Animal Drawing and Watercolor, Art Level 1

The online course, "Animal Drawing and Watercolor Art Level I", is a beginner-level art course designed for middle school and high school-aged students. It focuses on teaching drawing and watercolor painting techniques with an emphasis on depicting animals in both cartooning and realism styles. Key skills covered include sketching and shading basics with pencils, understanding color theory with watercolors, and creating illustrations and still lifes. The course also incorporates nuggets of art history throughout the semester. Classes meet weekly during the fall semester, with a half credit assigned upon completion.

This course is intended to cultivate art as both a practical skill set and a means of self-expression and emotional communication. It encourages individual growth and understanding rather than fixation on a single standard of achievement. Students will need access to Zoom for meetings, a sketchbook, pencils, erasers, watercolor paints, brushes, and watercolor paper.