Teri Frame Lecture

Tonight is Teri Frame's lecture in the Clay studio, KV035, at 6:00, so that's where we'll meet first. I wasn't able to get back to campus in time to see her performance last evening, but all reports are that it was totally fascinating. It was tapped, so we may get a chance to see it if it gets posted somewhere. See you this evening in the clay studio, afterwards we'll continue exploring composition and value. See you soon.

Project #1 Perspective

Last night we discussed the first out-of-class project and did some preliminary studies. Please review the earlier post that I mentioned so that you can visit the perspective sites. The project will be a two-point perspective cityscape. I recommended that you look through magazines and web searches for cityscapes that might provide inspiration. Of course you'll be creating this city scape based on your knowledge and experience with linear perspective rather than drawing one from observation. Your city can be anything that you imagine it to be as long as your perspective is accurate. We will begin the process during class on Thursday after the 6:00 gallery talk by Valerie Fuchs, who will be opening an exhibition in our gallery. Do a Google search for "cityscapes drawings" to see some various examples of how artists have handled this subject. We'll go into all the intricacies of this project and what to avoid on Thursday.

Don't forget that the gallery talk begins at 6:00 in the gallery, just down the hall from our studio off of the Ogle lobby. Try to get there a few minutes before 6:00 so you'll be there when she starts.

See you tomorrow evening.

Perspective, as in LINEAR...

Hey drawers, if you look back through the blog to August 28, 2009, under the post titled "PERSPECTIVE", there are a few links that will take you to some places for a pretty good introduction to, explanation of, and visual examples of Linear Perspective. I think the information is pretty good and should help you to get a pretty quick grasp of some of the principles we'll be exploring this evening in class. It'll also allow you to travel around the blog to previous semesters and see some examples of previous work that has come out of this class, including some perspective drawings. See you this evening.

Spring 2010

We're about to start another semester exploring the drawing process and its supporting foundation of the basics, although it seems like we just finished the fall semester. Gosh, I guess we did. I've posted the syllabus on ONCOURSE so that you can have early access to the supply list and the class calendar.  There have been a few changes since last semester, which we'll discuss on Tuesday evening during our first meeting. Between now and then, please peruse our blog over the past few semesters to see and read what some of the previous F100 classes did with projects and how they responded to some of the discussions. I think you'll enjoy it.  See you Tuesday evening.