Visual Arts

Students have recently completed both the Master's Study Project & done a two week unit on drawing the human figure.

The Master's Study was a study of a Renaissance Masterpiece and a deconstruction of composition as a way of informing students of how to analyze form and space. Students did a series of three drawings culminating in a final drawing that was an exact forgery of the original. Students learned how to see in terms of proportion, scale, angles and value contrasts.

Students have just completed a three day figure drawing. The focus was the use of visual measurement as a way of creating a gestural drawing of the human figure. From the gesture, students were asked to employ techniques learned throughout the semester in order to create a more realistic image.

Our last unit will deal primarily with portraiture and drawing the human face.

We will have a final the last week of the semester over all of the concepts we have discussed all year. Review guides will be provided.