7th Grade Curriculum For The School Year
Land form Project
· Shape
· Space
· Form
· line
· color
Cross curriculum project
Students draw a landform on watercolor paper. Using water colors they develop a painting applying layers to create detail and value.
Part II Students write a short Ode for their landform.
Self Portrait
· Shape
· Line
· Value
Students are given a black and white photo of their self, which is cut in half, and pasted on a sheet of drawing paper. They use their drawing skills to draw the other half, paying attention to proportion., applying 6B Pencil to build up layers of vaScratch board Medium
· Line
· Proportion
· Texture
· Shadow
Scratch board animals
Printmaking
· Design
· Line
· space
· Imagination
· Color
· printing
Linoleum Block Prints
Oil pastel Portraits
· line
· space
· proportion
· value
Pencil Drawing
· Line
· Value: light and shadow
· Blending
· Imagination
Metamorphous drawings
3D in Clay
· Shape
· Form
· Proportion
· Balance
Part II Glazing
· Color
· Creativity
Inuit Animal sculpture
Art History Project
· Line
· Value
· Proportion
· Technique
· Mixed mediums
Cow painting project
Perspective Drawing
· Line
· Space
· Color
· Understanding of vocabulary: vanishing point/horizon line/ parallel and horizontal line/orthogonal lines
· imagination