When: Thursdays, 2pm to 4:30pm
OVERVIEW
The methods and concepts presented in this class are the foundations for all illusionary drawing and painting, and they are the conceptual fountain head for all representational art work. This is an introductory art class, as the course name implies, but I believe the material presented is significant and conceptually far reaching as the student would encounter this material again and again in any realism drawing or painting class, i.e. figure, landscape or still life Like all things in art just one exposure is not enough so review and repetition is the nature of the beast; the reason is the student is building a new language, their visual language and it doesn’t happen in just one six week class. My “Basic Drawing” class is designed to get the student up and running on a comprehensive and structured path to building their visual language as well the concepts and methods to support their artistic journey.
SOME OF THE TOPICS COVERED:
- Learning to understand your visual field and all that implies
- Translating your visual field to your picture plane
- Understanding your picture plane and it’s structure
- Rendering in light and shadow(using two light sources)
- Shape discovery and shape placement
- Mass and shape concepts
- Arial and linear perspective
- Understanding line and its’ expressive possibilities
A FEW OF THE QUESTIONS WE WILL ANSWER IN INTRODUCTION TO DRAWING
- What does feeling, empathy have to do with drawing?
- Why is line the primary and intuitive tool for drawing?
- Where does line come from?
- Why are we blind to shape?
- What is shape reversal?
- Are form and shape the same thing?
- What is value? How does it apply to drawing?
- What is foreshortening?
PRIVATE LESSONS: I am offering private lesson on a very limited basis.
REGISTRATION INFORMATION: Because of the Zoom format class size is very limited and the end of registration is three days before the first class session.
CLASS OUTLINE FOR WORKSHOP SESSIONS 1st thru 4th week
WEEK ONE:
- Reviewing materials and their basic use.
- Historical contexts and references always present.
- Introduction to artist observation, visual intelligence, and their contrast to pedestrian observation.
- Introduction to line as a concept and its use in arranging space and mapping form.
- Introduction to the optics of volume metric form and light.
- Introduction to value, value structure and their relationship to light and form.
WEEK TWO:
- Review of last week.
- Drawing an object: first shape discovery and form mapping using line then rendering the line drawing with continuous tone to create the illusion of space and 3D form.
- Introduction to point of reference [station point] and how those observations of form, space, and light are translated to the drawing surface[picture plane]
WEEK THREE:
- Introduction to design: weight, direction, shape, space and how the methods of composition facilitate design.
- Using historical references to examine the structural elements design and composition.
- Drawing a still life of multiple objects on different levels
WEEK FOUR;
- Introduction to linear and aerial perspective and its practical applications to representational drawing
MY FEES ARE: 35.oo per hour, classes are two and a half hours long giving the student a half hour of instruction on me.
