Instructor: Linda Matthews
E-mail address: matthewsll@mukilteo.wednet.edu
Voice Mail: (425) 356-1395 ext.5550
School website address: http://www.mukilteo.wednet.edu/
Graphic Arts is a
semester long art class that provides a digital art experience. The
students will complete two dimensional projects using computer software and
digital images, in particular, Adobe Photoshop Elements. Our goal is to explore the elements and
principles of design used in visual arts especially the digital graphics area. The exploration will include creative
problem solving techniques. It is an elective in the fine arts area and
successful completion will earn .5 graduation credits in the fine arts or
electives categories.
Benchmarks and Essential Academic Learning Requirements
1. The student understands and applies arts knowledge and skills.
1.1 Understands arts concepts and vocabulary:
1.2 Develops arts skills and techniques
1.3 Understands and applies arts styles from various artists, cultures, and times
2. The student demonstrates thinking skills using artistic processes.
2.1 Applies a creative process in the arts:
2.3 Applies a responding process to an arts presentation:
3. The student communicates through the arts.
3.1 Uses the arts to express and present ideas and feelings
3.2 Uses the arts to communicate for a specific purpose
4. The student makes connections within and across the arts, to other disciplines, life, cultures, and work.
4.4 Understands that the arts shape and reflect culture and history
4.5 Demonstrates knowledge of arts careers and the role of art skills in the world of work
Art Guiding questions
What is art?
How does form affect function?
How can I communicate culture in my ceramics piece?
What impact does surface design have on my ceramics piece?
What colors express which emotions?
How is the graphic arts room like a community?
Jump drives are recommended for storage of large files.
The following textbooks will be used as resources throughout the semester.
Hobbs, Jack, Salome, Richard, The Visual Experience, Davis Publications, Inc., Worcester, Massachusetts, 1995
Gatto, Joseph A., Porter, Albert W., Selleck, Jack, Davis Publications, Inc., Worcester, Massachusetts, 2000
Ragans, Rosalind, Art Talk, Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, Mission Hills, CA 1995
Resources
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/cezanne_paul.html, art history site with numerous artists
http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/explore.cfm elements of design
http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/tacoumba_works.html video of artist using basic shapes, muralists.
http://char.txa.cornell.edu/language/element/element.htm elements of design
http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/bio/a334-1.html Albrecht Dürer
http://www.afn.org/~afn15301/seussfiles/seusspics.html Dr. Seuss Illustrations
http://www.illustration-house.com/bios/rockwell_bio.html
http://www.antiquetalk.com/column274.htm Norman Rockwell
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Articles2/3698/194/index.php pen and ink drawing
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Articles2/135/120/ compostion
http://www.kidsart.com/store/tempset.html tempera paint
http://www.artlex.com/ art dictionary
Goldwater, Robert, Treves, Marco, Artists on Art, Pantheon Books, Inc.,
New York, NY, 1972
Wolchonok, Louis, The Art of Three-Dimensional Design, Dover Publications, Inc., 1969
Martin, Judy, The Encyclopedia of Printmaking Techniques, Quatro Publishing plc, London, England, 2002
Edwards, Betty, Drawing on the Artist Within, Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, NY, 1986
Edwards, Betty, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, Simon & Schuster Inc., New York, NY
The Complete Drawing and Painting Course, Sterling Publishing Co. Inc., 2003
The 20th-Century Art Book, Phaidon Press Limited, New York, NY, 1999
Zhen, Lian Quan, Chinese Painting Techniques for Exquisite Watercolors, North Light Books, Cincinnati, OH, 2000
Kleiner, Fred S., Mamiya, Christin J., Gardner’s Art through the Ages, Twelfth Edition Volume II, Thomson Learning, Inc., 2005
The student will be expected to make up any work missed due to absences at home or before and after school. Sketches in sketchbooks may be required outside of class time.
Students will be reviewing and assessing peer work. Students will complete written self-assessments at the end of each project.
All assignments will be completed by set deadlines. Student absences and other extenuating circumstances will be addressed on an individual basis with the teacher. Generally, the student will have the same number of days to make up missed assignments and tests as the number of days of their excused absences. Students may continue to work on projects after they have been returned for an improvement in their grade. Attendance will be taken at the beginning and end of each period. Students who are not in class at the end of the period will be marked absent for the entire period.
Quarter grades will be based on computation of the following items: project work= 60%, journals = 20%, written and in class assignments/activities = 10%, reflections = 10%. Assignments will be graded on a point basis. Semester grades will consist of an average of the two quarter grades and the semester exam, a practicum using Adobe Photoshop Elements and an organized portfolio of his/her semester work presented to an audience. The portfolio will consist of projects identified throughout the semester. Students will be provided the opportunity to enter an art piece for their electronic e-folio.
The grading scale will be as follows:
A 4.0 93 -100
A- 3.7 90 - 92 %
B+ 3.3 87 - 89 %
B 3.0 81 - 86 %
B- 2.7 80 - 83 %
C+ 2.3 77 - 79 %
C 2.0 74 - 76 %
C- 1.7 70 - 74 %
D+ 1.3 67 - 69 %
D 1.0 61 - 66 %
Students are expected to behave in accordance with the standards set in the Mariner High School student rights and responsibilities handbook. Students will sign an operating contract for the art classroom/studio to reinforce the accepted behaviors for the class. Electronics are not allowed in the computer room any violations will result in the cell phone other device being confiscated.
The teacher will be available before and after school in the art room for students to work on incomplete art projects.
I look forward to sharing art experiences with your student, please call or send an e-mail if you have any questions or concerns.
Phone number: 425-356-1700 ext 1835
e-mail address: matthewsll@mukilteo.wednet.edu