ART I- A Fundamental Course in Art

An Introduction to Drawing

                In the first year of art, the staff uses the book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain.  This book contains a number of exercises which help establish the lines of communications necessary to drawing objects as they actually look.

A.      Pre-instruction Drawings

B.       Vase-Face Drawings

C.       The Upside Down World

D.      Contour Drawing

E.       Supplemental Contour Drawing

F.       History of the Student as an Artist

G.       Positive-Negative Space

H.      Sight Drawing- Fundamental Perspective

I.         Mechanical Perspective

J.        Portraits

K.      Model Drawing

L.       An Introduction to Lights and Darks

An Introduction to Design

A.      The Elements of Design

B.       The Principles of Design

C.       The application of the elements and principles of design

An Introduction to Painting

A.      Brush work using India ink

1. Three stroke trees
2. Rocks and water
3. The landscape

B.       Landscape painting

1. India ink
2. Watercolor

C.       Acrylic Paints

1. Students paint interpretations of the different art movements studied in the Art History unit.
2. Students paint original works based on the elements and principles of design
3. Students paint portraits and still life

An Introduction to Printmaking

    1. Mono-prints

    2. Found object prints

    3. Introduction to Relief Printing

    4. Introduction to Screen Printing

An Introduction to Sculpture

    1. Fabrication with paper

    2. Additive sculpture with clays

    3. Subtractive sculpture with clay and/or plaster

Art History

A.      Ancient Art

B.       Impressionism   

C.       Post-Impressionism

D.      Expressionism

E.       Cubism

F.       Surrealism

G.       Op Art

H.      Pop Art

I.         Art in the 1980’s and 1990’s

J.        Commercial Art

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