VISUAL ARTS
Our Visual Arts track is centered around drawing and street art. Drawing fundamentals, Character drawing/Animation, and Graffiti will provide the foundational elements of design for your students at many different levels.
Kinder & 1st Grades
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Intro to Graffiti
One of the main elements of Hip-Hop Culture is the colorful revolutionary classic art of graffiti, which was originally created on the streets and subways of New York City. Its origins go all the way back to hieroglyphics in Africa and throughout many indigenous cultures. Since the late 70’s/early 80’s it has evolved into a world wide respected art form seen everywhere, from children’s books, to fashion, to the walls of your city. In Intro to Graffiti we will activate our creativity with graffiti style markers and paper to create arts pieces. Students will also learn to use their markers to create thick lines in colors to “pop”and add design to the inside of their letters based off of patterns, shapes, their imaginations, color mixes, and statements that they want to make with their graffiti piece. Materials needed: Thick Markers and paper
2nd-3rd
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Intro to Graffiti
One of the main elements of Hip-Hop Culture is the colorful revolutionary classic art of graffiti, which was originally created on the streets and subways of New York CIty. It’s origins go all the way back to hieroglyphics in Africa and throughout many indigenous cultures. Since the late 70’s/early 80’s it has evolved into a world wide respected art form seen everywhere, from children’s books, to fashion, to the walls of your city. In Intro to Graffiti we will activate our creativity with graffiti style markers and paper to create arts pieces. Students will also learn to use their markers to create thick lines in colors to “pop”and add design to the inside of their letters based off of patterns, shapes, their imaginations, color mixes, and statements that they want to make with their graffiti piece. Materials needed: Thick Markers and paper
4th-5th
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Intro to Character Drawing
Are you a fan of comics, manga, or graphic novels? Do you like to draw cartoon characters? Are you a beginner who wants to develop drawing skills? This class offers a focused study of line art technique with an emphasis on personal themes and styles. Students will explore the fundamentals of drawing for character design using traditional techniques in our study of line, shape, form and value. We’ll apply these elements in the study of anatomy learning about natural and exaggerated proportions of the head and body, exploring facial expressions, emotion, gesture, movement and perspective. Come ready to discuss your favorite fictional character(s) in all media i.e. cartoons, animated features, comics, comic strips, manga and graphic.
Materials needed: a 2B drawing pencil, a red and or blue pencil, a sketchbook and or lots of drawing paper!
6th-8th
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Graffiti
Graffiti and Urban art is a program that works with traditional and nontraditional art styles and techniques that originated from street artists in New York. In this course we will navigate various creative pathways, styles, techniques and conceptual ideas to produce and develop the student’s graffiti and urban arts vocabulary. Materials needed: markers (mostly thick) and paper
Drawing and Animation
Are you a fan of comics, manga, or graphic novels? Do you like to draw cartoon characters? Are you a beginner who wants to develop drawing skills? This class offers a focused study of line art technique with an emphasis on personal themes and styles. Students will explore the fundamentals of drawing for character design using traditional techniques in our study of line, shape, form and value. We’ll apply these elements in the study of anatomy learning about natural and exaggerated proportions of the head and body, exploring facial expressions, emotion, gesture, movement and perspective.
Materials needed: a 2B drawing pencil, a red and or blue pencil, a sketchbook and or lots of drawing paper!
9th-12th
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Graffiti
Graffiti and Urban art is a program that works with traditional and nontraditional art styles and techniques that originated from street artists in New York. In this course we will navigate various creative pathways, styles, techniques and conceptual ideas to produce and develop the student’s graffiti and urban arts vocabulary. Materials needed: markers (mostly thick) and paper
Character Design
Are you a fan of comics, manga, or graphic novels? Do you like to draw cartoon characters? Are you a beginner who wants to develop drawing skills? This class offers a focused study of line art technique with an emphasis on personal themes and styles. Students will explore the fundamentals of drawing for character design using traditional techniques in our study of line, shape, form and value. We’ll apply these elements in the study of anatomy learning about natural and exaggerated proportions of the head and body, exploring facial expressions, emotion, gesture, movement and perspective.
Materials needed: a 2B drawing pencil, a red and or blue pencil, a sketchbook and or lots of drawing paper!
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