Course Syllabus

Course Syllabus

Welcome to mrfatta.com. Here is where you will find the necessary coursework for completing your classes in Studio Art I, Studio Art II, and Computer Art Graphics. Each course has a Schoology Course that you need to access and be active in. You will also use the...
Artists’ Sketchbook

Artists’ Sketchbook

Artists keep sketchbooks to record observations, hone artistic skill and develop ideas. Artists and designers alike keep an ongoing journal to practice their drawing technique and develop ideas and products. Besides an inspiring name for a mutant turtle in a secret...
Google Slides

Google Slides

A digital portfolio can be created using Google Slides, which we will call Google Slides Portfolio for the sake of the course. The Slides portfolio will come to represent all the work you created throughout the year. Your portfolio will include projects you...
Form and Value

Form and Value

By shading with different values of gray artists can create the illusion of space and form in their drawings. Properly positioning the highlight, mid-tone, and shadow areas artists can make a basic shape can look like is has real three-dimensional form....
Light and Color

Light and Color

Sir Isaac Newton was an English physicist. He’s considered the founding father of modern physics. He’s most widely known for uncovering the laws of gravity and motion. In 1666 he studied the properties of light, showing that a prism could  separate white...
Portfolio Requirements

Portfolio Requirements

Students who are thinking of perusing a career in the visual arts will need to attend an art school or university that has an art program. There many colleges and art schools to choose from. Each school requires a portfolio of art work that the admissions officers use...
Architectural Planning

Architectural Planning

Architectural plans are what architects use to enable builders to construct their designs. An architect needs to design the floor-plan of the space as well as render the 3-dimensional perspective drawings so that the client can visualize their design. Frank Lloyd...
Job Search

Job Search

The following links are job search engines that will help to find a job in our area. Use the search filters to narrow your search to find entry level jobs in areas like retail or food service. When applying for a position it is good to to appear well dressed, a little...
Online Design Tools

Online Design Tools

Online painting software, some times called open source software, will provide you with a variety of Internet sites that allow you to draw and paint directly on a web browser on a Chromebook or desktop computer. Explore the following sites in the order they...
College Readiness

College Readiness

Graduation may  seem to be far in the future but it will be here before you know it. Benjamin Franklin said, “If you are failing to plan, you are planning to fail.”  Although the process of searching for and applying to colleges may seem overwhelming at...
Portfolio Requirements

Career Research Website

Utilizing Internet resources and statistical data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, career searchers can access important information and detailed aspects about various fields of study. After reflecting on your aspirations, favorite areas of study, and career...
Eric Carle Animals

Eric Carle Animals

Eric Carle was an artist and children’s book writer who is most famous for his book, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? He created his work by collaging colored paper that he created from painting large pieces of paper with different patterns and textures....
Portrait Drawing   mrfatta.com

Portrait Drawing mrfatta.com

  Few stories in art history are more heart wrenching than Frida Kahlo’s, as a     child she was disabled with polio for some time, later in 1925 when Frida was   only eighteen years old she was seriously injured in a bus crash which left   her in severe pain for most...
Georgia O’Keeffe Landscapes

Georgia O’Keeffe Landscapes

Georgia O’Keeffe was born in Wisconsin in 1887. She longed to be an artist from an early age. When she was 18 she attended the Art Institute of Chicago and a year later went to study at the Art Students League of New York. MountainsTreeDetailPatternColorPaint I can...
mrfatta.com Georgia O’Keeffe

mrfatta.com Georgia O’Keeffe

Georgia O’Keeffe was born in Wisconsin in 1887. She longed to be an artist from an early age. When she was 18 she attended the Art Institute of Chicago and a year later went to study at the Art Students League of New York. She worked briefly as a commercial artist in...