113 Course Outline Spring 2007

January 8-12

Week 1: Visit the 113 website/print-out 3 images (campus computer access only)

Line: blind contour, contour, consistent, expressive, calligraphic (tools vary)

Exercise: reframe contour line drawings for balance, figure/ground relationship

Homework: contour line drawings of hands and objects

Reading #1 The Nature of Drawing and Initial Experiences

Reading #2 Learning to see

January 16-19

Week 2: Line and shape/Intro to Gesture

Pinecone: Drawing 1: gesture and structure

Drawing 2: organic structure and building form and tone with line

Homework: Popcorn using line (multiple views with a variety of approaches)

Reading #3 Line and its Expression and Sketching and the Power of Influences

Materials needed for next week: small sheet of watercolor paper (135lb or more)

January 22-26

Week 3: Value Scale Exercises: 1.Shading with pencil 2.Ink washes 3.Mark making.

Handout: How to build a sense of volume

Value Study 1: Eggs and shadows (shading/toning)

Value Study 2: Square of striped cloth (ink wash and pen drawings)

Homework: Folded paper value study in pencil on half sheet of paper

Reading #4 Value

January 29-Feb 2

Week 4: Part 1: Organizational Line and Sighting

Part 2: (on same page) Directional Line to create tone

Reading #5 Color and Value

Sketchbook Value Study #1: polyhedron and sphere (one in monochrome)

Sketchbook Study: Pos/Neg emphasis on background (color applied/layered)

February 5-9 (Undergraduate Exhibition submission Feb 5-8)

Week 5: Gestures (students pose): Mixed methods and tools.

Reading #6 Composition

Focus on Negative Space and Value and Color

Sketchbook: Branches (3 pages)

February 12-16

Week 6: Continuation of Focus on Negative Space and Color and Value

Exercise: Warm up for Object Study

Begin: Object Study (series of 3 drawings) with varied methods and materials

Assign Reading #7: Illustration and Drawing

February 19-22

Week 7: Continuation of Object Study:

Assign Reading #8 Dry Media

February 26-March 2

Week 8: Gesture Portraits

Self Portrait

Assign Reading #9 Portraiture

March 5-9

Week 9: Finalize self portraits

Assign Reading #10 Wet Media

Midterm Portfolio Reviews/group Critiques

March 12-16

Week 10: Spring Break

Students are encouraged to try different papers: Stonehenge, BFK, watercolor, Lenox, Fabriano (white, cream and color) half-tone/charcoal paper

March 19-23

Week 11: Pictorial Space (Additive and Subtractive) Large Format and/or Group drawing

Assign Reading # 11 Wet Media

STUDENTS BRING A SNACK TO CONTRIBUTE TO NEXT ASSIGNMENT

March 26-30

Week 12: Texture (mixed media) Snacks (sketches in wet and dry media)

Assign Reading #12 Texture and Expression

STUDENTS MUST RESEARCH A SCULPTURE OR BUST.

March 26-30

Week 13: Photocopy of a Bust/Sculpture (Rendering light)

Assign Reading #13 Expressive Drawing

INTRODUCE INDEPENDENT STUDY FINAL SELF PORTRAIT

Written Assignment or Gallery Visit

April 2-6

Week 14: Perspective (on site) (#3104 and #3108 off limits on April 12/13)

Assign Reading #14 Perspective and Forms in Space

April 9-13

Week 15: Gesture in the Landscape (on site)

Assign Reading #15 Landscape, Atmosphere and Space

Mixed Media and its Expression

Check sketchbooks

April 23-27

Week 16: Final Self Portrait

Final Portfolio Review

Exam week: clean up classrooms/ empty cupboards