The Final two days

Monday will be individual critiques over your series. That group of drawings should be in pretty good shape for our discussions. Any fine tuning will be considered at that time, and then there are essentially 24 hours to make it happen before our group critique on Tuesday. Your post-test will also be after your individual sessions.

Tuesday will be final critique, the format of which will be decided after I have a sense of the number of drawings we'll be seeing. It could be a groups discussion similar to our 'midterm', or it could take on a whole new approach. We'll see what happens.

Final portfolios will come in after the final critique. Your final portfolio should include two still life drawings, two figure drawings, three landscapes, and your series. Pick your strongest of these groups.

Your work should be presented in a portfolio, either bought or hand-made out of durable material, and large enough to safely contain your work. For protection of the work, no paper should extend outside the portfolio. If you have drawings that don’t fit in the commercially made portfolios, make a cardboard ‘sandwich” for the oversized pieces.

All work done on spiral bound paper should be trimmed of spiral fuzz. Edges and/or borders should be cleaned to the extent possible. The back of the works should also be relatively clean. All work should be presented in approximate chronological order, with the beginning of the session (still life drawings) presented on top, the end of the session (landscapes) on the bottom; the series will be the last pieces in the portfolio after the landscapes unless they are presented in separate portfolio. Drawings done in soft graphite, charcoal, or soft pastel should be leafed (newsprint may be used for temporary purposes) and spray fixed so as to protect them from smearing and/or transferring to the back of other works.

The assessment of final portfolios will be based on individual development from the beginning to the end of this summer session. I will be looking for a developing comprehension of form/composition, variety and uses of line, seeing and representing shape and space, both positive and negative, and the roles they play in your image development; functions of value and texture, and a personal approach to idea development through your in-class sessions and your series. I will be looking to see the kind of process you are developing in drawing and the confidence you’ve developed in that process during the course of the session.

The degree of comprehension of these issues will be considered along with your individual and group critiques, post-test, participation, series, and sketchbook. If there are obvious weaknesses in your portfolio, I will review individual attendance records and/or attitudes toward the subject to ascertain the reasons for the weaknesses, and will report them to you in a written evaluation, with your final grade, contained in your returned portfolio. You may pick up your portfolio after noon on Friday, June 25.

Questions?