Seventh Grade

Course Overview

During seventh grade art, students will learn a wide variety of art techniques through different materials. They experiment with illusions, contour, and values through drawing and color. Students will explore printmaking processes and ceramic techniques including hand building, slab, and coil. Starting in seventh grade students are introduced to the Principle of Design in addition to the Elements of Art.

SKILLS AND CONCEPTS

Optical Illusion Drawing Unit
- Color Wheel/Value line design (Bridget Riley) Colored Pencil Techniques
- Notan Positive/Negative Space Cut Paper designs

(Cutting/Glueing Skills to show Balance, Zentangle Patterns or Face/Vase Drawing)

- Mathematical Illusions (MC Escher) Using a ruler/Complementary Color Theory
- Artist Statement as review
Clay Pop Art Sculpture (Warhol/Lichtenstein/Oldenburg)
- Functional/Man-made object creation
- Exploration of Slab/Coil/Handbuilding techniques
- Slip/Score
- Glazing
Value Drawings
- Still life from Observation (forms/Legos/etc) using colored pencil shading techniques

(Value scale studies using cross hatching, stippling, pencil pressure, layering)

- 3D Cube studies with tint/shade Monochromatic mixing of paint
Contour/Blind Contour Unit
- Upside-Down Drawing exercises
- Contour Hand drawings from observation
- Blind Contour Portraits
Printmaking
- Animal/Flower Studies (Connection to Science Unit)
- Relief Carving
- Brayer/Ink Transfer techniques

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