resources + extras

on Chuck Close - particularly "Fanny"

UPDATED calendar

Week #	Fall Term 2016 Dates	Theme	Assignments	Reminders
1	08.23 only	Introduction to course	#1 Eye, mouth and ear composition
2	08.30 > 09.01	Memory vs. observational drawing.  The Part & the Whole—the benefits of gesture drawing	Crit #1 Assign #2 Gesture w. skeleton Circumscribing line weight - discovering plumb lines	Sabbatical Returns opens in the Gallery THUR 4 - 5:30 pm
3	09.06 > 09.08	Sketching Volume, Circumscribing Line Mark making experimentation bring in H20 color + ink + salt rag paper	Balance/the plumb line— where is the weight? Kinesthetic empathy-- Strike the pose, study how it feels and draw it based on sensory feedback—not observation. Intro to anatomy—how we move. Intro large, skeletal anatomical landmarks, figure in motion—follow major parts of the body as they move through space, i.e. hips, shoulders, occipital bulge, knees. Continue working with plumb line, axis, kinesthetic empathy.  Assign #3 Figure abstraction - Self portraiture
4	09.13 > 09.15	#1/3 + foreshortening Negative Space drawings Heightened and arbitrary expressive color.  Figure/Ground; Spatial Systems	Crit #2 Expressive mark making, wet media, ink, watercolor Cross contour and halftone as value (hatching). Erasure drawings. Long drawings with sighting and value. Composition through value. Value to create volume. The figure abstracted via geometric form. Color tonal drawings and foreshortening. Assign #4 Mixed Media collage on paper	Westcott Cultural Fair Syracuse 09.18
5	09.20 > 09.22	Bring in a collection of B+W anatomical illustration copies, explore scale shifts, "Modge Podge," 18 x 24 drawing paper, opaque paint Figure crop + mixed media experimentation	Figure cropped and full figure, point of view, perspective, proportion, color as value = warm/cool temperature. Heightened and arbitrary expressive color.  Figure/Ground; Spatial Systems	JCA Reception
6	09.27 > 09.29	Volumetric drawing, linear shading 09.29 Test on muscles of the skull and torso	Crit #3  Assign #4 Mixed Media collage on canvas/fabric	Area Teachers’ Reception 09.30 JCA
7	10.04 > 10.06	Exploration of wet ink + color	Assign #5 Mixed Media on canvas
8	10.11 > 10.13	Clay scarfitto, gestural drawings in wet clay Figure in space + chiaroscuro	Student class presentations #1 Research Paper #1 DUE Crit #4 Assign #6	Presentations and paper DUE 10.13.16
9	10.18 > 10.20	Test on anatomy of the arm and leg #2/3 10.20 Cross hatching	Crit #5  Assign #7 Hands + Feet DUE Minor student presentation #A	Make appointments with Advisors
10	10.25 > 10.27	Continuous tone on dark colored paper	Crit #6 DUE Minor student presentation #A Assign#8A,B,C towards final 3 preliminary Self portraits	Make appointments with Advisors
11	11.01 > 11.03	Studies of head + long pose - media choice	Crit #7 Self Portrait in Cross Hatch Planar analysis DUE on tonal paper + 3 colors Assign #9 FINAL Self Portrait narrative	SP2017 Spring Pre-Registration week
12	11.08 > 11.10	Work on #9 FINAL Self Portrait narrative > Test on anatomy of the hand and foot #3/3 11.10	Crit #8A
13	11.15 > 11.17	gesture  Work on FINAL Self Portrait narrative	Crit #8B Student class presentations #2 DUE Research Paper #2 All minor + major projects DUE for grading (excluding final) ANATOMY TEST 2nd of 2 on Thursday
14	11.22 > 11.24	11.22 only long pose, media choice	Work in Progress Crit#9 FINAL Self  Student class presentations #2
15	11.29 > 12.01	long pose, media choice Compute + discuss grades	Crit # 9 Final Self Portrait narrative	Classes Resume
16	12.05  MON	Last day of classes campus wide		Reading Day Prepare for exams
FINAL EXAMS	12.06 > 12.09	SA214 12:30PM – 2:30PM 12.08.2016	RESEARCH PAPER #2 DUE

foreshortening

Andrea Mantegna > The Lamentation Over the Dead Christ, 1480, Italian Renaissance

hands + feet

conceptualizing the figure

Structural Approach ::

Conceptualizing the Figure

Structure built via geometric shapes

building structural body shapes

Simplification of figure ::

Capturing largest shapes

General > Specific

Build structure on line + direction of masses

Build drawing = all around w/o details in any one location

Tonal drawing defining form and light

 

Simplified Overlapping shapes created by line

Structural drawing

The hinged “I”

Begin with the basic 14 segments

+

Add overlapping

Contours of figure’s form

Figure constructed by way of positive form & NEGATIVE shape

Building the figure with planes of shadow AND light

Exaggerated form Contour drawing

Water Soluble

Crayon

Experiment with THICK + thin lines

Add H20 

Rapid drawing outlining major shapes

Directional Angles

Main Horizontals =

Shoulders

Hips

Vertical Spine : upper + lower

Remain consistent in your approach to drawing –

from beginning to completion

figure temperature examples

Understanding major influences that express figure’s gesture

Select significant 

Line, Shape +

Shadows

COLOR TEMPERATURE :  spatial relationship in illusionary space

Media Selection ::

Understanding media

specificities + support qualities allows every artist to exploit them 

Mass + Line 

H20color wash gesture with

cool color (blue) 

Add contour edge with water soluble crayon

Add warm H20 - wash while paper remains wet

Psychology of Perception ::

Viewer’s Mind “completes” the image

Very little indication of where arms + legs are, yet

we understand where they are situated

Narrow Focus

Flat Mass Shape +

Overlapping Contours

Solid masses, understood as warm - however, here, completed in cool temperature of blue

 with at minimum 3 different values.

Make note to where the warms and cools 

are placed on the volumes of the figure, 

thus pulling forms back and forth on the 

spatial plane. 

Warm color placement of watercolor

contrast with cools of negative

shapes of paper.