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General:
• provide a general orientation to drawing in a Waldorf elementary and high school setting
• provide a practical experience of appropriate drawings and materials for grades 1-12
Specific: to practice the technique of applying color with different approaches and media appropriate to each grade:
- Wax block and stick crayons (grades 1-4)
- Colored pencils (grades 5-12)
- Black conte crayons, charcoal, lead pencils (grades 6-12)
- Chalk/blackboard (grades 9-12)
Emphasis on gaining an awareness of how art work can enhance high school subjects and what a block book can look like
Emphasis on gaining an awareness and overview of the development of drawing throughout the elementary and high school years, with special attention to the high school
Emphasis on gaining an enthusiasm for drawing so as to instill enthusiasm in high school students for drawing
Session 1: Overview of all 12 grades, course requirements and expectations. Blackboard assignments: 1st grade - Letter
Session 2: Form drawing. Blackboard discussion: 4th grade -- Animal in its surroundings
Session 3: Form drawing. Blackboard discussion: 6th grade -- Physics: properties of heat, experiment diagram
Session 4: Form drawing. Blackboard discussion: 8th grade -- Physiology: sculpting and drawing a femur
Session 5: Form drawing. Blackboard discussion: 9th grade -- Physics: heat, mechanics, diagrams of a four-cylinder enginer
Session 6: Form drawing. Blackboard discussions: 10th grade -- Ancient history: map of Greece in the eighth century
Session 7: Form drawing. Blackboard discussion: 11th grade -- Botany: plant observation
Session 8: Form drawing. Blackboard discussion: 12th grade -- Architecture: drawing of Ancient Greek temple
Session 9: Form drawing. Blackboard discussion: black and white -- earth, water
Session 10: Form drawing. Blackboard discussion: black and white -- fire, air
Session 11: Form drawing. Blackboard discussion: black and white -- portraits of one another
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