1. Students will illustrate the practice of basic drawing skills and techniques including hand skills and material use.

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1 Syllabus ARTS 1316: Drawing Foundations Fall Professor Contact Information Kristen Cochran, Office p w.kristencochran.com Class Hours/Location Monday 10:30am-1:15 pm, AS Office Hours Immediately after class or by appointment. Course Pre-requisites, Co-requisites and/or Restrictions No Pre-requisites COURSE DESCRIPTION Drawing: the act of making a mark by dragging a tool across a receptive background, usually a piece of paper, hardly conjures the impressions left us by the great masters such a da vince, Delocroix, or Rubens. In this class we will investigate a variety of drawing techniques, drawing s interpretive nature and the potential uses implied by the language of drawing in both a contemporary as well as historical context. This class will focus on the initiation and cultivation of the basic drawing skills used in achieving a visually literate foundation in communicative and interpretive skills. This will include eye/ hand coordination skills, rendering techniques, composition, drawing construction, proportion and perspective. We will integrate this into the use and investigation of drawing schematically, metaphorically, descriptively, and atmospherically. This class invites the curious novice to explore the potential of this right brain approach to communicating. Those seeking to advance their already developed drawing skills will be challenged to specific portfolio projects. STUDENT LEARNING OBJECTIVES/OUTCOMES 1. Students will illustrate the practice of basic drawing skills and techniques including hand skills and material use. 2. Students will identify drawing terms along with historic and contemporary artist references. 3. Students will engage in the interpretive concepts of realistic spatial development, eye hand coordination and right brain analysis. 4. Students will evaluate drawings through critical dialogue both as a group and individually. COURSE REQUIREMENTS / EVALUATION CRITERIA Performance will be evaluated through attendance, effort in objective, level of individual improvement, level of attention and care in class assignments, creative application and aptitude. Final grades will be assessed by a cumulative portfolio review at the end of the semester. This course may be taken on a credit/ no credit basis by non art and performance majors.

2 SUPPLIES/FEES A $75.00 lab fee will provide the student with most of the necessary materials for this class. Class supply kits are pre-made and can be purchased at Asel Art Supply ( Additional materials may be required and will be announced in class as needed. Bring ALL of your supplies to every class. You will be provided a large flat file drawer for your materials. What s in your Asel Kit: 1 Micron Pen: Black.45 1 Micron Pen Black.30 1 Micron Pen Blue.30 1 Roller Ball pen royal blue # Roller Ball pen blue # Roller Ball pen black # Roller Ball pen white # " Foam Brushes 2 2" Foam Brushes 1 pack Princeton art and brush set # oz Higgins Black permanent ink (with screw cap) # ml tube Titanium White Acrylic paint # Ebony Pencils # Staedtler pencil sharpener #512081A6 5 General's charcoal pencils: HB, 2B, 4B, 6B, and White 1 pack thin vine charcoal 1/2 pack compressed charcoal sticks 1 each: Kimberly graphite pencils: 8B, 4B, 2B, HB, 4H, 8H 1 Cretacolor graphite lead stick soft 1 Cretacolor graphite lead stick medium 1 Cretacolor nero stick soft 1 Cretacolor nero stick medium 1 4B graphite stick # B graphite stick (thick) # Woodless pencil Natural sepia #FA Woodless pencil brown #FA " Bull dog clips 1 Staedtler plastic eraser 2 Prang small gum erasers 1 Mercur gray kneaded eraser 1 Strathmore 18x24" Drawing Pad 1 Biggie Drawing Pad 70lb 9"x11" 1 roll masking tape (3/4"?) TEXTS REQUIRED: There is no required text. There will be selected readings, reserve book lists and handouts. RECOMMENDED: Drawing Essentials: A Guide to Drawing From Observation by Deborah Rockman: Paperback, 320 pgs. ISBN-10: or ISBN-13: Vitamin D: New Perspective in Drawing by Emma Dexter: Hardcover 352 pgs. ISBN-10: ,

3 ISBN-13: Drawing Now: Eight Propositions by Laura Hoptman: Hardcover 192 pgs. ISBN-10: , ISBN-13: The Drawing Book A Survey of Drawing: The Primary Means of Expression by Tania Kovats: Paperback 317 pgs. ISBN-10: , ISBN-13: ATTENDANCE POLICY Class attendance is mandatory. Attendance in a studio art course is essential, since most of the learning takes place in class as you investigate and discuss concepts and skills with your instructor and classmates. ABSENCES After 3 unexcused absences, each additional absence will result in subtraction of a full letter grade. (i.e. If you have an A in the course, your 4 th absence would bring your grade from an A to a B. Your 5 th absence will bring your grade down to a C.) 6 unexcused absences results in automatic failure of the course Grade = F. If you will be absent from class, please contact me beforehand to discuss this via , text or phone call. Absences will only be excused when you provide a note from a doctor or from Campus Life. TARDINESS Punctuality is mandatory. Arriving to class 10 minutes or more late results in a tardy. Every 3 tardies will be equivalent to a full class absence. METHOD This course will consist of in-class drawing, homework drawing assignments, group critiques, slide presentations and readings. HOMEWORK In addition to in-class exercises and studies, students will be expected to complete weekly take-home assignments based on the preliminary course schedule, and to be assigned each week. Bring your completed homework assignment to the following class unless directed otherwise. Always sign your full name on your work (you can do this on the back of your drawings if you d like). ELECTRONIC DEVICES Use of electronic devices during class, including ipods and cell phones, is prohibited. Students who text or answer calls during class will be required to leave for the remainder of class and this will count as a full class absence. If you need to attend to an urgent matter that requires the use of your phone, come and talk to me about it. POLICIES CLASS SCHEDULE This schedule is subject to change Class Introduction with Professor Metz. Supply list run-through and out-of class still life drawing assigned Introduction with Professor Cochran Flat file assignments Syllabus, course expectations, supply review, vocabulary, turn in homework In class: tomfoolery signature, gesture and blind contour: objects

4 Homework 1: materials and objects Create a series of small non-objective works exploring the physical properties and expressive potential of your materials (see handout). Due Homework 2: Bring 3 evocative objects to class. These objects should be small to medium-sized (hand-held), not precious but meaningful to you in some way NO CLASS, LABOR DAY HOLIDAY complete assignment 2 this week Review and turn in non-objective material studies, object contours and gesture studies. In class: 1) introduction and slide review: drawing fundamentals: line, value, shape, postive/negative space, composition, contour. Hand out Evocative Object reading due ) demo/make viewfinder 3) contour drawings from evocative objects: blind, sustained, various perspectives, etc. Homework: Choose your most meaningful evocative object and draw it increased in scale in your 18x24 Strathmore drawing pad. Use 3 mediums to create one large image of your object on the same page. These are blind contours; do fuss over the product. Three contour drawings in Biggie drawing pad: kitchen tool, lamp, your foot In class: 1) Introduce view finder, picture plane, sighting, proportion, composition and organization drawing. 2) still life: organizational line drawings: sighting, proportion, composition Homework: Use your view finder to complete two 18x24 organizational drawings (and complementary thumbnail sketches) of the same still life seen from two different perspectives. Draw one in graphite and one in pen. Use 3-5 objects from home to make up your still life. Reading: TBD Bring in 1 white or cream colored object In class: 1) Review composition, texture and value, slide review. 2) Value scale in pencil, value scale in charcoal, value scale in ink 3) Objects and their value: draw 4 value sketches of still life in white. Homework: Value study: Choose one in class value sketch to make a larger18x24 drawing focusing on composition, sighting and value. Bring water container to next class In class: Still life: Focus on value and composition using ink. Complete 4 ink thumbnail sketches and 1 18x24 drawing. Homework: Finish in class ink value drawing. Using your in-class ink drawing, create three new compositions by cropping the larger drawing with your viewfinder. Make 3 close-up drawings on your 9x12 Biggie drawing pad. Choose your media In class: Critique I: DRAWING OBJECTS: materials, line, contour, value, proportion, composition Homework: Reading TBD. Bring plant to next class. ( ) Midterm grades In class: Introduction: Edge, positive form and negative space, slide review Animate objects: Botanic still life: small studies

5 Homework: 2 9x12 botanic drawings focusing on outlines and edges, 2 9x12 botanic still life drawings focusing on positive and negative space using value. Choose strongest drawing for next in class project In class: Work day. Create 1 large (30x40 ) botanic drawing from homework sketches using your choice of media. Focus on positive and negative space. Homework: Complete large botanic drawing, bring cardboard to next class In class: Continue positive/negative space. Slide review. Find interesting compositional solutions to plant still life. Homework: Collage negative space drawings Critique II: ANIMATE OBJECT Plant life: positive and negative spaces In class: Introduce space, depth, one and two point perspective. Create cardboard cubes. Exterior perspective drawings using cube still life. Homework: Complete Exterior perspective, cube drawings In class: Introduce exterior perspective, room Begin two point perspective room drawing. Homework: Complete perspective room drawing In class: Introduce personal project parameters, slide review Set up still life if necessary Homework: personal project planning In class: Work day: personal project Homework: personal project Final Critique: Personal project DATE /TIME TBD ART related LINKS artruby.com contemporaryartdaily.com

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