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PLEASE NOTE: As our drawing
curriculum continues to grow and build upon its foundations,
many courses offered below have pre-requisites. If you
have not taken Drawing I, Foundation Drawing, please
contact either the Director of Continuing Studies or the course
instructor to see if you are able to take a class. |
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2 Sections:
Mondays
9 am - 4 pm
Instructor:
Nancy Gladwell
Tuesdays
9 am - 4 pm
Instructor:
Susan
Stephenson
Foundation Studio
Tuition: $1890*
Studio Fee: $100
* per semester |
DR150-5 DRAWING I
3 credits per semester
Drawing I is a two-semester course that presents drawing as the visually accurate representation of three-dimensional forms in space on a two-dimensional surface. Students are taught to see proportions and confirm their observation with measurements. Spatial relationships are checked horizontally and vertically, and negative shapes are sought out and used to define and confirm positives. Still-life objects are utilized as subject matter, progressing from simple geometric forms to the more complex. Students should leave Drawing I with a systematic and effective approach to the construction of an accurate drawing through line and value. |
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SOPHOMORE
DRAWING PROGRAM |
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Sophomore
Drawing courses separately focus on three key areas of
consideration that are basic to drawing. Observational
Drawing addresses operations pertaining to the eye;
Constructional Drawing addresses operations pertaining
to the mind; and Calligraphic Drawing addresses
operations pertaining to the hand in drawing. Students
develop specific proficiencies and intelligences
associated with these three areas. |
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2 sections
Wednesdays
8:30 - 11:30 am
Studio IV
Instructor:
Peter Zallinger
Mondays
1 - 4 pm
Weir Studio Instructor:
Randy Melick
Tuition: $945
Studio Fee $100
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DR250 OBSERVATIONAL FIGURE DRAWING
1.5 credits
An introduction
to figure drawing as an act of observation from a fixed
position. Basic modalities of vision such as luminance
differentials (brightness values) and discontinuities (edges)
are transcribed through line and tone. Skills necessary for such
perceptual calibrations as those involving size comparisons,
relation to eye level/horizon and depth cues are developed.
Organizing strategies such as selection and emphasis and
grouping are highlighted.
Prerequisite Drawing I
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2 sections:
Mondays
6:30 pm-9:30 pm
Weir Studio
Instructor:
Randy Melick
Tuesdays
6:30 pm-9:30 pm
Weir Studio
Instructor:
Randy McIver
Tuition: $945
Studio Fee: $100 |
DR250 CONSTRUCTIONAL FIGURE DRAWING
1.5 credits
An
introduction to figure drawing as an act of analytic
demonstration. Both general and specific constructional
strategies are established. Students learn to draw and modify
Euclidean-type solids that are related to the figure to
establish mass and trajectory and to vivify planar contrasts.
Prerequisite: Drawing I
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Spring 2009
Tuition: $945
Studio fee $100 |
DR255 CALLIGRAPHIC FIGURE DRAWING
1.5
credits.
An introduction
to drawing as representation through graphic symbols. Ways that
the hand and its cursive habits determine modes of
representational conveyance are established. Through the
in-depth study of a variety of precedents, the role that shape,
pattern and cursive rhythms play in drawing as a stimulant to
observation is established. Students’ own cursive habits are
buoyed through free-hand copying and internalization of
examples, and by applying them to the live model (in the studio)
and to landscape, still life or other objects (in
sketchbooks). Students learn to recognize graphic verve as the
ability of an artist to draw just those features that can be
presented as examples of his or her cursive habits.
Prerequisite: Drawing I |
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ADVANCED
DRAWING |
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These courses are designed
primarily for students who have completed the sophomore
drawing requirement (or by permission of the
instructor).
Advanced Drawing courses highlight
the key areas of consideration addressed in Sophomore
Drawing courses in specified, working combinations.
Students’ ability to operate within these areas is
strengthened while they also gain the capacity to bring
fused or multi-directed proficiencies to bear on drawing
processes. In addition to observational, constructional
and calligraphic considerations, those pertaining to
anatomy (in life drawing courses) and perspective (in
courses concerned with arrays of elements) are also
selectively addressed. |
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Instructor:
Justin Wiest
Fridays
9 am - 12 noon
or
1 - 4 pm
Studio IV
Tuition: $945*
Studio Fee: $100
* per section
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DR350-5 EXTENDED POSE FIGURE DRAWING
1.5 credits
Poses of longer duration provide an
opportunity to address key figure drawing objectives, including
organization of effects of light, clarification of
figure/ground, planar, axial and other spatial relationships,
resolution of detail-mass relationships, figure completeness,
and aptness of selection and emphasis. The clear organization
of perceptual material, rather than optical copying, is
presented as an effective means of realization in
representations of the human form. |
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Fall 2008
Instructor: Don Gale
Wednesday 8:30 - 11:30 am
Stobart Studio
Tuition: $945
Studio Fee: $100 |
DR350 RAPID POSE
FIGURE
DRAWING - Spring semester
1.5 credits
Key figure drawing objectives
are set in relation to the representation of a live model in
briefly-held poses. Pre-set figural templates, cursive and
geometrical patterning as well as graphic symbols denoting
plane, mass and trajectory are deployed in rapid-response
drawings.
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Instructor:
Justin Wiest
Fridays 1 pm -4 pm
Studio IV
Tuition: $945
Studio Fee: $100
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DR355 CHIAROSCURO DRAWING - Spring Semester
1.5 credits
The exploration of two approaches to the
representation of light in drawings. The first approach is
based on brightness values, calibrated according to a global
scale. The second approach is based on local, rather than
over-all, contrasts, and provides opportunities for the
representation of light through linear, rather than tonal,
means. |
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2 Sections:
Instructor: Jerry Weiss
Wednesdays
8:30 - 11:30 am
and/or
6:30 - 9:30 pm
Weir Studio
Tuition: $945 each
Studio Fee: $100
each
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DR350-5 LARGE-SCALE FIGURE DRAWING
1.5 credits
Key figure
drawing objectives are set in relation to the representation of
the human figure on a large scale. Practical considerations
regarding uses of media in large-scale presentations as well as
artistic considerations related to the achievement of figural
presence through life-size scale are addressed. Means by which
the large-scale figure’s powerfully direct appeal to the viewer
are conveyed, including frontality, orthogonal “address” and the
continuity of real and fictive dimensions, are established and
developed. |
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Instructor:
Roland Becerra
Wednesdays
8:30 - 11:30am
Stobart Studio
Tuition: $945
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DR355 SCENIC DRAWING
1.5 credits
Drawing strategies are established and
applied to challenges of creating whole pictures. In a variety
of formats, including studio set-ups, on-site landscape and
imaginative composition, successful over-all pictorialization is
pursued as an effect of artistic completeness and unity to which
each pictorial element and part has contributed.
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FALL 2008
Instructor: Randy Melick
Mondays 10 - noon
Lecture Hall
Tuition $945
Studio fee $50 |
ANA190 ANATOMY I
1.5 credits
This two-semester course is an illustrated
lecture offering a comprehensive and systematic examination of
the construction and design of the human figure. Investigation
of the skeletal structure and joint systems is followed by the
study of the muscular system. Specific practical problems, which
confront both painter and sculptor, are discussed. The objective
of the course is to provide essential information by which the
human figure may be interpreted with purpose and understanding. |
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Spring 2009
Tuition: $945
Studio fee $50
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ANA295
ANATOMY II
1.5 credits
This two-semester lecture course is
designed to build upon the course material presented in Anatomy
I. Following a basic review of the anatomical construction of
the figure, a more detailed study of the application of figure
structure in drawing (écorché) will be presented. This course
is recommended for painters, sculptors, and draftsman seriously
committed to advancing their capabilities in figurative work.
Prerequisite: Anatomy I |
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