ARTistic Pursuits Art Core 5 - Crew Review

 

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Drawing with Water-Soluble and Graphite Pencils Advanced Level Art Core 5 from ARTistic Pursuits helps students discover their own creative strengths in the arts using materials of their choice to create drawings in water-soluble and graphite pencils. This advanced course is for the more experienced art student, it is not for a beginner student.

The physical book comes with video lessons which show students how to use their art materials. DVD and Blu-ray disks come with the book; but streamed format is also available online. This course always students to learn through video lessons or text lessons. There are nine video lessons that allow students to work independently as they learn drawing techniques and how to apply the lesson to their own unique works of art. There are twenty-seven text lessons that broaden the scope of learning as students learn about line, space, shape, texture, value, form, facial forms, human forms, and still life forms.

I have a daughter in college who is pursing a degree in Studio Art and she would agree that this is an advanced course for a high school student; but yet it was very simple for her a college student. Below I will share her work from the master lesson in unit eight on applying the element of form to the figure. As the book states, “When working from images, it is important to select photographs rather than another artist’s image. You want to start with the most information possible and edit from there. When using a photograph, you do not need to include everything that is in it. Artists can make clear pictorial statements because they can eliminate all distractions.”

What sets ARTistic Pursuits apart from other art curriculums? ARTistic Pursuits is broad based: teaching not only how to use the art materials, but emphasizing theory by teaching the elements of art and composition, and then adding artwork and biographies of the Masters with a history content. But the most striking feature is that students of all ages are taught to draw from direct observation, rather than copy what the teacher does. Rather than developing dependent learners, there method produces independent learners who are able to draw from anything they see in their world.

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