Requirements for Drawing: 

    This class will focus on creating a Transformational Drawing that you may incorporate with your next workshop, or use alone as a transformation of one of the poems.  This drawing will be any where from five to six feet tall giving you an opportunity to employ it as a backdrop, a story combining text within the drawing, or an art work in and of itself suitable for framing should you choose.

    The class will also address: What is Art? You have heard from the philosophers, now its time to develop your own aesthetic.  This awareness will help you to address presuppositions that you hold and use them to draw from in constituting your piece.  

Self Portrait Assignment, and first assignment: at each of the five sessions progress on your drawing will be checked as you check in for attendance. By the second class it is your responsibility to have cut and rolled a piece of paper from the large paper roll.  You will need to construct a circular tube to carry it back and forth from class.  Two chart papers taped together will suffice. 

     I will provide you with other materials:  you will be responsible for these at each class period as well.  This drawing will constitute part of your final grade for the workshop as well.  Criteria for it will be discussed as we evolve through a step-by-step process.  The first assignment may be completed on notebook paper, sketchbook paper, or even on newspaper classified adds.  This is a critical assignment; however, for it will establish a foundation for you to create your first transformational piece, while giving you a clue to your own inner psych.

Part one: Examine each poem.  Go over each line of every poem finding tensions, metaphors, similes, and symbolism, any conceptual “form” – notate in the margins as you proceed.  Then examine each stanza for similar construction, what things match up, what things do not?

Ask yourself what the overall underlying message must be, then think about a tension in your own life, psychological, economic, biological, with another person, school, animal.  Which poem relates to this situation best?

Place yourself in the context of the existing poem, imagine yourself with your problem in its location, then begin to draw.  This should be entirely spontaneous, freely associative analogue drawing as you experienced in the first class.  Examine the drawing the next day and either add to it or do another analogue drawing.

Two drawings and three poems are due for the next class.   

There are five necessary steps to learning the drawing process.  Your work will be graded to see if you know these five steps. Therefore, Attendance is mandatory!

As we complete each step, you will select your two best works from class to use either/or in a final art show or for your transformation.  This work along with the final life size drawing will comprise your final grade.

Required Materials: AP Class only: Portfolio for your work $4.00/$8.00

Everyone: Two Poster boards, I will gladly provide tape to make a sturdy rolled cover for your five to six foot long, and approximately 48 inch wide paper.   It will be your responsibility to maintain the paper’s condition.***

Your grade: Participation, Organization (clean up, quick preparation), Artist’s assignments, and weekly drawing grades make up your classroom grade.

These will be 50% which will then be averaged with your final portfolio  and life size self portrait to form the workshop grade.

A+= a student whose work shows they have gone beyond expectations by

1. Professional presentation, with small signature on the lower left corner.
2. And/or extending the work creatively by taking chances with it forcing it into a new domain of either materials, such as: collage, color, mixed media, or creation of an entirely new surface by adding a thin aggregate to the surface such as sand; inventive placement: cropping, view (i.e.. birds-eye, floor); combination (animal, vegetable, architecture with the human body); an illustration a philosophic idea; or shows another way of representing the body (made of text, wire, beer cans with the addition of drawing)
3. Pushed metaphoric content so that the metaphor dominates the figure
4. Nicely presented: clean, no torn edges etc.
5. Perfect attendance, on time, and has left their work area clean.

A = 1. Number 5 above
       2. Work is well-executed shows mastery of the five concepts taught.
       3. Has at least one area where there is an extension themselves in their class work

 B= 1. All of the above, only the drawings show less mastery of the concepts and/ directions given especially in regards to proportion, ghosts and placement.   

       2. One absence, missing one art assignment

C = 1. More than one absence
        2. More than two outside assignments are incomplete
        3. Drawings in final portfolio lack professionalism, not all concepts are reflected in the final work

D, F self explanatory