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Course Outline for Art 2B, page 1

Fall 2005

ChabotCollegeFall 2005

Replaced Fall 2010

Course Outline for Art 2B

DRAWING AND COMPOSITION

Catalog Description:

Art 2B – Drawing and Composition3 units

Development of knowledge and skills introduced in Art 2A, emphasizing media and composition and introducing the use of color. Prerequisite: Art 2A (completed with a grade of C or higher). 2 hours lecture, 4 hours studio.
[Typical contact hours: lecture 35, studio 70]

Prerequisite Skills:

Before entering the course the student should be able to:

  1. demonstrate the skill of hand and eye coordination in drawing;
  2. organize a composition that reflects the five basic elements;
  3. use balance and rhythm and negative and positive space to achieve unity and variety;
  4. produce relatively flat, two-dimensional compositions;
  5. create the illusion of three-dimensional form and space on a two-dimensional surface in black and white media;
  6. use tools and materials such as pencil, charcoal, and/or ink.

Expected Outcomes for Students:

Upon completion of the course the student should be able to:

  1. demonstrate improved hand and eye coordination in drawing;
  2. discuss characteristics of a variety of modes of visual representation and composition;
  3. correctly articulate color theory and pictorial uses of color in drawing;
  4. demonstrate skill in using graphite, charcoal, and ink;
  5. describe features of color drawing media.

Course Content:

  1. Line
  2. matching
  3. cross-hatching
  4. scribbled
  5. qualities of
  6. Value
  7. form and space
  8. color and value
  9. shadows
  10. linear perspective and light logic
  11. surface characteristics
  12. light reflection
  13. Introduction to color theory and mixing
  14. hue, value and intensity
  15. primary hues and complementary effects
  16. tints, tones and shades
  17. color schemes
  18. Composition
  19. composition in values only and in color
  20. distinction between two-dimensional and illusionistic three-dimensional compositions
  21. compositions based upon shape and color relations
  22. Expression
  23. development of an awareness of personal responses to value only and to color media, to form and to subject matter

Course Content (Cont.)

  1. using this awareness to make personal statements in drawing
  1. Materials
  2. Varieties of techniques in graphite, charcoal and/or ink
  3. Colored media such as pastel, colored pencil, marker pen and/or designer’s gouache colors
  4. Drawing media
  5. Ways of working
  6. realism
  7. abstraction
  8. non-objectivism

Methods of Presentation:

  1. Lecture, discussion and demonstration
  2. Examples of student and professional work
  3. Slides, PowerPoint and videos
  4. A museum and/or a gallery visit with an appropriate exhibition

Assignments and Methods of Evaluating Student Progress:

  1. Typical Assignments
  2. With a composition of your choice, pick a set of complementary colors in gouache. Paint from the setup in class using tints, shades and tones of your gouache. Next class, using the same composition, draw over gouache with pastel to alter and/or abstract the composition. Use the compliments equally or let one dominate to create a focal point with the other compliment.
  3. From the setups in class, abstract the compositions using black drawing ink in different values, lines, shapes and textures. Interact negative and positive space as you draw. Explore what each type of brush and type of brush hair will do with the ink.
  4. Define the following terms:

1)Analogous

2)Non-objective

3)Equal Value

4)Intensity

5)Tones

6)Primary Hues

  1. Methods of Evaluating Student Progress
  2. Class projects
  3. Student drawing
  4. Final portfolio review

Textbook(s) (Typical):

Drawing as Expression: Techniques and Concepts, Sandy Brooke, Prentice Hall, 2002

Special Student Materials:

Drawing supplies to complete all of the assigned studies.

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