Blake High School – Drawing III

Mar 2026 · 2nd Semester

The content includes drawing experiences that trigger subtle concepts for drawing problems, perception, and response to the expressive character of drawings and the ways compositional features contribute to a work’s expressive qualities. The production of drawings which incorporate expressive qualities motion and time and the history of drawing in relationship to other processes and periods should be addressed. Content should also include the criteria for making and justifying judgments about the aesthetic merit and qualities of conceptual and perceptual configurations, reconsideration of fixed ideas about darks and lights, positive and negative space; investigation of the drawing techniques of gesture, mass, contour and tone; figure drawing from a model and from memory; and the exploration of ar career possibilities.