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      • Paintings with shadows
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      • Composition and Viewpoint FYI
      • Blind Contour portraits
        • Portraits in Line
          • Abstract Contour Line Triple Portrait-AT HOME BREADTH
      • Still Life-3 Items in 3 Mediums
        • Crosshatched Still Life
        • Tools – Hardware Chiaroscuro (ordinary to extraordinary)
          • Colored pencil techniques
          • 4 simple pencil drawing techniques all beginners should learn
        • Mixed Media Still Life
        • Still life arrangement of your individual family member’s shoes
          • Black and white still life objects
          • Still life artist Allison Makay
        • Painting of a hammer
        • Parallel Lined still life
      • Portraits- 3 primary colors
        • How to Draw a Face- Sketchbook Homework
        • Choice: Cut Paper (or Objects) Value Portraits
        • Collage Self Portrait with newspaper/type
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          • How to use chalk or oil pastels
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        • Lost and Found spaces
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          • Oil Pastel & Chalk Pastel – see monoprints
      • Creating Rhythm with Pattern and Line-Klimpt
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        • Abstract Tryptic with Photography choice
        • SALAD COLLAGE – Fruit or Vegetable
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        • Accordion Style Summative
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        • Gesture Drawing Examples
          • Picasso, Rembrandt and Step by Step Gesture Drawing
          • Introduction to measuring the figure
            • Figure drawing in a new mode
        • Is drawing from a photo or life better?
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        • Color Theory Complete
      • HW Pen and ink/Sharpie drawing on the page of a book
        • Landscape choices
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        • Room with a View
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            • Linear Perspective Drawing/Ellipses basics with Circles of Emphasis with Sketchbook homework
          • ART 2: 12 sketches for sketchbook homework due March 20th
      • Skeletons Unit 1- Human Porportions
        • Picasso, Rembrandt and Step by Step Gesture Drawing
          • Introduction to measuring the figure
            • Foreshortened Figure
      • Unit 2-3 – Mixed Media Human Proportions
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        • 12 Photos Assignment — Due 9/11
      • Elements of Art Graphic Organizer, Pre-AP, AP Examples, Rubrics, and Student Feedback
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        • Zentangle animals
      • Nameplate project
        • Visualizing Vocabulary – after name design
      • Line
        • Contour and Cross Contour Drawing: Mount Eden
          • Cross Contour Drawing: all you ever wanted to know and more!
          • Contour -Draw a Vegetable or Fruit from Observation
          • Contour line objects in color-Pop art extension
            • Contour of Multi-images fragmented
          • contour mannequins
      • Linear Perspective
        • Still Life – How to Draw What You See
        • Magnified Reflective Object & Silverware
          • homework
          • The Sphere
      • Visual storytelling
        • Dreams and nightmares with Terra Forma Cards homework
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        • Musical Gridded Self Portraits
        • Creative Portrait choices
      • Color Wheel and Design Motifs
        • Color wheel silhouetted designs
          • Modern Tryptic
        • Sunset Watercolor of the Acropolis Parthenon
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        • Fruit Studies in Acrylic
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      • Nameplate project
        • Perspective Color Harmonies
        • Cubed Face
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      • Cave Lesson
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        • Color Wheel Rose Window Radial Design 9th grade
      • The Sensational Still Life Power Point
      • Illuminated manuscripts
        • Pointalism
          • Value Chart with still life items
          • The Sphere
        • Post Expressionism- Henri Matisse Cut Outs
          • Matisse Inspired
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          • 7th grade: Chagall inspired Surreal Self Portrait
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