Unit Overview: Students will learn about the history of traditional Chinese paintings in order to create their own traditional Chinese inspired landscape painting. Students will 1.) design and carve their own personalized seal out of linoleum, 2.) practice stroke order and brush technique in writing calligraphy, 3.) demonstrate an understanding of stroke order and brush technique by painting the "Four Gentlemen", 4.) paint an observational landscape study (sketch) in order to demonstrate mastery of brush technique learned from the "Four Gentlemen", and 5.) create an observational landscape painting on a final scroll in order to demonstrate stroke order, brush technique, and mastery of skill learned from calligraphy, the "Four Gentlemen", and the landscape study. Students will apply their seal to their final painting as their artist signature.
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Unit Overview: Students will learn about the human figure using Greco-Roman sculpture and contrapposto as the key elements of their understanding of the human figure. Students will look at the sculptures Discobolus and The Dying Gaul as examples of human figures in action. Students will create a human figure drawing of a person in action. Students will choose an athlete on which to base their drawing. Students will incorporate oil pastels using warm and cool color theory in order to demonstrate motion, line, form, and contrast.
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