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REVISION: Today in Drawing 9/17

9/17, 4:00pm
DRAWING 1: Change in plans, we are going to continue working on your Deconstruction Drawing, please bring that drawing to class tonight!

9/17, 7:00am
Hello Drawing 1,
Today in class be prepared to draw from still-life. We will be spending a large majority of the class time executing a single drawing of a still-life. In the process of the next two weeks we will be addressing the issue of abstraction and the types of creative decision making that constitute as abstraction.

Drawing 2
Will continue working on the environmental study.

Drawing 3
Will continue working on the Technology & Society drawing.

Thanks,
Brandon

Review 6/5 - Preview 6/10

Drawing 1: Last class period we concluded our work on a drawing that reduced a famous classical Masterpiece down to geometric shapes and flat values. In this work we investigated compositional attributes of the work. The goal was to prepare yourself to see formal properties of the work that would otherwise be neglected.
In class on Tuesday 6/10 you will begin the third and final drawing in the series. This particular drawing will be an accurate interpretation of the image. The third drawing will include all of the compositional elements; line, value, form, texture, of the original work. This drawing will take all of two class periods and whatever time necessary outside of class to fully represent the details of the work.

Drawing 2: Last class we began and environmental study. This drawing is devoted to understanding spatial relationships and perspective.

Drawing 3: Last class we began a work that was devoted to the effects of technology on society. Research was done to learn more about the pros and cons of different forms of technology throughout history or within our contemporary society. In this work you were given the liberty to create a fantastic image or a purely representational one devoted to either celebrating, discouraging, dismissing or the neutrality of your position in relation to the research.

Review of 9/3 - Preparation for Thurs. 9/5

Drawing 1:

Tonight we began working on exploring the formal properties of a famous work by a Renaissance or Baroque artist. Each student brought in an image of a famous work from one of these periods.

In our work we began dissecting our found images by first recognizing its scale, proportion and the position of the figures through the use of a single, contour line. Your entire drawing was completed in an hour and a half with the use of one single line. Though a frustrating process, many of you found how difficult grappling with proportion can be. After this we discussed the basic use of visual or in this case comparative measurement.

Our second drawing was a geometric or planar study. The controls in this drawing were that it must be executed using only basic geometric shapes (circle, square, triangle and rectangle). Students were forced to simplify their image, discover its essence, if most basic formal properties. In this drawing students used their pencils and their eye to test the scale of figures and their positions within the image. Then you were asked to use your value scale to shade the image with flat value tones. Once again this forced you to see the work in its most general terms.

We will continue discussing the relationship of Renaissance art versus art that is made today. We will also discuss the formal properties of the artwork and what makes the work compelling.

Drawing 2 & 3:
Tonight was our last class period working on the current project. Be prepared in the next class period to start your second project.

Preparation for Class: September 2nd

Hello Drawing 1 Students,
Please remember to bring a printed image to class of a Renaissance or Baroque Masterpiece. The image MUST NOT be a thumbnail or detail but an print of the entire image. It does not need to be a color image but it should be a work from those periods (do your research to make sure you aren't using an 'imitation'). We will discuss the purpose of this image at the beginning of class.

Drawing 2 & 3 you will be finishing the final day of your current drawing. Please do your best to finish this image in class but be prepared by first critique to show this drawing.

Thanks,
Brandon

Drawing Agenda August 29th

We are going to begin class by looking at art. So, prepare yourselves to have a conversation about what you you see, what interests you and what disinterests you in the show at the Longview Cultural Arts Center. I think I am going to offer extra credit to anyone willing to write one-page about the show.

Drawing 1 - we are going to begin employing some of those shading techniques that we practiced in class on Tuesday. We will be working with graphite and with charcoal so make sure you bring your drawing supplies. We will also be talking about positive/negative space and figure/ground theory.

Drawing 2 - you will begin your final and last drawing in the series. This drawing will be your most detailed and will require the next two class periods. Continue thinking about figure/ground relationships in your drawing as well as how foreshortening effects the way you depict the "object".

Drawing 3 - you have two more class periods to start and complete the value portion of your 3-Object Environment drawing. This will be where we begin discussing a comparative approach to seeing the values within the space.

Thanks guys

Welcome to Class

Hello Drawings Students,
I hope you are looking forward to a fun semester. At this point all of you should have received your syllabus and materials list. In tonight's class you will need to come ready to draw.

Drawing 1 students will be focusing on understanding the structural properties of line and how line should be used to inform how and where value is used. Value is the relationship between light and dark. This semester you will be learning how to use value to create the illusion of three-dimensionality as well as to express emotive qualities within your work.

Drawing 2 students will begin a drawing that incorporates a single object...enough said for now.

Drawing 3 students will begin a drawing that is site specific and incorporates three architectural elements or subjects of interest. This drawing will be a study in perspective, figure/ground and the effective use of value and texture to create a realistic image. Dialog will focus on how the space between the "elements" creates are relationship between the subjects.

If you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch with me.

Thanks,
Brandon