Visual Arts - 8th Grade
The emphasis in grade eight is to focus on the synthesis and application of previously learned concepts while investigating new and more complex design concepts while using class time more independently. With the use of traditional and emerging technologies, students are able to apply more complex technical skills as they manipulate the elements of art and the principles of design, art media, and ideas. Students acquire art skills that enable them to make conscious choices of media and techniques for expressive purposes and more meaningful and symbolic art.
Students produce works of art that are developed from preliminary ideas and sketches. They compare and contrast art from different world cultures and investigate how context can influence meaning. Students debate the purposes of art, formulate reasoned responses to meaningful art questions, develop their own criteria for making art judgments, and develop a personal aesthetic. The acquisition of these skills enables students to develop a worldview, placing the discipline of art within a broader context, and relating it to other fields of knowledge.
OVERVIEW OF ASSIGNMENTS and LESSONS
ALL artwork should NEATLY have your name, homeroom & class # and should be created using your best effort.
KEEP all rough drafts and label as such!
TOPICS:
- What is Art? Overview/power point introduction (Lecture & Discussion)
- Rules and Expectations (Lecture & Discussion)
- The importance of keeping a daily journal and sketchbook (Lecture and Discussion)
- Entry Placement Exam. Art knowledge / Content
- The process of the portrait. Refining and fine-tuning drawing skills. Many artists will be addressed. Chuck Close, Davinci, hyper realistic artist will also be explored.
- Color Theory Unit. How we perceive color. Exploratory. (Lecture & Discussion)
- Sustainability Unit. How can you make a difference in the word? Present and future. Lecture & Discussion)
- How to keep an ongoing sketchbook / notebook /expectations. New artists are discovered (Lecture and discussion)
- Dream catchers. mandalas, symmetry and radial balance will be explored. Continuation of the power of universal energy through the communication of art. Native American culture and Eastern arts and culture will be discussed. Creation of silk dream catchers and radial stained glass imagery. (Lecture and Discussion)
- The Nature of Advertising, Illustration and the Consumer
- Field study Unit - An examination of the natural world and the art of illustration and observation
Final Assignments expected in your portfolio!
- Portfolio with name, advisory and class (ex P2-8) - Artwork must also have required name.advisory and class.
- Experimental Painting: Evidence of expressive and experimental techniques using watercolor
- Sketchbook and binder check! ALL assignments, handouts and any other pertinent information should be organized neatly in individual Encore class or Visual Art three ring binder and sketchbook. (DO NOT COMBINE WITH CORE CLASS MATERIALS!)
PROPOSED UNIT LESSONS / FINAL PRODUCT FOR SEMESTER:
- Ongoing through semester - Sketch book. AT LEAST one drawing assigned per week.
- Field study Drawings (At least three, well thought out and executed with detail and value)
- Symmetrical Stained Glass on paper (at least 5 layered papers)
- Portrait Unit / Final - All items should be kept neatly in your portfolio
2. Complete at least 1 scrambled puzzle using shapes
3. Shading a sphere and value scale
4. Create a color map/contour drawing on grid, be sure to label
5. Revision - No color/contour drawing
6. Second Shading a sphere and value scale - black and gray and in color
7. Final - with value and shading
8.. Reflection and Review. MUST hand in before picture, photograph and final at end of unit!
- Metal Mask / Sculpture Final using re-purposed materials
- Silk Dream Catcher
- Reflections and Rubrics
EXTRA CREDIT!
- Bring in garbage that you think may be useful to creating art in the classroom. Another man's junk is another mans treasure.
- Extra Credit Drawings - Anything you been been practicing throughout the semester.
- Extra Credit - CHALLENGE OF THE WEEK
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