Art 9 (4 credits).

Note to students taking Art Foundations as Art 9:

Students taking Art Foundations as Art 9 should contact their Distance Education School for module options.

Videotpe programs accompany the Design Module, the Painting Module, and the Printmaking Module.

Supplies provided by students: A camera and film is necessary if taking the Photography Module.

An audio tape recorder is necessary if taking the Drawing Module, the Art From Many Lands Module, or the How to Look at Art Module.

All students do Modules 1 and 6.

A Read Me First Booklet accompanies this course.

Module 1: Drawing

Section 1: Making a start

Section 2: Movement

Section 3: Contour drawing

Section 4: Finishing touches

The resources for this module are:

Read Me First (JAF0001) (7540001722)

Audio Tape for Mods. 1, 7, & 8 (JAF0110) (7540001042)

Video (JAF0111) (7540001631) Optional

Drawing Supply Kit (JAF0120) (7540001147)

Module 2: Design

Section 1: The filling of given spaces

Section 2: Graphic design

Section 3: Using what we know

Section 4: Design in architecture

The resources for this module are:

Video (JAF0113) (7540001630) Optional

Design Supply Kit (JAF0121) (7540001164)

Module 3: Painting with Acrylics

Section 1: Getting started

Section 2: Color, composition, and unity

Section 3: Through thick and thin

Section 4: Variations on a theme

The resources for this module are:

Video (JAF0114) (7540001629) (also used in Module 4) Optional
Painting Supply Kit (JAF0122) (7540001145)

Module 4: Printmaking

Section 1: Planographic printing

Section 2: Relief printing methods

Section 3: Intaglio methods

Section 4: Stencil printing

The resources for this module are:

Video (JAF0114) (7540001629) (also used in Module 3)

Optional
Printmaking Supply Kit (JAF0123) (7540001146)

Module 5: Photography

Section 1: About cameras

Section 2: All about lighting

Section 3: How to improve your photographs

Section 4: Fun with your camera

The resource for this module is:

Photography Supply Kit (JAF0124) (7540001167)

All students do Module 6.

Module 6: Theme and Image

Students utilize skills learned throughout the course to explore these four themes, completing four projects from a wide variety of suggestions.

Section 1: Simplification

Section 2: Elaboration

Section 3: Selection

Section 4: Juxtaposition

The resource for this module is:

Theme & Image Supply Kit (JAF0125) (7540001166)

Module 7: Art From Many Lands

Section 1: Mosaics

Section 2: Masks

Section 3: Working with clay

Section 4: Your choice of projects

The resource for this module is:

Art From Many Lands Supply Kit (JAF0126) (7540001143)

If the clay in your kit has dried out, you can use the following recipe to make your own:

Clay Recipe

1 cup flour

½ cup salt

¼ to 1/3 cup cold water

Mix the salt and flour.  Add water gradually, stirring with an ordinary knife, until the mixture forms a single ball or clump.  Then stop, and don’t add any more.  It’s very much like making pastry.

Make whatever you’re going to make, and place it on a cookie sheet in a 300’F oven.  Bake for between 1 and 3 hours, or until very hard.  A quarter-inch thick sun figures might take an hour, but large beads will need longer, and large animals or fish will need the full three hours to bake hard inside and out.

If you’re going to make a sun, animal or beads (Section 4) you will need to double the recipe.  If all you are doing is the sun and an animal, you don’t need to double the recipe.

If making beads, make the holes larger than you would normally because this dough puffs up a bit when baking, and the holes will fill otherwise.  You can unfold a large paper clip and put it through each hole while baking, but the hole should be much larger than this strip of metal.

Module 8: How to Look at Art

This module is considerably more academic than the others in this course. Only students who do reasonably well in English and Social Studies should take this module.

Section 1: Voice of fire: good buy or bad?

Section 2: Looking at landscape

Section 3: Anti-war cries

Section 4: The Abstract Expressionists

The resource for this module is:

How to Look at Art Supply Kit (JAF0127) (7540001144)

Art supplies are provided, but students may supplement these in order to complete the final projects they have chosen.

No textbook is required for this course.                                             

There are no tests for this course.