Drawing Fundamentals and Mixed Media

TERM 1

THEME: INVESTIGATING TONAL VALUES AND SHAPES VIA PORTRAIT AND LANDSCAPE COMPOSITIONS

WEEK 1

Charcoal Drawing

The Portrait after John Singer Sargent

Exploring Chiaroscuro and mark making techniques using charcoal

WEEK 2

Pencil Drawing

The Self Portrait: investigating light and shade using the mirror

Understanding the different qualities of 2B, 4B, 6B and 8B pencils, smudge sticks and erasures.

WEEK 3

Charcoal and Acrylic paint

The Self Portrait: Expressive

Monotonal study on canvas

Homework: Selfie to print out as black and white A4 image using the concept of chiaroscuro

This week drawing up the image in charcoal on canvas exploring tonal shapes and values.

WEEK 4

Continuation of Week 3

Acrylic paint

The Self Portrait: Expressive

Monotonal study on canvas

This week:  Acrylic monotonal painting of the selfie image, using paint as a drawing material over the charcoal investment drawing of the week before.

WEEK 5

Collage and charcoal

Deconstructing the photographic selfie image and rearranging it to create an abstraction which will then be redrawn as an experimental image in charcoal on A3 paper.

WEEK 6

Linocut Printmaking

Drawing charcoal

The Landscape after Harry Stooshinoff

Participants will work from a Stooshinoff printout to develop an A5 drawing composition using various mark making techniques: hatching, stippling, shading.

Tracing and transferring drawing compositions onto the lino in preparation for cutting.

WEEK 7

Linocut Printmaking

Learning how to cut the lino in preparation for printing

WEEK  8

Lino Printmaking

Printing the linocut as monotonal compositions