This is the Mature stage. Your high schooler is ready to make art like an adult and eagerly looks for mature training. Emerging as a unique individual, your child steps into taking ownership of their art education; building life skills such as self-discipline, problem solving, motor skills, decision making, perseverance, resilience, and independent learning. They combine formal instruction with creative outcomes. Formal Instruction • Elements of art are introduced or revisited as your high schooler can now deep dive into an element such as “line” by exploring line variation, construction lines, line weight, pencil grades, and other mature uses of the elements to form pleasing compositions. • Media will include two-dimensional projects in drawing, painting (color theory), or photography and three-dimensional projects in sculpture, pottery, or textiles. • Art history, as it applies to the past, or to various cultures, can be explored and related to the present. “How can I use this idea from the past in my work today?” Creative Outcomes • As subjects for artwork become more personal, the high schooler will give more attention to references; they may explore photography or on-site sketching to build a knowledge base of specific subjects. • Formal learning assignments should result in creative art outcomes that reflect the high schooler’s understanding of those concepts; while copying the adult model is less interesting and productive. • Will search various subject matter and artistic techniques in order to “find their voice” and express themselves through their unique choices • The high schoolers assignments should involve making choices in order to explore multiple solutions when creative problem solving.
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