Cedarbrook Drawing and Sketching course outline Winter 2016

Cedarbrook C.C.

Drawing and Sketching, Winter 2016

Wednesdays 9:30am to 11:30am 

Week 1:  Jan 6th

Course overview.  Review of classroom materials.  The theme this session is the UK.

Demo:  Value.

Exercise: using teacher provided resources draw a celtic knot in pencil, ink or fine-point marker.   

Week 2:  Jan 13^th

Warm-up: Sketches of stones. Demo:  rough textures and discussion on Stonehenge theories. 

Drawing: Create a pencil drawing based on photos of Stonehenge. 

 

Week 3:  Jan 20^th

Warm-up: sketch sky out of the window. Demo:  Basic sky approaches and perspective.

Demo:  Turner light inspired skies in chalk pastel.  “The Sun is God” 

 

Week 4:  Jan 27^th 

Sketch:  sketching to 3 types of music.

Drawing: Develop one sketch into a drawing.

Discussion:  The work of Whistler esp. painting to the Nocturnes.  Discussion on inspiration.

 

Week 5:  Feb 3^rd

Sketches of the skull. Sketches based on Gainsborough and British portrait artists.

Develop either skull or Gainsborough style sketch into a drawing.

 

Week 6:  Feb 10^th

Discussion:  Henry Moore and essence and weight of form.  Demo: Rounding out of forms.  Create stylized Henry Moore style drawings based on photos of figures on large paper in charcoal.

 

Week 7:  Feb 17^th    

Discussion:  The cultural impact of the Victorians and Steampunk style. 

Small drawing inspired by Victorian décor or steampunk style, with metallic sharpies.   

Week 8:  Feb 24^th   

Discussion:  The impact of the computer/internet age on art. 

Drawings based on David Hockney’s iphone flowers using oil pastels, pencil crayons and vegetable oil for blending.    

Week 9:  March 2^nd  

Discussion:  Art with a message, Banksy’s story and graffiti art.

Drawing: inspired by the work of Banksy.