Objectives:  Students will create a cover design for their sketchbooks using visual journaling techniques.  Students will learn layering, collage, added text, and mixed media techniques. 
Description:  Students will learn painting techniques, the difference between good collage and bad collage, and how to add text artistically.

Problem:  Create a black/white design based on your initials using fonts as your inspiration

Objectives:  Students will create symmetrical designs based on their initials.  Students will create designs with contrast and pattern.

Description:
This problem is based on fonts and their design qualities.  You will look at many different kinds of fonts and choose three and draw your initial in those fonts.  Next you will create a design based on your initial and a font.  You will repeat the design four times, each time it will be a mirror image of the previous drawing.  Finally, you will create a drawing with contrast and pattern.