Welcome to Art I at Westchester Academy!

This is Mrs. Lindig's website. 

Grades:    
40% Daily - on task, working on assigned artwork 40% Projects - each project is graded according to rubrics 20% Drawing Tests, Notebook
Assignments        
Drawing from the Right Side of the Brain  
Portfolio - students get to design their portfolio covers! Design poster board with at least 5 objects, your name with subject matter of personal interest to you.      
Expressive Line & Value Studies

 

 

Stippling - small dots applied closely together to make a dark area

Hatching - single lines, closer together for darker areas

Cross-Hatching - making small crosses, closer together to make areas appear darker

 

The Artist's Toolkit

 

 

 

Contour Drawing

Drawing contour portraits

 

 

 

 

Weaving & Texture

 

How to Weave a Reed Basket (similar to what we'll do in class) Pine Needle Baskets

 

   
Geometric Shapes & Forms

Choose Art I and click on "Geometric Shapes  & Forms"

Tone

Gray Scale

 
Color, Music & Emotion (this is a very long article, but interesting to scroll down - see Isaac Newton's theory of musical notes matching colors)

Color Wheel

Perspective & Space in Art One-Point Perspective  
  Two-Point Perspective

One, Two & 3-Point Perspective

Hand-Built Pottery Coil Pots Pressed Coil Pots    
                         Pinch Pots Slab Construction      
Abstraction of Natural Forms Working with Acrylic Paints Below - a great way to ruin a paintbrush - leave the paint in! Georgia O'Keefe Grading Rubric
  5 Ways to Ruin an Art Paint Brush    
Papier Mache Sculpture
 
     
 
   
   
Mandalas  Celtic Crosses - a type of Mandala  
Art Sites

Trompe L'Oeil Illusions        How to Evaluate Artwork yourself

Pencil Drawing Lesson

 
Louvre  
MFAH