ARTistic Pursuits Art Core program give students in grades 4 to 12 the opportunity to create projects that help them understand the Big Ideas of art. Each level consists of 36 lessons: 9 video lessons and 27 lessons in the textbook. Video lessons model art materials, techniques, and color theory, and how to use them. The hardcover textbooks take your student on a journey through the history of art, focusing on artists who are masters of the technique or medium that is the focus of each level. Full-color renditions of master works of art help your student gain an understanding of art history, art appreciation, and the foundational elements of art. A list and reference photo of (not included) required art materials, including brand names, is also provided. Each level includes the hardcover textbook and DVD/Blu-ray discs.
Art Core 3: Drawing with Graded Graphite Pencils is an intermediate art course that helps students to advance in the foundational principles of art as they explore the ideas of Western and Eastern cultures. Elements of art and compositional arrangements are studied in art around the world. Lessons cover correct pencil techniques for achieving light, middle, and dark values and light, shade, shadow, and reflected light; ways to arrange objects on the page; how to use construction lines to draw geometric and man-made objects; and the 17 shapes that help with drawing the human figure. Grades 7 – 8.
