ART I
Art I
This course is a foundation offered before Art 2, Art 3, Portfolio Development, and AP Art. It is a great class to take before any other art course here at Fairhaven High including ceramics and creative imaging etc. This course is an introductory and challenging art course surveying various art media and techniques through drawing, painting, color theory and design. The students will engage in sequential art lessons incorporating art production, and art criticism. By the end of this course, students will have a basic understanding of the Principles and Elements of Design. Students will be able to identify, define, and apply these elements.
Student work
Surrealism
After a quick study on Surrealism, students created their own surreal compositions. Students planned in graphite then employed Pen & Ink techniques to create Value and Implied Texture. The application of watercolor paint completed the art work. The watercolor application demonstrates student knowledge of color value (Tonal Value) and gradation of value, Students experimented with multiple watercolor application techniques before applying it to their final composition.
Linear Perspective
Art I students were asked to create an image using Linear 2 Point Perspective. They had the choice of "Past, Present, or Future" when deciding what their "dwellings" would look like.
They were also asked to include Texture and Value to their images to provide more of a sense of realism to their images.
Album Cover Art
Students designed original artwork for an existing album or one they have imagined, visually representing the content found within the lyrics of the music.
Students review mark making skills to create highlights, reflected light, implied texture and value gradation while scratching away the clay coated scratch boards.
Analogous Color Selfies
To create these self portraits Students each choose an emotion to depict. The students practice facial expressions until finding one that relates the emotion. Photos are taken, and cropped to create compositions that focus on a specific part of the face.
Students then used a grid to enlarge their photographs.
Once contour drawings are complete students apply an analogous or monochromatic color scheme that supports the emotion of their choice.
Monochromatic Painting
What is your favorite Color?
What is Monochromatic?
How can you create the illusion of form by using value gradation with a monochromatic color scheme?
Using one color (Monochromatic), student will tint (add white) and shade (add Black) to develop their values with color.
Contour Line Self-Portrait with
Analogous and Complementary Colors
Contour; French for “outline”
Analogous; Harmonious Family of colors Complementary; Opposites on the color wheel How can I draw more accurately?
Becoming sensitive to an object’s edge will help create a drawing where the lines have more character and variety, to describe the object’s three-dimensional qualities.
The Visual Problem:
In order to draw more accurately from observation, we need to train our eyes to look more closely at every detail of our subject. Using both Analogous Colors and Complementary Colors to add values and contrast. Once students have created their Contour Self-Portrait, find areas in their image of particular interest to them and add color.
