Drawing I: Basic Techniques and Fundamentals
Instructor: Robin Adair
Tuesdays 1:00-4:00pm
10 weeks: January 21 to March 25
Location: Online
$387.50 (supplies not included)
Prerequisite: None
This course focuses on the development of drawing skills through hands-on exploration and experimentation with a variety of traditional drawing materials, surfaces and processes. In-class exercises will focus on development of your technical skills in drawing, and the introduction of color mediums and color theory. In the course you will learn different techniques and how they are applied in various movements in art and art history such as cubism, impressionism, landscape and still life. You will have the opportunity to apply the techniques learned throughout the course to develop and pursue your own artistic interests as they relate to drawing.
Syllabus
- Contour drawing; gesture drawing; exploratory mark making
- Using pattern and line to creating rhythm and harmony in the landscape subject
- Shading and value: introduction to still-life drawing
- Composition and design: studies in rhythm, balance, and positive and negative space
- Mixed media: depicting the landscape subject with expressive mark-making and layering multiple mediums
- Symbolic representation: creating visual analogues and narratives with gestural line, value, shape, and pattern
- Perspective drawing: utilizing a horizon and multiple vanishing points to create 3-dimensional environments
- Brush and ink: exploring ink washes and expressive line work
- Self-portraiture: introduction to anatomical proportions and shading
- Independent work
Supplies
- Package of vine or willow charcoal
- Graphite sticks (2B; 4B)
- Graphite pencils (2H; 2B; 4B; 6B; 8B) Staedtler Mars Lumograph brand is recommended
- Package of blending stumps
- Erasers: 2 kneaded and 1 gum
- Conte (brown, black, and white)
- 1 bamboo ink brush
- Container of permanent black India or Sumi Ink
- Roll or package of rice paper
- 9x12 pad of newsprint
- 11x14 Pad of white drawing paper
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