SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE

ASSOCIATE DEGREE CREDIT COURSE OUTLINE

Department: Art

Subject Area and Course Number: Art 121

Course Title: Creative Drawing

Discipline: Art

Units: 3

Repeatability: 3

Catalog Course Description: Study of creative and technical problems related to intermediate level drawings. Principles of composition, color theory, abstraction and contemporary drawing examined. Black and white and color media.

Description for Schedule of Classes: Study of creative and technical problems related to intermediate level drawings. Principles of composition, color theory, abstraction and contemporary drawing examined. Black and white and color media.

Lecture Hours per Week: 2.3

Laboratory Hours per Week: 3

Plus Hours: None

Prerequisites: Art 120

Co-requisites: None

Skills Advisories: Eligibility for English 100, 103

Course Advisories: Art 101

Limitation on Enrollment: None

Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs): At the end of the semester, a successful (passing) student should be able to:

1. Apply the principles of visual composition, using the visual elements (line, shape, value, space, negative shape, texture, color) in making drawings.

2. Articulate the similarities and differences between traditional/conventional and contemporary drawing practices.

3. Assess own work and other’s work using an intermediate art vocabulary to figurative, abstract, minimal and conceptual drawings.

4. Produce a portfolio of drawings using a variety of techniques with traditional/conventional and contemporary methods.

Course Objectives: To bring to the student a degree of mastery in intermediate college-level drawing and the imaginative use of drawing media. Upon completion of this course, a student will be able to:

1. Define the principles and issues of composition: unity with variety, proportion, scale, balance, repetition, etc.

2. Demonstrate the ability to use the traditional formal means of expression, based primarily on the visual elements: line, shape, negative shape, size, space, texture, value and color.

3. Demonstrate and develop the ability to draw and render using a variety of techniques including contour drawing, value techniques, estompe and perspective more fully than in Art 120.

4. Discuss and critique their drawings and their peers’ drawings at an intermediate college level.

5. Further differentiate between traditional and contemporary drawing including Abstract, Minimal and Conceptual Art.

6. Employ a variety of media, including ink, charcoal, conte crayon, pencil, brush, collage, colored pencil, oil pastel, silverpoint.

7. Develop a number of finished compositions at an intermediate college level to include in a portfolio of drawings.

8. Do a drawing or a series of drawings based on selected photographs used in an explicitly contemporary manner.

9. Do a developed drawing or a series of drawings from the landscape.

10. Discuss the relationship of drawing to the other disciplines in visual art such as painting and sculpture.

Course Content and Scope:

1. Forms and Nature: Slides, discussion of techniques, principles and concepts in the study and interpretation of organic and natural forms. A variety of media will be used. Natural forms will include plants and skeletal material.

2. Landscape imagery: Slides, discussion of techniques and concepts used in the study and visual interpretation of landscape. This includes the process of abstraction from the landscape. Artists such as Mondrian (in regards abstraction) and Brice Marden (in regards conceptual art) will be discussed.

3. Perspective Studies: Slides, discussion of techniques related to architectural subjects, either interiors and/or exteriors including those in the immediate campus buildings.

4. Animal sculptures and representations: Slides, discussion of structure and techniques, in the interpretation from real animal subjects such as skeletal remains to sculptural objects. Pencil on Claybord will be one possible technique.

5. Sculptural busts and heads: Slides, discussion of techniques and structure for the interpretation of the human head as conceived as a sculptural object. The use of charcoal emphasized.

6. Photography in Contemporary Art: Slides, discussion of techniques, in the use of photography in contemporary art and throughout the history of art. David Hockney’s work will be a focus in addition to other artists such as Jim Dine, Chuck Close, Janet Fish and Audrey Flack. Colored media will be one possibility.

Method of Instruction: Lecture/Demonstrations, drawing exercises, museum and gallery visits and completion of classroom assignments.

Required Assignments: Students will be required to complete all technique assignments, preparation drawing and major assignments including a final drawing.

Methods of Evaluation: The student’s grade will be determined by:

1. 10% classroom attendance

2. 10% participation in group critiques

3. 20% assignments completed and homework

4. 60% on-going work and final portfolio

Appropriate Texts and Supplies: No texts will be required. The students furnish the majority of supplies needed to complete the course. The course lab fee covers some supplies dispensed to students. The department budget also dispenses additional supplies to students. In addition to the standard drawing text Mendelowitz, 2003, A Guide to Drawing, a new text Drawing: Space, Form and Expression by Wayne Enstice and Melody Peters, 2003 will be available in the classroom. Also students will be shown appropriate videos and CDs (or parts of them) of artists at work in drawing or analyzing drawing such as Jim Dine: A Self-Portrait on Walls, David Hockney’s: Secret Knowledge (on photography and early photographic methods in drawing and painting), Philip Pearlstein Draws the Model and Maya Lin (which includes her pastel drawing submissions for the Vietnam Memorial).

LB/mej

Approved January 2006

Rev June 2006

FRC (7/6/06 gb)