Sample Checklist for Media, Skills and Techniques Taught in Visual Art 10, 20, 30

Sample checklists have been developed to assist teachers in planning specific media, skills and techniques to address at each grade level. Because the skills are so many and the media so varied, the lists are incomplete. Teachers should always teach media, skills and techniques within a context of study.

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Drawing

Sample Media graphite pencil and pencil crayon pen and ink markers oil pastel and crayon chalk pastel scratch board watercolour wire computer programs body (performance) gesso charcoal tissue

Sample Techniques contour gesture perspective wet-on-wet washes line variety crosshatch scribble technical drawing multi-view drawings incising and etching print-making (monoprints) tonal variety smudging and rubbings resist

Sample Skills and Concepts realism siting grid detail impressionism expressionism positive and negative economy observation geometry exaggeration emphasis repetition foreshortening overlapping

Sculpture

Sample Media clay plaster wood metals and wire fabrics found objects plastics paper the environment human body glass string and wire papier mâché food

Sample Techniques firing throwing hand-building and joining glazing and glaze-making additive and subtractive carving and modelling woodworking cutting and welding sewing finishing and decorating casting and moldmaking soldering gluing

Sample Skills and Concepts realism expressionism linear sculpture experimental sculpture plastic sculpture (fluid) economy movement implied movement balance and harmony space shape texture mixed media

Photography

Sample Media camera film and film speed viewfinder lights filters lenses (macro, micro, telephoto, zoom, wide angle) flash darkroom chemicals enlarger printing paper tripod

Sample Techniques light and dark compositional devices framing focusing time-lapse lighting (back, side, front and overhead) motion blurs cropping dodging and burning-in over exposures under exposures close-up photograms

Sample Skills and Concepts image selection editing portfolio development layouts and presentation developing photographs intensity contrast manipulation distortion composition field photography studio photography business of photography

Teachers will want to develop their own checklists for planning other contexts of study such as:

Graphic Design
Film and Video
Painting
Print-making
Computer Graphics
Installation Art
Performance Art
Conceptual Art
Architecture
Craft
Fabric Design

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