Semester Schedule

Life Drawing I Spring 2014 Schedule:

**Subject to change!!

Week 1:

1/21- Introductions + Syllabus

1/23- Exquisite Corpse

Week 2:

1/28- Sighting lecture + exercises

1/30- CLASS DOES NOT MEET--AT-HOME Sighting Assignment in sketchbook

Week 3:

2/4- Begin in-class Vanitas using Sighting principles, introduce Vanitas assignment

2/6- Continue working from in-class still life

Week 4:

2/11- CRITIQUE Vanitas

2/13- Blind contour portraits

Week 5:

2/18- Figure Drawing intro lecture, gesture practice w/Beyonce, Collaged Figure

2/20- Model (JENNY)—focus on gesture

Week 6:

2/25- Figure Drawing sighting lecture, exercises with Model (JAY), Imprint of A Space

2/27- Model (JENNY)—focus ½ on gesture, ½ on sighting/relative proportion

Week 7:

3/4- 8 Portraits, Self Portrait

3/6- Model (JAY)—focus on head & shoulders

Week 8:

3/11- CRITIQUE Self Portraits, Landscape of Contemporary Figuration

3/13- Model (JENNY & JAY)

Week 9: NO CLASS-Spring Break

Week 10:

3/25- LCF papers due

3/27- Model

Week 11:

4/1- LCF drawing due, CRITIQUE

4/3- Model

Week 12:

4/8- Model

4/10- Model

Week 13:

4/15- Model, Figure at Full Scale

4/17- Model

Week 14:

4/22- critique Figure at full scale, Expanding the Narrative

4/24- Model

Week 15:

4/29- 1^st part of ETN due

5/1- Model

Week 16:

5/6- Model, Selection of at least 8 in-class Figure drawings due

5/8- Final drawings for ETN due, FINAL CRITIQUE