Session list

• Week 1. Basic Drawing Methods, (line, tone, perspective) and intro to materials.
- Introduction to large group, division into smaller groups with course materials
- Structured group conversation occurring with same set of examples
- Materials made available

• Week 2. The Sketch Book/ The Drawing Book/The Journal
The absurd ABC
- Shared staff lecture: examples to go on line

• Week 3. Looking Beyond the Surface
- This class will focus on the art of architecture, engineering, anatomy and botany.
- Paired staff lecture: examples and notes to go on line

• Week 4. Developing Ideas (Drawing, Writing, Numbers, Geometry)
- This class explores the connections able to be made between different systems of notation. Students are expected to overlay different methods of thinking within the drawing space.
- Paired staff lecture: examples and notes to go on line

• Week 5. Group seminar– Feedback
- Involving question and answer between students.
- Also includes the review of Sketch books

• Week 6. Information Collecting, (the camera)
- Document a ‘crime scene’ Think about how you can construct a story out of a particular place/event at a particular time.
- Paired staff lecture: examples and notes to go on line,

• Week 7. Information Handling, (collage, montage, Photoshop.)
- Molecules and Solar Systems, Rhizomes, Trees…a basic discussion of Chaos theory and, as counterpoint, the use of the grid or grids for composing artworks.
- Paired staff lecture: examples and notes to go on line,

• Week 8. Shared Processes
- Students will work in pairs to complete and document a drawing project that engages with shared authorship in a conceptual sense that is reflected in the material decisions made.
- The session will include ‘Blindfold and the Exquisite corpse game

• Week 9. Identifying potential and looking toward resolution
- This class will discuss the resolution of drawing processes considering issues of editing and presentation as well as context-where do drawings work well?
- This session will include an opportunity for course feedback

• Week 10 Group seminar – Feedback
- Involving question and answer between students.
- Also includes the review of Sketch books

Special Note
Please meet at the BLT 100 lecture theatre at 9am on weeks 1,2,3,5,6,7,

On other weeks meet working groups in Elam studios at 9 am

Meeting 1 Tuesday 4/3/07

4/3/07

103 Drawing and related practices.

Lecture 1
9-10am
Room BLT 100
Location Biology Lecture Theatre 100, Biology, 5 Symonds St
Building No.106

Please collect course material from lecture theatre.


Studio Session 1
10.30 - 1pm
Return to groups in studios. Small working group begins at 10.30 am

Introduction to the course

Changes in the Mississippi Riverbed


1. Introduction and Outline of Project

• A ten-week course in drawing designed to develop both technical and intellectual skills. Throughout the course students will be encouraged to gain an understanding of drawing not simply as a craft skill, but as a research, learning and presentation tool.

• Students will participate in a series of practical classes underpinned by: seminars and presentations that explore the historical and theoretical background of drawing and group criticisms that deal with issues of understanding and quality.

• Founded on the assumption that drawing is an evolving discipline capable of embracing both old and new technologies, this course is designed to develop in each student an intellectual curiosity and theoretical understanding that is complimented by set of craft skills appropriately shaped and useful to that individual.

2. Studio Activities

Eight practical workshops, two group seminars/crits, (weeks 5 &10)

Four staff presentations/ question and answer (weeks 2, 4, 6 & 7)

3. Studio Project Schedule

• Students will work in a small group situation. These working groups are made up from the roll.
This is your group for the course.

• The general studio handout will provide an overview of the course. Please refer to this ahead of classes.

• Material for each week’s class will be provided the week prior, to each small group.

4. Independant Study

A related task is assigned in association with each class.
It is expected that each student will set aside a minimum of six hours per week to be used for independent study. This time should be used to extend and develop work completed during the scheduled classes.

• Students should retain their work for assessment at the completion of the course.
It is also expected that a visual diary will record your processes Seeing a record of thinking is an important component of the asssment process