Visual Arts Drawing Foundations (⅓ Credit) Prerequisite: None This introductory course will encourage students to cultivate awareness of their visual surroundings. By practicing observational drawing, students will learn how to convey light source, depth and flatness, and perspectival space. In addition to drawing from life, students will practice constructing invented spaces. Through a series of conceptual illustration prompts, students will practice arranging elements within a composition and using design decisions to convey meaning. We will work in media such as charcoal, graphite, and pen and ink. Students will develop proficiency in the vocabulary of art and design through small group critiques and class discussions in response to slide presentations of historical and contemporary artwork. Students will enroll in the foundations course before choosing from the other offerings to fill out one year of art credit.
Drawing Architecture (⅓ Credit) Prerequisite: Drawing Foundations Students will study the subject of buildings, and render interiors and exteriors. Projects will include 1-Point Perspective, 2-Point Perspective, on-site free-hand gesture drawings, and other dynamic man-made environments.
Drawing the Figure (⅓ Credit) Prerequisite: Drawing Foundations Students will study the human form, and draw the figure from life. They will consider subject posture and position as it relates to composition for work in the medium.
Drawing Still Life (⅓ Credit)
painting as a creative process and means of communication, students will explore their own unique ideas, thus developing their individual artistic voices. Students will enroll in the foundations course before choosing from the other offerings to fill out one year of art credit:
Students will study masterworks of still life subject matter and reimagine those principles as they apply to present day objects.
Students will learn how color operates (alone and among other hues). They will explore and understand the strengths and differences between the painting tools and materials. Students will build composition thoughtfully and deliberately to creatively express unique viewpoints and ideas.
Painting Foundations (⅓ Credit)
Painting and Collage (⅓ Credit)
Prerequisite: None
Prerequisite: Painting Foundations
During this introductory painting course, students will at first experience a variety of media while acquiring a basic understanding of design and composition. We will then turn our attention to color and painting. Our focus will be on color theory, color mixing, value in color, composition, and foundational painting skills. As we move from skill building to
Students will engage with foundational painting ideas from the Painting Foundations course, in addition to using material from other sources (found objects, clippings, discarded items, etc.) to produce imagery that is a collection of visuals put together into a coherent whole.
Prerequisite: Drawing Foundations
Upper School Curriculum Guide
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