| Class #1 : Course & materials review, safety discussion, introductions - see resume |
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Course Description: To develop skills that enable students to translate both observed and imagined images into drawings. Through experimentation and practice with technique and materials we will explore issues of line and mark making, volume, perspective, composition, and expression. Cultivation of the powers of observation is a foundation for other skills, and will be emphasized - but as a means to evolving a personal vocabulary rather than as a rigid constraint. |
| Assignment #1: Purchase course related material and begin 'Biro Project' due week four. |
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Class # 2: Blind contour drawing in class Odilon Redon, Eye-Balloon, charcoal, 33 x 42cm, 1878
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Contemporary artist: Gosia Wlodarczak, 24 Hours Off Cuts # 28, pigment ink on Belgian linen, 25 x 30 cm  |
| Assignment #2: On two pieces of 18" x 24" white drawing paper execute a blind-contour diptych drawing over two days 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 |
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| Class #3: Working in class on rendering techniques with paper Strips. On an 18" x 24" piece of white drawing paper students were challenged to render five strips of paper measuring 2" x 10". By organizing them in a compositional pleasing manner and with a directed light source using graphite and kneaded erasurers students executed this beginning assignment. |
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student example: Ray  |
contemporary artist: Ed Ruscha,
Sin with Olive, lithograph, 18" x 26", 1970  |
contemporary artist: Jon Campbell,
Save our pool  |
| Assignment #3: On an 18" x 24" piece of white drawing paper students were challenged to render five strips of paper measuring 2" x 10". By organizing them in a compositional pleasing manner and with a directed light source using graphite and kneaded erasurers students executed this beginning assignment. |
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student example: Suzanne, graphite on paper, 18" x 24", 2002  |
historical reference: John Peto  |
contemporary artist: Janenne Eaton, Home Sweet Hiome  |
| Class #4: Betty Edwards project |
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historical reference: Wassily Kandinsky  |
contemporary artist: Cy Twombly
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| Assignment #4: Bring a ruler, preferably two, to the next class |
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student example: one-point perspective  |
historical reference: Leonardo Da Vinci, 'Adoration of the Magi'  |
contemporary artist: Peter Daverington, oil on canvas, 2004  |
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historical reference: Vincent Van Gogh  |
contemporary artist: Ricky Swallow  |
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| Class #5: Rendering techniques |
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| Class #7: Line-weight drawing |
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contemporary artist: Wayne Thiebaud, graphite on paper, 23 x 28cm, 1964  |
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| Class #9: Drawing with ink |
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student example: Francis, ink on paper, 2004  |
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