Syllabus and Supply List
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MONDAY WEDNESDAY CLASS

Monday Tuesday January
Wednesday
Thursday
January 28
First Day
Syllabus, Materials,
January 30
Geometric Shapes in charcoal 
and with cross hatching

Simple still life drawings with simple geometric shapes.

Baroque Painters: Caravaggisti and Genre Scenes
Value


 
Monday Tuesday February
Wednesday
Thursday
February 4
Geometric Shapes in charcoal 
and with cross hatching

Simple still life drawings with simple geometric shapes.

Baroque Painters: Caravaggisti and Genre Scenes
Value

February 6
Simple Still Life
February 11
Perspective
Caillebotte, Masaccio, Escher
One Point Perspective Rendering in Class

Read
Perspective
http://www.mcescher.com/

February 13
Two point rendering in class
February 18 NO CLASS
Feb 20
Still life 

Feb 25
Still life 
Drapery studies
Feb 27 

Required Field Trip
Field Trip to Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center
for Visual Arts at Stanford University
Please be on the front steps at 11 AM sharp

Bring only pencils, erasers, a plastic bag for pencil shavings, and 
a small sketchbook to draw in 9"x12"
or paper and a clipboard

Thursday February 28

Field Trip to Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center
for Visual Arts at Stanford University
Please be on the front steps at 6:30pm sharp


 
Monday Tuesday March
Wednesday
Thursday
March 3
The Human Head
Rembrandt
Draw from Casts, drapery and human head
March 5
Human head from Life
Still life From Casts
Drapery studies red, white, black on colored paper
March 10
Proportions of the human figure.
Draw from casts and mannikens
March 12
Human Figure from Casts and life, red, white, black on brown or colored paper
March 17
Human Figure from Casts and life, 
red, white, black on brown or colored paper
March 19
Human Figure from Casts and life, 
red, white, black on brown or colored paper

Thursday March 20
Field Trip to Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center
for Visual Arts at Stanford University
Please be on the front steps at 6:30pm sharp
March 24
Spring Break
March 26
Spring Break

March 31 
The Human Hand

 
Monday Tuesday March - April
Wednesday
Thursday Saturday
March 31
The Human Figure
April 2 
NO CLASS TODAY
Homework
Get book on or of drawings.
Artist must have lived and worked between 1400 and 1750
CHECK THE DATES
Use  book of drawings 
by an old master and make a 
folio of 5 copies
April 7
Homework DUE TODAY
Get book on or of drawings.
Artist must have lived and worked between 1400 and 1750
CHECK THE DATES
Use  book of drawings 
by an old master and make a 
folio of 5 copies
 

The Human Figure from casts
 

April 9
The Human Hand
 
April 14
Photorealism
Chuck Close, Estes, Bechtle
Photorealism
April 16
Photorealism
April 21
Photorealism
April 23
Photorealism
Saturday April 26
Field Trip to Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center
for Visual Arts at Stanford University
Please be on the front steps at 11 AM sharp
April 28
Intro to color
Warm and Cool Still Life

Color
Color in Film

Read
Color_Basics

April 30
Still Life in full color
Vermeer

Read
Vermeer


 
Monday Tuesday May
Wed
Thursday
Thursday May 1
Field Trip to Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center
for Visual Arts at Stanford University
Please be on the front steps at 6:30pm sharp
May 5
Color
May 7
Color
May 12
Portraits in Color
May 14
Figure in Color