Drawing Outside the Box

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1 Instructor Clarissa Gregory Drawing Outside the Box JHU Homewood Campus Summer 2015 Term I: Monday May 27 th Thursday June 26 th Days & Time: Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays 10am 12:30pm Course #: AS Location: Homewood Campus, Mattin Center 201 Drawing is touching at a distance Sigmund Abeles Detail from Michelangelo s The Creation of Adam, Sistine Chapel, Course Description We will explore essential principles, tools, terminology & media, while pushing the boundaries of traditional drawing by adopting alternatives such as drawing with wire, inking with grass, and animating gesture in Photoshop. Not only will we draw from observation, which builds the perceptual platform and skills for spatial understanding and rendering, but we will draw from intuition, movement, and outdoor stimuli. Subject matter may include: still life, interiors, landscape, architecture, the human figure and personal narrative. Recommended Reading Drawing from Observation: an Introduction to Perceptual Drawing 2 nd Ed. by Brian Curtis Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards 4 th Ed PBS Art:21 Videos Attendance You must be on time & and stay for the duration for all classes. Two missed classes will lower your grade by one letter. Three late classes count as a missed class. Three missed classes result in an F. Projects Your assignments for critique must be presented on time. You will lose a letter grade for each week an assignment is overdue. Students can expect to spend an average of 4 hours outside of class: 1hour on sketchbooks and 3 hours on projects.

2 FINAL GRADE will be based on Studio Projects: 500 (100pts/Project) Sketchbook: 150 (15pts/Entry) Effort, Growth & Participation (incl. in-class work): 150 TOTAL POINTS POSSIBLE: 800 Grading Standards A = 90 and above D = B = F =59 and below C = REQUIRED SUPPLIES $6-9 x 12 Sketchbook $7 - One 8GB Flashdrive $8 18 x 24 Strathmore Charcoal Pad ( grit for charcoal, ink/wash) ***Note on Paper: Rives BFK and Arches are HIGH QUALITY PAPER. Try this type for longer, extensive drawings, if you re interested*** $2 - Two Graphite Pencils 2B - 8B (or one charcoal pencil for soft ) $5 - Vine Charcoal (1pkg. soft & 1pkg. hard ) $2 - Pencil Sharpener $ Kneadable Eraser AND White (rectangular) Eraser $10 - INK Supplies: Black India Ink, Bamboo Brush, Pen & Nib Portfolio this can come in many forms and prices.see options below: 1) MAKE YOUR OWN: Using large cardboard sheet, taped or folded in ½. Cut out handle & use as an envelope for artwork. (Utrecht gives these out with paper-purchases, or you could probably buy one from them.) 2) PURCHASE: commercially produced, heavy brown paper portfolios with plastic handles vs. heavy-duty $$$, waterproof, nylon zip case portfolio * Drawing Boards Supplied by JHU * Toolbox recommended for carrying all your supplies * Clamp Light ($3 -$5 at Hardware store) recommended for direct light source Open Studio You may use the studio whenever it is free! Class times are printed on the door of the studio

3 It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character. Camille Pissarro SKETCHBOOKS 2 entries required weekly (about 1hr/week in addition to outside of class projects) ONE 30min. Sketch in Response to Artwork (Artist list below) 1) PRINT & insert artwork into journal 2) SKETCH a response drawing directly beside artwork 3) LIST info. on artwork including: artist s name, title of artwork, date, scale, media 4) WRITE a brief paragraph using concepts used in class to describe the work AND One 30min. Direct Observation Sketch (any subject you want) Direct observation means you observe & draw a physical object directly in front of you, for example, the apple you re about to eat (it does NOT mean drawing a digital image of an apple on your digital device) Drawing Hands by M.C. Escher, in graphite, 1948 LIST OF ARTISTS TO DRAW FROM Starting with Old Masters: Lucian Freud Georges Seurat Francisco de Goya Egon Schiele Leonardo Da Vinci Alberto Giacometti Gustav Klimt Van Gogh Henri Matisse Kate Kollowitz Picasso Alice Neel Sandro Botticelli Odilon Redon Otto Dix Peter Paul Rubens Rembrandt van Rijn Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Jean August Dominique Ingres Well-known, Contemporary ARTISTS: Julie Mehretu Kehinde Wiley Fred Tomaselli William Kentridge Paul Ruiz Giuseppe Penone BLU, street artist/animator Robert Crumb, illustrator Zoe Mendelson Jim Dine H.R. Giger, illustrator Frank Auerbach Sigmund Abeles *The Drawing Center s Artist Registry Younger OR lesser known contemporary ARTISTS: Rene Trevino Jin Young Kang Roger Palmer Erin Womack Jenny Sidhu Mullins Chloe Marsters Claudia Ryan Charlotte Schulz Gaia, street artist Robert Van Vranken

4 DRAWING OUTSIDE THE BOX Instructor: Clarissa Gregory CLASS OUTLINE *Bring all supplies every class Class 1 Tues. 5/26 Introduction & supplies Topic: Heightened Sensitivity to Line Exercises: trust/touch drawing + Gesture, Contour, Blind Contour, and intro. Sketchbook Class 2 Thurs. 5/28 Topic: Continuous, Cross Contour, Overlapping Line Exercise: Overlapping lines, and line in wire if time! Due: Complete Sketches 1&2; Complete Project #1 Overlapping Lines: Bring in uniquely shaped/spaced Objects: organic, geometric/manmade Class 3 Mon. 6/1 Review Sketchbooks & Project #1 Overlapping Lines Topic: Shape & Space, using a Viewfinder and determining Proportions Exercise: Begin Project #2 Grid, Rotate & Review Class 4 Tues. 6/2 Topic: Composition, The Grid Cont d Grid, Rotate & Review: clean shapes/spaces, Intro. Ink Due: Complete #2 Grid, Rotate & Review; Bring in 2 biomorphic objects Class 5 Thurs. 6/4 View #2 Grid, Rotate & Review Topic: Texture and Value, Unity vs. Variety, Gestalt Exercise: Value Scale, Texture Hunt, non-traditional tools Due: Complete Sketches 3&4; Complete Project #3 Organic Mini-verse Class 6 Mon. 6/8 Review Sketchbook and Critique #3 Organic Mini-verse Topic: Light and Dark (Chiaroscuro), Additive/Subtractive Drawing method Begin Exercise: Carving out a Still Life

5 Outline Cont d... DRAWING OUTSIDE THE BOX Instructor: Clarissa Gregory Class 7 Tues. 6/9 Cont d Exercise: Carving out a Still Life Class 8 Thurs. 6/11 Topic: Animating Objects Exercise: Life Drawing, Awaken the Umbrella Due: Complete Sketches 5, 6, 7; Complete Project #4 Kitchen Drama Class 9 Mon. 6/15 Review Sketchbook, Collect #4 Kitchen Drama View Drawing the Passing with artist William Kentridge Exercise: Bouncing Ball with partner (lights, camera, action), Intro. #5 Drawing with Time Due: Story planning with partner for #5 Class 10 Tues. 6/16 Critique #5 Kitchen Drama Exercise: Refine Story-Board, Sequences and Timing for #4 Drawing with Time Begin Animating! Class 11 Thurs. 6/18 Share Story-Board, Plan Sequences and Timing Begin Animation work on Project #5 Due: Complete Sketches 8, 9, 10; Hand-in Sketchbook for Final Review Class 12 Mon. 6/22 Project #5: Animate all day; Hand-in Sketchbook Class 13 Tues. 6/23 Project #5: Animate all day Class 14 Thurs. 6/25 Wrap up and present Final Project #5 Drawing with Time today! Return Sketchbooks