Contact info: Mrs Brittany Mathews - 816.241.5478 - [email protected]

Dear Parents and Students:

Welcome to Advanced Drawing & Painting. With your cooperation we will work together to provide the best possible learning environment in which the student is successful.

Course Description:

This course is designed for students who have successfully completed Intermediate Drawing & Painting and have demonstrated effective modes of problem solving with insight and reason as they relate to the art form. Students will expand on learned mediums as well as experiment with techniques that will encourage development and growth in varied genres. Experimentation and working from life will be stressed as well as art history and art criticism. Portfolio preparation for college and entry into competitive shows will be encouraged. (Grades 11-12)

1. Draw and shade a cut open fruit
2. Draw and shade a pop can
3. Draw and shade a camera
4. Draw and shade a zoomed in view of a vehicle
5. Draw and shade a flag in motion
6. Draw and shade 3 shoes in a pile
7. Draw and shade your dinner
8. Draw and shade a landscape
9. Free draw and shade
10. Draw and shade 2 transparent vases or cups
11. Draw and shade a jacket
12. Draw and shade 3 things you use to get ready
13. Draw and shade a present
14. Draw and shade a salad
15. Draw a dark object in a light environment 
16. Draw a light object in a dark environment
17. Draw and shade an odd expression
18. Draw and shade the skeleton of a fruit (x-ray)
19. Draw and shade a melting object
20. Free draw and shade
21. Draw and shade 3 morphed objects
22. Draw and shade a dancing building
23. Draw and shade a plant with a bug on it
24. Draw and shade a hand
25. Draw and shade something that makes a terrible sound
26. Draw a sticky situation
27. Draw and shade an umbrella
28. Draw and shade something quiet
29. Draw and shade an animal playing an instrument
30. Free draw and shade

Advanced Projects:

Project 1:
Create your personal sketchbook


Project 2:
Skeleton Drawing - Contrast rendering with the use of shading highlights instead of lowlights



Project 3:
Autumn Watercolor - Advanced techniques using layering and masking of watercolor or watercolor object.




Project 4:
Poem/Book Illustration - through he use of digital media students will build up layers to create the background image for the poem and overlay the text for the completed project.



Project 5:
Pen and Ink Architecture Drawing
Students will create an image of a high contrast building through the use of pen and ink techniques learned in class.
 


Project 6:
"Natural Disaster" Project



Project 7:
Self Portrait (Career/Passion-cardboard, paint, charcoal)



Project 8:
Abstracted Painting



Project 10: 

Reflective Object on Toned Paper

Cut Paper Narrative (painted or found)
 

Project 12:
Cultural Representation