Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Fall schedule 2018 (update 1106)

Week 6
10/02- Finish Skills and visit drawing spot
HW: Read planes defined post and text
10/04- Class 1: Studio still life (drape): 30-60 minute lecture, (take notes)
In studio: Objective is to match value and state desired folds.
Subjects-chair, apple and drape including gravity and half-lock folds

Medium: Stonehenge paper plus Nitram and white charcoal
HW: Draw a paper lunch bag- bag on bag 9 x 12 inches- examine and state the value structure with the primary goal in mind- In addition, describe the folds, wrinkles, creases, pleats, etc. Due-10/11
Read: pages 74, 75. Begin to re create figure 4.28 in your text. Size: 9 x 12. Due-10/18

Week 7
10/09-Class 1: No school
10/11-Class 2: Bag crit. (Drape cont.): 
Objective-match value. Chair, apple and drape including gravity and half-lock folds.

Four Possessions Portrait assignment:
Includes a drawing (18 x 24 inches) and two written statements typed/printed to be completed for a grade.
(Each element worth 100 points)
HW: Bring to the next class four Possessions that represent who you are as person, a crate size box, drape (color, size) your choice and your clamp light (optional). 
Due at the beginning of next class: First statement-based on study/research of French painter, Chardin, 1699-1779.  Type a 300 word statement profiling Chardin's life and work. Investigate and describe something you discovered about the artist related to still life painting/drawing and how it could be applied to your next assignment. 
Second Statement (reflective) due 10/25 at the beginning of class and it must be typed, min. 300 words. 
Content should include and define choice of objects, the drawing process, use of value and your ability to articulate the desired folds. Discuss problems, solutions, successes and failures.

10/16- Class 1:  Four Possessions, in studio
10/18- Class 2:  Four Possessions, in studio

Week 9
10/23- Class 1:  Four Possessions, in studio
10/25- Class 2:  Four Possessions, in studio (Drawing due at the end of class)

Week 10
10/30- Portrait lecture- must take notes
Terminator discussion -
Studio set with sphere and planes of the head
HW: Re create Pat with idealized light- 9 x 12, due 11/01
HW: Must bring mirror to next class
11/01-Self Portrait, 18 x 24, must bring in a mirror and large pad
Objectives:
Obtain likeness- physical attributes
Convey the essence of the subject
Explore and state the entire value range
Draw life-size
Have fun
https://www.louvre.fr/en/routes/eugene-delacroix
Examine how Delacroix describes the body language of his painted subjects, in turn conveying the the emotion of the scene and the emotion of the subject.
Assign Hat Project


11/06 Self Portrait, 18 x 24, 
11/08-Self Portrait, 18 x 24, must bring in a mirror or Begin Hat project- 

11/13: Hat in studio-photo due
Assign Final
11/15: Hat in studio

Break

11/27  Hat in studio due at the end of class
11/29: Non-linear project
Thumbs due

12/04: Non-linear project
12/06: Studio TBA

12/11: Studio-work on final
12/13: Final due