Drawing and Painting
Set Up
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Visual Journal Construction
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Contour Drawing – The Scary Monstrous Hand (From Observation to Expression using
Texture)
Mixed media
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Pre-Instructional Drawing
Left Brain/Right Brain Theory – Upside Down Drawing
Blind and Modified Contour Drawing of linear objects
Blind and Modified Contour Drawing of tools, shoes and hands
Creating Surface Texture
Playing with scale
Seeing Positive and Negative Shapes - Tools in Panic (Expressive use of Line, Shape and
Drawing Media)
Mixed media
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Recognizing and drawing positive and negative shapes (Leaves/Clothing/Chairs)
Line and Line Qualities
The marks different media make
Gestural Drawing/Using Big Strokes
Creating repetition and movement
Establishing a Focal Point
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Chiaroscuro and Linear Marking Systems– Wanted: Scary Villain Posters Linoleum Printing
- Linear marking systems for creating value and differentiating shapes
- Creating a composition to create the effect of suspense and terror
- Using chiaroscuro
- Working with linoleum
- Printmaking
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Atmospheric Perspective – The Enchanted Forest/Garden
(Acrylic)
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Creating the illusion of space (placement, overlapping, detail, color)
Intro to color mixing with acrylics
The role of brushstrokes
Painting in layers
Creating the sense of enchantment
Establishing Form with Value – Ghosts, Mirrors and Objects (Sighting and Shading with chalk
media)
Charcoal/Pastels/Cray-pas
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Point of view and drawing
Drawing Cylinders in perspective
Drawing drapery
Drawing reflections and transparent objects
Shading with color – the power of the -ish
Shading with charcoal, pastel and cray-pas
Light Sources
Using thumbnail sketches for planning a composition
Linear Perspective –Zombie Invasion (Shading with color, establishing geometric forms,
playing with scale)
Pastel/Color pencil/Collage
- The vanishing point and the eye
- Drawing geometric solids in one-point perspective – cube, pyramids, prisms
- Color Relationships
- Shading with color
- Recognizing objects as geometric forms
- Transforming geometric forms into a cityscape/room interior
- Creating the Zombie using photography
- Distorting color and scale
- Staging the Zombie invasion
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Figure Drawing
Choice of media
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The human figure
Human proportions
Gesture drawing
Foreshortening
Sighting the figure
Extended figure poses
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Figure in Environment – The Haunt
Choice of media
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Using combining and altering visual references to create an environment
Inserting a figure drawn from observation into an environment.
Creating a haunting
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Self Portrait – The Artist as Medium
Choice of Media
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Facial Proportions
Facial structure
Creating expression through portraiture
Bringing the semester together
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Week 18: Portfolio Piece Selection and Preparation – Final