ARTistic Pursuits, Junior High Book Two, Color and Composition

Allow your students' artistic sides flourish with Artistic Pursuits! Requiring no expertise or experience, students will benefit from a complete overview of the artistic process from concept to creation. Focusing on composition, units include Building a Visual Vocabulary; Art Appreciation & History; Techniques; and Application. Each contains four lessons, a project, and included fine art prints, allowing students to view and study the great works in depth. Assignments help develop artistic perspectives through observation, composition, and real, applicable art projects.

Artistic Pursuits Jr. High books are designed to involve the student in the creative process while developing strong observational skills. Book 2 focuses on color theory and its various uses with dry media, including pastels and oil pastels. Using world art as examples, units contain information not only on color, but also the culture, ideas and/or artist that created them; afterwards students apply their techniques through practice and a final project. Hue, intensity, neutrals, warm/cool, balance, depth, viewpoints, and more are covered. 88 pages; comb-binding with plastic protector cover. Pages are not reproducible. Jr. High Book 2.