Teaching For Artistic Behavior is a choice-based art program that lets students explore their own ideas and interests.
There are stations set up in the classroom by medium: drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, etc.
GOALS: The course is intended to meet the following students needs:
Develop and expand aesthetic perception. (Aesthetic Perception)
Develop and expand visual arts knowledge and skills to express ideas imaginatively. (Creative Expression)
Acquire knowledge of historical and cultural developments, which occur as a result of varying needs and aesthetic points of view. (Historical and Cultural Context)
Develop a base for making informed aesthetic judgements. (Aesthetic valuing)
Develop a common core of knowledge that transcends subject areas. (Connections, Relations & Application)
Studio Projects
Collage
Drawing
Painting
Still Life
Sculpture
Landscape Perspective
Portrait/ Self Portrait
Printmaking
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Historical/ Cultural - (ongoing):
Periods/ Schools of Art
Women Artists
Unity Project Collage (1-2 weeks)
Drawing - (3-5 weeks):
Right Brain Theory
Contour
Gesture
Portrait
Review Perspective (one point and two point)
Still Life
Principles of Design/ Elements of Art
Color Theory - (3-4 weeks):
Review color wheel
Review color schemes
Review Tints/ shades
Review Neutrals
Color Triad
3-D Design (One three-dimensional Project Required )
Clay Techniques (pinch, slab, coil) Masks
Mobile
Construction/ Assemblage
Sculpture
2D Media used in this Course
Pen and Ink Pastels Crayons
Mixed Media
Oil Pastels
Media Watercolor Tempera Paint Mixed Media Acrylic
Crayon Colored pencil Markers Pastel
Ink wash
3D Media used in this Course
Cardboard
Clay
Plaster Papier Mâché
Wire
Wood
Found Objects
Paper
Weaving materials ( yarn, raffia, straw)