Aims to develop manual and visual skills through a series of problems which make use of figurative and non-figurative materials. This class introduces the student to the tools, traditions and techniques of drawing. Students work on exercises in class and they must maintain a sketchbook out of class. These sketchbooks will be turned in and graded three times during the semester. Sketchbook grades and in class performance are rarely far apart.
Students see slides of work drawn by masters once a week.
This class teaches the major and the non major that drawing is more about close and patient observation than a God given talent for slight of hand. Students are allowed two excused and two unexcused absences.