ARTS 100
Drawing I Spring 2021 (also offered Fall 2020)
Division I
This is not the current course catalog

The goal of the course is to provide training in basic two dimensional design concepts like composition, value, space, proportion and line as well as a critical perspective on drawing in the 21st C. Observational drawing skills will be taught asynchronously in short daily lessons within six, week-long segments. Assignments with roots in 20th C Avant-garde and 21st C global practice will be interspersed within these skill-building lessons to provide students with a critical contrast to traditional approaches to drawing and opportunities for individual expression. Since this class will be taught remotely, we will meet online as a class for slide talks and discussion, as well as in small groups of 3 or 4 for critique. So that students may work in a domestic setting, the size of the assignments are modest and the materials like pencil, brush pen, and colored paper are clean. In order to submit assignments, students will need access to a digital camera, such as a cell phone.