Visual Arts

Visual Arts Department

301-599-2422


"Try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, 'Here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow,' and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives you your own impression of the scene before you." Claude Monet

"The struggles along the way are only meant to shape you for your purpose."

-Chadwick Boseman




Students in Visual Art will be expected to...

  • Create a Portfolio of artwork

  • Participate in displayed art throughout the school

  • Participate in JMMS IB World Showcase

  • Encouraged to compete in art competitions

  • Exceptional artwork will be chosen for Annual PGCPS Southern County Art Show, in the Spring

Mandatory Supplies

  • Sketchbook

  • Pencils

  • Eraser

  • Pencil Sharpener

  • Ruler/ Straight edge

  • Scissors

  • Markers/ Crayons/ Colored Pencils

  • Glue

  • Computer/ laptop smartphone/ camera

  • Paper/ something to draw on

Optional Supplies

  • Sharpies

  • Watercolor set

  • Watercolor pad

  • Modeling clay

  • Building materials - Legos

  • Tape

  • Thread/ Yarn / String/ Fabric / Ribbon

  • Headphones

Syllabus

Elements of Art

Art Literacy

Neo Plasticism

Watercolor Painting

Hieroglyphics/ Typography

Sculpture


Syllabus

Elements of Art

Art Literacy

Principles of Design

Balance in Art

Radial Balance

Color Theory

Watercolor Painting

Graffiti / Typography

Sculpture

Syllabus

Elements of Art

Art Literacy

Principles of Design

Design / Typography

Drawing

Perspective

2 Point Perspective

Watercolor Painting

Sculpture

Grading Policy

  • Class participation - Camera on unless you the parent opted your child out.

  • Classwork - Work given and completed during class session.

  • Independent work - Replaced the term, “Homework”

  • If I am absent students must do the work I left with the substitute teacher. It will be counted as an Assessment Grade

  • Assessments - Will be in the form of multiple choice tests, quizzes, lesson projects, and final projects.

  • Lesson Projects and Final Projects will be graded based on criteria outlined in a Rubric.


  • Grading Categories

    1. Independent Assignments

    2. Classwork

    3. Assessments


  • Handing in work late.

    • Classwork & Independent work handed in late is acceptable up a 2 days before grades are due TBA

    • Lesson Projects and Final Projects will go down one letter grade each day pass it’s due date