Arts Grade 8

Continue to use problem solving and critical thinking skills when developing and refining their work

Generate symbols, adapt ideas and/or subject matter from an array of sources

Complete contour and gesture drawings.

Practice Blind Contour drawings

Sketch and record ideas and information

Shadow/shading/value

Design Techniques (sighting)

Calligraphy and/or lettering

One-pt perspective

Intro to Two-pt perspective

Intro to Various Pts of view  (bird, eye level, ant)

Demonstrate safe and proper use, care and storage of materials and tools.

Explain preferences for works of art based on analysis of the elements and principles of art.

Solve artistic problems in their own work using the elements and principles of design with thought and reflection.

Generate symbols, adapt ideas and/or subject matter from an array of sources

Develop proficiency of color mixing with acrylic, tempera and watercolor.

Develop proficiency applying color properties.

Apply a variety of painting techniques.

Follow established criteria for assessment of their work, critiques and self-assessment

Demonstrate safe and proper use, care and storage of media, materials and equipment. 

Describe their own responses to and interpretations of their own prints and those from various eras and cultures.

Examine how technical, organizational and aesthetic elements contribute to the emotional qualities, content and overall impact communicated in artwork

Generate symbols, adapt ideas and/or subject matter from an array of sources.

Use stenciling to create prints.

Create collage prints.

Printing many colors from a single block.

Experiment with color  blending.

Demonstrate safe and proper use, care and storage of media, materials and equipment. 

Solve artistic problems in their own work using the elements and principles with thought and reflection.

Generate symbols, adapt ideas and/or subject matter from an array of sources

Utilize assemblage/

construction techniques in an artwork

Create a work utilizing architectural/environmental structures.

Create a free standing sculpture.

Create a collage and/or mosaic utilizing a variety of paper, images, textures and/or material.

Create wearable item from a variety of materials.

Create an artwork utilizing weaving, and/or stitchery techniques.

-Demonstrate safe and proper use, care and storage of media, materials and equipment. 

Contour and  gesture drawings.

Sketchbooks.

Scumbling, scribbling and stippling.

Illusion of volume and space.

Demonstrating alternate points of view: bird, eye and ant level.

Applying elements and principles of design in compositions.

Creating color wheel

Color mixing

Color properties

Painting techniques

Painting with a variety of materials: tempera, acrylics, watercolors

Applying elements and principles of design in compositions.

Creating prints using stenciling and collagraph techniques.

Experimenting with color blending.

Making connections with other art forms or subject areas.

Applying elements and principles of design in compositions.

Creating an assemblage, a relief and/or free standing sculpture.

Creating an artwork utilizing weaving, and/or stitchery techniques.

Making connections with other art forms or subject areas.

Good quality drawing pencils and drawing paper

Drawing with children by Mona Brooks

Drawing on the Right side of the Brain by Betty Edwards

Tempera or acrylic paints

Good quality brushes

Paint, Brush and Palette, The beginning artist’s library by Harvey Weiss

Organic and found objects

Ink and/or paint

Styrofoam, cardboard, yarn, stencils, various papers, photographic and/or computer images

Reference book: Handmade Prints by Anne Desmet and Jim anderson

Examples of sculptures or assemblages

Organic and found objects, mixed media, clay, paper, tissue, paint, foam, beads, yarn, fibers, fabric and other materials