Sketchbook at npl lecture

Thursday 1.27 re-cap

Gesture drawings
Finding positive/negative shapes in gesture drawings

Homework: Read page 18 in workbook
make 5 blind countour drawings and 5 contour drawings in sketchbook. use household objects, purses, shoes, chairs, pets, etc

Old Master Artists for short presentations on Tuesdays

2.1-AG-Leondardo Da Vinci

2.8-TJ-Michelangelo

2.15-DW- Vermeer

2.22-RC-Hans Holbein the Elder

3.1-KD-Caravaggio

3.15- ML- Goya

3.22-BL- Bottecelli

3.29-AP- Raphael

4.5-JR-Filippo Brunelleschi

4.12-DB-Ingres

4.19-CR-Albrecht Durer

4.26 -KS- Artemesia Gentileschi

4.26-SS-El Greco

Re cap Tues 1.25

Quiz 1
Rembrandt
Contour-isolation of object, seeing
Gesture-relating objects of the still life
Collaborative gestures- paper knots

On Th 1.27:
Will assign Old Master Artists to each person to present on Tuesdays
Field trip to library
Gesture
Positive/Negative shape
Homework for weekend-contour and gesture drawings

Gesture Drawing

Remember- that gesture is like flying over a landscape with a helicopte, it's "big picture" and rapid. Contour drawings are more like treking slowly by foot over the terrain, feeling out each surface.

Homework due jan 25th

Draw an egg from direct observation not from a photo. In sketchbook.

In-class work on TH Jan 20: student work powerpoint, review of vocabulary for quix on Tuesday Jan 25th, contour line (modified and blind) and continuous line drawings.

MUST HAVE YOUR OWN MATERIALS ON TUESDAY, JAN 25TH

Drawing Fundamentals Workbook

Buy it for $3 at Campus Copy in the Student Union

Tues Jan 18th

in-depth syllabus talk
materials talk
how to stand talk

assignment due jan 20th: creative autobiography

Line: Contour

positive negative space