Calligrams: Art I Beginning

Student Artwork

Student Artwork

Objective:

Students will create calligram self-portraits using words that describe themselves.

Vocabulary: Calligram, value, line quality, vector

Historic Artists Used: Commonly used in Islamic art.

Contemporary Artists Used: John Sokol, Calligramorama

 


Surrealist Idioms: Art I Advanced

Student Artwork

Student Artwork

Objective:

Students will choose an idiom or cliche to represent themselves and then illustrate the chosen phrase. 

Vocabulary: juxtaposition, surrealism

Historic Artists Used: Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte

Contemporary Artists Used: Bram de Winter, Carrie Ann Baade, Marco Escobedo


Graphic Novels: Art II

Student Artwork

Student Artwork

Objectives:

1. Students will create a graphic novel page featuring how the student would change the last 30 minutes of a popular movie.

2.     Students must use 5-9 image boxes and 3-8 narrator boxes.

Vocabulary: composition, panel, frame, gutter, bleed

Contemporary Artists Used: Georges Jeanty, Leigh Dragoon