Atelier Play! Studio Art

With Stories From Art History

Textbook: –

Materials: –

Supply Fee: $85 per year Please make checks payable to OKHSA

Length: 1 hour Class

Class Description: Classical Approach to Art with Projects Inspired by Art History. Atelier (pronounced ah-tell-YAY) is the French word for “studio” or “workshop.” 

Printmaking * Sculpting * Carving * Drawing * Painting

August 
1. Introductions/Rules/Suminagashi printmaking 
Refresher lesson on elements of art, with focus on line, contour lines and cross-contour lines.  Blind contour drawing, contour drawing, and the importance of observation. 

2. Basic shapes (graphite)/Shape to Form: (sphere, cube, cylinder, ellipse, triangle, cone) 

3. Shape to Form (mixed shapes with charcoal) ; Charcoal Reductions: set up still life, tape, tone, block 

4. Values, Lighting, Texture
Ancient Cultures: Ancient Near East, Egyptian and Aegean

September 
5. Charcoal Reductions: block cont., core shadow, cast shadow, highlights, etc. to follow 

6. Charcoal Reductions

7. Black Figure Pottery Shard (gesture drawing)

8. Red Figure Pottery Shard (figure drawing)
Ancient Cultures: Early Greek, Etruscan

October 
9. Roman Arches: Watercolor Techniques

10. Roman Arches: Watercolor Techniques 

11. . Colored Pencil Pumpkin/ How to set up a Still Life using a shadow box

12. Still Life
Ancient Cultures: Roman

November: 
12. Colored Pencil Pumpkins

13. Colored Pencil Pumpkins

14. Colored Pencil Pumpkins

December:
15-17 Carving Medieval Lettering/Gold Leaf Illumination
Early Christian Byzantine and Medieval

January: 
18-19 Reductive Sculpture

20-21 Portraiture 
Romanesque through Renaissance

February: 
22-25 Portraiture 
High Renaissance through Baroque 

March: 
26-28: van Gogh line drawings on toned paper with walnut ink.
Modern through Contemporary

April:
29-32 En Plein Air: Let’s go outside to learn outdoor landscapes  with chalk pastel on sanded paper!

33: Mask Making
Modern through Contemporary/Non-Western