Week 1
Introduction and Overview of course
Introduction to 20 Drawing Project.
Week 2
20 Drawing Project Continued
Week 3.
Observation – Abstraction
Within the first project students will visually respond, using a series of exercises, to a monochromatic installation within the drawing studio. Contrasting forms, textures, shapes and patterns will provide students with visually rich stimuli for their preparatory drawing work. Students over a series of weeks will be supported in moving away from realism towards various forms of abstraction. Referencing historical and contemporary artists, a variety of techniques and methodologies will be discussed and trialled by students.
Week 4
Observation – Abstraction
Working solely with black and white paper, directly from observation, students will explore a series of tasks relating to positive and negative space. The act of simplifying and using grids and geometry as possible way to order and code visual information will form the basis of the lesson.
Week 5
Observation – Abstraction Continued
Students will explore mark making in response to the installation within the studio. Using alternative tools and student’s own homework ‘tools,’ students will respond to the installation. Using Richard Serra’s ‘Verblist’, students will experiment with various mediums, tools and actions to create a range of experimental studies.
Please see Richard Serra’s ‘Verblist’: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/152793
Week 6
Observation – Abstraction Continued Development of studies into larger A1 drawings.
Week 7
Mid Term
Midterm will take the form of a critique of ‘Observation -Abstraction’. Students must visually and verbally present their work and actively critique the works of peers.
Week 8
Movement, pace and sound. Task 1
Visually responding to fellow student’s role playing three ‘paired’ activities; arm wrestling, chess, and clapping, students will create a series of drawings which correspond to the speed, movement and sounds of the activities.
Task 2
Responding to a variety of music and utilizing a range of medium students will explore mark making in response to sounds. Connotating pitch and tone with line quality and shape students will experiment with creating compositional studies inspired by sound.
Week 9
Mapping as drawing.
Meet at Circo Massimo. The lesson is devoted to capturing, through lines and mark-making the movement, direction and speed of people as they walk through the open plane of Circo Massimo.
Week 10
Repeat Repeat – Self-motivated project.
Journey asks students to perceptually and conceptually document a ‘repeated action.’ The word 'Repeat' can be interpreted in many ways and can be applicable to many contexts. Students must develop an area of visual research, develop a body of experimental work and fully resolve within a final drawing.
Week 11
Repeat project continued - Development of ideas
Week 12
Repeat Project - Resolution of final piece.
Week 13
Visiting Artist Workshop.
Week 14
Exhibition design and display.
Week 15
Installation and final critiques.