ART – Grade 8

Students are in Art for one semester. All students in grade eight are required to take Art. Projects continue upon the foundation laid in preceeding art classes, and follows the Art Course of Study extablished by the Diocese of Toledo.

SYLLABUS

Quarter 1

Tessellations

M. C. Escher

Hexagonal tessellations created using equilateral triangles

Non-objective painting

Wassily Kandinsky

Tempera painting on tag board

Perspective drawing

Review two-point perspective

Draw shapes showing parts cut away

Figure drawing from a posed model

Pencil

Charcoal

Ceramic hand building

Slab Pots

Incised decorations

Quarter 2

Papier Mache

Masks

Embellish with beads, buttons, feathers, yarn, etc

Weaving on a cardboard loom

Collagraphs

Faces in pastel