Senior artists are encouraged to take an art course that start to help form their futures. Will art be a hobby for you, or your profession? Do you want to change people's minds with your art pieces or create things that people will find beautiful? Choose the art that will be right for you and start to decide what stories you have to tell.
This year we'll look at what makes you unique and how to translate that through to your art.
This year we'll look at what makes you unique and how to translate that through to your art.
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Art Studio the little bit of everything class
Drawing - ExpressionismWe will take a look at the ways Expressionists added emotion and story to their portraits to create surreal portraits. If a picture is worth 1000 words, what story are you telling?
Sculpture - life castingUsing agar moulage we will create a mold to fill with a plaster of paris solution to life cast a 3D sculpture.
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Painting - Considering AudiencesWhy do artists create murals? We will work to find out what messages you would like to tell the world, and figure out how to make that message into a public mural for the school hallways.
Ceramics - Wheel ThrowingStudents at this level will start to throw pottery on the wheel. It's tough work, but very calming! The Clay Lady tutorials will teach us the technique, but only practice will make us perfect!
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Print media - Pop ArtPop artists used colour, line and shape to create larger than life works of art mostly inspired by *drum roll* COMIC BOOKS! We'll use colour, pattern and shape to create our own comic panels, hang them in frames and critique them like visual artists.
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graphic - art and designWhat sort of messages do you think are worth saying? Taking a look at historical political art, we'll see how we can use our skills to convey ideas we have about the world.
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Studio Arts 2.d. - drawing, painting, and print
researchBy this time in your life you probably already know a variety of historical and contemporary artists that you like and don't like. I want you to research artists you see, find out what pieces of theirs you like, how they made them and, most importantly, why??
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understand materialsPractice colours, composition, lighting, mood and message with your materials to see what you like to use and how you intend to use it. Artists play with materials on purpose to get new ideas or make their skills with old materials even better.
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brainstorm ideasBegin to think of yourselves as artists - your every day life is interesting enough that something you experience can inform a really strong piece of artwork. I encourage you to "art journal" for a few minutes everyday as a way to keep track of your observations, imaginary ideas or inspirations.
critiqueEveryone needs to plan and critique their own work. I will also expect you to write down comments from friends and peers when they critique your work. Use these forms as references for questions to ask, or things to look for during a critique.
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portfolioYour portfolio will be a collection of your best pieces of artwork from this semester. Since you still have a year until you'd need to apply to post-secondary this portfolio does not have to be "complete". Make sure you are creating work that is observational, personal or shows off your skills.
reflectionAfter each piece you think is "portfolio worthy" you will fill out this reflection form really considering your materials, inspirations and the steps you took to finish the piece. Most importantly you will judge your own efforts. Did you accomplish what you wanted to?
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Studio arts 3.d. - sculpture, ceramics, pottery
research techniqueScour the internet, instagram, youtube, tiktok or other social media (use safe search practices!) to find artists that show their skills. Sketch out the shapes they make, and write notes on how you think they got that shape. Here are some of my favourite potters!
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skill buildingYour entire semester is dedicated to practicing your skills. Get moving and create as many pieces as you can. We will only fire your "best" pieces. The ones that make you proud will make it!
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explore processesWe can explore how to change the actual clay before we use it too!
Experiment by researching the following (or your own ideas from your inspiration research!) Mason Stain (Clay Pigment), Under glaze (then scraping for designs) Mixing your own glaze colours, adding different layers of glaze to make new textures, putting textures on the clay before you use it etc... Whatever you do, use left over products or scrap clay for experiments before you apply those techniques to your pieces! |
portfolioYour portfolio will be a collection of your favourite finished pieces by the end of the semester. These should be without lumps, bumps or cracks; they should be radially semestrical or well designed with intention. We will practice our photography techniques to take really professional quality pictures of our ceramics and we'll edit them on the computers to the right quality.
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critiqueCritique is SO important to artists! Once you finish a piece make sure to show it to a friend, peer or teacher for some honest feedback. Take a note of what people think worked, and and start to make a plan for next time.
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reflectionAfter you've made an amazing project that totally worked, and you've gotten someone to critique it you're going to fill in a reflection sheet to answer some artistic questions about how you got to this point.
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Graphic arts - 2d and 3d digital art and design
inspirationCreate a power point of your top 10 inspirations. Movies, video games, books, photographers, artists etc... No boring power points! Explore the program to make something graphically interesting. (That means it looks pretty.)
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program basicsGraphic arts will focus on three main programs: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Blender. These programs are industry standards as well as the format that most other image development software emulates.
Youtube has thousands of artists personal tutorial videos on it which will help you to understand the variety of ways artists use these programs.
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skill buildingThis is a portfolio based course, so most of the semester will be trying out different ideas in different programs, practicing your skills and getting more and more comfortable with the tech and software. Even though we're a digital based course, it's always a great idea to keep a sketchbook so you can draw from observation or imagination anywhere, anytime!
objectsCreate 3D looking images using either Photoshop or Blender. Either way, try to create one object from your mind (or by following a tutorial) and one from observation (a still life!)
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characterCreate a character in 2D or 3D. This can be created traditionally, digitally or a combination of the two but should be illustrational or concept minded. Practice human anatomy and facial features, even if you distort them.
Landscapes World building is like bringing characters, objects and landscapes together to ground your characters into a story, whether your creating fully realized illustrations or generating concept art.
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Media arts - yearbook design
ThemeEveryone helps to brainstorm and develop the book's theme. Grade 11's are in charge of making a list of strong key components of the theme that can appear on each page. These might include: Fonts, Composition, Photos, Colours, Editing styles, Layout etc...
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layout designBrainstorm Layouts using collage elements on paper first, then translate that to Indesign, Photoshop or Connect Me.
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programsGrade 11's will work back and forth between Connect Me, Photoshop and InDesign getting comfortable with each program figuring out what the strengths and weaknesses are for each one.
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TechnologyWe'll use cameras, digital drawing tablets and computers in order to create our spreads. Learn how to create images in one program using our cameras and tablets, and transfer it to the next.
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editingEvery Design you create needs to be edited by a peer or two. The more eyes looking over your spreads for inconsistencies, the better! Keep an eye out for typos, spelling mistakes, blurry images and mis-aligned pieces.
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relfectionHave Mrs. Addison print out your spreads in colour so we can look at them in order between the spreads on either side. Reflect on how your spread looks next to others, and check that you have included each of the 5 main thematic points. Make a note to yourself about what works best with this spread and carry that idea onto your next one.
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