AP ART & DESIGN SYLLABUS |
Instructor: Amanda Hawkins
Meets: 2nd hour Lunch: A Room: 149A Phone: 970-328-7420 Email: [email protected] Website: hawkinsart.weebly.com |
DrawingStudents will expand their drawing and two-dimensional design skills and advance their visual communication skills by exploring a variety of design processes and techniques, as well as compositional and aesthetic concepts.
Drawing Issues: Light and shade, mark making, line quality, rendering of form, composition, surface manipulation, and illusion of depth are drawing issues that can be addressed through a variety of means which can include painting, drawing, printmaking, mixed media, etc. Abstract, observational, and inventive works may demonstrate drawing competence. Mediums can include combined media, soft pastels, transparent and/or opaque watercolor, oil, acrylic, Prismacolor sticks, Conté crayon, vine and pressed charcoal, and/or varied printmaking techniques, including such things as wood block or linoleum block, etching, engraving, lithograph, and other combined print techniques. |
2-D DesignStudents will expand their two-dimensional design skills and advance their visual communication skills by exploring a variety of design processes and techniques, as well as compositional and aesthetic concepts.
2-D Design Issues: Works emphasizing the elements of art (line, shape, illusion of space, illusion of motion, pattern, texture, value, color) are organized using the principles of design (unity/variety), balance, emphasis, rhythm, proportion/scale). Media could include graphic design, typography, digital imaging, photography, collage, fabric design, weaving, illustration, painting, or printmaking. |
3-D DesignStudents will expand their three-dimensional design skills and advance their visual communication skills by exploring a variety of design processes and techniques, as well as compositional and aesthetic concepts.
3-D Design Issues: This portfolio is intended to address sculptural issues. In the 3-D design portfolio, students should demonstrate their understanding of the Elements & Principles of Art as they relate to depth and space. The Principles of Design (unity/variety, balance, emphasis, contrast, rhythm, repetition, proportion/scale, and figure/ground relationship) can be articulated through the visual Elements of Art (mass, volume, color/light, form, plane, line, texture). These issues can be explored through additive, subtractive, and/or fabrication processes, figurative or nonfigurative sculpture, architectural models, site-specific work, use of multiples, casting, assemblage and construction, jewelry, etc. Almost any material can be used in almost any combination: wood, paper, metals, rubber, Styrofoam, plaster, fabric, rope, acrylic, found objects, wax, clay, stone, earth, and concrete, among others. Critical to 3-D production, students must consider presentation: Will it stand on the floor, be suspended, mounted on the wall or shelf, be placed on a pedestal or base? Where is its place in the environment? |