Experimental Drawing Workshop Edward A. Burke

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Experimental Drawing The Evolution of Drawing Through Experimentation

Session 1: Changing “Tight Assed” Drawing Perceptions

•   Assignment: Blind Contour Line Drawing
•   Intuitive Mark Making & Aesthetic Decision Making

Session 2: “Negative Space” the final frontier

•   Lecture Notes: The Important Seeing Negative Space For Drawing
•   Assignment: Create Drawings- Negative Space Only

Session 3: Slice and Dice Drawings

•  Assignment: Create A Volume Shading/ 3D Modeling Drawing
•  Assignment: Working With A Visual Feedback Loop

Session 4: Size isn’t Everything, Scale Is

•  Assignment: Create Large-Scale Drawings Of Small Objects

Session 5: Distorted Grid Drawing

•   Assignment: Drawing From A Grided Photograph
•   Assignment: Distorting & Manipulating Grid Drawing

Session 6: Cubed Drawings, As In Cubism

•    Lecture Notes: Contemporary Abstractions Relationship To Cubism
•    Assignment: Two Still Life's on Drawing
•    Assignment: Portraits From Multiple Vantage Points

Session 7: Non-Representational Drawings