Students will work from still-life and the imagination in developing pictorial form, space and design. Working from the imagination and memory, students will develop a body of related works. Emphasis is placed on personal interpretation and its expression through formal structure. Using various media, we will emphasize construction, gesture, proportion, composition, and accurate representation of the human form. Contemporary and historical art references are used to introduce the student to individual expressive possibilities. .
Students develop drawing ideas based on observation and interpretation of natural phenomena.
Through a series of specific subjects, such as the human body, geological and botanical subjects, landscape forms and weather, students will learn to integrate abstract forms and content in drawing. Composition, mood, color and scale are stressed. Each student will produce a body of independent related work. For students with prior experience drawing from the nude model. Xerography, appropriation and transformation will be engaged as generative devices of the creative process.