Grade: Kindergarten
Duration: 36 weeks
Studio art provides hands-on opportunities to create novel artwork such as paintings, drawings, and sculptures. Kindergarten studio art adapts 'Text Books of Art Education (Volume I)', the first book in a 7-volume set of textbooks created in the early 19th century via conferences and consultations with art education experts. Leading art teachers and educators in large public school systems and universities such as Harvard helped to create the textbook. Supplies needed to complete the course are minimal and inexpensive. Pencils, crayons, markers, paper in a variety of colors, washable acrylic paints, paintbrushes, polymer clay or oven-hardening clay, and dish soap or bubble solution are all children require.
Grade: First
Duration: 36 weeks
This course focuses on intersections between art and math - drawing lines and shapes. To balance structure while still allowing creativity and imagination to flourish, each lesson enables children to first practice drawing lines and shapes before using their new skills to create novel artwork. Famous works of art that incorporate the studied shapes illustrate and inspire. Supplies needed to complete the 36 exercises are minimal and inexpensive. Sculpting clay or Play-Doh, a ruler, drawing paper, and drawing implements such as pencils, pens, and markers are all children require to complete these lessons.
Grade: Second
Duration: 36 weeks
First year drawing focuses on object drawing, position, direction, and color. Students learn how to capture the relative positions of objects, how to draw objects in perspective, how to capture actions such as running and walking, how to draw in a two-handed rhythm, and how to produce even color washes. Materials required include pencils, crayons, drawing paper or a notebook, and a ruler.
Grade: Third
Duration: 36 weeks
Second year drawing expands upon the prior year's drawing lessons. Students continue to master capturing the relative positions of objects, sketching objects in perspective, portraying actions such as running and walking, drawing in a two-handed rhythm, and producing even color washes. Materials required to complete the lessons include pencils, crayons, drawing paper or a notebook, and a ruler.
Grade: Fourth
Duration: 36 weeks
Third year drawing builds upon the prior lessons of the previous two years. Students draw geometric shapes, real models of objects, graded and emphasized lines, figures engaged in actions, and landscapes in color. Students also continue to practice two-handed drills, drawing loops, triangles, whorls, blades, and trumpets. Materials required to complete the lessons include pencils, crayons, drawing paper or a notebook, and a ruler.
Grade: Fifth
Duration: 36 weeks
Fourth year drawing expands upon the prior year's drawing lessons and introduces painting with watercolors. Students draw the basic forms in three dimensions and learn to create washes, tones, and scales using watercolors. Materials required to complete the lessons include pencils, drawing paper or a notebook, watercolors (6 standard colors plus gray, brown, and black), 5x7 watercolor paper or pad, and assorted sizes of paintbrushes.
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