Introduction to Visual Art

This semester class is offered to students who have an interest in learning the basic foundation of all visual art: Drawing.
Students will fulfill a basic list of supplies, which will need to be replenished from month to month. As children do now grow at the same rate, art students do not develop or work at the same pace. Some exceed others in their ability to accomoplish projects faster. These students will need to purchase more supplies than others.

The primary emphasis of this class will be broken down into seveal categories from an Academic Introductionn through a Synthesis in Drawing. The following is an overview of the class subject matter. It is not necessarily an exact reproduction but a framework of information to assist me in developing a thorough curriculum adaptive to the students of ArtsWest.

Class objective

Provide students with the basic knowledge of drawing that sould be elemental in developing a segue for artistic expression, not necessarily a personal style but possibly a basic skill for effective visual communication in their future.

Introduction

• Nature of drawing-definition
• types
• purpose

Role

• Individual
• Society
• Presently/Historically

Initial Applications & Experiences

Beginners media. Learning to see, symbolize, and visualize.

Basic Elements

• Line
• value
• perspective
• texture
• grounds
• color

Traditional Subject Matter

• Still life
• Landscape
• Portrait
• Figure

Synthesis in Drawing

• Imaginative
• emotional
• experimental applications

This introduction to the visual arts will be sprinkled with a backdrop of art history, specifically pertaioning to the introduction of drawing in the life experience and the effectual use of drawing to teach, inform, enlighten, and advance individual expression. In addition we will have classes of open studio allowing for personal and self-expression in addition to assigned class projects.

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