ALEXANDER, JILL

Wall High School 2D Art/ AP Drawing Syllabus

AP 2D Art/ AP Drawing Syllabus

Course Description:

   AP 2D Art and AP Drawing are challenging and rigorous courses that have at their core the generation of a substantial body of very high quality works of art. The coursework is expected to be equivalent to a first-year college level art course in terms of its quality in subject, content and form. Students are expected to challenge themselves to develop mastery in their ideas, skills, and abilities in 2-D Art or Drawing.

   The success of AP 2D Art/ Drawing requires a strong commitment from the teacher, the school and highly motivated students. The program of study follows the course description provided by the AP College Board. Success in this course is dependent upon completing and submitting the prescribed AP Art Portfolio to the AP College Board for official scoring by the first week in May.

   AP 2D Art/ AP Drawing is a full year course of study. The AP portfolios are due for adjudication in early May while the course work continues to the end of the academic year. The New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards for the Arts are embraced throughout AP Studio Art.

Supply List:
Students will be provided with all general art supplies necessary to complete the assignments in this course, including the summer work.  This excludes any outlier supplies such as found objects, or unconventional materials that students may choose to incorporate into their art.

Drawing & Painting 2 Syllabus

Course Description:

Once students have taken Drawing & Painting 1, they have been exposed to 10 different 2-dimensional art materials and the various techniques to use each material. In this course, students build upon their knowledge of each of the learned materials with individual creative investigation to create a portfolio. Students will have the opportunity to explore realism -style art in multiple 2- dimensional mediums learned in Materials & Techniques 1 in a style and subject that they choose. The projects in this course of study will be larger, more advanced, time-consuming and in-depth than those in Materials & Techniques 1. Students can choose from materials including charcoal, white charcoal, scratchboard, pen and ink, oil pastels, chalk pastels, markers, printmaking, colored pencils, watercolor, acrylic paint, mixed media, and oil paint. Students taking AP 2-D Art and Design or AP Drawing concurrently can align the projects in this class to apply directly to the AP Art Portfolios for submission to the AP College Board.

Supply List:
Students will be provided with all general 2-D art supplies necessary to complete the assignments in this course.  This excludes any outlier supplies such as found objects, or unconventional materials that students may choose to incorporate into their art.

Digital Illustration 2 Syllabus

Course Description:

This course will continue to develop student understanding of the creative production process involved in the development of advertising, packaging, logo design, commercial art and marketing. Students will use the knowledge gained from Digital Illustration 1 and apply it to new and exciting projects with a higher level of thinking. Similar to Digital Illustration 1, iPad Pros and Apple Pencils will be used to create all of the assignments. This course has practical applications as it explores real world uses of artistic and creative design through applied knowledge and creativity in digital art. 

Supply List: There are no required supplies for Digital Illustration 1 or 2.  iPad Pros will be provided to each student to use thorughout the course of year to create all of the coursework.