This course explores the interpretation of the landscape using both drawing and painting mediums. The class works both inside and outside of the studio, taking advantage of the natural and architectural sites of Chicago adjacent to the School. Multi-Level Students draw from the model as a means of understanding form, shape, and line using a variety of media. The course emphasizes shorter poses as training in immediate response to gesture and form. Multi-Level An Introduction to drawing as an organizer of thought, feelings and image making.
Students investigate a broad range of materials and traditions.
This course consists of the exploration of narrative, text and message using a variety of drawing means and water-based techniques. Students look at the history of this genre from Persian miniature paintings, sacred book images, the comics and more recent language-related art. Included is exploration of line, distortion, material, scale, sequencing and text. This course examines the relationship of specific media and techniques to the content and activity of drawing. Studio work is complemented by study of works on paper in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.