I teach Art Appreciation online and face-to-face. In my online classes I'm trained in Canvas, Blackboard, and Schoology learning management systems. I've used several different textbooks including Prebles' Artforms, A World of Art, and Living With Art. Art Appreciation face-to-face courses are lecture format. So, students do all of the academic activities associated with lecture courses including readings, lectures, quizzes, journals, and exams. In addition to this, I have the students do activities that reinforce what they learn in the readings and lectures. I strongly believe in this discipline-based art education approach. Through the use of the materials and process students gain a greater understanding and appreciation for art.
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The class participated in this activity after the chapter readings, lectures, discussions, quizzes, and journals. Here the students are working in groups and painting the three characteristics of color - hue, value, and saturation. This from the chapter on the visual elements. The element is color.
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The class participated in this activity after the chapter readings, lectures, discussions, quizzes, and journals. In this activity, students work in groups to recreate color schemes including split-complementary, analogous, triad, monochromatic, etc.,.. using acrylic paint.
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The class participated in this activity after the chapter readings, lectures, discussions, quizzes, and journals. For this exercise, students select a color scheme and use it to paint an image. On the left the student used a monochromatic color scheme with the primary yellow and shades of black and tints of white. On the right the student used black, white, and shades of gray in the composition.
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The class participated in this activity after the chapter readings, lectures, discussions, quizzes, and journals. This activity is from the chapter on drawing. Pen and ink was the the drawing medium. The students used hatching, cross-hatching, contour-hatching, and stippling to create a range of values.
The class participated in this activity after the chapter readings, lectures, discussions, quizzes, and journals. This is also a drawing exercise. Graphite pencil was the drawing medium. Students used value and tone to create a range of black, white, and shades of gray.
The class participated in this activity after the chapter readings, lectures, discussions, quizzes, and journals. Chapter 14 in Prebles' Artforms is over Architecture. The student worked in groups and were tasked with designing and constructing a truss. Then the trusses were then put under a weight to see if the could support it.
The class participated in this activity after the chapter readings, lectures, discussions, quizzes, and journals. This project is figure-ground reversal. The students sub-divided the picture plane either vertically, horizontally or diagonally. Then they did one side with black on white shapes and the other side with white on black shapes. The objective was to learn the difference between the figure and ground also known as positive and negative shapes.
The class participated in this activity after the chapter readings, lectures, discussions, quizzes, and journals. Here, the students learned about the visual element of shape. Their task was to create thumbnail sketches of five shapes on a white ground. They selected one of the thumbnail sketches to recreate in a larger format using cut black paper glued to a white ground.
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