C block drawing of your eyes

As one of your three sketches do a realistic drawing of your eyes... Make sure you do both eyes and that you use the whole page. Do both eyes in relationship to one another. Due 9/29 Use any drawing medium include your eyebrows too!

E and C block: sketchwork

Either choose something from your sketchbook prompts for 3 sketches or develop 3 experimental pages using different mediums to create an image. These sketchbook ideas can be for developing your next project

Revise any earlier sketches as well...

Don't wait till the last minute...

Check in date: C block: 9/29 Wednesday; E block 9/28

Course Expectations all drawing/painting classes

v Further develop your drawing skills and painting skills

v Make effective use of the principles and elements of art.

v On-going critical analysis of work through individual and group critiques.

v Being consistently and constantly productive.

v Push and challenge yourself artistically.

Class membership
In this classroom, you are expected to behave as a respectful, responsible individual. You are also expected to have fun. I will expect to see you push and challenge yourself rather than fall back on what comes easy to you or what has been successful in the past.

Food for thought….

Work hard,keep up with the pace of the class.

Don’t procrastinate.

Work at home.

Remember you’re in this class because you love art.

Keep a journal to help remember ideas, make sketches.

Don’t give up, you will progress.

You will be expected to produce art while you are in this class. You will be expected to keep a sketchbook at all times failure to do so will result in the loss of participation points. You will be expected to complete drawings outside of class. You will be expected to visit art galleries.

The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning. Paul Gauguin 1848 - 1903

Drawing/Painting projects:35%Projects are evaluated in three areas of individual growth: Technique, Concept, and Presentation

(fullfilling the requirments of the project, risk taking, elements and principles of art in project, craftspersonship,focus and homework spent on project)

written essays/quizzes/sketchbooks35%:
(completing assignments, following directions with check system risk taking)

Class membership 30% studio clean up help and participation and how you are in class

Sketchbook

You are required to keep a sketchbook throughout the duration of this class. Y. The purpose of this sketchbook is to record your visual thoughts, work through ideas, brainstorm or just doodle. I would also like to see evidence of ‘process’ for your outside class drawings. There will also be weekly assignments on the blog, so review it weekly
Always bring your sketchbook with you to class – you will lose participation points if you don’t.

Late work: All late work will drop a 1/2 grade for each class day late. Work more than two weeks late may not be accepted and can't be made up ( unless due to unforeseen circumstances, illness,etc.). Should you be absent ( excused only) the day something is due, it is expected that it will be ready upon your return. Should you be absent ( unexcused, if you cut class or are on suspension) the day something is due, your project is late. If you are absent for a studio class demonstration day, it is up to you to get the assignments from the class blog, or classmate and make it up on your own time.

Please don't turn in anything to Lindsay or the attendance desk. Turn it into me personally or you may turn it in on my desk in the art office.

Critique: Work not presented for critique is an automatic O. Have something ready to show. This is sacred time for feedback from your peers. Your art doesn't have to be perfect, but ready for critique.

Resubmits: Work submitted late cannot be resubmitted. Only work that is complete by the orginal due date can be resubmitted. Resubmits are due at the end of the week of the original due date. If the re-drawn work is superior, the lower grade will be dropped. If you are absent ( excused) you can resubmit late work. Resubmits are done on a case by case basis.

Gallery Visit on your own
A portion of your grade for this class constists of a gallery visit. This will be due at the end of the first term. The gallery visit is simple a report on a gallery or museum show that you visited sometime during the first term. We will be going on a field trip to the SFMOMA in the spring or fall and that will NOT count. The purpose of this assignment is to have you experience art outside of the classroom and to see what practicing artists within your own community are doing. The shows you choose to write about can be of any media and from any gallery or museum.

G block: 200 Drawing: sketchwork due: Sept. 30th

Drawing of household object: inspired by artist Jim Dine

Jim Dine is considered one of the figureheads of the pop-art movement (exhibited along with Andy Warhol who is probably the most famous contemporary). Much of his work is the simple re-creation of "mundane" everyday objects in interesting and dynamic ways. Below I've included an excerpt from the National Gallery of Art's exhibition bio along with a link to a collection of his works and a sample.

Once again, some images may be NSFW.

National Gallery Bio

Gallery of Work

Drawing is not an exercise.
Exercise is sitting on a stationary bicycle and going nowhere.
Drawing is being on a bicycle and taking a journey.
For me to succeed in drawing, I must go fast and arrive somewhere.
The quest is to keep the thing alive...
--Jim Dine, 2003

C block: Critique of Still life

Drawing finished by the BEGINNING of Class on Monday 9/21

we will critique and mount drawings on board.

Wednesday: hanging drawings over in BBLC

Friday: Intro to portrait drawing/proportions of human face

Next sketchbook check in: Sept. 26th

Pepper drawing

We will have four class days to complete a drawing of a bell pepper.

Your drawing should incorporate what you have learned about light and shadow.

The requirements:

Drawing ( including cast shadow) should fill 75% of the page

Show careful observation and execution of translating 2D form to 3D form

Not have heavy outlines

use 7-9 tones of value

Craftpersonship

Drawing Due: Sept.22nd

G block: 200 Drawing

Homework Due: Thursday, Sept 16th

1. Revision of value scale if necessary ( resubmit opportunity)

2. watch video of drawing sphere ( this will help with drawing the egg) same concept

3. draw 1 egg with form and cast shadows ( must use 75% of sketchbook page)

in pencil 4B ( no outlines)

work on transitions, and set up your egg using a single light source ( no back lighting); this is an observational drawing exercise

G block 200 level drawing Due Sept. 7th

Value scale 9 tone Due: Tuesday

9 inch by 1 inch squares... no heavy outlines and careful shading using 4 B graphite pencil no use of fingers to smudge tone together.

Graded on tonal observation, neatness and following directions