MS7011y Art Studio
This year-long elective course offers students in grades 6, 7 and 8 the opportunity to explore diverse media and techniques in art. They will learn to appreciate art by studying the major artists and techniques of important 20th-century art movements. They will build up their skills by sequencing activities in still-life drawing, in portraiture, in figure drawing, and in landscape painting. Through drawing, painting, sculpture, and printmaking the students will experiment various media, such as pencil, charcoal, tempera paints, watercolor, ink, oil pastels, linoleum, wire, clay, and plaster of Paris. Students will also develop observational skills, learn the language of art, stimulate their imagination and creativity and ultimately realize their own artistic potentials.