### artwork:

Drawing
* are a syntactical component in which entities have contextual dependence
  - artwork
  - competition
  - created by making lines on a surface
  - drains
  - games of chance
  - graphics
  - part of patents
  - representations
  - scenes, people, or objects which folks have drawn
  - skills
  - symbols of the objects and events that the child has had
  - the key to many artists' souls
* broad term which encompasses many different media, modes of expression and execution.
* can be in the form of figures, landscapes, buildings, etc.
* comes before writing in a child's development.
* depend on the vagaries of the human eye.
* form of poetry, a vocabulary for the soul.
* foundation for painting and printmaking.
* fundamental skill that plays an important role in all areas of visual art.
* is an art class that explores composition, design and drawing
  - essential part of every artist's creative abilities
  - important skill for children to develop
  - another way for children to express themselves
  - considered a universal element in working toward a career in the arts
  - emphasized as a way of seeing and learning and as a basis for other academic skills
  - fundamental to all the visual arts
  - important to young children as they begin to express their ideas on paper
* is learned by learning to see the relative size of near and distant objects
  - tonal changes as lighting changes
  - many things like observation, thinking, feeling, and perception
  - more ephemeral than painting
* is one of the cornerstones of art training and fundamental for visual arts
  - most important skills an artist learns how to do
  - roots of art
  - perhaps the most ancient of art making activities
  - play with line, color, placement, form, symbol, and image
  - presented as the root language for all visual arts
  - simply pushing an object through a hole, so it comes out smaller
  - stressed as a foundation for the study of painting and sculpture
* is the basic skill that hones our ability to think visually
  - basis for almost all visual art making
  - beginning and end of all the arts
* is the foundation of all art making
  - fundamental visual language common to all art and design fields
  - gateway skill to art
  - key discipline upon which all the multiple techniques of the visual arts are based
  - most important skill of all artists, regardless of their chosen medium
  - systematic use of culturally agreed-upon marks to communicate
  - used for images with large areas of a single color
* is, in fact, the discipline that connects sight and knowledge.
* joins knowledge and imagination with the investigation of materials, ideas, and imagery.
* kind of universal language, understood by all nations.
* means of expression and is therefore a visual language.
* nonverbal activity that succeeds in distancing the child from such immediate concerns.
* precursor to emergent writing.
* process of making continual decisions.
* process, in which visualization is explored as hand, mind, and eye are coordinated.
* product of the intellect.
* right brain function, writing words is primarily a left brain activity.
* skill gained from practice
  - that anyone can master with knowledge and regular practice
* skill, like writing.
* taught and teachable skill that everyone can do.
* typical domain of the right brain.
* visual arts elective offered for a single semester in the fall or for a whole year.
* way of focusing
  - remembering
  - seeing, thinking, and feeling through making marks
  - to stimulate, and then record, the act of seeing
+ Set construction: Theater
  * There are several stages in the building of a set and, for a large project, many people may be needed. The set designer has to design the set. A model will be built to show what the set will look like. Drawings are made.
  * Drawing' is a way of making a picture. Drawings are created by making lines on a surface. Long lines make up the shapes and small lines make the textures. Drawings can be images of real life or abstract images showing ideas cannot be seen in the real world.