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Malcolm Gladwell says it takes 10,000 hours (5 yrs.) to be proficient at a craft. What are you willing to commit that much of your life to?

Major Projects and Due Dates
Fall 2018 Drawing and Painting 2-6


Artists Trading Cards / Warm up Project

Drawing in Black and White
Several drawing projects will be explored by various levels of students. 
We will focus on the Masters of Drawing along with Contemporary Artists.

Students will create a short presentation on a master artist.

Hallway / Persecptive

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Perspective study in our hallways
Perspective in Five point

Growth Systems / Value

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 Abstract drawing based on Nature's patterns

Proportion / Grids

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    Proportion and Geometry all around us

Focus on Features

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Albert Durer , Self Portrait, age 13

Resources and Examples

Possible Pencil Drawings, Small to big Popcorn, Clothespin, eraser, thimble, Kisses,bottle cap
Chinese take out boxes, reflections on glass, fabric,  metal scraps
Charcoal Drawings, Bags, Banana, Pillows, Stuffed animals, Clouds,smashed face
Find hidden poem
Observational Drawings, cans, pillows
Try something New / 30 Days
30 Day Challenge Self portraits


Directions  
Composition
Mandela       
Artable  
Drawing Exhibition    
1886-1914 
 ArtCyclopedia   
Art Movements Cronololgical 
      
 Drawing Buddha    
 Geometry all around     
 How to draw people
Snowflake geometry
How to proportion the face
How to draw an eye 
 How to draw lips 
How to draw nose


Colored Pencil
Prismacolor pencils will be introduced and students will work with common themes to facilitate learning techniques.

Cherries

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Color blending
Seasons

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Value studies
Reverse

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Student work

Resources and Examples

Colored Pencil Artists
Colored Pencil addicts
Dee Oberly
Kathe Suddendorf
Colored Pencil Society of Detroit
Colored Pencil Society of America
Color wheel and Blending
Colored Pencil Techniques
Water Droplet

Analogous Colors

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Joesph Stella

Object Still Life
Grid Transfer, Wash Effects

Acrylic Experiments in 3-d

     build your own 3-d form!  
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                          Jasper Johns

Watercolor

Review Color Mixing

Practice Work
Brush Work in Ink
Triad Tree
Pumpkin
Flowers
Lemons
Pine cone
Hot Air Balloon


Triad Tree

Sample Chart

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Washes / Value

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Student work

Resources and Examples
Monthly Color Charts

Painting Winter Landscapes
1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqy_ISgzK7Q
2)

Spring Landscape
Artists, Georgia O'keefe, Aurthur Dove, Charles Burchfield, Don Kingman, Janet Fish
Georgia O'keefe and Ansel Adams
HOW TO's
Painting with a Limited Palette /Norman Rockwell
Paint an eye
Brush Pressure, Chinese brush painting
Ink and Wash
Watercolor Resist
Techniques from Artists

Acrylic

Resources and Examples
Impressionists, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Monet, Luetrec,
American Landscape Thomas Cole, Turner
http://www.impressionism.org/
Color Theory, Interative
Pop and Modern
Jim Dine, Robert Rauchenburg, Francoise Neilly, Max Wiedman, 
HOW TO'S
Adding Texture
Transfer a Picture
Paint with a toothbrush
Analogous Color Assignment Sp 2013
Acrylic Practice Book / House assignment

Color theory/Charts

Future assignments Change a portrait, Figure of speech

Printmaking
What are the Different Kinds of Printmaking?

Wood or Lino
Alphabet

German Expressionists
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Screen Printing

Andy Warhol
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Lithography
Twinrocker

Lithography - the easy way
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Student Prints

Resources and Examples

Simple registration

Special Projects

Transfer / Photo
Ink jet transfers
Gel transfer, Acrylic transfer, more transfer techniques
Group Abstract


Sketchbook
acrylic wash cover




Monoprints







Accordian Book

Encaustic

The Big shirt

Final 1 - open technique and medium

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Add your own medium to a photo or print of your choice and develop into a cohesive final image.
At least 50% of the final image must be your own.
Helpful websites
5 tips
Collages and Combines
High up in the trees


Final 2 'Figure of Speech' Open Medium
Final 3 'Its Your Billboard'
Final 4 'What if....'

Final 5   Heads
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