CONCEPTS

• Landscape
• Facial portrait, drawing people
• Line, color, shape, pattern, form, symmetry
• Positive and negative space
• Facial and body proportion
• Primary and secondary colors, color mixing
• Drawing from observation
• 2-dimensional (drawing) vs. 3-dimensional art (sculpture)
• Firing clay, kiln
• Collage, texture
• Famous artists (Alexander Calder, Paul Klee, Georges Seurat)
• Curved vs. straight lines, overlapping, opaque, volume, categorizing, contrast
• Symbols, exaggeration, geometric
• Middleground, background, foreground, space and distance
• Color wheel, tint, shade
• Repetition, unity
• Firing process (greenware, bisque, ceramic)
• Impression, abstract art
• Balance, composition
• Art in Nature, conveying a story through art
• Observing part of a whole
• Contour line, numbers as shapes
• Warm and cool colors
• Additive vs. subtractive drawing
• Using a Q-tip to paint

SKILLS

• Cutting and gluing
• Building with wood
• Painting, holding a brush correctly
• Cutting on folded paper,
• Making a ball of clay, pinching a ball into a pinch pot
• Cutting into clay to make jewelry, stringing beads, tying knots
• Drawing and coloring with different media
• Choosing the appropriate sized tool for the job
• Cutting duplicate
• Folding and fringing paper strips, curling paper strips
• Glue forms together (3-D),
• Drawing “lightly” vs. “heavily”
• Printing with a tool
• Glazing clay, pressing a tool into clay
• Mixing paint

EXAMPLES OF PROJECTS

• Pencil Drawings of People
• “Me” Pizza Collage
• Clay Pinch Pot
• Ceramic Necklace
• Rainbow Fish Painting
• Pointillism Paintings
• Abstract Primary Paintings
• Number People and Things
• Wood Sculpture
• Leaf Print Hangings Positive/Negative Collage
• Clown Drawing
• Scratch Art Film