Drawing & Painting

Drawing and Painting Course Overview

Seniors are required to submit their portfolios to prospective art schools/colleges by December of their senior year. For this reason, eleventh graders wanting to further their studies in art should choose to take this course. Assignments are designed to develop portfolio pieces that examine the relationship between drawing and painting, figure and ground, value and balance, and gesture and line. Concentration is on drawing, mark making, and painting techniques. The portfolio is presented as a final examination.  Art history from Romanticism through contemporary art is incorporated into most assignments.