DRAWING + PAINTING HUMAN FIGURE CE 4400 SUMMER 2011 10 THURSDAYS 06.09.11 – 08.18.11 Instructor | ANNA BOGATIN abogatin@uarts.edu www.flaneta.com Course Description

This course is ideally suited to serious students interested in tackling the challenges and enjoying the rewards of working from a nude model while advancing their drawing and painting skills. Students undertake a systematic study of figurative drawing, painting or both that suits beginning and intermediate students alike. The course covers the fundamentals of figure drawing and painting, as well as anatomy and proportion. Students are encouraged to experiment inside and outside of class. Course structure is arranged around four short poses per session, from which students explore gesture studies and one sustained long pose. Discussions and critiques are also part of each class session, including group critiques and one-on-one critiques and guidance from the instructor.

Course Overview

This course will provide an introduction to the art of drawing and painting human figure in a relaxed studio atmosphere. Students will be exposed to different ways of seeing and depicting figure in space in their chosen medium. It would be possible either draw or paint or both draw and paint, the student will have a choice. We will explore traditional and contemporary concepts of figure representation, and will work on both technical aspects of handling material and formal training of depicting a human form, as well as developing concept, subject matter and emotional content of the work. The classes will begin with short discussion of a reading or a visual presentation, followed by warm-up exercises leading to the main project of the day.

Course Objectives

Develop vocabulary necessary to discuss drawing | painting Explore the properties of drawing medium (pencil, charcoal, ink) Explore the properties of painting medium (oil and/or acrylic paint) Obtain a working knowledge of the drawing + painting process To learn and understand formal elements - line | value | texture | form | negative space Learn perspective + composition principles Understand basics of color theory - warm | cool | complimentary colors Learn mixing colors

Course Assessment

Students are expected to be on time, present, equipped with materials and working each class. By the end of the semester all projects should be finished and ready for the final critique. If course is taken for credit, grades will reflect: the effort made in completing the work; the quality of execution: craftsmanship, attention to detail, skill in handling tools and material; motivation, involvement in classroom discussions and willingness to take on challenge.

CE 4400 Summer

2011 2

Attendance Attendance will be taken every day. If you miss more than 3 regular class days | excluding emergencies and unforeseen events | you risk failing the course.

Session 1 | 06.09.2011

Introduction | Syllabus Overview Demo of materials, measurements + examination of basic human proportions Slide presentation | 12 classical human figures from antiquity Series of short gesture drawings + a series of short [10 min] poses to be followed by one sustained

[90 min] pose. Session 2 | 06.16.2011

Understanding basic shapes Silhouette Introduction of the ‘background’ Drawing +/or painting from the human skeleton + life model Explorations of the main reference points of the body that assist artists in representing the figure -

ribcage | pelvic bone | head | shoulder blades | arms | hands | legs | feet + vertebra View + Discuss the work of High Renaissance Figurative artists - Titian | Rubens | Velázquez

Session 3 | 06.23.2011

Drawing + Painting with line Working in ink Concentrating on gesture and movement Contour Drawing View + Discuss the work of Ingres | Picasso | Matisse | Greek amphora | Indian watercolors | Chinese

Brush Paintings Session 4 | 06.23.2011

Figure in dramatic lighting Working with shapes + values in either charcoal or soft pencil View + Discuss the work of Caravaggio | Rembrandt | Lucian Freud | Gerhard Richter | Lisa Yaskovage

Session 5 | 06.23.2011

The figure in space | positive/negative space relationships Defining figure by the surrounding space Drawing | work in charcoal - tonal study Painting | two color limited pallet - tonal study View + Discuss - TBA

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Session 6 | 06.23.2011

Foreshortening Gesture studies | concentration on drawing of arms + legs Shading techniques Moving into form Weight of colors View + Discuss - TBA

Session 7 | 06.23.2011

Form + Weight Learning how to create volume in your drawings | breaking down the figure into three-dimensional

shapes Working in charcoal | conté crayon or soft pencil

Session 8 | 06.23.2011

Figure | Ground relationship Basics of composition Figurative abstraction Drawing or painting from collage

Students need to bring scissors | glue | paper | charcoal or ink | soft pencil | color paper for painting View + Discuss work by Fra Angelico | Degas | Bonard | Matisse | Diebenkorn | Klee | De Kooning |

Francis Bacon | Alex Katz Session 9 | 06.23.2011

Portrait. study of the human head | concentration on expression, emotion + storytelling View + Discuss work by Alice Neel | Rembrandt | Sargent | Goya | Monet | Magritte | Paula Rego |

Marlene Duma | Vrubel Session 10 | 06.23.2011

Drawing from a model in a style of your favorite artist – bring to class reproductions of drawings | paintings by your favorite artist | analyze drawing principles in use and try to bring them out in your own drawing

Short gesture studies will be followed up by one long pose Final critique | bring to class all finished work.

Student Materials

Drawing Newsprint, 50 Sheet Pad 18" x 24" or 24" x 36"

Quantity: 1 Cost per item: $8.99 Vendor: Blick Art Materials

Strathmore 400 Series Drawing Paper Pad 18" x 24" or similar Quantity: 1 Cost per item: $8.25 Vendor: Blick Art Materials

Strathmore Windpower Watercolor Pad 11" x 15" or similar

Quantity: 1 Cost per item: $6.12 Vendor: Blick Art Materials

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2011 4

Faber-Castell Goldfaber Sketching Pencils: 2H, H, B, 2B, 4B, 6B Quantity: 1 Cost per item: $0.72 Vendor: Blick Art Materials

Faber-Castell Goldfaber Sketching Pencils Set

Quantity: 1 Cost per item: $6.19 Vendor: Blick Art Materials

Blick Black Cat Waterproof India Ink 3OZ Quantity: 1 Cost per item: $2.99 Vendor: Blick Art Materials

Blick Masterstroke Golden Taklon Short Handle Brush # 8 or # 10 or similar

Quantity: 1 Cost per item: $5 Vendor: Blick Art Materials

General's Compressed Charcoal Set Quantity: 1 Cost per item: $2.55 Vendor: Blick Art Materials

Kneaded Eraser

Quantity: 1 Cost per item: $0.61 Vendor: Blick Art Materials Painting

Blick Studio Traditional Profile Canvas 11" x 14" or larger Quantity: 8 Cost per item: $2.23 Vendor: Blick Art Materials

Studio Canvas Pad, 10 Sheets 9" x 12"

Quantity: 1 Cost per item: $4.58 Vendor: Blick Art Materials

Oil or Acrylic paint in colors - Alizarin Crimson | Cadmium Red Medium | Cadmium Red Light | Cadmium Yellow Medium | Cadmium Yellow Light | Phthalo Blue | Cobalt Blue | Ultramarine Blue | Ivory | Mars Black | Titanium White Quantity: 1 Cost per item: $10 Vendor: Blick Art Materials

Filbert Brushes for Oil or Acrylic # 8, #10

Quantity: 1 Cost per item: $5 Vendor: Blick Art Materials

Round Brushes for Oil or Acrylic #2, #8 Quantity: 1 Cost per item: $5 Vendor: Blick Art Materials

Flat Brush for oil or Acrylic # 6

Quantity: 1 Cost per item: $5 Vendor: Blick Art Materials

Palette Knife Medium size Quantity: 1 Cost per item: $2 Vendor: Blick Art Materials

Palette or Palette Paper

Quantity: 1 Cost per item: $3 Vendor: Blick Art Materials

Oil or Acrylic medium Quantity: 1 Cost per item: $5 Vendor: Blick Art Material

CE 4400 Summer

2011 5

All students are expected to attend classes regularly and promptly, and for the duration of the scheduled instructional time. Individual instructors will decide the optimum time for taking attendance and may penalize for habitual lateness of absence. Repeated absences may result in a grade of "F" for the course. Students who withdraw from a course must do so in writing. Nonattendance does not constitute an official withdrawal. To have ACT 48 Activity Hours for this course reported to the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) you must complete and return the CE Request for Activity Hours Submission Form to the UArts Continuing Studies Office and meet all requirements outlined by the PDE. The University of the Arts reserves the right to cancel classes due to low enrollment, reschedule any course or to change the instructor. If a cancellation should occur, students will be notified prior to the start of classes and will have the option of taking another course or receiving a full refund. The University is not responsible for supplies that may be purchased in advance.