Schedule

Films/Presentations/Assignments/ Exercises

Week 1
Jan 15, 17

Tue>

Introduction to goals and objectives
Materials

Thur> energy made visible

Gesture and Mark Making: Releasing the spontaneous and irrational processes of making a drawing. Jackson Pollock

Week 2
Jan 22, 24

Tue>

Film: Drawing the Line
Outsider Art
Assignment: Patterned Ink Drawing

Thur> drawing the line

Assignment: Patterned Ink Drawing

Week 3
Jan 29, 31

Tue>
Critique: Patterned Ink Drawing

Thur>

Exercise: Upside down Picasso
Contour Line drawing

Week 4
Feb 5, 7

Tue> drawing from the edge

Contour Line drawing

Thur>

Contour Line drawing

Week 5
Feb 12, 14

Tue> fundamentals of pictorial space

Picture plane, foreground middle ground and background, point to line to shape to plane.

Thur>

Four primary space-making devices.

First Sketchbook Eval

Week 6
Feb 19, 21

Tue> perspective, proportion, measuring

Volumetric drawing

Thur>

Perspective drawing

Week 7
Feb 26, 28

Tue>

Perspective Drawing

Thur>

Perspective drawing

Week 8
Mar 4, 6

Tue> light and dark

Value drawing

Thur>

Value drawing

Week 9
Mar 11, 13

Tue>

Value drawing

Thur>

Value drawing

Second Sketchbook Eval

Week 10
Mar 18, 20

Spring break

Week 11
Mar 25, 27

Tue> sampling the body

Drawing from the human form

Thur>

Drawing from the human form

Week 12
Apr 1, 3

Tue>

Drawing from the human form

Thur>

Field Trip destination TBA

Week 13
Apr 8, 10

Tue> landscape drawing

Plein air drawing

Thur>

Plein air drawing

Third Sketchbook Eval

Week 14
Apr 15, 17

Tue>

Plein air drawing

Thur>

Assignment: Plein air drawing

Week 15
Apr 22, 24

Tue> surface effects

Texture collage drawing

Thur>

Texture collage drawing

Week 16
Apr 29, May 1

Tue>

Texture collage drawing

Thur>

Texture collage drawing

Week 17
May 6, 8

Tue> keeping it surreal

Two images into one

Thur>

Two images into one

Week 18
May 13

Tue>

Two images into one

All revised assignments due

Final Sketchbook Eval

Thur>

No class

Finals Week

May 22

Pick up portfolios