| Week | Unit | Details | Project |
Materials |
| Week One | Introduction | Go buy
materials! | | |
| Week Two | Form and Composition |
- Definitions of art and design
- Nature of Art
- Components of Art
- Subject Matter & Content
- Form
- Principles of organization
- Media and technique
- Elements of design
| | |
| Weeks Two & Three | Line and Texture |
- Physical characteristics of line
- Spatial properties
- Representation
- Abstraction
- Line possibility
|
Line & Texture Libraries |
- pencils
- charcoal
- paper
- erasers
- pens
- ink
- brushes
- scissors
- ruler
|
| Weeks Four & Five | Shape and Space |
- Shape Interactions
- Positive and Negative Space
- Figure/Ground Relationships
- Balance
|
Shape Exercises | All drawing materials |
| Week Six | Value Study |
- Shallow and deep space
- Linear perspective
- Value use and methods
- Creating rich surfaces
|
Exquisite Corpse | All drawing materials |
| Week Seven | Mid-Term |
|
Portfolio Due!! | Your portfolio |
| Weeks Eight & Nine | Texture and Pattern |
- Systematic organization
- Actual and visual feel of surfaces
- Found objects
|
Collaborative Mosaics | Found objects for collaborative
mosaic project |
| Weeks Ten & Eleven | Color |
- Physical Properties:
- Color Relationship
|
Color strategies |
- Gouache paints
- brushes
- jars
- palette
- paper
|
| Weeks Twelve & Thirteen | Concepts, Ideas, and
Expression |
- Communication
- Intellectual and emotional content
- Final project preparation and proposal
| - Color project continued
- Beginning of Final Project
| Your choice |
| Week Fourteen | Final
Projects and Critique | | |
Final Projects!! |