ART
Drawing I Intended audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12 Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit Major outcomes:
• Learn basic drawing skills: observation, proportion, perspective, and shading
• Learn basic drawing techniques: pencil, ink, conte pastel, and charcoal
• Draw from life
• Learn basic art history, aesthetics, and art criticism
• Excellent starting point for other art courses Projects, activities, etc.: Multiple drawings and sketchbook Instructional focus: Lab work
Drawing II Prerequisite / Selection process: Drawing I Intended audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12 Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit Major outcomes:
• Expand skills developed in Drawing I: color use, composition, and figure drawing
• Expand techniques developed in Drawing I: pencil, paste, and color work
• Draw from life and imagination
• Continued emphasis on art history, aesthetics, and art criticism
Projects, activities, etc.: Multiple drawings and sketchbook Instructional focus: Lab work
Drawing III Prerequisite / Selection process: Drawing II Intended audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12 Credit: Course may be taken up to three trimesters. One trimester = 0.5 credit Major outcomes:
• Offers students additional coursework to develop greater depth in studio discipline
• Continued emphasis on art history, aesthetics, and art production
Projects, activities, etc.: Multiple drawings and sketchbook Instructional focus: Lab work
Jewelry and Craft Design I Intended audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12 Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit Major outcomes:
• Create wearable and usable art through multiple art projects
• Work with jewelry production using various techniques
• Explore bookmaking processes
• Explore fiber and sculpture construction
• Study the history of jewelry and craft design around the world.
Instructional focus: Lab work
Jewelry and Craft Design II Prerequisite / Selection process: Jewelry and Craft Design I Intended audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12 Course may be taken up to three trimesters. Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit Major outcomes:
• Offers students additional coursework to develop greater depth in jewelry and craft design and production
• Continued emphasis on art history, aesthetics, and art production
Instructional focus: Lab work
Medical Illustration I [ CRHS only ] Intended audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12 Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit, meets art requirement Major outcomes:
• Accurately interpret and portray body systems( organs, skeleton, tissues, etc.) through visual representations
• Transform complex information into visual images that have the potential to communicate to broad audiences
Projects, activities, etc.: Multiple illustrations, sketchbook, and digital art introduction Instructional focus: Lab work
Medical Illustration II [ CRHS only ] Prerequisite / Selection process: Medical Illustration I Intended audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12 Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit, meets art requirement Major outcomes:
• Expansion of accurately interpreting and portraying body systems( organs, skeleton, tissues, etc.) through visual representations
• Transform complex information into visual images that have the potential to communicate to broad audiences
• Digital finishing and graphic design Projects, activities, etc.: Multiple illustrations, sketchbook, and digital art introduction Instructional focus: Lab work
Painting I Intended audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12 Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit Major outcomes:
• Learn basic painting techniques
• Learn basic color theory
• Watercolor and acrylic painting
• Aesthetics and art criticism Projects, activities, etc.: Multiple paintings and sketchbook Instructional focus: Lab work
Painting II Prerequisite / Selection process: Painting I Intended audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12 Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit Major outcomes:
• Refinement of skills developed in Painting I
• Art awareness of modern artists
• Continued emphasis on art history, aesthetics, and art criticism
• More self-expression in subject matter Projects, activities, etc.: Multiple paintings and sketchbook Instructional focus: Lab work
Painting III Prerequisite / Selection process: Painting II Intended audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12 Credit: Course may be taken up to three trimesters. One trimester = 0.5 credit Major outcomes:
• Offers students additional coursework to develop greater depth in studio discipline
• Continued emphasis on art history, aesthetics, and art production
Projects, activities, etc.: Multiple paintings and sketchbook Instructional focus: Lab work
Sculpture I Intended audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12 Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit Major outcomes:
• Work with 3-D art forms
• Exploration of multiple types of media as they relate to form and mass
• Learn about sculptors and history of sculpture
• Emphasis on aesthetics and art criticism Projects, activities, etc.: Additive and subtractive sculptural pieces Instructional focus: Lab work
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