Art

For a full list of art classes available to LHS students, please click here to get to the course catalog.

Course Name: Intro to Art

Teacher: Mrs. Halstead, Mrs. Dyson & Mrs. Hjelm

This studio course is designed for the beginning art student seeking a hands on art experience. Students will have the opportunity to explore the many areas of the visual arts including: drawing, painting, sculpture, and ceramics; as well as to increase their understanding of the elements and principles of design. Each student will have an introduction to a variety of materials: acrylic paint, clay, watercolor, printmaking, drawing pencils, as well as colored pencils and markers. Students will enhance their creative problem solving skills as well as have the ability to customize the projects and activities they work on in the classroom. This hands on course also includes some lecture and discussion.

*Prerequisite for additional studio art courses

Course Name: Housing and Design

Teacher: Mrs. Halstead

No pre-requisites.

Description of the class: This introductory hands-on course is aimed to explore the many aspects of the housing world; from buying/renting a place to live to designing the exterior and interior spaces for a variety of life situations. Emphasis is placed on the interior design process; human, environmental and behavioral factors; color theory, elements and principles of design; hand sketching/digital design techniques, space planning, as well as the selection of products and materials for residential interiors.

The students will have the opportunity to develop skills through multiple hands-on activities and projects (brochures, displays, floor plans and scale drawings); using a variety of media (collage, paint, colored pencils, and digital design software).

Course Name: Art in Advertising

Teacher: Mrs. Halstead

Art in Advertising is a relatively NEW class!  The students really seemed to enjoy the class!  We start off with basics like logo design and the art of typography, move into some photoshop work with the art of deception, back into hands on projects focused on the techniques of persuasion, there is a block printing project as well as developing our own ice cream flavors and then creating a 3D package for it.

Pre-requisite: Intro to Art

Course Description: This hands-on art course is designed for students with an interest in advertising. Designing logos, packaging for products, and fun visuals all catch the consumer’s eye. Students will develop their visual communication skills through the manipulation of the appearance, form, and function of products in society today. Exploration of different media will be encouraged. Students will be given design problems to solve, translating ideas into form. Consumers buy most of their products based on their appearance; the relationship between design and function will be investigated as well as how social media and popular culture influence products available for purchase.

Course Name: Sculpture

Teacher: Mrs. Halstead

Sculpture is another fun class, it’s all about working in 3D.  We start out with popsicle stick sculptures focusing on composition, we move into breaking a picture into different layers (like a topographic map) with felt.  We work with clay and the casting process and make some abstract fun pieces along with elongated figure sculptures.

Pre-requisite: Intro to Art

Course Description: In this course, students will have the opportunity to develop three-dimensional art forms in both in-the-round and relief using a variety of materials such as natural clay, plaster, wire, and foam core. Students will explore the four basic sculpture methods: modeling, construction, carving, and casting. Students will also experience the casting process using a plaster waste mold. Sculpture is a studio course with some lecture and discussion.

Course Name: Oil Painting

Teacher: Mrs.  Dyson

Have you always wanted to learn how to paint animals, landscapes and abstract art? This is the class for you. Working from photos and observation I will take you through step by step how to create paintings with texture and color. You do not need to know how to draw to take painting. you do however need Intro to Art.

Pre-requisite: Intro to Art

Course Name: Acrylic Painting

Teacher: Mrs.  Dyson

This is a water based media class where you will learn watercolor and acrylic techniques. We also work with mixed media. Subjects that we will paint are animals, fish, birds, landscapes, mandalas and feathers. You do not need to know how to draw to take this class but you do need Intro to Art.

Pre-requisite: Intro to Art

Course Name: Art History and pop culture

Teacher: Mrs.  Dyson

This is a hands on class that will take you on a journey from cave painting to Van Gogh and beyond. We learn about the time period by creating art done during that time. We then relate it to Popular Culture of today. You do not need Intro to art to take this class.

Course Name: Drawing

Teacher: Mrs.  Hjelm

You do not have to feel that you have a strong drawing skill to take this class. Students explore contour, sketching, line quality and value techniques as well as learn the importance of using negative space awareness and the sighting method as tools to see and draw more accurately. They will animate a tool in a cartoon style project during our creative unit and experience Pen and Ink as a new drawing medium. Students will learn how to draw facial features and through a step by step process complete their own self-portrait.

Course Name: Art Interactive

Teacher: Mrs.  Hjelm

This is a non-pre-requisite Art elective where much like the Unified Sports, you the buddy/helper student will work side by side with an ACT (special needs) student on various art projects throughout the semester.  Your goal is to create a safe environment while working cooperatively and assisting them with tools and supplies used throughout the various projects. It is a very rewarding class where you get to understand the capabilities and limitations of the ACT students, along with the modifications needed to meet their challenges, while building great relationships at the same time.

Course Name: Advanced Drawing

Teacher: Mrs.  Hjelm

Pre-requisite: Drawing

*Advanced Drawing is dual enrollment 3-credit class with SNHU when there is a minimum of six students who sign up.

This is a class where you really get to refine your drawing skills as well as build portfolio quality work. You will incorporate the use of the Pencil including shading, line quality and creating 3D form through shading, to improve skills on drawing folds in drapery and reflective qualities on shiny things.

There will be further exploration of the Pen and Ink media, including brush techniques and colored inks. Students will be introduced to pastels as a drawing medium and this will be incorporated into a full color self-portrait. Figure drawing will culminate the course with drawing activities including the skeleton, cross contour and gesture drawings. If time allows there may be some landscape concepts included as well.

When the class is able to run for SNUH credit, the class work will remain the same for students who have signed up and those who do not.

Course Name: AP Studio Art

Teacher: Mrs.  Dyson

Do you want to pursue a career in the arts? Did you know art, fashion and architecture schools want a portfolio of art work for admission? AP Studio is the class to take after you have taken Intro to Art and two upper level art classes (preferably a painting and a drawing class) Over the course of the school year you will develop a style and gain knowledge and experience in what to expect in the business of artmaking.

Pre-requisite: Intro to Art and two upper level art classes.

Please see Ms. Dyson with any questions.