Visual Arts I Curriculum Map
Tara Maikranz
Ohio County High School
Time
Frame
Topics
Objectives
Activities/Assessments Vocab
Resources
Connections
-Class
syllabus
-Personal
Inventory
-Learning
Styles Quiz
-Pre test
ReadingWriting-Personal
inventory
PLCS-Personal
Inventory/career
choices topic
-Art Talk
-Drawing on
the Right Side
of the Brain
-Elements and
Principles PP
-Art work
-Purposes,
E&P quiz
-Reading-Art
Talk
-Writing-Journal
entry, Chapter
review
-PLCS
Day 1-3
 Classroom
procedures and
safety
-Know the
proper
procedures for
conducting
class in a safe
and productive
manner.
-Class discussions
-Personal Inventory
-Learning Styles Quiz
-Pre test
-Pre-instruction Drawings
Week 1
 What is art and why
do artists create?
 Review of the
elements and
principles
 Using the right brain
-Define art
-Identify 5
purposes of
visual art
-Identify seven
sources of
artists
inspiration
-Compare and
contrast artists
sources of
inspiration
-Recognize the
communication
of ideas
through art
-Utilize the
right brain in
drawing
-Art Talk 1:1
-Art Talk 1:2
-Is this art and why?
-Journal-what is art?
-Upside down drawing
-Keeping a sketchbook
-Journal-Why do artists keep
sketchbooks?-View elements
and principles power point
(PP)
-Art Talk 1:3
-Art Talk Chapter 1 review
-Group activity: Recognize
use of elements and
principles through examples
of art works.
-Describe the impact (or
results) of the artists use of
principles and elements on
Artwork
Artist
Elements
Principles
Subject
Nonobjective
Representational
Abstract
Content
Composition
Medium
Credit line
Week 2
 Critical Analysis of
works of art
 Using the right brain
exercises
-Identify the
principles and
elements
-Analyze the
purposeful use
of the art
principles and
elements in a
successful
composition
the viewer
-Utilize elements in
sketchbook
-Assessment-purposes,
elements and principles quiz
-Blind contour line sketches
-Define the
four steps of
art criticism
-Describe the
four qualities
art can be
judged on
-Utilize the four
step method to
critique art
-Utilize the
right brain in
drawing
exercises
-Art Talk 2:1,2,3
-Art Talk chapter 2 review
-Critique art using the four
step method as a class, in
groups, and individually
-Assessment-written critique
-Assessment-vocab quiz
-Blind contour sketches
Criteria
Aesthetics
Criticism
Description
Analysis
Interpretation
Judgment
Literal
Formal
Expressive
Functional
-Art Talk
-Four Step
method PP
-Artwork
-Four Step
cheat sheets
-Reading-Art
Talk
-Writing-Critique,
Chapter Review
-PLCS
Weeks
3-6
 Line
-Identify three
types of line
drawing
-Utilize contour
line with
sufficient skill,
confidence, and
sensitivity
-Utilize
calligraphic
line with
sufficient skill,
confidence, and
sensitivity
-Describe the
effects of
different lines on
the viewer
Weeks
7-9
 Shape
 Form
 Space
-Create an
effective
composition
-Utilize the four
step method to
critique art
-create a 3D
line sculpture
out of wire
-Identify
negative and
positive
spaces
-create an
organic form in
clay
-Recognize
negative space
as a shape or
form of its
-Line Power Point
-Art Talk 4:1,2,3,
-Art Talk chapter 4 review
-Contour line hand sketches
-Contour line flowers
-Contour line shoes
-Contour line portraits
-Sumi-e painting
-Building an effective
Composition PP
-Group critique
-Scholastics mag
-Assessment-Modified
contour line drawing
-wire sculpture
-Building an effective
Composition PP
-Assessment-Line quiz
Line
Outline
Implied line
Contour
Blind
Modified
Gesture
Calligraphic
Horizontal
Vertical
Diagonal
Curvilinear
-Art Talk
-Line PP
-Composition
PP
-Modified
contour line
rubric
-Line quiz
-Scholastics
Mag
-wire sculpture
rubric
-Reading-Art
Talk, Scholastics
-Writing-Chapter
review,
Scholastics
response
-PLCS
-Art Talk 5:1,2,
-Art Talk Chapter 5 review
pt.1
-Vase face drawing
-organic versus geometric
-positive versus negative
-2D versus 3D
-organic clay sculpture
-Sighting exercises
-Chair/stool ink wash studies
-Scholastics mag
Shape
Geometric
Organic
Form
Negative space
Positive space
-Art Talk
-Shape, form,
space quiz
-Shape, form,
space PP
-Lino rubric
-Scholastics
mag
-organic clay
sculpture
rubric
-Reading-Art
Talk, Scholastics
mag
-Writing-Chapter
review,
Scholastics mag
response
-PLCS
own.
-Draw and
define organic
and geometric
shapes
-Compare
shape versus
form
-BW neg. space sketches
-Lino print
-Group critique
-Assessment-Shape, form,
space quiz
-Create a picture
by painting only
negative spaces
-Apply various
elements and
principles to
own work
-Create an
effective
composition
-Utilize the four
step method to
critique art
Weeks
10-14
 Perspective
-Utilize
techniques for
transferring
perspective
and proportion
from real life to
paper
-Master skills
of rendering
one and two
point
perspective
-Apply various
elements and
principles to
-Art Talk 5:3,4,5
-Art Talk Chapter 5 review
pt.2
-perspective exercises
-Scholastics mag
-Still life studies
-One point perspective interior
drawing
-Two point perspective
fantasy drawing
-group critique
-Assessment-perspective quiz
Point of view
Horizon line
Vanishing point
Converging lines
Foreground
Middle ground
Background
Overlapping
Placement
Atmospheric
-Perspective
Binder
-Art Talk
-Scholastics
mag
-Perspective
quiz
-1 pt. rubric
-2 pt. rubric
-Reading-Art
Talk, Scholastics
mag
-Writing-Chapter
review,
Scholastics mag
response
-PLCS
own work
-Create an
effective
composition
-Utilize the four
step method to
critique art
Weeks
15-19
 Value
-Master
different
techniques of
shading
-Render three
dimensional
forms in two
dimensions
through the
use of shading
-create four
different value
scales
-Identify the
five parts
chiaroscuro
-Apply various
elements and
principles to
own work
-Create an
effective
composition
-Utilize the four
step method to
critique art
-Value PP
-Value exercises: hatching,
cross-hatching, stippling,
blending
-Scholastics mag
-Chiaroscuro packet
-Value scales
-Value scribbles
-Still life studies: graphite
-Still life studies: charcoal
-Stippling w/ watercolor
background
-group critique
-Assessment-value quiz
Chiaroscuro
Highlight
Mid-tone
Reflected light
Cast shadow
Core shadow
Light source
-Scholastics
mag
-Value PP
-Value scale
HO
-Pencil HO
-value quiz
-still life rubric
-ReadingScholastics mag
-WritingScholastics mag
response
-PLCS
Weeks
20-23
 Proportion/Portraiture
-Utilize
techniques for
perspective
and proportion
on the human
face
-Render
realistic
features on a
2D surface
-Demonstrate
correct human
facial
proportions in
frontal portraits
-facial proportion HO
-features HO
-Scholastics mag
-Profile studies from
proportions and imagination
-Profile studies from life
-Frontal portrait studies from
proportions and imagination
-Grid portraits from photo
-Critique art using the four
step method
-group critique
-Assessment-frontal portrait
from photo
Frontal
Profile
Proportion
-Frontal
portrait rubric
-Facial
proportions
HO
-Features HO
-Scholastics
mag
-ReadingScholastics mag
-WritingScholastics mag
response
-PLCS
-Art Talk 6:1,2,3
-Art Talk Chapter 6 Chapter
review
-Creative Color wheel
-Tints and shades scales
-Color scheme studies in
tempera and acrylic:
monochromatic,
Hue
Intensity
Tone/value
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Tint
Shade
-Art Talk
-Video/Demo
-Color PP
-Color quiz
-Acrylic
dyptich rubric
-Pastel flower
rubric
-Reading-Art
Talk, Scholastics
mag
-Writing-Chapter
review,
Scholastics mag
response
-PLCS
-explore the
history and
purpose of the
portrait
Weeks
24-30
 Color Theory
-Apply various
elements and
principles to
own work
-Create an
effective
composition
-Utilize the four
step method to
critique art
-Define the
different color
schemes
-Select and
utilize color
schemes to
convey
emotion or
meaning
-Utilize a
variety of color
media and
techniques
with sufficient
skill, confidence,
-Initiate, define,
and solve
challenging
color problems
independently
-Apply various
elements and
principles to
own work
-Create an
effective
composition
-Utilize the four
step method to
critique art
complimentary, analogous
-Acrylic psychedelic painting
heat portrait
-Colored pencil fish study in
techniques of blending and
layering
-Pastel Candy Creations
-Pastel apple study in
techniques of blending and
layering in pastel
-Abstract pastel flower
-Critique art using the four
step method
-group critique
-Assessment-Color quiz
Color wheel
Analogous
Monochromatic
Complimentary
Triad
Split compliment
Warm
Cool
Schemes
Optical color
Arbitrary color
-Heat portrait
rubric
Weeks
31-33
 Artists in History
-Create a WIKI
based on an
artist of
historical
importance
-Artist WIKI
-Art Talk 13:1,2,3,4,5
-Art Talk Chapter 13 Chapter
review
TBD
-Scholastics
mag
-Artist WIKI
rubric
-artists quiz
Weeks
34-36
 Careers in art
-Synthesize the
creative and
analytical
principles and
techniques of
the visual arts
utilized in
various visual
-Careers research project and
presentation
-scholastics magazine
-Assessment-careers quiz
-Art Talk 14:1,2
-Art Talk Chapter 14 Chapter
review
TBD
-Careers
rubric
-careers quiz
-ReadingVarious
research, Art
Talk
-Writing-WIKI,
chapter review
-PLCS
-ReadingVarious
research, Art
Talk, scholastics
mag
-Writing-Careers
paper, Chapter
review
art careers
-identify skills
and training
necessary for a
variety of
careers in visual
arts.
-Apply various
elements and
principles to
own work
-group
critiques
-Describe the
impact (or
results) of the
artists use of
principles and
elements on
the viewer
-PLCS