8th Grade:

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about PAINTING & PRINTMAKING CLASS

Students choosing to take 8th-grade PAINTING & PRINTMAKING have an interest in learning more about Painting Expressively,  and learning how to use various techniques and color strategies. Many of these approaches to image making can be used to make Relief Prints and Monotypes using an Etching Press. 

Skills include: Basic drawing from life, developing abstract images, using color strategies, using the Principles of Design for Composition, and learning printmaking techniques. Drawing & envisioning skills are developed with sketchbook exercises and exploration of master and contemporary. 

Project Units include:

• DRAWING / PAINTING from Still Life

• CUBIST ANIMAL ABSTRACTIONS

• LANDSCAPE & ABSTRACT WATERCOLOR 

• LINOLEUM Prints

• STENCIL / GEL Monoprints

• SELF PORTRAITS in Acrylic and collage

STUDIO HABITS of MIND are developed every day as students learn to think like artists:

• Develop Craft   (Skills grow in a variety of mediums and techniques)

• Engage & Persist   (Learn from "mistakes" and embrace the opportunity to grow)

• Envision   (Expand visual library & imagination)

• Express ( Discover what matters to YOU)

• Observe  (Slow Looking - Careful observation)

• Reflect  (Talk & Write about what you are learning)

• Stretch & Explore  (Take risks and Reach beyond current skills)

• Understand Art Worlds   (Art History & Other Artists)