Carramba High School Course Catalog
Arts
Arts
Last updated March 6 2024
Carramba offers a very wide variety of artistic and professional-grade training for working in the creative arts field.
Each of these instructors brings a unique style to their classroom. Dawe specializes in an eye for color and texture, structuring her course around mastering the basics of color theory and working with physical media such as watercolor, oil paint, pastels, and ink. Heddi stresses perspective, technical tools, and relishes innovative use of the materials the class supplies.
This course assumes the student already has a bit of talent and covers the use of tools, how to research a design, and a dash of art history.
This course offers specific training for the use of pencil and ink, oil and watercolors, but also sculpture and overall design. The end results of this course often are used for fund raising sales, as the goals are to reproduce specific works, with an eye for accurate composition.
As much about style and understanding the specific medium that a piece is created using, as historical and information gathering for those pieces. Also stresses learning how best to critique a piece, for either casual or professional level commentary.
The resident 'ice sculptor' elfess Ainea enjoys teaching students that love getting their hands dirty - or scraped, or a bit dyed... Each student is encouraged to take a piece of stone, wood, or other materials at the start of the semester, and work on it in whatever fashion they choose. Ainea gives extensive instruction on how to use specific tools for each of the media.
Because a good number of the student body - as well as staff members - are not exactly 'human', but still enjoy creating artworks, Kuumba has offered this course to show how to use paws, claws, fins, even antennae and tails, to manipulate a variety of materials into pleasing structures and artwork. At the end of each semester the students all contribute a print of their favored limb (or in the case of those with telekinetic power, some item they want to represent them) onto a large canvas, displayed in the Admin building and Tauroidal Wing.
In addition to using high-tech tools and machinery for die-cutting, wood-burning, 3-d printing and similar crafts, artistic use of actual lasers may be involved. Students are required to pass a safety and training course at the start of each specific tool lesson.
As an advanced course, Janto Phoenix does require that the students already have access to materials such as a camera of any kind, and a small portfolio of prints to judge experience level. After acceptance to the course, however, they will learn how to utilize all photography equipment including developing and processing, for black and white, color, high-def color, and other more specific items (infrared, 3-d capture, etc). Regular field trips are taken and the class produces a massive book of images every semester. This class is also responsible for aiding the Journalism class and takes photos at events.
Basic instruction with a strong emphasis on tool use for graphic arts, such as pen and ink, graphics programs, and color separation. Comic art and illustration, as well as sales and advertising styles are taught. The final 3 weeks of the course are dedicated to understanding the legal and financial aspects of publication, as well as attending conventions specific to students needs.