4th Grade Art Online-Full Year
This course introduces students to the art and architecture of early America on through to modern art and architecture. Students will extend their knowledge of elements of art and principles of design, such as form, texture, pattern, contrast, and balance. They will investigate artworks from Colonial America and modern artworks that generated many new forms of expression. Inspired by the artworks in the course, students create their own artworks using many different materials and techniques. Throughout the course, students draw, paint, and sculpt a variety of works, including self-portraits, landscapes, and still lifes.
This course requires the following materials:
· cardstock*
· colored pencils, crayons, and/or markers
· construction paper, and/or white paper
· glue and/or tape
· oil-based modeling clay or self-hardening clay*
· oil pastels*
· paintbrush
· poster/tempera paint, and/or watercolor paint
· ruler
· scissors
· wrapping paper*
*Substitutions suggested in Lesson 1 of the course