Fall Session: Drawing - students will learn/review the foundational skills for drawing such as shading, perspective, and blending and then move on to application when drawing faces, forms, & figures.

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Winter Session: Painting - students will learn/review basic painting techniques moving from a focus on practicing techniques to one of applying these techniques to create finished works of art.

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Spring Session 1: Illustration - Students will apply their knowledge of painting and drawing techniques towards creating characters for illustration. Characters can be realistic or fanciful illustrations and students may use a medium of their choice as they bring characters to life. Time will be spent on rounding out their character’s traits as students develop their individual style and begin to generate ideas for a story.

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Spring Session 2: Character & Story Creation - Students will take characters they have created and write a simple story to  be illustrated. The goal is to have a short story written & illustrated by the end of the session in a comic strip, graphic novel style, or a children's picture book format.