Visual Art 9 - Units of Study

This year's assignments (in no particular order):
Assignments Elements of Art
Blind Contour Drawings (need 3) Line
Contour Drawings (need 3) Line
Grid Cat, Grid Disney
(Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Raspberry Torte)		 Line
Upside-down Picasso Line
Value Scale (black/white, colour) Value
Grid Dog, Bunny, Horse, Elephant, Bear (optional Bird) Line, Value
Presentation on M.C. Escher Art History, Perspective
Grid Hand or Puppies or Escher's "Drawing Hands" (major project) Line, Value
Assessment (Test) About Line and Value
Colour Wheel Art Line, Colour
Oil Pastel Stencils Colour, Texture, Space
Assessment (Test) About Colour
Celebrity Portrait in Seven Strips (You do 3 strips) Line, Texture, Value
Frame/Mirror (need 3) Line, Shape, Form, Value
Paper Sculptures Line, Shape, Form, Colour
Shading Cube Line, Value
Shading Cylinder Line, Value
Shading Sphere Line, Value
Shading Letter on a Pedestal Line, Value
... ...

 

The Elements of Art:
  • Line
  • Shape (2D)
  • Form (3D)
  • Colour
  • Texture
  • Space
  • Value

ABC's of Art.pdf
by MC Gillis
HCS - last year's assignments:
  1. Value Scale (b/w, colour)
  2. Shading Cube
  3. Shading Cylinder
  4. Shading Sphere
  5. Shading Letter
  6. Blind Contour Drawing (need 3)
  7. Contour Drawing (need 3)
  8. Upside-down Picasso
  9. Grid Cat
  10. Grid Dog
  11. Grid Disney
  12. Grid Bunny
  13. Grid Horse
  14. Grid Elephant
  15. Grid Bird
  16. Grid Bear
  17. Grid Hand (advanced)
  18. Frame/Mirror (need 3)
  19. Oil Pastel Stencils (analogous colours including warm and cool)
  20. Paper Sculptures (need 2)
  21. Celebrity Portraits
  22. Colour Wheel Art
Outside Assessment Styles:

- Assessment
  • Time - Did you use the full time productively?
  • Effort - Did you give your full effort?
  • Strategy - Did you use the requested strategy?
  • Quality - Is this work at your highest level?

- Timed Drawing Rules
  1. Spend the entire time working
  2. No tracing
  3. No talking (for the specific time - 20-40 min)
Outside Grade 9 assignments:

          DRAWING STRATEGIES
  1. Drawing Test (20 min silent drawing)
  2. Drawing Strategies (1 inch of line, grid) - 1class
  3. Detailed Grid (Disney) - 1class
  4. Simplify Shape (Dog/Tiger Heads) - 1class
  5. Simplified Grid (Rat/Bull) - 1class
  6. Negative Space (Celtic Knot on black paper) - 1class

    LINE & SHAPE
  7. Exploration of Line and Line Patterns - Zen Doodle - Circle (1st), Animal (final) - 2-3classes + homework
  8. Decorative animal - 3-4classes
  9. Letter Design Project - apply grid to reproduce letter -3-4classes
  10. Discuss Detailed and Simplified Shapes
  11. Overlapping Shapes - Leaf Project (Watercolor and India Ink) - 3-4classes
  12. Stained Class Design Project -3-4classes

    FORM & VALUE
  13. Value Grid / Crosshatching Technique
  14. Exploration of different drawing tools and blending techniques (Tools like charcoal, pencil, pastel, etc.) (Blending with finger, tissue, eraser, blending stick, etc)
  15. Contrasting Values Activity - Creating a smooth transition from one value to another
  16. Add Shadows using CrossHatching Technique (Flower Pot Drawing)
  17. Clay activity - Pinch Pot
  18. Clay activity - Coil Container

    SPACE / LINEAR PERSPECTIVE
  19. Negative/Positive Space activity
  20. Effects of large and small areas of negative space in a picture (creating mood through the use of space - loneliness, crowded, excitement, etc.)
  21. Create a collection of images to compare and contrast as per use of space
  22. Keith Haring Style Project
  23. "Tricks" to create 3D illusion on 2D surface - Introduce linear perspective
  24. Exploring 1-point perspective with a collection of boxes
  25. "City Scene"

    Color Theory
  26. Color Wheel
  27. Monochromatic Colour Wheel
  28. Monochromatic color activity - "Geometric Shapes" - 3-4classes
  29. Discuss and view examples of how to applying color schemes creates specific moods (quiet, energetic, mad, happy).  Include review of how lines, shapes and use of space add to mood as well.

  30. FINAL PROJECT - Self-Portriat in Style of Miriam Shapiro
Other List of Assignments:
  • Letter Design (Your Own Invented Letter)
  • Divided Composition "Stained Glass" Oil Pastels
  • Warm/Cool Watercolor Painting
  • Invented Letter Shape
  • Keith Haring Style Project (line, gestures)