Fine Art elective: Integrated Drawing

For high school students, this fulfills a half credit elective in Fine Arts.

 Students are welcome to purchase the following anywhere but links are given to show the product image and help with accessibility.  All other supplies will be provided.

• Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Workbook by Betty Edwards (This is the foundation of this course’s work.  It can be purchased together with the main text but that’s not necessary.)
• pad of inexpensive drawing paper at least 50 sheets
• #4B graphite drawing pencil (a regular #2 writing pencil will do if needed)
• eraser (this is where a good, white eraser might serve you well because the eraser itself won’t leave a mark.  The Staedtler white vinyl eraser is really great this way: https://amzn.to/4nZ11XT )
• pencil sharpener
• permanent marker
• nonpermanent black felt-tip marker (like a Flair medium point/0.7mm tip)
• set of colored pencils (Prismacolor Premier Colored Pencils (12 pc) is a solid starter set)
• set of 12 (or more) pastel chalks (also called pastel crayons, but not oil pastels.  Caran D’ache or Lyra are good choices but any will work)

At home, students will need access to the internet (home or library) to access their online course, look up information, related published materials and/or videos and do work through the Canvas learning management system. Some videos provided by illuminat-ED will be subscription-based and issued by illuminat-ED as needed. Some videos will be freely available.

Amount of time will depend on your student’s speed/skill with the content of the week. Families should allocate approximately 2-3 hours/week (depending on student’s work speed with regards to writing) of individual work in preparation for live class.  This course has 1 pre-scheduled Asynchronous Learning day Feb. 26, 2027; but does not have additional assigned work during the other breaks & pauses.

Combined with our live class time, this is a total of 3-1/2 to 4-1/2 hours/week for a course total of 112-144 hours.  This equates to one full credit of elective study in Fine Arts using the Carnegie unit methodology.

Live class time will assume students have done their individual work as we will be using that to participate in group discussion and evaluation.  Class time is also for discussing challenges and new content/concepts and sometimes attempting these together.

This is a course that is prone to students sometimes spending more than the allocated time.

Also, as art is an individual endeavor and beauty is in the eye of the beholder, students are graded based on their obvious attempt to do what the assignment asks vs. the “beauty” of the final product.