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Draw Studio

Syllabus

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DRAWING STUDIO

Drawing Studio will increase your skills in creative problem solving, divergent thinking as it applies to the use of value and composition. It will expand your knowledge of, interpretation of and use of visual vocabulary as applied to 2-D artwork. A sketchbook is required for weekly sketchbook assignments. Think of a sketchbook as a journal of your visual ideas and a safe place for you to practice your skills in representation. You will be asked to create thumbnail sketches for idea generation. Besides drawing, painting and compositional structure, experience with technology, printmaking, and preparing for art shows will be incorporated. Student / teacher rubrics will be filled out for all culminating assignments.

To assist you with understanding the history behind what you are learning, most units will include historical background relating to the techniques that are being introduced. Units may also be based upon multicultural art forms.

In addition, a research paper and a PowerPoint presentation are required. It will focus on the application of drawing as a tool for creative problem solving, as a method of recording visual information, and as a means of communicating the values of western culture within its time period.

The main goal of Drawing Studio is to expand your technical drawing skills in order to develop your use of visual vocabulary and compositional structure to orchestrate themes successfully.

WEEK 1:

Elements and principles of design exercises: two days of review and looking at art

Introduction to frontal portraits and/or profiles: (2 days of step-by-step review)

Review planes of the face – first exercise for portraits (Cezanne’s formula)

Sketchbook: frontal view of self using correct proportions

WEEK 2:

Exercises to develop a wider view of what a portrait is (collage, gesture, color)

Slide show of self-portraits created by other artists.

Using previous exercises, develop five thumbnails for a self-portrait monotype that incorporates text.
Review of color theory and introduction to paint application and monotype process

Work on self-portrait plate.

Sketchbook: copy portrait drawings from Michelangelo, daVinci, Raphael

WEEK 3:

Introduce research papers and assign pairs to topics.

Print monotypes

Portraits are due. Rubrics are due. Critique. All work must be presentation ready.

Sketchbook: copy portrait drawings from Degas, van Gogh, Picasso

WEEK 4:

Beginning week 4: One day in LMC for assistance with research

Review contour and negative space. Do quick exercises in both. Introduce one point perspective and the five devices that create space (overlapping, size, scale, position, value).

Find one point perspective view and create small linear drawing.

Sketchbook: Choose a building in the center of town. Take a photo and create an elevation of façade.

WEEK 5:

Introduce two-point perspective. (Follow step-by-step house drawing).

Review slide show of various architect’s work – Wright, etc.

Thumbnails for building of choice (town map?)

Master drawing of design and environment – technology may be used to enhance idea.

Sketchbook: Using same building, reproduce it in three-point perspective.

WEEK 6:

Rough drafts are due.

Work on perspective drawing. Use atmospheric perspective, collage and watercolor to depict environment.

Perspective drawings are due. Rubrics are due. Critique. All work must be presentation ready.

Sketchbook: 10 thumbnails for still life with personal theme.

WEEK 7:

Master drawing of chosen thumbnail.

Still life drawing in value will be used to create a study as underpainting for color painting.

Sketchbook: drawing of still life from their room using Cezanne’s formula

WEEK 8:

Final drafts are due week 8.

Work on still life drawings and paintings.

Sketchbook: color exercises using color pencils for layering.

Week 9:

PowerPoint presentations

Work on still life drawings and paintings.

Still life paintings are due. Rubrics are due. Critique. All work must be presentation ready.

Sketchbook: Compose final drawing project that incorporates perspective, value, and portrait. Create at least 5 thumbnails that work on compositional layout.

WEEK 10 and 11:

PowerPoint presentations

Work on final drawing project developing composition and form through value application, light and shade, atmospheric perspective.

WEEK 12:

Complete all assignments

Final paintings are due. Rubrics are due. Critique. All work must be presentation ready.

Review for final exam.

RESEARCH PAPER (2 pages plus one page list of works cited,):

Required: 1page List of Works Cited; parenthetical citations; recommended websites only; no more than 3 websites and no less than 2 texts may be used as references.

First paragraph is the introduction and it must include a thesis statement. The following questions must be answered:

1. Why was the artwork produced, that is, what purpose did it serve?

2. What was depicted, that is, subject matter?

3. What techniques did the artist use to describe his subject matter?. How did the artists use space?

4. How does knowing this apply to us now?

The concluding paragraph should summarize all of the above.

A jointly written one-page comparison paper should delineate similarities and differences.

POWER POINT PRESENTATIONS:

You may use note cards, but not your paper.

As a team you must have an introductory text slide that reflects the thesis statement of your papers.

Individually, you must have a text slide with bullets for each of the four questions that you answered in your paper.

You must each have three full size slides of drawing and two full size slides of painting for your time period and you point out important stylistic forms in those works.

Finally, you must have at least two text slides with bullets that delineate similarities and differences in the two artists and their artworks.