8th Grade Curriculum
Sketchbooks
1. Learn to: develop drawing skills through practice and feedback
2. Learn to: view objects to help with proportion, perspective, and detail
Clay
1. Learn clay vocabulary.
2. Learn how to make a slab pot
3. Learn proper glazing techniques.
Linear Perspective
1. Notes/historical art and artist
2. 2 Point Perspective
Color Unit
1. Notes
2. Color wheel
3. Monochromatic gridded self portrait
Still-life
1. Notes
2. Still-life drawing
3. 2 Blind contour line drawings
Watercolor/Depth of Field Unit
1. Notes and learn a variety of watercolor techniques.
2. Watercolor landscape
Journal Reflections
1. Weekly sketchbook entries to critique and refine their ideas and works of art
Sketchbooks
1. Learn to: develop drawing skills through practice and feedback
2. Learn to: view objects to help with proportion, perspective, and detail
Clay
1. Learn clay vocabulary.
2. Learn how to make a slab pot
3. Learn proper glazing techniques.
Linear Perspective
1. Notes/historical art and artist
2. 2 Point Perspective
Color Unit
1. Notes
2. Color wheel
3. Monochromatic gridded self portrait
Still-life
1. Notes
2. Still-life drawing
3. 2 Blind contour line drawings
Watercolor/Depth of Field Unit
1. Notes and learn a variety of watercolor techniques.
2. Watercolor landscape
Journal Reflections
1. Weekly sketchbook entries to critique and refine their ideas and works of art