Week 1
Lesson 1
Draw your ideas
We will look at what it is to be creative and learn some keys to increasing our ability to make original art.

•Art Journaling - Take a walk and do some Plein Air Drawing. 
•Build Creativity - 56 Tips
•Avoid Plagiarism - Explore "Shepard Fairey and The Associated Press"
 Week 2
Lesson 2
Think Like an Artist
Convergent thinking vs. divergent thinking, what is it, how does it work and what does it have to do with art?
•Think Like an Artist - The Candle Problem
•Complete the Line - Creative drawing exercise
•Alternative Uses Brain Dump - Practice using your imagination and see something that is not there. 
•Art Through Time - Timeline of Art, Representational Art, Abstract Art and Non-objective Art.
 Week 3
Lesson 3
Identity Reflection
•Do Lines Have Emotion - experiment with how the line expresses different emotions and explore the language of lines.  
•Everyone Has Value - learn more about our unique identities and embrace our differences. We are going to examine our gifts
and abilities and accept and honor our value, as well as the value of all
other humans. 
•Identity and the Line - Build on Do Lines Have Emotion and will use the line to build identity awareness.
 Week 4
Lesson 4
Identity and Color
•Identity and Color - Build on Identity and the Line and integrate color that represents your identity.  
•Everyone is Priceless, community building lesson encourages posting general information about yourself to our community stream, learning about classmates and when inspired commenting on classmates posts.  
•Art Through Time - Learn about Renaissance artists and observe their artworks. Respond to a series of prompts showing what you learned about the information covered. 
 Week 5
Lesson 5
The Art Of Seeing
•Face or Vase - This exercise is based on a famous optical illusion where the image looks like two faces looking at each other, or a white vase in the center, depending on how you look at it.
•Upside-Down Drawing - Choose from a series of upside-down pictures to show how well you see.
•Art Through Time - Learn about Baroque artists and observe their artworks. Respond to a series of prompts showing what you learned about the information covered. 
 Week 6
Lesson 6
Elements of Art: Line
•Pencil Control - A series of line experiments to begin to look at the language of the line.
•Be Sketchy - The goal of this exercise is to practice making lightly drawn sketchy lines to find a shape.
•What Do You See - Why can you see things if they are not outlined?
•Blind Contour Drawings - Practice training your eye to see what is in front of you.
 Week 7
Lesson 7
Element of Art: Shape
•Shapes - How do we represent a three dimensional scene onto a two dimensional plane.
•Foreshortening - In this lesson you will practice portraying an object closer and shorter than it is to give it an illusion of depth.
•Art Through Time - Learn about Impressionist artists and observe their artworks. Respond to a series of prompts showing what you learned about the information covered. 
 Week 8
Lesson 8
Element of Art: Space
•Positive & Negative Space - Choose from a series of lessons to show how our eyes see the negative and positive shapes in front of us.
•Negative Space Graphics - Choose from a series of lessons to create bold negative space graphic art.
 Week 9
Lesson 9
Study of Proportions
•Proportions - Tips for getting proportions right on anything you draw.
•Grid Drawing - Learn how a drawing grid works and how this can help teach your mind to look for the spaces and shapes in an object.
•Facial Proportions - Study and draw the proportions of the facial features.
•Art Through Time - Learn about Post Impressionist artists and observe their artworks. Respond to a series of prompts showing what you learned about the information covered. 
 Week 10
Lesson 10
Positive Shapes
•Calligrams - A calligram is text that is arranged in such a way that an image relating to the meaning of the word or text is created.
•Hands Full of Things - Pen & Ink drawing of your hand filled with things that are meaningful to you.
•Art Through Time - Learn about Expressionist artists and observe their artwork. Respond to a series of prompts showing what you learned about the information covered. 
 Week 11
Lesson 11
Element of Art: Form
We will build on the visual skills we have been learning and examine in more detail the element  of art: form.
•Form - You will learn to identify forms and understand their purpose in art. Choose from a series of exercises to practice drawing forms.  
•Still Life - Build on your knowledge of drawing forms to compose a still life and draw what you see. 
 Week 12
Lesson 12
Study of Form
We will be using the skills learned in the previous lessons to complete this week's project. We will examine how highlights and shadows appear and begin using value to add dimension to our work. 
•Choose your subject and complete your study of form: Chess Pieces, Mannequin Study,   or Human Figure.
 Week 13
Lesson 13
Element of Art: Texture
We will examine how texture is used in art. Choose from a series of drawing lessons to practice drawing different types of textures on forms. 
 Week 14
Lesson 14
Imaginary Animal Project
In this final lesson, you will use what you have learned so far to create an original imaginary animal work of art.