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