Credit Information

Fine Arts is a 1/2 credit or .5 credit a year (Approximately 60-80 hours a year).
Our courses are designed to fit comfortably into that schedule if you do 2- 45 min lessons a week or one hour and 20 min class.


*Fine Arts Credits for High School Students: 
Most high school students will need to earn at least one credit. Depending on your state requirements that could be anywhere between 120-180 hours of work.

Starting in Year 3 and 4 our courses become more complex and take longer to complete a full drawing or painting of a still life or portraits. Depending on your student pace it can become a FULL Credit for the year instead of a .5 credit.

It if have any questions for us please feel free and contact us at info@classicalartathome.com 

Year 1  Semester 1: FOUNDATIONS OF DRAWING         Semester 2: DRAWING FROM YOUR IMAGINATION
Year 1 Course Description
CLASS NAME: Classical Art Drawing Year 1
CURRICULUM: FOUNDATIONS OF DRAWING & DRAWING FROM YOUR IMAGINATION
Materials: Graphite Pencils, Paper and Erasers
PUBLISHER: Kevin McEvoy https://classicalartatschool.com. 
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Students will learn foundational to understand and draw the principles of classical fine art and the understanding of light and its direction and effect on the object, shadow, cast shadow reflected light.These are the building block skills that every artist needs to learn to take a circle and create a sphere, to go from flat one dimensional object to a 3d object that has volume. In the second semester students will learn how to make imaginary characters become 3 dimensional and lifelike by analyzing the geometric form, external contour and then lighting.  Mastercopy Project of Chardin is a midterm highlight and at the end of the year students complete a complex medieval composition with 3-4 objects.
CREDIT: Fine Arts Credit .5

Year 2 Semester 1: DRAWING FROM EVERYDAY LIFE     Semester 2: NATURE JOURNAL DRAWING 
Year 2 Course Description 
CLASS NAME: Classical Art Drawing and Painting Year 2
CURRICULUM: DRAWING FROM EVERYDAY LIFE &  NATURE JOURNAL DRAWING 
Materials: Year one materials + White Chalk Pencil and Guash Watercolor Painting Set
PUBLISHER: Kevin McEvoy https://classicalartatschool.com.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Students will learn to set up basic still life and to draw everyday objects such as a tomato, trisket box, power plug, oatmeal container, teapot. In this process they will learn to observe carefully and draw what they see.  Students will also learn to draw objects from nature such as bugs, plants, skulls, and birds.  They will learn how to draw what they see and explore scientific drawing. Students begin drawing with White Chalk and Graphite, alternating from drawing from life and their imagination and then move on to Guash Watercolor as they begin to draw birds and plants. The midterm highlight is creating your own mythical sea creature and also drawing the human skull in 4 positions.  The mastercopy is a guash watercolor of Michelangelo Sistine Chapel.
CREDIT: Fine Arts Credit .5 

Year 3 Semester 1: TECHINICAL DRAWING & PERSPECTIVE Semester 2: CAST DRAWING & FOUNDATIONS OF PAINTING
Year 3 Course Description
CLASS NAME: Classical Art Drawing and Painting Year 4
CURRICULUM: CAST DRAWING & FOUNDATIONS OF PAINTING 
Materials: Year 1 &2 Materials + Pen and Ink
PUBLISHER: Kevin McEvoy https://classicalartatschool.com.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Students will learn how to draw technically.  Using Pen and Ink, as well as graphite, planes, aircraft carriers and also a cityscape. Then they will draw from a cast with charcoal in the atelier tradition and they will apply the same principles with a limited paint palette.  
CREDIT: Fine Arts Credit .5 OR 1 Full Credit (Depending upon time spent .)


Year 4 Semester 1: STILL LIFE DRAWING  & STILL LIFE PAINTING Semester 2: MASTERCOPY DRAWING & PAINTING
Year 4 Course Description
CLASS NAME: Classical Art Painting 4
CURRICULUM: STILL LIFE DRAWING & STILL LIFE PAINTING 
Materials: Year 1, 2 & 3 Materials
PUBLISHER: Kevin McEvoy https://classicalartatschool.com.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Students will learn how to set up and draw a still life composition, transfer it to a painting and then paint it with a full pallet. Students will then choose from 10 Mastercopy Paintings, Draw and then transfer to paint.
CREDIT: Fine Arts Credit .5 OR 1 Full Credit. (Depending upon time spent.)