Beginning Drawing

Drawing I is an exploration of the expressive possibilities of image-making, spatial relationships, pattern and surface rendering. Line and shape, texture, value, color and space are emphasized along with flexibility of approach and experimentation with materials, techniques and composition. The elements of drawing will be presented on a progressive schedule that emphasizes objective representation and expressive stylization and abstraction. The principles of design and composition will be continually emphasized along with the development of the historical and conceptual language of drawing. Slide lectures will complement relevant topics. The course develops vision and expression through clarity of form and practical experience.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
ATTENDANCE	Your attendance is critical. Classes are not optional. Two absences can negatively affect your grade. Three absences can result in failure. Class begins on time and students are required to be on time. Partial sessions, late arrivals and early departures are included in your total attendance average. Eating or headphones are not permitted during class.
OUTSIDE ASSIGNMENTS	A sketchbook must be kept for weekly assignments and required homework.
GRADING	The grading will be determined through classwork, attendance, individual contributions to class discussion and participation, homework, continual sketchbook development and final portfolio review. Each project receives a grade. At semester’s end all grades are added, averaged and combined with your attendance, class participation and initiative. The average is your final grade. Late work may be down graded. You have the opportunity to redo work if unsatisfied with the first effort. If you’re absent, you are still responsible for all your work. Any missing assignments must be made up before the last week or they become an F.
SUPPLIES	Needed for this course are materials that comprise the most elementary supplies for an artist. Some of them will be provided in the basic kit of materials for the Beginning Drawing course, the rest are to be provided by the student. You are expected to have the supplies for each project well ahead of time. The materials provided by Columbia College are; 1 newsprint pad, 18” x 24” 3 sticks of medium vine charcoal 1 kneaded eraser 1 portfolio, red rope envelope type Provided by the student 1 drawing sketchbook, 14” x 17”, 55lb. Paper or heavier box medium grade vine charcoal soft pastels, box set of NuPastels, 16 or 24 oil pastels, Craypas box of 16 or 24 odorless, workable spray fixative Recommended supply box and any other drawing material you might already own Desire, Commitment, and Perseverance. Talent Optional.
SCHEDULE
	Exercise and Assignment
Day 1	introduction, abstract and representational forms and shapes HW: supplies and self portrait
Day 2	representational forms and shapes, picture plane, positive and negative space HW: seven expressions
Day 3	abstract/analogous forms and shapes, still life with hatching and crosshatching, form planes and ground plane, informal perspective HW: line and positive/negative space still life with three objects
Day 4	atmospheric perspective, combined approaches still life HW: narrative still life, at least 3 or more objects
Day 5	ground plane mapping representational shapes and gestures, slides #2 picture plane as space: illusionistic space HW: designs from nature into 2D environment
Day 6	gesture and space; minute drawings then still life hatching and crosshatching still life HW: half eaten food
Day 7	value scale, full value still life, subtractive still life slides #17 value: representation and gesture HW: self and window and out of window, 7 values
Day 8	value still life; out of focus slides three abstract/analogous gestures HW: still life substitution from one in black &white oil pastels with light
Day 9	representational still life, perspective, value, space slides #25 space: linear perspective HW: bathroom
Day 10	changing point of view still life, monochrome and analogous color, soft pastels HW: monument
Day 11	analogous color harmony representation, oil pastels slides #3 changing point of view, scale, distance: organizing the picture plane HW: three or more spaces
Day 12	complementary representation, soft pastels slides #23 space: devices for illusory space HW: still life with mirror
Day 13	complementary and split complementary representation, oil pastels HW: combined portrait and problem
Day 14	split complementary, quadratic or triadic representation, soft & oil pastels HW: self portrait
Day 15	final critique HW: keep drawing