2.{Critiques on color assignment} Study landscapes, demonstrate perspective, horizon and vanishing point. Show some pictures of Landscapes.Assignment: Find a landscape you particularly like and sketch it. Go there every day at the same time so as to capture all the shadows at that time. {May take several weeks to finish.} May have to use a picture of a landscape depending on the time of year.
3.{Critiques in first half hour on landscape assignment.}Do a still life using your new skills with color.In class. (May take a few weeks.)Assignment:practice color in your journals.
4.(critiques) Exploration in pastelsfaces,flowers, and trees.(several weeks)
5.(Critiques)Psychological drawing. Show psychological and some surreal art samples. Sit and draw whatever is in your head. Fill the whole page. Remember the techniques you have learned up to this point. Relax and let it flow out of your mind onto the paper. No fad art here (dragons, fairy's cartoons etc.)
Assignment: Carry a pad of paper with you everywhere. Make doodles and sketches when you get the feeling. Make one big composition using what flows out of your mind to the paper. May take more than one week.
6.(critiques)Cube or shape drawings. Show examples of cubism and shape drawings. Have them practice this technique in class.
Assignment: Make a drawing using shapes and colors only. This will take one or two weeks.
7.Discover art: Throw paint on a page and discover the pictures inside. Have you ever looked at a wall and seen a face? We are going to take that idea to a new level. We are going to splash paint on a page and find the hidden picture in it.
8.Beginning painting.
Topics to be covered:
The study of form, color and creating effective compositions. In addition we will explore various painting techniques. We will also investigate different media such as acrylic, oil and watercolor.
Goals:
On completion of this course the student will have improved in their abilities in oil painting, acrylic painting, and the mixing of colors. They will have an increased knowledge of the variety of painting medium available and varied techniques.
Lessons to be covered:
1. Introduction, syllabus and materials
2. Mixing color
3. Nature
4. Nature
5. Critiques in first half hour/ Animals
6. Animals
7. Critiques in first half hour/ Free subject
8. Free subject
9. Critiques in first half hour/ Self Portrait
10. Self Portrait
11. Self Portrait
12. Critiques
Pizza Party and graduation! If the parents can, I would like to take a trip to an art museum. I am not licensed to do this under the home business license, so we will all have to meet at the museum on this day. After, we will go for pizza and I will hand out a graduation certificate from basic drawing to intermediate drawing. (Anyone under the age of 13 will probably still be taking the basic class until they can master the concepts.
13. Assignment: Make a composition from any of the techniques learned. You may take several weeks to finish. This is your masterpiece! This is the end of the basic drawing class and then we go into more intermediate art on the same subjects.
12.Three weeks break and then we resume classes. And present our masterpieces. We will be framing this art for an art show.
You will be graded on structure, completion, and effort. There will be critiques on the days that the assignments are due. Please have your art done by the due dates or call and let me know. All classes can be made up. Just call and I will make arrangements.
