7128s 

Drawing and Painting-From Life                 

Semester / 0.5 Credit / Grade 9 - 12

Prerequisites: 

None

Description

Students in grades 9-12 learn and practice the perceptual skills in order to draw anything from observation. They experiment with a variety of materials, like soft pencils, ink, charcoal and pastels to reach a better understanding of the expressive qualities of each media. During this course students will work on still lifes, portraits and figures, as well as explore other artist’s works. They will perceive the idea of composition, light and shadow, positive-negative space and the rules of perspective. The fundamentals of color theory are introduced and applied as students experiment with stylistic approaches to subject matter through the use of watercolor and acrylic paints. Drawing and Painting-From Life and Drawing and Painting-From Art can be taken in any order, for either one semester or a full year. The level of difficulty of both classes is similar, while the focus is different. Students in both classes deal with the same fundamental issues in different projects. 

Prerequisite: None