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Curriculum Outline for Fall Semester 2008 Introduction to Art: Exploring Identity Project 1: Expression (1 week) Title: Vision Boards Essential Question and Content Focus ● Subject: What do I want in life? ● Content: Overlapping, composition, mixed media Materials: Canvas Board, magazines and other collage, glue, glossy medium Resources: http://www.christinekane.com/blog/how-to-make-a-vision-board/ Project Outline: ● Choose your type of vision board ○ The “I Know Exactly What I Want” Vision Board ○ The “Opening and Allowing” Vision Board ○ The “Theme” Vision Board ● Use magazines to cut out images and words that represent you and the type of vision board you want ● Begin to think about composition and how you want to lay everything out on your canvas board ● Create your vision board Display: *see Project 2 Project 2: I AM an Artist! (2 weeks) Title: Monochromatic Self-Portraits Essential Question and Content Focus ● Subject: What colors and facial expressions can I use to represent who I am without using words? ● Content: Monochromatic and achromatic color schemes, using acrylic paint Materials: Digital camera, photo shop, tracing paper, canvas board, acrylic paint, brushes Project Outline: ● Discuss symbolic use of color ● Take digital pictures of all students using black and white on Photo Booth ● Save and open image in Photo Shop ○ Alter and “Save As- shiggins.altered.jpg” ○ Print Image in Black and White ● Trace Image and transfer to canvas board ● Choose “symbolic color” for portrait ● Paint using Monochromatic Color Scheme Display: Use opposite side of Vision Board for Monochromatic Painting. Display in 3D formation using shelving hooks so that both sides of image are visible. Project 3: Introduction to Color (2weeks) Title: Linoleum Print Project “Warm and Cool Landscapes” Essential Question and Content Focus: ● Subject: What landscape did you choose as your “ideal place” and why? ● Content: COLOR WHEEL, warm, cool and complementary color schemes, line, texture, layering, contrast, positive and negative space, foreground and background Materials: Printer paper, EZ-cut linoleum, cutting tools, printing ink, brayers, colored paper, printing paper Project Outline: Choose a landscape of a place that you have been and loved or a place that you would like to go. This should be your ideal space. Do a sketch in your journal. With tracing paper, focus on the background of your image. Trace and transfer it to soft cut linoleum block Carve lines and cut out negative space Print with warm or cool colors Trace foreground of landscape Carve and print with opposite color scheme/ or contrasting color Display: Choose best print to frame and display in conference room. Use black mat board for display Project 4: Drawing (1.5weeks) Drawing Workshop: Learning to “See” by drawing what you see Essential Question and Content Focus: ● What are some techniques we can use to train ourselves to see like and artist? ● Line, texture, contour line, gesture drawing, value, shading Resources: Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, Betty Edwards Introductory information/ exercises: Part 1: Shifting from Left to Right Brain Day 1  Vases and Faces Drawing #1. o Read page 46-48, then students will do Vase/ Face Drawing #1 (use construction paper in journal) o Read page 49-50, then students will do Baroque Vase and Monster Face Drawing #2 Day 2  Do a drawing of a model then (2, 15min poses)…  Upside-down drawing  Put examples of both drawings up on the board and compare the two: talk about attention to detail, lines, wrinkles, etc… Part 2: Line Day 3  Blind Contour (hand) *Collect brown paper bags for this exercise.  Contour (hand)  Gesture (full body, models from class)  Drawing from models: 20min. poses x2 Day 4  Contour line drawings of candy and lollipops Day 5-8  Drawing Rotations (2 per day) o Contour Drawings -flowers o Observational Watercolors- flowers o Observational Pencil Drawings- shoes o Observational Charcoal Drawings- 3D objects o Observational Oil Pastels- learning from the Master's portraits o Observational Pencil Drawings- outside Display: Choose most successful drawing for display in classroom Project 5: Color (3 weeks) Title: Inspirational People “Mixed Media Project” Essential Questions and Content Focus: ● Who is inspirational to me and why? How can I use colors, composition, and mixed media to represent that person? ● Value (tint, tone and shade), color schemes and color wheel review, mixed media, composition Resources: Andy Warhol, Image Entertainment Project Outline: Choose someone who inspires you, find image and research Do writing prompt Do Monochromatic Mini Painting Lesson *while tracing images from projector Show examples of Andy Warhol’s work and discuss pop art and multimedia artwork Watch Warhol video *skip chapter 7 and 8 Alter student images on Photo Shop o Crop image o Mode-change to gray scale o Image- adjust- auto contrast o Filter-artistic-cutout (do cutout at about 8 values) Print out altered images and glue in to journals Trace images from projector screen Choose color/black and white Paint lightest shade first then continue painting each shade until face is complete Background should be a contrasting color or use mixed media supplies to finish image. Mixed media supplies should represent your inspirational person in some way. Display: Work to be dispersed in core classes Project 6: Art History (4 weeks) Title: Learning from our Master's- An Integrated Project with Humanities Essential Question and Content Focus: ● What is the significance of your artist in the history of art ? ● Basic knowledge of time period and an in depth knowledge of your artist Resources: Notes from peers, see Digital Portfolio for additional resources Project Description: ● Choose and artist from the list provided ● Research your artist ● Do a Power Point Presentation about your artist to your peers ● Take notes on peers presentations with a focus on KEY topics ● Choose a painting and focus on the entire piece or a small section of the work ● Paint image ● Take art history test Display: Outside 10 grade area ● Project 7: Final Project (2.5 weeks) Title: The Cost of Cool- An Integrated Project with Humanities and Math/Physics Essential Question and Content Focus: ● What is the cost of your “cool”? ● Art and media Resources: See Digital Portfolio Project Outline: Use background information from your core classes to create a visual time line of an “cool” item Create a series of work using the skills that you have acquired this semester in art Visual Journal Assignments: Exploring Identity *Due every Wednesday 1. “What's in a Name?” and Cover 2. Landscape Sketch, looking at foreground, middle ground and background 3. “Room with a View” 4. Warm and Cool 5. Favorite Childhood Book 6. Chuck Close Self-Portrait/ ½ face 7. Observational Still-life, using items from students lives 8. Perspective drawings 9. Transformed Initials 10. Andy Warhol Inspired work 11. Color Wheel, color schemes 12. Color schemes in advertisements 13. Commercial Art Mini Propaganda Posters with color schemes 14. Art history focus 15. Watercolor triads 16. Series, a draft for final project Visual Journal: Drawing Workshop 1. Contour lollipops (line) 2. Observational drawings outside (value) 3. Positive an negative space lesson (shape and form) 4. CityScapes (perspective)http://www.christinekane.com/blog/how-to-make-a-vision-board/shapeimage_4_link_0