DRAWING I Course Syllabus
2008~2009
FLAGLER PALM COAST HIGH SCHOOL
MRS. BIGGS ~ PHOTO/ART ROOM- Building 1 Room 099
Department of Fine Arts
Phone: 386-437-7540 EXT. 1099
Email: biggsa@flaglerschools.com
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Class Description:
In this 18-week introductory Drawing 1 art class students will develop a solid foundation of the creative art process and learn a variety of drawing techniques to improve their drawing skills. Drawing is a process that develops your capacity to organize, simplify, and intelligently express your experience through marks on paper. Learning to draw is a process of self-understanding and revelation. Coursework will focus on developing a working vocabulary of the elements of art and design while practicing perceptual and kinesthetic drawing skills. The student will investigate a variety of traditional media through a building block learning method from simple to mid-range exercises. Starting with gesture sketch, blind contour, contour drawing, and value shading the student develops the foundations for hand-eye mind coordination. The students' personal voice is explored through homework assignments. Additionally, the student will study multiple point perspective, composition, figure, and the portrait. Students will explore the elements and principles of design with an understanding of aesthetics, art criticism, and art history. Much of the focus of this class is learning to draw by direct observation, which requires a high degree of concentrated looking, with each assignment building on the last. As you learn more about technique and design, you will learn to see more carefully. In order to become better at drawing you need to draw for about 15-30 minutes a day in your sketchbook and you need to commit to this. In addition to the assigned sketchbook homework a research assignment will be need to be completed. From time to time, we will look at our drawings together in class in an open critique format. For this, I need your participation, respect of others and visual insight.
Objectives (At the end of this course, you will be able to):
Successfully give form to your observations from a concentrated act of looking, seeing, and questioning.
Expressively learn and handle the fundamentals of drawing, including: contour, gesture, value, and composition.
Demonstrate improved seeing and drawing skills through assigned projects.
Write and speak confidently about the formal analysis of a work of art based on the elements of design.
Organize your own explorations, ideas, and reflections in drawing around the elements of art and the principles of design.
Identify the elements and principles of art used in a work of art and how the organizational qualities enhance the artist’s work.
Analyze and evaluate how works of art reflect their time in history.
Evaluate how tools and technologies aid in the expressive qualities of student and professional art.
Produce individual ideas in art through interpretation and problem solving.
Analyze how the arts function, shape, and reflect history, society, and everyday life.
Identify different art styles and classify them with different art periods in history and society.
Understand how art is used in today’s society through corporate and consumer use and technology.
Understand and evaluate the differences and demands of the fine arts and commercial arts.
18-Week Term Drawing 1 Projects
Pre-instruction Drawings
Right/Left Brain Lesson/Drawings
Upside-down Drawings (Man, Dogs, & Woman)
Positive/Negative Space Drawings
Gesture Sketch
Contour Line
Tonal Shading: Bowling Pins, Still Life, Cloth
Portrait With Grid
Final Shaded Portrait
Art History Power Points and Discussion
Quizzes
Mid-Term and Final Exam (multiple choice)
Drawing supplies:
Students will need to purchase some drawing supplies for this course. Each student will need and expected to bring an 8"x10" inch sketchbook (preferably hardbound) everyday to class. Sketchbooks can be bought at stores like Michaels, Staples, Target, Dollar Store, or Wal-Mart, They also need a standard pencil with an eraser, everyday. The following drawing pencils: 2H, HB, 2B, 4B, and Ebony are recommended and can be bought in sets at Staples or at Adult Education Art Supply.
Assignment Information:
Homework assignments in their creative research sketchbooks are due every two weeks at end of class on Mondays, unless otherwise indicated. This gives them two full weeks for completion. Late homework assignments will earn very low to no credit unless the student has an excused absence on the due date or with my special permission. All assignments will be written on the board with due dates and submitted to them as a typed weekly assignment handout as well. Students should write down all assignments (due dates are subject to change at my discretion).
Classroom responsibilities:
Quizzes, tests or studio assignments missed due to an excused absence should be made up within 5 days of the original test or due date. It is the student's responsibility to come to me, or a classmate to find out the missed work. Students are expected to arrive on time with an ID, dressed appropriately, with a pencil, pay attention and focus on their daily assignments, put forth effort, and limit their socializing while in class.
Student Expectations:
1. Be prepared for class by having all materials needed.
2. Attends class regularly and is punctual.
3. Is proud of his/her school by being respectful and treating others the way you would want to be treated and
4. Strives to be the best he/she can be by completing all assignments.
5. Take care of classroom, supplies, and textbooks.
6. Treat teacher with respect by not talking while she is talking and teaching.
7. Be creative and think outside of the box.
Open Studio:
The art room will be open from 2:20 until 4:00 on Mondays for students to come in to make up any missed work unless otherwise noted by the teacher. Other days may be available for make up, but students must talk to the teacher before staying after school on days other than Monday.
Special accommodations: Accommodations for students with physical, mental or learning disabilities will be made as directed by the school policy. Students with disabilities which may require some modification of seating, testing, and/or other class requirements need to make sure I am aware so as that appropriate arrangements may be made. Also, accomodations due to a language barrier will be made based on the school policy.
Be sure to ask your child about their artwork and to read the syllabus given to them on the first day of school.
biggsa@flaglerschools.com
386-437-7540 x 1099
Room 1-099
5500 E. Highway 100
Palm Coast, Florida 32164