This course deals with working in two-dimensions and it may be taken in both grade 11 & grade 12 for 4 credits each (projects and assignments vary on a year-to-year basis, allowing students to further develop their skills if they take this course in both senior grades).  You will be introduced to traditional and contemporary forms of two-dimensional work as well as their link to history, community, self, and society.  Specific mark-making processes will be examined as a way to represent self, identity, cultural expression, and insights into the human experience. Awareness of choices in style and medium to enhance your meaning, and as a vehicle for effecting change, will be considered. You will progress as an artist as we focus on learning the elements and principles of design and by using self-reflection and peer critiques to think about perseverance, resilience, risk taking, and growth. Sections of this course may include: 

• Graphics-includes etching, print making, monotypes, lino cuts and print experimentation. 

• Drawing-includes pen and ink development of personal imagery (realism, fantasy), tool usage, types of pens/pencils, charcoal etc. 

• Painting-explore and develop personal imagery through acrylics on canvas and board. Work with mediums that can be combined or collaged with paint. 

• Illustration-includes imagery and typography, rendering photo-realism, book and comic book techniques 

• Fashion design- rendering the figure, drapery and patterns are explored. 

• All art students are expected to have some art equipment, i.e. black finepoint pen, an HB, 2B, 4B pencil and a sketch book.