Drawing and Painting- setting up your hand drawn fonts

https://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/the-basics-of-drawing-type-creating-your-own-handwritten-font--cms-23089

MS3D Frank Lloyd Wright style art rooms

Imagine you are an architect who is approached by a client, in this case Frontier Regional School, who has an unlimited budget to re-design the art space.  There are currently two rooms, one for ceramics/3D work and a second for general drawing/painting.  They are asking you to bulldoze the current space and re-create it from scratch.  It must be a safe and effective environment for students and be designed in the spirit of Frank Lloyd Wright.  The space should reflect FLW's ideology (look it up) in the organization and use of the elements of art.

Elements of art:

Line

Value

Shape

Form

Color

Texture

Space

Begin by using your chrome books to gather reference for ideas and examples of how FLW organized his structures.  Create sketches of what your art space will look like.  Consider the things that you like and you think work about the current rooms as well as things you would like to change.  Once your developed sketches are approved by Mr. Purcell you will begin your 3D representation of your ideas.  Each student will have two 18 x 24 sheets of foam board as well as access to randoms in their designated area by the storage spaces to build a model with.  Use foam board as a base which must be a minimum of 12 x 18.  You can use acrylic paint to mix your colors specifically and apply them to all of your materials.  Have fun!

Foundations- Portrait in acrylics

After completing exercises with color mixing and painting techniques students will choose a photo reference of a person's face to work from for their portrait assignment.
The photo reference must be available at all times on each student's fully charged chrome book every day of class.

The photographic image must be:
entire head facing straight on at the viewer
sharp high resolution 
well lit and evenly lit
full color
large enough so that it fills nearly, if not the entire screen

Students will work on the canvas board supplied and begin with the same technique as with every piece, a pencil drawing utilizing basic shapes and construction lines and then developed by "sculpting" the shapes.  The goal is to create as strong a likeness of the subject as possible.  Once the drawing stage has been approved by Mr. Purcell, please begin painting with an underpainting and then working dark to light as much as you can.  No pure white should be used at all until the very end.

Make sure your palette always has the three primary colors available.  Have fun! 

Ceramics 2- Mochina Culture South America

Students will discover Peruvian work in the Moche culture from 100-800 AD and the organic nature of the work which were often used as musical instruments. Students will be introduced to using molds to create a variety of handles that they will attach to their work to represent trademark aesthetic choices of this culture. 

Objectives:
At least one piece will use white clay and a monochromatic palette of reds.
Incorporate 2 principles of art; rhythm and pattern into each piece beginning with sketches.
Utilize the handle molds in at least one of the three pieces.

Students can choose to focus on 

1) Goddesses/Gods/Shamans with coils/handles integrated into the design

2) Musical instruments integrating elements of animal anatomy and coils/handles

Please read the following and outline a plan of how you want to proceed with your three individual pieces:

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/muan/hd_muan.htm

http://www.ancient.eu/Moche_Civilization/

http://www.mountlehmanllamas.com/trivia98.html

https://biodiversity.ku.edu/archaeology/collections/highlights/south-america

http://www.veniceclayartists.com/peruvian-pottery/

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