1 Introduction to course. Meet at JCU Art Studio, Largo dei Fiorentini, Lesson 1 - Variety of Line.
2 Meet at the Campidoglio (the piazza of the Capitoline Hill, up the big stairs to the south of P.za Venezia.) Entry fee if bad weather. Lesson: view-finding, thumbnail sketches.
3Meet at Santa Sabina on the Aventino. (From school walk to the other side of the river at Tiber Island, then continue south past Sta. Maria in Cosmedin; after the main street leading to the Circo Massimo turn left up a little pathway called the Clivio di Rocca Savella leading from the river to the Aventine hill. Past the famous orange grove you will find the big parking lot of Sta. Sabina. Wait there.) No bare shoulders or shorts in this or other churches. Lesson devoted to solving problems of perspective.
4Meet at Ponte Sant’Angelo, under the Castel Sant'Angelo. Drawing focuses on speed and gesture.
5Meet at the entry to S. Peter's Square. Lesson involves the panorama, depicting a large outdoor urban space.
6Meet at 12.30 at the bus stop for the 23 bus just upriver from Ponte Sisto on the Trastevere side; we will go by public transportation to the Centrale Montemartini, in Via Ostiense. Bring bus tickets. Lesson regards light and dark contrast. Entry fee.
7Meet at Frutta Gallery. Via dei Salumi 53 in Trastevere.
8Orto Botanico; meet at Guarini entry, and we walk from there. Entry fee 4 euros. "Scribble drawings"; observation of nature.
9Meet at Piazza Mattei (the “Turtle Fountain”). Off Via Arenula, near Largo Argentina, take Via dei Falegnami. A series of figure drawing exercises.
10Meet at Guarini entry, and we walk from there to Tiber Island. Problems in cityscape, landscape, riverscape, water, atmosphere.
11Meet at Guarini entry; we’ll go up the Gianicolo to Bramante’s Tempietto at S. Pietro in Montorio. Drawing architecture, round forms in perspective, also views over the city.
13. Meet at Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza, on Corso del Rinascimento, one block east of P.za Navona. Drawing Baroque architecture.
12 Meet at JCU Art Studio - Printmaking as drawing.
13 Meet JCU Art Studio - Developing ideas via collage and printmaking (Paper Collograph).
14Final meeting at JCU Art Studio, Largo dei Fiorentin, 1. Group critique. Appointments made for individual meetings that take the place of a final exam. On Thurs, Dec. 5 we will hold a student art exhibiti