Sagemont Prep Summer Conservatory Visual Arts Course Offering Blocks

Drawing: A course that will introduce students to the visual language of drawing through observation and rendering a realistic image. Students will experiment with different drawing tools, such as pencils, pens, and brushes. Through observation and use of various textures, light, and shadow, students will create forms of various objects and surfaces.

Painting: In this course, students are introduced to the basic principles and techniques of painting. Through a wide range of experiences, students learn about painting tools, basic color mixing, composition, form, and spatial relationships. Students will work with a variety of subjects for inspiration.

Sculpture: Students are introduced to the wonderful world of sculpture. They will explore how space, mass, balance, and form combine to create aesthetic forms or utilitarian products and structures. The instructional focus will be on ceramics and pottery. Student artists consider the relationship of scale through the use of positive and negative space or voids, volume, visual weight, and gravity.

Illustration: This course is designed to cover a range of topics in illustration. Students will be introduced to the various paths they can take within illustration, including editorial, publishing, advertising, visual development, surface design, and fashion. The wide breadth of content in this course will reinforce critical aspects of the illustration process, including conceptual thinking, expansive iteration, storytelling, and working within set project parameters.