Art and Design Foundations: Art 111

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Week 1: Aug 20-24

Studio 1: Introduction to the course

Studio 2: Line mark making/gesture/contour

 
 

Week 2: Aug 27-31

Studio 1: Line

Studio 2: Line

 
 

Week 3: Sept 3-7

Studio 1: Labor Day Holiday; self-directed assignment, no class meeting Mon or Tues

Studio 2: Shape/Plane/Volume positive and negative space/visual measurement/spatial analysis/geometric form/modeling

 
 

Week 4: Sept 10-14

Studio 1: Shape/Plane/Volume, Sketchbook Check

Studio 2: Shape/Plane/Volume, Introduction of 1st extended project

 
 

Week 5: Sept 17-21

Studio 1: Shape/Plane/Volume

Studio 2: Shape/Plane/Volume

 
 

Week 6: Sept 24-28

Studio 1: Work in progress critique 1st extended project

Studio 2: Value modeling/light and dark/value steps

 
 

Week 7: Oct 1-5

Studio 1: Value

Studio 2: Value Midtern portfolios due: coursework, sketchbook, and 1st extended project

 
 

Week 8: Oct 8-12

Studio 1: Value

Studio 2: Value

 
 

Week 9: Oct 15-19

Studio 1: Value Midterm Portfolio return: individual conferences

Studio 2: Perspective/antiperspective space cues, aerial perspective, linear perspective, one, two, and three point perspective/illusion, relative flatness

 
 

Week 10: Oct 22-26

Studio 1: Perspective/antiperspective

Studio 2: Perspective/antiperspective Sketchbook check

 
 

Week 11: Oct 29-Nov 2

Studio 1: Perspective/antiperspective

Studio 2: Perspective/antiperspective Introduction of 2nd extended project

 
 

Week 12: Nov 5-9

Studio 1: Line, again visualization/value and line/calligraphic line/exaggeration

Studio 2: Line, again

 
 

Week 13: Nov 12-16

Studio 1: Texture/materials illusion/suggestion/relation to tools and materials

Studio 2: Texture/materials Work in progess critique 2nd extended project

 
 

Fall Recess: Nov 19-23

 

 
 

Week 14: Nov 26-30

Studio 1: Texture/materials

Studio 2: Texture/materials Final Portfolio Due: coursework, sketchbook, 2nd extended project

 
 

Week 15: Dec 3-7

Studio 1: Last day drawing

Studio 2: Portfolio return

Instructors will be available for individual conferences at the time for which a final is scheduled