Course Syllabus

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Bucks County Community College, Department of the Arts, FALL 2012

DRAWING BASICS, VAFA 111 COURSE FORMAT

 

Instructor: Val Sivilli

Office Hours: By Appointment: Fridays: 12:30 – 1:30

Email: sivilliv@bucks.edu cell: 908-268-2843 (feel free to call or text)

For course syllabus, please visit bucks website at Bucks.edu

 

Please check your bucks email on a regular basis. I will send information on a weekly basis as needed throughout the summer.

 

SUGGESTED TEXTS:

 

• “Perspective Drawing” Kenneth W. Auvil,
• “How to Draw What you See”  Rudy De Reyna

 

 

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

 

This course introduces and reinforces preliminary skills related to basic drawing concepts. The course is divided into three major units:

 

• Simple shapes and proportions
• Measuring and Perspective
• Light and Composition

 

Students improve their concentration in a studio setting and develop essential skills related to drawing structural forms. Subjects for drawings will include still life, landscape, perspective, skeleton and portrait drawing.

 

Students will:

 

• use pencil, charcoal and other traditional black and white media.
• use rulers and other tools to measure and subdivide the surface of a drawing.
• practice basic observation and technical skills, including drawing simple geometric and organic forms, analyzing proportions, creating simple line drawings while using measuring and comparison techniques.
• create the illusion of space using one and two-point linear perspective.
• create the illusion of three-dimensional form using the value, gradation, light and shadow system.
• practice concentrating on their work for extended periods of time.
• demonstrate a professional attitude in the studio and in the timely completion and presentation of their work.
• analyze projects through critiques and group discussions.
• evaluate and critique their work, as well as the work of their peers.

 

GRADING:

Students will be graded on participation, comprehension, development of technical skills, and the application of course concepts as demonstrated by visual examples presented for homework and final portfolio review. In addition, the development of professionalism, including the presentation of work, preparation and motivation will be assessed.

 

DURING CLASS:

During each class, students are evaluated on attendance, punctuality, preparation, maintenance of work areas, and participation in critiques, motivation, and comprehension. 25% of Grade

 

OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

Students can expect to work on projects for a minimum of five hours per week outside of scheduled class time. All home assignments will be graded as they are completed.

 

GRADING:

All class assignments and 14 home assignments will account for 55% of the student's grade.

 

JOURNAL:

The Drawing Journal will account for 20% of the student's final grade.

 

FINAL PORTFLIO REVIEW:

Students will be assigned an appointment time with the instructor for evaluation of their work and final grading. This individual critique will be scheduled (finals week) during regular class time. (Attendance is mandatory). All of your work should be kept in good condition and presented at Final Portfolio Review. Students are expected to bring in all the work they have completed for the course; this includes in-class work, home assignments, Drawing Journals. Other factors, which influence the final grade, are noted under Attendance Policy and Withdrawal Information. There are no extra credit options for this course.  In order to pass this course, all assignments must be completed and presented at Final Portfolio review. In addition, all students must complete and submit a Digital Portfolio of their entire semester’s work including Classwork, Homework and Drawing Journals.

 

Your Success:

I am committed to helping you to LOVE drawing and to find the facility in yourself to be able to confidently and enthusiastically truly enjoy the act of drawing. Please reach out to me if you are having trouble with anything at all throughout this summer.

 

Let’s DRAW!

 

 

Attendance Policy and Withdrawal Information:

 

Students are expected to attend class regularly, to arrive on time, and to stay for the entire scheduled class session. Failure to do so will have a negative effect on the student's final grade. Each absence after two will lower a student's grade by 1/2 a letter. In cases of unavoidable absences or lateness, students are encouraged to provide a doctors note and to contact the instructor with an explanation by e-mail. Please note that students will be eligible for teacher-initiated withdrawal before mid-term if they are absent three times. Five absences will result in a failing grade. Extensions on assignments will be granted only for medical reasons with a Doctor’s note. If a student simply stops attending a class, they will receive a failing grade, by withdrawing from a class, a student avoids negatively affecting their Grade Point Average.

 

Technology to be used in class: Students are expected to have access to and use computers for research, communications with the instructor and the college. Students that do not have their own computer and web access, can use the BC3 library’s resources.  In addition to class handouts, assignments and additional readings will be available as PDF attachments through your bucks e-mail account.eg:lastnamefirstinitial@student.bucks.edu Student E-mail account at Bucks County Community College Student e-mail accounts are set up automatically when a student registers for a class. This is the way that the college will communicate with you during the semester.  Check your account regularly. It’s in bucks.edu.  Your username is your last name and first initial. If you are one of multiple individuals whose generated last name-first-initial username would be the same, yours will have a string of numbers added to it to make it unique: smithj3568, for example. The complete username would be <smithj3568@bucks.student.edu> Password- birthdayMonth/day/year Example-   bd012792  After initial login, password can be changed.

 

Campus Alert :

If you go to this web page, you can find out more about getting contacted in the case of a college emergency. http://www.bucks.edu/life/security/alerts/

We are pleased to announce that Bucks County Community College now has a state-of-the-art notification system that is capable of sending notifications instantly and simultaneously to all registered mobile phones, Blackberry's, wireless PDAs, pagers, Smart or Satellite phones and email addresses.

PLEASE REGISTER - it is FREE and only takes a minute. This will be the surest way for you to receive notifications critical to your safety and well being as well as other important campus information. To create an account, simply click on the link below, which will take you directly to the sign up form. Have your cell phone with you and on. http://www.e2campus.com/my/bucks/signup.htm

 

 

 

Details for access to ARTstor ARTstor is an easy way for students and faculty to access digital images. Simply follow the following

instructions:          Go to Bucks.edu Click on “Online Services” At top of screen on right click on “Library” On right click on “Online Resources” Scroll down to “BCCC ARTstor” Log on- (you actually don’t have to log on) Type in subject or artist Double click on an image to see it larger

IMPORTANT- If you want to save an image onto your desktop, do not go to “Save as,” this will save it as an web archive. Instead, at the bottom of the image are a number of small icons, select the second one from the right that is “Download Image”. Accept Terms VERY IMPORTANT- When you save it, their number for the image will appear at the top, it will read something like “938538384.jpg” If you rename it “davinci sketch” it will not be as accessible as you’d like. You need to save is as “daVinci sketch.jpg” and then it will appear as an easy to use jpeg image. Additionally, automatically you will also get an html description of the work (with the same title as you renamed it). You can just trash this unless you need the information about the work.

 

 

ART SUPPLIES:

 

Jerry’s Artarama, 2901 US Highway1,Lawrence, NJ 08648,www.jerrysartarama.com, (609) 530-8972

Allegheny Art Co., 22 S. State Street, Newtown, Pa, www.alleghenyart.com, 215-579-1060

Blick Art Materials, 1330 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, Pa, www.dickblick.com, 215-545-3214

Utrecht Art Supplies, 301 S Broad St., Philadelphia, Pa 323 S. Main St., Philadelphia, Pa, www.utrechtart.com, 215-546-7798 215-345-0980

 

BUCKS Campus Bookstore

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MATERIALS LIST:

 

One 18 x 24” heavy duty sketchpad.  Preferably not spiral.  50 pages or more

One 18 x 24” newsprint pad.

One 9 x 12”  drawing journal. (for this class only)

Tackle Box or Art-Bin

PORTOFOLIO, for carrying your finished work  (cardboard, canvas or vinyl)

a few pieces of charcoal paper  -  for later sessions

a few pieces of watercolor or printmaking paper -  for later sessions 

Viewfinder

Compressed Charcoal

Vine Charcoal – Medium

Assorted Charcoal Pencils

Chamois and Tortillion (for charcoal smudging)

Pencils  4H, 3H, 2H,  HB , B, 2B, 4B, 6B

Graphite sticks, 2B  & 4B

a pencil Sharpener

Gum Eraser & Kneaded Eraser

One Bamboo pen (with brush)

#10 Sumi – Japanese Sumi Brush

One speedball pen for india ink drawings.  a variety of tips.

One small bottle of india ink – HIGGINS is Preferable.

a few small bowls

2 oriental brushes - one small, one large

At least 2 Large Clips - to clip your sketchbook to a drawing board.

a roll of masking tape

one 12”  ruler

30-60-90 Triangle

T Square

a scissor AND cutting blade

Spray Fixative – To be used outdoors only!