ART 1010-1

Notice: It is the responsibility of the student to enrolled in the class by the add deadline (http://www.sa.utah.edu/regist/pages/Deadlines.html). Late slips will not be signed by the department. It is also the responsibility of the student to make sure that dropping or withdrawing from the class has been officially completed in the Registrar's office.

Course Description
Course introduces the fundamentals of drawing. Graphic media used include pencil, charcoal, pen, and ink. Students learn techniques in line, contour, form, light and shade, texture, and explore problems in design awareness and drawing accuracy.

This course is designed to help students gain an understanding of drawing and it’s basic components, line, tonal value and composition. Drawing should be looked at as a unique form of visual and perceptual experience and can be used to describe something else or exist on it’s own. We will look at how artist through history have addressed the idea of drawing. The focus of the class, however, will be on the translation of the three-dimensional world onto a two dimensional surface. Students will work from observation of a number of different subject matter. In addition to the work itself students will be instructed in basic art terminology and will be encouraged to use it when describing their own work and others.

The student’s grade will rest on the completion of all assigned work, attendance, (this is not an independent study summer semester is abbreviated and you are allowed three absences, each additional absence could result in a half letter grade reduction,) grasp of the basic concepts and participation in class critiques and effort and improvement. Students will be required to keep a portfolio that will include assignments done in class and out. It is expected that the student will spend an equivalent amount of time outside of class on assigned work. Work assigned to be completed outside of class will be critiqued the following Monday at the beginning of class. There will be a final critique at the end of the term students will be expected to participate and utilize this critique as an opportunity to recognize and evaluate their own and other’s work in reference to the principles they have learned throughout the semester.

Materials list

Portfolio
Drawing board (24” X 36”) *
One sketch pad (18” X24”) ( I recommend the Strathmore 400 series medium tooth) ( do not buy any pad made from recycled materials the quality is always very poor) *
A can of workable fixative
Graphite pencils ( Ebony, 2B,B, HB, H, 2H) *
Pencil sharpener *
Sanding block *
Small package of single edge razor blades *
Charcoal pencils (hard, soft, medium, white)
Erasers (kneaded, white magic or rub, pink pearl) ( I recomend that you but a retractable pencil type eraser) *
Roll of 1” masking tape *
Ruler (at least 24”) *
Ink pens (one fine line, one sharpee)
# 6 round watercolor brush
Sheet of watercolor paper
Canson toned charcoal paper (black and three different values D, M, L)

Composition: The act of giving a unique sense of order, a life to the forms we choose to work with. (Bernard Cheat)

Foreshortening: The way in which the part of the form closest to the viewer is larger while the rest of it becomes smaller as it recedes. This is primarily the rule of perspective applied to bodies.

Figure-Ground: The relationship of foreground to background, form (figure) to the field it is seen against.

Gesture: The drawing implement makes a mark on the paper. Gesture is the expressive use of that mark so that it can not only define form but act as an expressive element of it’s own.

Juxtaposition: The relationship between objects placed together or the meaning that can be derived from such a placement.

Modeling: The creation of the illusion of space or volume through the gradation of tone. (The word “render,” is also used)

Picture plane: The outside edges of the image. The perception that the square or rectangle is a window through which an image is seen or perceived.

Pictorial space: Can be perceived as flat as in some abstract work or can also be perceived as having three dimensions. In the later case, it refers to the specific idea of space within an image.

Read: How successfully does a drawing communicate it’s intent. Specifically in descriptive drawing how well does drawn object match our perception of the real one. Does the illusion of space match our perception of the observed? (Remember, the artist creates his or her own sense of logic within the drawing and must be viewed on it’s own terms)

Triangulation: The measurement of distance, length, by the use of vector lines and known measurements (points) and angles. (The paper’s edges give immediate reference to vertical and horizontal)

This is the list of the elements this class will address and the proposed order in which we’ll be studying them. The time schedule will be determined by how we as a class absorb the material.

Line: Descriptive as well as expressive (calligraphic, stipple, etc)
Triangulation/point vector/ sighting
Perspective
Composition (although we will address this formally it is impossible to make good drawings without an understanding of composition so we will talk about it throughout the semester)
Tonal drawing (wash, cross hatch, texture, volume, heightened drawings low and high contrast)
Drawing Mediums

ADA statement
The University of Utah seeks to provide equal access to its programs, services and activities for people with disabilities. If you will need accommodations in the class, reasonable prior notice needs to be given to the Center for Disability Services, 162 Union Building, 581-5020 (V/TDD). CDS will work with you and the instructor to make arrangements for accommodations.

All written information in the course can be made available in alternative format with prior notification to the Center for Disability Services.

Semester:	Spring 2008	Instructor:	Assoc. Instructor Tom Hoffman
Class time:	M W 4:10pm - 6:00pm	Office:	ART Bldg 345
Class location:	ART 352	Office hours:	By appointment
Pre- or Co-requisite:		Telephone:	585-5797
Fulfills:	Fine Arts Exploration	Email Address:	chinesetakeoutC@hotmail.com