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7th and School 8th grade
Class Syllabus
Mrs. Sholette • lsholette@philasd.org
Art is filled with projects and activities that will boost your critical thinking habits, improve your collaborative participation, grow your creativity and develop your communication skills through creating and talking about art. We will focus our exploration of the art world through all of the studio habits
In this class you will…
RESPECT ALL ARTWORK
WORK TO PRODUCE ART
BE RESPONSIBLE FOR SUPPLIES
USE SUPPLIES SAFELY
Materials needed daily:
Grading:
Students are responsible for a completed sketchbook page for every class
Students are responsible to complete art assignments to the best of their ability using creativity and craftsmanship
TO LIZ CLEMENT AND THE
PHILADELPHIA FIRE DEPARTMENT COMMUNITY
FOR THE AMAZING DONATIONS TO THE ART ROOM!
Your willingness to help our children makes a large, noticeable difference. You have provided the students with supplies for the art room, science rooms and classrooms.
Correction: A previous version of this article misidentified the professional affiliations of Takeshi Okada and Kentaro Ishibashi. The article has since been corrected.
When this question comes around, I feel like that 80 year-old grandma saying “back in my day…” but honestly, it doesn’t get much better than paper and pencil!
Most simply put, sketchbooks develop creative skills. I have heard a lot of “younger” generations questioning good old paper, saying, “Why would I want to sketch in a silly little book when I have this computer, with all the design software imaginable and more fonts than I could possibly know what do with?!” There is a rawness to paper and pencil that can’t be replaced with computer screens. Whether you’re a professional artist or just enjoy creativity, the more sketching you do the better your drawings, ideas, writing and overall creativity becomes.
My top 4 reasons to keep a sketchbook:
In case you prefer hard evidence… ever heard of Walt Disney, Lewis & Clark, Steve Jobs, Charles Darwin, Charlotte Bronte, President George Washington, J.k. Rowling or John Lasseter? (We thought you might recognize their names…) They’re just a sampling of people who kept/keep regular sketchbooks, and well, have done some pretty amazingly-creative things! This isn’t to say you can’t keep a nice digital notebook of thoughts, (a couple of the names just mentioned happen to also be computer geniuses…) but there is something developmental and inspirational about looking back at old sketchbooks – you will be surprised where they might take you!
(Above Image: Sketchbook pages from J.K. Rowling, John Lasseter & Charles Darwin)
As important as it is to pry yourself from video games and tablets and get outside…it is equally important to embrace pen and paper! Take a sketchbook everywhere with you; include writings, research, add collages of interesting items and don’t forget to experiment! Don’t let those big white glaring pages make you nervous, there is no such thing as a bad sketchbook!
Check it out: There are tons of books featuring sketchbook work. Here are a few of our favorites: