Schedule:

 March 19^th  First Class.  Focus: The internal structures of drawing with live Models.

                               *Remember: Assignment: due on Thursday, materials as well
* The process will begin Platonically as we focus on the idea and the communication inherent in art.
* You will begin to discover why drawing is a valid experience while validating how much you already know.  These first drawings are called Analogues because they document thinking and emotions.  These are considered an immediate source of creative thinking, and lend themselves to an innate communication illustrating the powerful and immediate impact images have on us.

March 21^st  Focus: Working from the inside out learning basic dynamics.  Experience art as a community activity, and the nude. 

Gesture Drawing – models making movements.  
Contour Drawing slow drawing of the edges
Sighting- Learn how to draw in proportion-Measuring the figure

               Why Draw?  Learn the secrets of Jackson Pollock as we focus our first session on the movement of the body, adaptation to the paper, and focus on two models.  The hardest thing to draw is the figure, if you can do it, you can draw anything! 

*First assignment is due, portfolios due for AP class, portfolios assigned for morning class. Paper for first drawing needs to be cut and picked up either before or after class.  

******Assignment for next class: Using sighting, complete a schematic drawing of your body for the next class.  This drawing should be on the large sheet of paper. Note: Your head should be no smaller than your actual face, or it can be larger.  The drawing may extend past the edges on two sides, and it may incorporate inanimate object(s), as long as it gives a sense of lived humanity.  Mark making is encouraged, ghosts, but stick to one media at this time.   

Note:  Your transformation should be a distinct consideration in planning out your self portrait, it must link either structurally, spiritually, or even defiantly (parody) of the original.

March 26^th  Focus:  Contour, Sighting and negative space.  Using gesture as a means of brainstorming.   A proportional drawing.    A distorted drawing focusing on ambiguity.      

***Proportional outline on your Drawings due.  Begin doing contour drawing of an area of the body, wait to do your face until the next meeting  

March 28^th  Focus: Self-portraits using contour and planar analysis.  Introduction of shadows.  Draw yourself or a part of your body in the book 

Drawings due exhibiting ambiguity, contour, and gestural marks.

April 2^nd  Focus: Negative Space and Cinematic Sequence with Models    

                            **Drawing with progress due     

April 4^th  Focus: The inset and shadows with models.    

      **Drawing check in due.

April 9^th  Focus:   Dr Argyros to model, fabric and insets, shadows.     

**Final self -portrait drawing due at beginning of class, come in time to hang it before we start.  Final drawings for show due at the end of period

Please, come pick up your drawings by the next class period, they will be graded and will not be kept for more than one additional class period.  Thank you.