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Class schedule for M211
How to use this website: The site is designed to organized by week with helpful information and links. In most cases, you will find the assignment sheet, lecture & PDF examples. There are also links to additional information to aid with skills, processes and examples. Students are expected to use information presented. Follow Instructions Why are you doing this assignment? 101 Things to Learn in Art School #2 Learn to draw." Kit White |
Museum of Modern ArtHomepage. Once here scroll to Drawings and brows the collection.
Metropolitan Museum
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Watch this video on Milton Glaser. Make notes in your sketchbook with some sketches of his work.
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Artists for this week:Look at their drawings.
M.C.Escher Aubry Beardsley Kara Walker Russell Crotty Richard Serra--drawings Barry McGee Trenton Doyle Hancock |
week 3- spaceSeptember 21
positive and negative space assignment positive_negative lecture line and composition Watch this TED talk. cut from paper negative space
Student drawing. Positive and Negative Space
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STAC student Positive/Negative homework.
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Artists for this week: Look at their drawings.
Matthew Richie Jim Dine Julie Mehretu Alberto Giacometti Jeanette Barnes Dryden Goodwin |
week 4-gesture & mass
September 28
homework assignment sheet link to video on gesture watch this slide show of gesture drawings by STAC students. |
Steps for Success in Gesture: 1. FOCUS--- constantly. The eye, a wonderful camera estimates proportions, contours, movement, and contrasts quickly. Determine contours first, then interior shapes and shadows. 2. DRAW LIGHTLY---for the 1st "layer" as a rough draft; darker for the 2nd drawing corrections right over the 1st layer adding contrast; then, the darkest 3rd layer with deep shadows and final contours. 3. DRAW QUICKLY--- The entire image is viewed in a blink. Make the pencil follow content flashed to the brain. Keep the pencil/pen in constant circular and linear motion. Catch the form, not the details. 4. CONSTANT MOVEMENT---is a necessity. Quick, light drawing makes for easy clarifications in succeeding layers. Move eyes with quick returns without moving the head. Accuracy takes patience, perseverance and lots of practice. |
week 5-- perspective
week 5-perspective
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One and Two Point Perspective
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Week 6 Value
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value
light overall values. subtle line one point perspective eye level No Smudging |
week 7-- creative process
No drawing homework assigned this week. Use week to revise any previous work and read article on creative process.
Watch this video and take notes:
Review both of these articles. Choose one to read carefully and take notes in sketchbook.
Creativity in Art and Science: are there two cultures? 19 Habits of Artists That Can Help Unlock Your Creativity |
week 7Creativity is a concept often discussed as valuable but little understood.
There is a difference between originality and creativity. Very little happens that's original. Creativity on the other hand, is something we can nurture and develop. Much of what appears to be new is actually bringing together previous work and presenting it in a new or reorganized way. Creativity is being able to see things and present things in a new way. Creative Process_lecture
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Information on Project Revisions:
All projects assigned before mid-term and handed in on time can be revised up to mid-term. Sketchbook will be collected again on November 17th. Those can be revised up to Dec 7 for second half. All revised assignments must be clearly labeled with original project presented. Deadline for Revisions is next week. |
week 8- Put it together
week 8Trace to Map
October 26 Note the example has real objects arranged in an unusual way. It is composed of objects of different shapes, different sizes, they are overlapping, interconnected and viewed from different perspectives. 
Reasons for Trace to Map
1. To begin experimenting with the creative process. 2. To make decisions about subject matter. 3. To consciously compose a drawing using various elements. 4. To use line that enhances meaning and reflects careful observation of subject. 5. To use value to create form and/or pattern in order to create the illusion of form and move the eye across the page. |
Examples of STAC students Trace to Map
Artists for Sketchbook this week to discuss content and ideas behind the work. Be specific as to which drawing you are analyzing:
Lucian Freud Barry McGee Kathe Kollwitz Dryden Goodwin Pablo Picasso Chuck Close Jenny Saville Yoshitomo Nara Stephen Fisher shahzia sikander |
week 8--creative process continue
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Open Studio with Yontz:
Dates to come. Please be sure to read Security Rules for classroom use on Home Page. Artists for Sketchbook this week to discuss content and ideas behind the work. Be specific as to which drawing you are analyzing:
Richard Long Wolfgang Laib Heather Hensen Tony Orrico William Kentridge Tambino--video installation Carl Krull--video Robin Rhode--street art |
week 8November 2
week 2 Trace to Map Trace to Map Self-Critique Reasons for Trace to Map 1. To begin experimenting with the creative process. 2. To make decisions about subject matter. 3. To consciously compose a drawing using various elements. 4. To use line that enhances meaning and reflects careful observation of subject. 5. To use value to create form and/or pattern in order to create the illusion of form and move the eye across the page. Introduce Small World Look at some of these drawings for examples on how to add limited but intentional value with sensitive line. |
These are the images for Quiz in order.
Revise Quiz grade write clear and complete analysis of the works with regard to: 1. Giacometti-- line and composition 2. Neel--line, value & perspective 3. Beardsley--line, value & composition 4. Morandi--value, composition & perspective 5. Persian Manuscript-- perspective & composition 6. da Vinci-- line and value 7. Noble-- perspective and value Watch the Video above on Composition in Paintings to help understand how artists arrange elements in space and to what end.
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week 9--concept 1
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Examples of Small world from the internet.
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week 9- small world concept drawing
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week 10 Small WorldNovember 16
continue Small World Critique Small world drawings to date. November 30 Final Critique for Small World Self-Evaluation Form working with Charcoal Map in a still life_shading Sketchbook Homework for this week:
Look at the drawings of these artists. Choose 5 and make notes in your sketchbook about the ideas behind the work, discuss subject matter and the most important Formal Element used to achieve the end. (this would be line, perspective, value, composition, etc.) Kiki Smith Jim Dine Marlene Dumas Barry McGee Russel Croty Yoshitomo Nara Cornelia Parker Charles Avery Dryden Goodwin Daniel Zeller Cai Guo-Qiang Martha Alf Julie Mehretu |
Process for Creative Concept Drawings: 1. Problem Presented --in this case Small World 2. Brainstorm-- have a lot of possible ways to solve the problem 3. Research-- what have others done, google, read books, etc. 4. Ideate-- thumbnails to work out ideas and composition. 5. Accumulate Reference 6. Begin drawing. 7. Critique and revise. |
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Learn more about Storyboards_wiki
sketchbooks might look like this Self-evaluation sheet sketchbook self evaluation 
Open Studio Dates:
M211 open. Yontz present. Dates to come. sketchbook homework
research on Kentridge
Have ideas. Lots of them. Sequence drawings by STAC students
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