Mr. Horton’s: INTRODUCTION TO ART
To successfully complete this course, you will need:
1) To pay an art fee of $40 to contribute toward various materials in the art room, including a sketch book, color pencils, paper, rulers, drawing pencils, and erasers.
2) To bring art supplies on the day of class.
3) Don’t speak when I speak
4) Clean up after yourself
5) Hand in your work ON TIME, 10 points will be deducted for every day a project is late.
COURSE TOPICS
1) Line
2) Contour Line
3) Cross Contour Line
4) Shading Scale
5) Shading of spherical objects
6) 1 and 2 point perspective
7) Cartooning
8) Dynamic Art
9) Satire
10) Graphic Design
11) Life Drawing/ Still Lifes
General Rules:
a) If a still life is set up (usually in the middle of the room) DO NOT TOUCH IT
Grading Policies:
1) Participation/ conduct (40%) - As long as you are doing artwork in some fashion it will be counted toward participation. If you are quiet and do your work, then you will have a good conduct grade.
2) Homework/ Quiz grades (20%) - Most of the homework’s are done in class usually on the final day of a cycle (to be handed in the 1st day of the next cycle, giving you at least 2 full days to complete the artwork).
3) Sketchbooks (20%) - Once a month (every 3 to 4 cycles) you will have a sketchbook due date. Nearly any subject matter can be used in the sketchbooks. A usual sketchbook due date would entail 10-20 completed drawings in the sketchbook. A completed drawing is one that took time to complete (Work done in class and homework counts towards sketchbook amounts).
4) Mid Term/Final (20%) - The Mid Term/ Final is a graphic design take home project that will be given 3 weeks before the end of the class. A minimum of 3 hours must be spent working on this project. You will use a variety of artistic techniques learned throughout the course in completion of the final project.