Description
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This visual arts drawing curriculum is everything I use to teach a semester of high school art drawing but can be adapted for use in upper middle school art classes. With this bundle, you won’t have to plan a single day of a semester in your drawing class.
This curriculum includes 9 projects, 27 activities, and 9 sketchbook homework assignments. Each lesson includes a lesson plan, supply list, vocabulary, step-by-step instructions, PowerPoints, rubrics, critique sheets, handouts, and anything else needed to complete the project. This art curriculum functions well as an introduction to drawing (2D Design) or drawing II (2D Design II) level course.
This art drawing curriculum focuses on the basics of drawing techniques but also goes beyond traditional materials such as pencil and charcoal. In addition to learning about shading, value, and using pencil, charcoal, and ink, students also learn about mixed media, printmaking, bookbinding techniques, and much more.
All in all this curriculum includes:
- Timeline with project overview and pacing
- Supply list with project supply breakdown and a comprehensive list
First day of school handouts
- Syllabus
- Tell me about you worksheet
Visual Journal Lesson
- Lesson plan (with a big idea, objectives, vocabulary, national middle and high school art standards, and step-by-step instructions on implementing the project)
- PowerPoint with examples
- Rubric
Saddle Stitch Sketchbook
- PowerPoint
- Lesson plan, including big idea, goals, objectives, supply list, and step-by-step instructions.
- Saddle stitch bookbinding how to handout
- Rubric
Sketchbook Assignments
- Assigned every two weeks with the following topics:
- Found objects
- Gesture hands and feet
- Negative space study
- Value study
- Drapery drawing
- Self-portrait
- Hand holding an object
- Morphing objects
- Caricature drawing
Gesture Drawing Project
- A lesson plan (with a big idea, objectives, vocabulary, national middle and high school art standards, and step by step instructions on implementing the project)
- Art history presentation on figures in art
- Art history workbook for notetaking and activities
- 2 project PowerPoint, to introduce gesture drawing and the project
- Sketchbook assignment handout
- In-depth figure proportions handout
- Figure proportions quick guide
- Gesture drawing how to
- Project guide
- Critique sheet
- Rubric
Positive and Negatives Space Collage Project
- A lesson plan (with a big idea, objectives, vocabulary, national middle and high school art standards, and step by step instructions on implementing the project)
- 2 project PowerPoint, to introduce positive and negative space and the project
- Shape exploration activity handout
- Object study activity handout
- Sketchbook assignment handout
- Project guide
- In-progress Critique worksheet
- Rubric
Value Study Activity
- A lesson plan (with a big idea, objectives, vocabulary, national middle and high school art standards, and step by step instructions on implementing the project)
- Value handout
- Value and shading worksheet
- Value scale and labeling worksheet
- PowerPoint with an art history focus on Albrecht Düere and his etchings and the images the students draw for the activity
- Assignment checklist
Variations on a Theme, Series of 3 Project
- A lesson plan (with a big idea, objectives, vocabulary, national middle and high school art standards, and step by step instructions on implementing the project)
- 2 PowerPoint presentations for examples and project specifics
- Jim Dine artist research
- Value and verve worksheet
- Strong composition checklist and handout
- Project instructions handout
- Critique activity
- Critique labels
- Rubric
Charcoal Architecture Project
- A lesson plan (with a big idea, objectives, vocabulary, national middle and high school art standards, and step by step instructions on implementing the project)
- Art history presentation on architecture in art
- Art history sheet for notetaking
- Artist research sheet
- Project PowerPoint, to introduce the project
- 2 warm-up assignments handout
- Project guide
- Critique sheet
- Critique label
- Rubric
Inviting Change Printmaking Project
- A lesson plan (with a big idea, objectives, vocabulary, national middle and high school art standards, and step by step instructions on implementing the project)
- Printmaking PowerPoint
- Artist research sheet
- Topic research sheet
- Sketchbook handout
- Project PowerPoint, to introduce the project
- Project handout
- Critique sheet
- Roll a critique guide
- Three sheets with different ways to participate in roll-a-critique individually, in small groups, or as a whole class
- Rubric
Robert Longo Self Portrait Project
- A lesson plan (with a big idea, objectives, vocabulary, national middle and high school art standards, and step by step instructions on implementing the project)
- Art history presentation on architecture in art
- Art history sheet for notetaking
- Artist research sheet
- Project PowerPoint, to introduce the project
- 2 warm-up assignments handout
- Project guide
- Critique sheet
- Critique label
- Rubric
✵Design Your Own Final Project
- A lesson plan (with a big idea, objectives, vocabulary, national middle and high school art standards, and step-by-step instructions on implementing the project)
- PowerPoint to introduce the assignment with project examples
- Rubric
Each of my classes is designed to build on the last. This curriculum builds on the lessons and techniques taught in my Introduction to Art course and Drawing I course. This course functions well as Drawing II in this sequence.
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