6th Grade
Week 2:
Introductions. Goals for the year. What Is Art? What is a critique?
History of the pencil. 2 Point Perspective Drawing: A Simple House.
Art History: The Renaissance and the Baroque.
Jan van Eyck
Andrea Mantegna
Raphael
Sofonisba Anguissola
Caravaggio
Rembrandt
Diego Velazquez
Jan Vermeer
Week 3: Drawing Skills.
2 Point Perspective Drawing: A Simple House with Details.
Week 4: Drawing Skills.
Observational skills - Drawing what you see.
Technical skills - Using a pencil, eraser, and blending tool to create values.
Still life drawing - cubes and ellipses.
Compositional Skills - size, placement, overlapping.
Art History: Still Life Art.
Week 5: Drawing
Observational skills - Drawing what you see.
Technical skills - Using a pencil, eraser, and blending tool to create values.
Still life drawing - cubes and ellipses.
Compositional Skills - size, placement, overlapping.
Week 6: Color
Color in Art. Color Wheel.
Complementary Colors. Warm and cool colors.
Painting a watercolor or tempera color wheel.
Week 7: Watercolor or Tempera Fruit.
Using complementary colors for shading, we will paint an apple to look as realistic as we can get it with watercolors or tempera paints.
Week 9: Copyright.
Copyright, Fair Use, Creative Commons.
Art History: Neoclassicism.
Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun
Jacques Louis David
Week 10:
Value Sheet
Using a variety of techniques, we will create values which change from light to dark. We will use stippling, hatching, cross-hatching, and blended shading.
Week 11:
Value Sheet (finish)
Using a variety of techniques, we will create values which change from light to dark. We will use stippling, hatching, cross-hatching, and blended shading.
Art History: Romanticism and Realism.
Francisco Goya
Gustave Courbet
Rosa Bonheur
Edouard Manet
A Fast Draw: A straw in a cup of water.
Spending less than 8 minutes on this drawing, we will use a pencil to create an simple image of a bendable straw inside of a cup of water. We will talk about linear perspective to make the straw more three-dimensional. We will talk about how water will cause how we see a visual change in the straw. The water magnifies the straw, making it appear wider; and the water refracts the light bouncing off of the straw, making it look like it has shifted to the side.
Week 12:
An Autumnal View from Above
For this piece, we will create a unique perspective: A View from above a branch looking down at a ground covered with colorful Fall leaves.
In order to make this piece, we will use colored construction paper, watercolors or tempera paints, colored pencils, scissors, and glue.
An Autumnal View from Above
For this piece, we will create a unique perspective: A View from above a branch looking down at a ground covered with colorful Fall leaves.
In order to make this piece, we will use colored construction paper, watercolors or tempera paints, colored pencils, scissors, and glue.
An Autumnal View from Above
For this piece, we will create a unique perspective: A View from above a branch looking down at a ground covered with colorful Fall leaves.
In order to make this piece, we will use colored construction paper, watercolors or tempera paints, colored pencils, scissors, and glue.
An Autumnal View from Above (finish)
Week 16:
Fall Leaves
Using our observational skills and colored pencils, we will study and draw a leaf from real life as believably as we can.
Week 17:
Fall Leaves
Art History: Impressionism.
Claude Monet
Mary Cassatt
Edgar Degas
Week 18:
A Room with a Table
For this drawing, we will use linear perspective and a pencil to draw a table that looks like it goes back in space. We will then create a room in which the table exists using our own imaginations and our developing skills.
Calligraphy
We will practice a calligraphic script using a calligraphy pen with a medium nib width.
Week 19:
Calligraphy
We will practice a calligraphic script using a calligraphy pen with a medium nib width.
Week 3:
Art History: The Aesthetic Movement and Portraiture.
James McNeill Whistler
John Singer Sargent
A Room with a Table
For this drawing, we will use linear perspective and a pencil to draw a table that looks like it goes back in space. We will add colored to our drawings using colored pencils.
Week 4:
A Room with a Table
For this drawing, we will use linear perspective and a pencil to draw a table that looks like it goes back in space. We will add colored to our drawings using colored pencils.
Week 5:
A Portrait
Week 6:
Art History: Post-Impressionism
Vincent Van Gogh, Starry Night
Georges Seurat, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
Paul Signac, Opus 217. Against the Enamel of a Background Rhythmic with Beats and Angles, Tones, and Tints, Portrait of M. Felix Feneon in 1890.
Paul Cezanne, Mont Saint-Victoire
Henri Matisse, The Green Stripe
Week 7:
A Portrait with Meaning
Week 8:
Week 9:
Sunset with Silhouette
Using watercolors, we will paint a sunset and then add a silhouette of a tree to look like it is overlapping the sunset. We will talk about the colors that we would see in the sky during a sunset and then try to create those colors using a wet-on-wet technique. Then, we will add the ground with black as the colors of the sky dry. Finally, we will add our tree using a wet-on-dry technique as well as a dry brush technique to imitate leaves on branches.
Week 10:
Thinking Inside of the Box
Using linear perspective, we will draw a group of three boxes to look three dimensional. We will then draw a series of items to look like they are inside or outside of those boxes while thinking about the room that these boxes are in and what the boxes might be holding.
Week 11:
Thinking Inside of the Box
Using linear perspective, we will draw a group of three boxes to look three dimensional. We will then draw a series of items to look like they are inside or outside of those boxes while thinking about the room that these boxes are in and what the boxes might be holding.
Week 12:
Art History: Modern Art
Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory
Kay Sage, Tomorrow Is Never
Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird
Grant Wood, American Gothic
Edward Hopper, Nighthawks
Andrew Wyeth, Christina's World
Optical Illusion Drawing
Using a pencil, ruler, eraser and blending stump, we will create an optical illusion with shading and lines. We will use a ruler to make a series of lines across a 6" x 6" piece of paper. Then we will use a pencil, eraser, and blending stump to create a gradual change in value across the spaces in between those lines in order to make those spaces appear curved. Finally, we will add a series of curved lines in each space, alternating the direction of the curves.
Week 13:
Architecture - Classical and Neoclassical
We will sketch some of the basic features found on Classical and Neoclassical architecture, including Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan, and Composite column capitals. Then we will look at photographs of actual buildings to find these features.
Week 15:
Optical Illusion Drawing
Week 16:
Writing an Artist Statement
Using appropriate words and sentence structure, we will write an artist statement. In our statements, we will try to express who we are as artists. What subject do we prefer to work with in our artwork? What medium (or media) do we prefer to use? What ideas or stories or emotions do we prefer to express?
A Series of Work
Week 17:
Earth Day:
We will look at four pieces of Land Art by Andy Goldsworthy.
A Series of Work
Week 18:
A Series of Work
Week 19:
Chuck Close, Big Self-Portrait
Audrey Flack, Queen
Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party
Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #21
Marina Abramovic, The Artist Is Present
Week 20: