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MONDAY                                    TUESDAY                        WEDNESDAY                       THURSDAY                   FRIDAY
 
Introduce overview of drawing unit.  Discuss contour line in Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse’s work. 

Pick up discussion on contour line.  Introduce contour still life assignment.  Students practice sketching contour still life in pencil on newsprint.

(Have final still life set up)  Students begin contour still life in colored chalk on black paper.  Try to finish today.

If needed, first 10 minutes of class to finish still life.  Mount on colored paper.  Critique.

Class time to work on Art History and Art Criticism activities. 

Introduce Visual Puns assignment.  Discuss “fantasy” in Salvador Dali’s artwork.  Create list of visual puns.  Begin sketches.

Class time to work on sketches.  By the end of class, students should pick sketch for final drawing.

Class time to work on project.

Mount on colored paper when finished.

Critique.  Begin Art History and Art Criticism activities.

Class time to work on Art History and Art Criticism activities.  Drawing portfolio due on Monday.

Drawing portfolios due. Introduce overview of painting unit.  Discuss abstraction and work of Jackson Pollock, marks to express meaning, and mood. 

Introduce Soda Straw Painting assignment.  Students practice blowing thinned tempera paint onto scrap paper.  Think about mood they want expressed in final project.

Class time to work on project.  Mount on colored paper when dry.

Critique.  Begin Art History and Art Criticism activities.

Class time to work on Art History and Art Criticism activities. 

Introduce The Colors I Am Inside project.  Discuss portraits and emotion in colors.  Students practice sketching each others portraits.

Students practice sketching self-portraits.  Sketch final in contour line on large paper.

Class time to finish self-portraits.  Introduce painting part of assignment.

Class time to finish painting emotion in self-portrait.

Critique. Begin Art History and Art Criticism activities.  Painting portfolio due in two weeks for those who did not finish.

Introduce overview of sculpture unit.  Discuss form and design.  Introduce Wire Animal Sculpture assignment.  Students begin animal sketches.

Class time for animal sketches.  Begin wire animal sculpture.

Class time to finish wire animal sculptures.

Critique.  Class time to work on Art History and Art Criticism activities and finish painting portfolio.

Class time to work on Art History and Art Criticism activities and finish painting portfolio.  Painting portfolio due Monday.

Painting portfolios due.  Introduce Container Sculpture project.  Discuss recycled materials.  Begin sketches of sculpture ideas.

Finish sketching ideas.  Begin sculpture.

Class time to work on sculpture.

Critique.  Class time to work on Art History and Art Criticism activities and finish painting portfolio.

Class time to work on Art History and Art Criticism activities.  Sculpture portfolio due on Monday.