The Course
This course is an introduction to art and design. It is designed to give you, the student, a variety of experiences in art mediums and techniques. The emphasis is placed on developing artistic skills and vocabulary. This course is aimed at teaching you how to evaluate and appreciate your own work and the work of others. Becoming aware of how art reflects culture and how art decisions affect the quality of life. This course fulfills the Fine/Practical Arts graduation requirement.
FOCUSES
Art Prompts
Artists
Application
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GOALS and Outcomes
Apply skills and knowledge to create in the arts.
Analyze, describe, and evaluate works or art.
Analyze the ways in which a work of art expresses a point of view of the time and place in which it was created.
Recognize, analyze and describe connections among the arts, the disciplines and art in everyday life.
Course Assignments
Introduction Survey
Reading
Homework Exercises
Projects
Quizzes
Drawing Prompts
Drawing prompts are used to explore creative thinking. Use 30 mins to 1 hour to create idea bubbles (brainstorming bubbles), choose one of the ideas that relates to the theme and illustrate.
Prompt Themes
- Adventure
- Beautiful
- Magical
- Monster
- Life
- Hide
- Amazing
- Rocket
- Throw
- Light
Quizzes
Students will learn about influencial artist that ioened up the world to a series of techniques and tools that created such masterpieces as the Creation of David and The Mona Lisa. In addition students will practice the skills of arts life Salvador Dali and Michelangelo. All learned skills will will be tested through a 10 to 20 question quiz and practical application.
Adobe Creative Cloud
Adobe has created a world class series of application that can be used on a variety of platforms in its Creative Suite.
Studeents will gain exposure to:
Photoshop – photo editting, image creation and manipulation
Illustrator – vector based image creations such as logos
Dreamweaver – adavanced websign and coding tool
Indesign – content creator used to combine the attributes of Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom and more.
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Late Assignments
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Attendance
Students are required to comply with the attendance policy of the Batt School. Students will be given an excused absence with a valid reason such as illness.