Dec. 18 - 22

Introduction to Art

Mon. -  Fri. - Students continue to work on their Chuck Close portraits.


Mixed Media

Mon. - Fri. - Continue to work on your coil basketry.


Beginning Painting

Mon. - Fri. - Finish Impressionism.  Start Macro watercolor painting.  Start thinking about your Childhood Memory painting, which will be the last painting of the semester.


Foundations of Art

Mon. - Finish Value Scales.  Shape shading demonstration.  Work on shading your shapes and shadows.
Tue. - Finish your geometric shape shading.
Wed. - Fri. - Students start their Value drawings.


Beginning Pottery

Mon. - Fri. - Students continue to work on GLAZING!

Dec. 11-15

Introduction to Art

Mon. - Fri. - Students continue to grid their canvas and start drawing their portrait.


Mixed Media

Mon. - Fri. - Students continue to work on their coiling


Beginning Painting

Mon. -  Fri. - Students continue to work on their oil paintings.  Must be finished this week.  Introduction to watercolor and the new project will happen later this week.


Foundations of Art

Mon. - Students finish their clay sculptures.
Tue. - CLAY QUIZ!  Introduction to value and drawing.
Wed. - Fri. - Students create a value scale and learn how to shade shapes to look 3-dimensional.


Beginning Pottery

Mon. -  Fri. - Students finish their culture vessels and continue to glaze their previous projects.

Dec. 4-8

Introduction to Art

Mon. - Fri. - Finish the Chuck Close handout.  Find the picture of the person you want to paint.  Must be a famous person or a family member.  Edit that picture with photoshop and start gridding your canvas.


Mixed Media

Mon. - Found Objects are now overdue.  Start your designing and planning for the coil basketry project.
Tue. - Fri. - Coil basketry


Beginning Painting

Mon. - Fri. - Students continue to work on your oil painting.


Foundations of Art

Mon. - Fri. - Continue to work on your memorial sculpture.  Most of you should be finishing this week.


Beginning Pottery

Mon. - Fri. - Students will continue to work on the culture vessel and finish asap.  Start to glaze your mugs, bowls, and face jug. 

Nov. 28 - Dec. 1

Introduction to Art

Tue. - Self-Portraits are due by the end of the period.  Start enlargement packet and puppy picture.
Wed. - Fri. - Continue puppy picture in sketchbook and start research for the Chuck Close portrait.


Mixed Media

Tue. - Fri. - Students continue to work  on the found object artwork.  Due at the end of the week.


Beginning Painting

Tue. - Fri. - Students continue to work on the oil painting.


Foundations of Art

Tue. - Fri. - Students continue to work on the memorial sculpture.


Beginning Pottery

Tue. - Fri. - Students continue to work on the culture vessel.

Nov. 20-22

Introduction to Art

Mon. - Wed. - All eyes, noses, and mouths, plus the portrait diagram will be graded first thing Monday.  Continue to work on your self-portrait in your sketchbook.  Self-portrait will be due the day after Thanksgiving break (Nov. 28)


Mixed Media

Mon. - Wed. - Students continue to work on your "found object" artwork.


Beginning Painting

Mon. - Wed. - Students continue to work on your impressionist oil painting.


Foundations of Art

Mon. - Wed. - Continue to work on your "memorial sculptures."


Beginning Pottery

Mon. - Wed. - Continue to work on your "cultural vessels."

Nov. 13-17

Introduction to Art

Mon. - Fri. - Finish eyes, noses, and mouths packet.  Finish portrait diagram.  Start diagram in your packets for the self-portrait.


Mixed Media

Mon. - Fri. - Continue to work on your found object sculpture.


Beginning Painting

Mon. - Fri. - Students will continue to work on their Impressionist or Post-Impressionist oil painting.


Foundations of Art

Mon. - Sculpting techniques demonstration.  Finish drawings and stories.  Start sculpting.
Tue. - Continue sculpting
Wed. - Slip N Score demonstration.  Continue sculpting.
Thu. - Fri. - Students continue to work on their memorial sculpture.


Beginning Pottery

Mon. - Fri. - Students continue to work on their Culture Vessel sketches and research.  Start sculpting when ready.

Nov. 6 - 10

Introduction to Art

Mon. - Proportions of the human face lesson.  Continue to work on eyes, noses, and mouths packet.
Tue. - Shade the face you drew on Monday.
Wed. - Finish eyes, noses, and mouths packet.
Thu. - Fri. - Start diagram for the self-portrait.  Guidelines in packet.


Mixed Media

Mon. - Fri. - Found Object sculpture.


Beginning Painting

Mon. - Landscape paintings due at the end of the period!
Tue. - Lesson on Impressionism and Post-Impressionism.
Wed. - Review oil painting.  Sketch ideas for your oil painting.
Thu. - Fri. - Students continue on your oil painting.


Foundations of Art

Mon. - Fri. - Finish elements and principles powerpoint.  Review Memorial Sculpture.  Start sketches for your memorial sculpture along with your story about your sculpture.  Final drawings and stories are due by the end of the week.


Beginning Pottery

Mon. - Fri. - Start research and sketches for the Culture Vessel.  Create template and start sculpting when ready.