Abstraction: 20 hrs

  • Intro: review of history and theorists contributing to abstract art (19th and 20th
    review)
  • Abstraction with geometric shapes (Picasso, Braque, and Delaunay)
  • Surrealism (Dali)
  • Movement in abstraction (Duchamp)
  • Abstraction and colour (Fauvism)
  • Culminating project: create an abstract piece from a slice of a magazine ad, using knowledge from unit (can use any medium of choice)

4. Architectural Drawings: 22 hrs

  • Classical architectural orders (Doric, Ionic, Corinthian capital – look at all of elements)
  • Arches and vaults (arch, barrel vault, groin vault, hemispherical dome with oculus)
  • Basilican and Gothic architecture (all elements)
  • Central-Plan church
  • Culminating project: design either the inside/outside/entrance of your dream house/bedroom using the architectural elements covered in this unit
  • Test: architectural elements

5. Pastiche

  • Quick overview of characteristics of Baroque, Renaissance, Mannerism, Neoclassicism, Romanticism and Realism
  • Research and write a short essay of an artist and the period
  • Independent study: create a master piece in the style of the artist

ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION:

70% FORMATIVE:

  • Current event painting
  • Pastel grid drawing
  • Abstract piece
  • Architectural drawing of dream house/bedroom
  • Pastiche

30% SUMMATIVE:

  • (20%) Portfolio (3 revised pieces ready for presentation)
  • (10%) Tests

RESOURCES:

Adam, P. S. (2001). Color Contrast & Dimension in News Design. Retrieved November 4,
2007, from The Poynter Institute:

Cortes, C. (n.d.). Retrieved November 4, 2007, from Color in motion: An interactive
experience of color communication and color symbolism:

Kleiner, Fred S. & Mamiya, Christin J. (2005). Gardner’s Art Through The Ages (12th ed.).
Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

Ocvirk, Otto G. et al. (2002). Art Fundamentals (9th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.

Vieth, K. (1999). From Ordinary to Extraordinary. Worcester, MA: Davis.