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1st Six Weeks--Sequencing
30 50 minute class periods
Day: Activity:
Week 1
1. Introduction--Hand out materials Thought questions: What is Art? List art-related careers. What do I want to learn in this class?
2. Pictades game
3. Group Illustration game
4. COLOR--Introduce primary colors, secondary colors, intermediate colors--memorize for pop quiz. Design an original color wheel, using tempera paint.
5. Add a landscape illustration to color wheel design, juxtaposing the two together. Finish as HW. Use crayon or colored pencil.--Journal 1 due--4 detailed studies + 1 study of a landscape scene
Week 2
6. Career #1: Travel Agency--Create a brochure about an exotic locale, using the color wheel design. Finish as HW.
7. Color Schemes/Mixing colors--Create a chart demonstrating the various color groups and mixing of colors, using only red, blue, yellow, black and white. Include the following: mixing primary colors to get brown; mixing secondary colors to get brown--all sets of complementary colors; mixing complementary colors to get brown--2 examples of analogous colors; examples of cool colors; examples of warm colors; 2 examples of split-complementary color schemes; neutral colors--memorize color groups for pop quiz.
8. VALUE: Value charts--showing three tints and three shades of primary, secondary, and intermediate colors.
9. Artist #1--Georgia O'Keefe--Enlarged flowers, showing color value changes. Finish as HW.
10. Career #2: Florist--Create a floral composition, using one specific color scheme and showing value changes.-- Journal 2 due--4 detailed studies + 1 study of 3 different flowers HOMEWORK: Written account of 2 dreams.
Week 3
11. Artist #2--Claude Monet--Impressionism--Drawing from Dreams and Nightmares in different color values.
12. Career #3: Dream Analysis--portraying and analyzing emotions through the use of color. Finish Dream illustrations.
13. Artist #3--Pablo Picasso--Cubism--Cubism piece, using two colors in different values.
14. Finish Cubism piece. Finish as HW.
15. Trees--Drawing trees, using values of neutral colors--outside. --Journal 3 due--4 detailed studies + 1 study of something that provokes a feeling of fear
Week 4
16. Seasonal colors--adding trees to landscape pictures--four scenes depicting varying colors of the seasons.
17. Finish Seasonal scenes. Finish as HW.
18. Career #4--Illustrating children's books--Use seasonal pictures, trees in juxtaposition with other things to create a 6-8 page children's book with original story.
19. Finish children's book. Finish as HW.
20. Filtered art--Using markers, draw designs on coffee filters and spray with water onto drawing paper--let dry overnight. -- Journal 4 due-- 4 studies of anything + 1 study of children's toys.
Week 5
21. Add illustrations to filtered designs, using pastels or colored pencils--look for designs in the different color values. Finish as Homework.
22. Shading techniques to create value and shadows.
23. Artist #4--Georges Seurat--Post-Impressionism--Pointillism project--using colored dots to create value changes--done in crayon, pastel or colored pencil.
24. Finish Pointillism project. Finish a HW.
25. Artist #5--Roy Lichtenstein--Pop Art--Career #5--Comic strips--Enlarge 1 frame from a comic strip in style of Lichtenstein, using ink.
Week 6
26. Finish comic strips. Finish as HW. --Journal 5 due--4 studies of anything + 1 study of a comic book character.
27. Artist #6--Andy Warhol--Pop Art--Still Life in solid-area, defined color schemes. Finish as HW.
28. Career #6--Product Labels--using Warhol's Campbell's soup label, design your own food label. Finish as HW.
29. Makeup work
30. Makeup work and six weeks test