Week 17 Dec. 17-21

Beginning Pottery

Mon. - Fri. - Continue work on your Geometric Slab Pots.  They are due Friday!!!  When finished you are glazing your past projects or painting your Culture Vessel


Crafts

Mon. - Fri. - Continue working on your Coil Baskets


Introduction to Art

Mon. - Wed. - Review packet on Grid Drawing.  Finish packet for Wednesday
Thu. - Read article on Chuck Close and answer the questions on the worksheet.
Fri. - Research ideas for the Chuck Close project.  You will be creating a portrait of either yourself, a family member, or someone famous using chalk pastels in the style of Chuck Close. 


Beginning Painting

Mon . - Fri. - Continue working on your Macro Watercolor paintings.

Week 16 Dec. 10-14

Beginning Pottery

Mon. - Fri. - Continue working on your Geometric Slab Pots and glaze/paint other projects when the Geometric project is finished.


Crafts

Mon. - Fri. - Continue your Coil Basketry


Introduction to Art

Mon. - Review of the proportional portrait diagram.  Finished in class.
Tue. - Eyes, Noses, and Lips from the portrait packet are due at the beginning of class!
Wed. - Fri. - Move on in the packet and use the other method of portrait drawing to make a self-portrait.  Draw in your sketchbook. 


Beginning Painting

Mon. - Fri. - Continue preparations for your Macro Watercolor painting.

Week 15 Dec. 3-7

Beginning Pottery

Mon. - Continue working on your sketches
Tue. - Sketchbooks are due!  Get approval for your designs for your Geometric Slab Vessels
Wed. - Fri. - Continue working on your Geometric Slab Vessels


Crafts

Mon. - Fri. - Continue work on your Coil Basketry


Introduction to Art

Mon. - Finish your Hands Sculptures and continue working on your Sketchbooks assignments.
Tue. - Andrew Wyeth painting.  "Tell the story."
Wed. - Story telling.  Portrait review.  Sketchbooks assignments
Thu. - Fri. - Continue sketchbook assignments.


Beginning Painting

Mon. - Continue sketches for your watercolor painting
Tue. - Grade yourself on the Impressionist paintings using the rubric provided in class.  Continue Watercolor painting practice.
Wed. - Grade yourself on the Post-Impressionist paintings.  Continue Watercolor painting practice.
Thu. - Fri. - Continue working on your Watercolor prep.

Week 14 Nov. 27-30

Beginning Pottery

Tue. - Review Throwing Quiz.  Continue working on your vessels.
Wed. - Fri. - Finish your vessels or glaze your face-jugs


Crafts

Tue. - Fri. - Continue your Coil Basketry


Introduction to Art

Tue. - Fri. - Continue painting your Hands Projects.   Continue working on your portrait drawing skills.


Beginning Painting

Tue. - Macro Introduction.  Finish your Post-Impressionism paintings
Wed. - Fri. - Research pictures of flowers, fruit or leaves and paint your small version in watercolor paint.

Week 13 Nov. 19-21

Beginning Pottery

Mon. - Wed. - Finish your Culture Vessels


Crafts

Mon. - Wed. - Finish your Mosaics



Introduction to Art

Mon. - Wed. - Continue working on your Hands Sculptures


Beginning Painting

Mon. - Wed. - Finish your Post-Impressionist paintings

Week 12 Nov. 12-16

Beginning Pottery

Mon. - Fri. - Continue working on your Culture Vessels


Crafts

Mon. - Fri. - Continue working on your Mosaics


Introduction to Art

Mon. - Fri. - Continue working on your Hands Sculptures


Beginning Painting

Mon. - Tue. - Finish your Impressionist Landscapes
Wed. - Impressionism vs. Post-Impressionism introduction.  Paint a picture using the Post-Impressionism style.
Thu. - Fri. - continue working on your painting

Week 11 Nov. 5-9

Beginning Pottery

Mon. - Finish all cups, bowls, face jugs, and vessel sketches!
Tue. - Fri. - Start construction of your Culture Vessels


Crafts

Mon. - Fri. - Continue your Mosaics


Introduction to Art

Mon. - Fri. - Continue your Hand Sculptures


Beginning Painting

Mon. - Short critique of your Realistic Landscapes and Impressionism introduction.  Sketch your original landscape by tomorrow.
Tue. - Sketches due for your Impressionist landscape.  Oil painting introduction and start painting.
Wed. - Thu. - Continue painting.  Projects due at the end of the class Monday!

Week 10 Oct. 29 - Nov. 2

Beginning Pottery

Mon. - Fri. - Finish all cups and bowls by Friday!  Work on your culture vessel drawings in your sketchbook.  These sketches are due Friday!


Crafts

Mon. -  Fri. - Finish all Totem Poles by Friday!  Research a past culture and find inspiration from a past mosaic design.  You will be learning about the history of mosaics and the process of making your own mosaic.


Introduction to Art

Mon. - Fri. - Continue working on your plaster hands sculptures.  Turn in all past assignments!!!


Beginning Painting

Mon. - Fri. - Finish your Fall Landscapes by Friday!!!

Week 9 Oct. 22-26

Beginning Pottery

Mon. - Fri. - Continue research for your Culture Vessels and work on your sketchbook assignments.  When finished, you can start sculpting your vessel, with teacher approval.


Crafts

Mon. - Fri. - Finish your Totem Poles and start research for your mosaic project.


Introduction to Art

Mon. -  Fri. - Continue your Plaster Hands project.


Beginning Painting

Mon. - Fri. - Finish your realistic Landscape painting.

Week 8 Oct. 15-19

Beginning Pottery

Mon. -  Wed. - Finish sculpting your cups, bowls, and face jugs so that they can dry.
Thu. - Fri. - Start researching for your Culture Vessel project.


Crafts

Mon. - Fri. - Continue and finish your Native American Totem Pole carvings.


Introduction to Art

Mon. - Tue. - Continue plastering  your hands.
Wed. - Read article on George Segal and answer the question sheet.
Thu. - Fri. - Continue plastering  your hands and gluing to your boards.


Beginning Painting

Mon. -  Fri. - Continue painting your landscapes.

Week 7 Oct. 8-12

Beginning Pottery

Tue. - Fri. - Continue Face Jugs and Throwing.  Start researching your "Culture Vessels" when ready.


Crafts

Tue. - Fri. - Continue working on your Native American Totem Pole woodcarvings.


Introduction to Art

Tue. - Hands Sculpture project introduction.  Sketch ideas for the rest of class.
Wed.- Plaster bandage demonstration.  Prep your plaster bandage for the following class and finish sketches.
Thu. - Plaster your  hands for the 1st person in each group who is ready.  Must work as a team!
Fri. - same


Beginning Painting

Tue. - Fri. - Finish your Op Art paintings.  We will start landscape painting when class is ready.  Research different pictures of skies, trees, leaves, grass,  mountains, water, and shrubbery and print them out.  You will be making your own original landscape painting. 

Week 6 Oct. 1-5

Beginning Pottery

Mon. - Fri. - Continue working on your Face Jugs, bowls and mugs.


Crafts

Mon. - Fri. - Continue woodcarving your Native American Totem Poles


Introduction to Art

Mon. - Introduction to contour line drawing.  Draw 7-10 overlapping contour drawings of your hands in different positions.
Tue. - Blind Contour introduction and Monochromatic introduction.
Wed.- Fri. -  Work on your monochromatic hands


Beginning Painting

Mon. - Fri. - Continue Op Art designs

Week 5 Sept. 24-28

Beginning Pottery

Mon. - Fri. - Continue making your Face Jugs and throwing bowls and cups on the wheels.


Crafts

Mon. - Fri. - Continue your research and preparatory work for the Native American Totem Pole woodcarvings.


Introduction to Art

Mon. - Tue. -  Continue shading your Nonobjective artworks, focusing on color balance.
Wed. - Thu. - Continue work on your Window Painting drawings.  The theme is Breast Cancer Awareness and Fall.  BE CREATIVE!!!
Fri. - Finish your Nonobjective artworks.


Beginning Painting

Mon. - Fri. - Continue your Optical Art project.

Week 3 Sept. 17-21

Beginning Pottery

Mon. - Watch "Georgia Face Jug" videos to learn a little about the history and how to construct them.  Continue throwing and sculpting your face jugs.
Tue. - Fri. - Continue throwing and working on your face jugs.


Crafts

Mon. - Fri. - Finish your "Found Object Birdhouses" and start researching and carving your Native American Totem Poles


Introduction to Art

Mon. - Wed. - Continue and finish your "Macro" drawings.  We will start our line, color, and balance project when the macro studies are finished.


Beginning Painting

Mon. - Fri. - Finish grayscales.  Read article on Op Art and answer the questions.  Research Optical art designs and start designing your own Op Art design on your Color Triangle background.

Week 3 Sept. 10-14

Beginning Pottery

Mon. - Fri. - Continue "throwing" your cups and bowls and making your face jugs. 


Crafts

Mon. - Fri. - Continue working on your "Found Object" birdhouses.


Introduction to Art

Mon. - Finish verbal critique.  Macro drawing introduction.


Beginning Painting

Mon. - Finish Color Triangles
Tue. - Critique of your  color mixing and craftsmanship.  Continue grayscale.
Wed. - Fri. - Continue and finish your grayscales.

Week 2 Sept. 3-7

Beginning Pottery

Mon. - no class
Tue. - Trimming demonstration.  Continue throwing and getting clay ready for you face jugs.  Face jug sketches due tomorrow at end of class. 
Wed. - Sketches due.  Continue throwing
Thu. - Fri. - Continue throwing, trimming or starting your face jug. 


Crafts

Mon. - no class
Tue. -  Fri. - Continue constructing your "Found Object Birdhouses"


Introduction to Art

Mon. - no class
Tue. - Review shading techniques and finish shading your objects.  Find a new and interesting object for a new drawing of that object.  Turn in sketchbooks.  I will be grading your value scales and shading techniques.
Wed. - Continue and finish drawing your new objects.
Thu. - Finish object drawings
Fri. - Macro project introduction.


Beginning Painting

Mon. - no class
Tue. - Fri. - Continue and finish your Color Triangles.

Week 1 - Aug. 27-31

Beginning Pottery

Mon. - Introductions to class and projects 1 and 2.  You owe me 1 drawing of a bowl shape and 1 drawing of a tall cup shape with a handle.  Draw on separate sheets of paper.
Tue. - View videos, continue sketches and prep your clay.
Wed. - Sketch ideas for your Face Jugs if you are not working on the wheels.
Thu. - Fri. - Start sculpting!


Crafts

Mon. - Introductions to the class and project 1.  Answer the questions given in class and bring to class.  I will collect them.  Also, bring your sketches and materials for the "Found Object Birdhouse" project.
Tue. - Fri. - Continue project


Introduction to Art

Mon. - Introductions to the class.  Draw an object from the class.
Tue. - In-class critique and note-taking on the elements and principles of design.
Wed. - Re-draw a new object.
Thu. - Fri. - Finish drawing and start your Value scale.


Beginning Painting

Mon. - Introduction and overview of project 1.
Tue. - Finish initial drawing of project 1 and start painting.
Wed. - Secondary and Tertiary mixing demonstration.
Thu. - Fri. - Continue painting your Color Triangle.

Week 37 May 21-25

Introduction to Art

Mon. - Finish Canopic Jars
Tue. - Artist Presentation, Senior Final Exam, Finish Canopic Jars
Wed. - Fri. - Finish Canopic Jars and Glaze your pinch characters


Crafts

Mon. - Finish all projects.
Tue. - Final Exam!!!
Wed. - Fri. - Finish all projects.


Foundations of Art

Mon. - Fri. - Continue shading your Google project and finish painting your clay sculptures.


Advanced Painting

Mon. - Final Exam!
Tue. - Fri. - Finish your Triptych and "home" painting.

Week 37 May 14-18

Introduction to Art

Mon. - Review clay worksheet and canopic jar worksheet.  Review glazing for your pinch pot characters.  Finish coil vases and start Canopic Jar design.
Tue. - Fri. - Finish coil vases and start Canopic Jar design


Crafts

Mon. - Fri. - Continue working on your wooden earrings and start cutting matting for your picture frames.


Foundations of Art

Mon. - Color Wheel Quiz.  Shading introduction
Tue. - Continue shading introduction
Wed. - same
Thu. - Google Art project introduction
Fri. - Continue ideas for your Google design.


Advanced Painting

Mon. - Fri. - Continue your Cubism paintings expressing movement or motion.

Week 36 May 7-11

Introduction to Art

Mon. - Continue working on your coil vases
Tue. - Read article on Canopic Jars and answer questions. 
Wed. - Fri. - Finish your coil vase and start your Canopic Jar.


Crafts

Mon. - Fri. - Finish your Coil Basketry and start your wooden earrings


Foundations of Art

Mon. - Fri. - Finish your 3D Color Wheels and start painting your Memorial Sculptures using acrylic paint.


Advanced Painting

Mon. - Fri. - Finish your Surrealist painting and start ideas for your Cubist - Movement painting

Week 35 Apr. 30 - May 4

Introduction to Art

Mon. - Continue and finish your Pinch Pot Characters
Tue. - Read Clay Basics handout and answer the questions given.
Wed. - Fri. - Finish Pinch Pot Characters and Start your Coil Vase sketches and ideas.


Crafts

Mon. - Fri. - Finish your Totem Pole Woodcarvings and start the Coil Baskets


Foundations of Art

Mon. - Tue. - Finish painting your 3D Color Wheels
Wed. - Fri. - Cut and glue your pieces of your Color Wheel together in their specific places.


Advanced Painting

Mon. - Finish your Surrealist paintings
Tue. - Fri. - Start sketches and ideas for your Cubist Motion/Movement Painting purely with a palette knife.

Week 34 April 23-27

Introduction to Art

Mon. - Fri. - Students will be re-introduced to the foundations and techniques of sculpting with clay and will continue sculpting their pinch pot characters.


Crafts

Mon. - Fri. - Finish carving and painting your totem poles and start your coil basket project.


Foundations of Art

Mon. - Fri. - Continue painting your 3-D color wheel.


Advanced Painting

Mon. - Fri. - Students continue your surreal dream paintings.

Week 33 April 16-20

Introduction to Art

Mon. - Sculpture unit introduction. Sketchbook assignment (draw a pinch pot monster/character with exaggerated features)
Tue. - Pinch Pot demonstration. Make your pinch pot
Wed. - Fri. - Sculpt your "character"


Crafts

Mon. - Fri. - Finish your Totem Poles


Foundations of Art

Mon. - Clay Quiz. Color Wheel introduction
Tue. - Fri. - Start the design for our 3-D Color Wheel


Advanced Painting

Mon. - Fri. - Sketch ideas for your Surrealist Dream Painting

Week 32 April 9-13

Introduction to Art

Thu. - Fri. - Finish all touch ups for your abstract paintings. Due Monday at the beginning of class.


Crafts

Thu. - Fri. - Continue woodcarving your totem poles.


Foundations of Art

Thu. - Fri. - Review drying stages of clay. Finish Clay sculptures.


Advanced Painting

Thu. - Fri. - Finish Pointillism paintings and start sketching ideas for you surreal dream painting.

Week 31 April 2-6

Introduction to Art

Mon. - Wed. - Continue your abstract paintings


Crafts

Mon. - Wed. - Continue your Totem Pole carving


Foundations of Art

Mon. - Wed. - Continue your Memorial Clay Sculpture


Advanced Painting

Mon. - Wed. - Continue your pointillist flower paintings

Week 30 Mar. 26-30

Introduction to Art

Mon. - Fri. - Continue your Abstract Paintings


Crafts

Mon. - Fri. - Continue carving your Native American Totem Poles


Foundations of Art

Mon. - Clay Introduction and demonstration. Projects must be approved before starting your sculpture with clay.
Tue. - Fri. - Start sculpting your project using the techniques we went over in class.


Advanced Painting

Mon. - Fri. - Continue your Pointillist Flowers

Week 29 Mar. 19-23

Introduction to Art

Mon. - Review color schemes. Continue project
Tue. - Fri. - Continue your abstract painting project.


Crafts

Mon. - Fri. - Continue woodcarving of your Native American Totem Poles


Foundations of Art

Mon. - Wed. - Finish your google projects and paint/glaze your clay sculptures.
Thu. - New Class!!! Rules and expectations. Writing prompt.
Fri. - Clay review and technique demonstration.


Advanced Painting

Mon. - Introduction to pointillism and the artist Georges Seurat
Tue. - Fri. - Continue sketches of your pointillist flower painting.

Week 27 Mar. 5-9

Introduction to Art

Mon. - Fri. - Continue your "minimalist" drawings of your meaningful objects to create an abstract artwork in the style of Piet Mondrian.


Crafts

Mon. - Fri. - Continue your prep work for the Native American Totem Pole woodcarvings.


Foundations of Art

Mon. - Google Project introduction
Tue. - Sketch of ideas for your project to this theme "If I could travel in time, I'd visit..."
Wed. - Fri. - Finalize sketch and start final copy with chalk pastels.


Advanced Painting

Mon. - Jackson Pollock introduction
Tue. - Fri. - Start your "action painting."

Week 26 Feb. 27 - Mar. 2

Introduction to Art

Mon. - last day to get your silhouettes done!
Tue. - Piet Mondrian introduction and new project intro.
Wed. - Fri. - Work on the Piet Mondrian exercise, the reading strategy, and researching and sketching ideas for the abstract painting.


Crafts

Mon. - Wed. - Finish Birdhouses
Thu. - Start planning and prep work for you Native American Totem Pole (woodcarving)


Foundations of Art

Mon. - Wed. - Memorial Sculptures due! As well as extra credit is due.
Thu. - Introduction to Shading
Fri. - Shading continued.


Advanced Painting

Mon. - Wed. - Finish Mood Painting with watercolor
Thu. - Jackson Pollock biography (video)
Fri. - Start ideas for your own "Action Painting"

Week 25 Feb. 20-24

Introduction to Art

Mon. - no school
Tue. - Fri. - Continue and finish your Sunset Silhouettes


Crafts

Mon. - no school
Tue. - Fri. - Continue your American Folk Art Birdhouses


Foundations of Art

Mon. - no school
Tue. - Fri. - Continue your Memorial Sculptures


Advanced Painting

Mon. - no school
Tue. - Fri. - Continue your "Mood Painting"

Week 24 Feb. 13-17

Introduction to Art

Mon. - Fri. - Start final copy of your silhouette painting. Must have practice copy first.


Crafts

Mon. - Fri. - Continue American Folk Art birdhouses


Foundations of Art

Mon. - Clay technique demonstration/tools review
Tue. - Fri. - Finish drawings for your project and start sculpting.


Advanced Painting

Mon. - Fri. - Continue Mood Painting

Week 23 Feb. 6-10

Introduction to Art

Mon. - Antonelli presentation
Tue. - Fri. - Continue watercolor sunset silhouettes


Crafts

Mon. - Fri. - Continue American Folk Art birdhouses


Foundations of Art

Mon. - Wed. - Finish 3D Color Wheels
Thu. - Color Wheel Quiz. Writing Prompt
Fri. - Draw me a picture of what you want to make for your Memorial Sculpture/Clay Intro.


Advanced Painting

Mon. - Fri. - Continue Mood Painting

Week 22 Jan. 30 - Feb. 3

Introduction to Art

Mon. - Tue. - Finish Dry Brush technique
Wed. - Watercolor Quiz. Landscape review. Silhouette introduction
Thu. - Fri. - Find picture of a Landscape or Seascape (with or without an animal) to paint.


Crafts

Mon. - Fri. - Continue American Folk Art birdhouses


Foundations of Art

Mon. - Fri. - Continue mixing colors to fill in your shapes for the 3D Color Wheel. Try to be finished painting by Thursday so we can start gluing your pieces together.


Advanced Painting

Mon. - Fri. - Continue your "Musical Inspiration" paintings

Week 21 Jan. 23-27

Introduction to Art

Mon. - Continue watercolor techniques! Flat wash demonstration.
Tue. - Graded Wash demonstration
Wed. - Wet on Wet demonstration
Thu. - Dropping In demonstration
Fri. - Dry brush demonstration. Paint me a picture using this technique. (doesn't matter what it is)


Crafts

Mon. - Fri. - Continue design of your American Folk Art birdhouses


Foundations of Art

Mon. - Continue division of sections of your color wheel. Painting review and demonstration.
Tue. - Review painting procedures. Continue painting the primary colors.
Wed. - Secondary and Tertiary mixing demonstration
Thu. - Fri. - Continue painting the rest of your shapes.


Advanced Painting

Mon. - Fri. - Continue sketches of ideas for your Musical Inspiration paintings. Paint when ready.

Week 20 Jan. 16-20

Introduction to Art

Mon. - in-service
Tue. - Chuck Close project due!
Wed. - Watercolor review and technique painting
Thu. - Fri. - same


Crafts

Mon. - in-service
Tue. - All projects due!
Wed. - NEW CLASS! Powerpoint presentation of Art vs. Crafts. Homework is to define "folk art" and tell me what is the criteria involved in American Folk Art
Thu. - Short class discussion on American Folk Art. Start sketches of you American Folk Art Birdhouse (nonfunctional)
Fri. - same


Foundations of Art

Mon. - in-service
Tue. - All projects due!
Wed. - NEW CLASS! Class introductions and rules overview. Color Wheel introduction
Thu. - Fri. - Start your 3-D color wheel.


Advanced Painting

Wed. - Class overview. Start framing and stretching your canvas for your first painting.
Thu. - Fri. - sketch ideas for your Abstract Musical Inspiration painting.

Week 19 Jan. 9-13

Introduction to Art

Mon. - Continue the Chuck Close portraits
Tue. - Mid-Term Exam!
Wed. - Thu. - no class
Fri. - same as Monday


Crafts

Mon. - Continue picture framing
Tue. - Final Exam
Wed. - Thu. - no class
Fri. - same as monday


Foundations of Art

Mon. - Continue Google projects
Tue. - Wed. - no class
Thu. - Continue Googles or paint your sculpture
Fri. - same


Beginning Painting

Mon. - Thu. - Continue your Abstract painting
Fri. - Final Exam!

Week 18 Jan. 2-6

Introduction to Art

Mon. - no class
Tue. - Continue your Chuck Close portraits
Wed. - Review for the mid-term
Thu. - Fri. - Continue your Chuck Close portraits


Crafts

Mon. - no class
Tue. - Picture framing and matte-cutting demonstration.
Wed. Cut your matting for your picture frames (6x8 and 10x12)
Thu. - Review for Final Exam
Fri. - Cut your matting for your picture frames (6x8 and 10x12)


Foundations of Art

Mon. - no class
Tue. - Shading introduction and exercise
Wed. - Shading an abstract shape
Thu. - Google Project introduction
Fri. - Sketch ideas


Beginning Painting

Mon. - no class
Tue. - Fri. - Start your Abstract painting!