Course Description: This course builds on and refines the experiences of Drawing I focusing on a variety of media including color. Emphasis is on invention and formal concerns. Explorations into abstraction, nonobjective and fabricated image making is covered in this class. Course includes vocabulary development, critical analysis activities, and reference to contemporary and historic models of drawing.Prerequisite: Drawing I or portfolio reviewCredit Hours: Three (3) A studio class meeting six (6) contact hours per weekMedia: Emphasis on a variety of media in primarily color and some black and white:- Markers- Water-based media- Dry media- Grounds- Various Papers - options may include digital mediaConcepts and skills should include but not limited to:• Blending Techniques• Rendering Surfaces• Marking Techniques• Organizational Principles• Mass / Volume• Repetition / Variation• Opacity / Transparency• Additive / Subtractive• Spatial Illusion• Form• Plane• Series Drawing• Color Principles• Expressive Impact and Meaning of Color• Presentation Skills Note: It is strongly recommended that students maintain sketchbooks in this class.Critical Analysis: Class and Individual Critiques providing for understanding of the criteria and standards used in assessing performanceDiverse and Inclusive Historical and Contemporary Reference: Connect various contemporary, historical, and multi-cultural models to this particular studio/aesthetic practice in the development of visual literacy. Diverse and inclusive historical and contemporary references must be included in course content.Health and Safety: Students must be instructed on all safe studio and/or shop practices as well as the correct and safe operation of tools and/or media used in this course. Safety issues must be addressed. It needs to exist as an easily identifiable, discrete, or separate statement.Suggested References/Texts: NAREVISED 04/2/2024 - panel made a revision to the Historical and Contemporary References information. Effective Fall 2024 Was:Historical and Contemporary Reference: Connect various contemporary, historical, and multi-cultural models to this particular studio/aesthetic practice in the development of visual literacy. Historical and contemporary references must be clearly stated in course content. The panel strongly encourages the use of diverse, equitable, and inclusive references within the course.Previous Revision: 03/22/2023 - Clarification of Contemporary References with addition of criteria statement on diverse references. Also clarifies Health and Safety. Effective Fall 2023
Last Revision: 10/27/2021 – “Clock” hours changed to “Contact” hours. The panel clarified color content, “primarily color and some black and white” and added “Markers” to the media list. Health and Safety statement strengthened from “should” to “must.” - effective Spring 2022Previously Revised by IHEAA, 4-20-2012 Revision Endorsed by the IAI Art Major Panel, 10/2012Adopted by IHEAA, 10-17-1997 Endorsed by IAI Art Major Panel, 10-29-99The Illinois Higher Education Art Association (IHEAA) and the IAI Art Major Panel both recognizes that each discipline within an art program has specific objectives that are routinely formulated by faculty within the discipline. These objectives are further defined and implemented by each faculty member during the course of teaching a class. It is not the intention of these skills and content outlines to impose specific course objectives or approach or to prescribe projects - the domain of each individual instructor. These skills and content outlines, however, are intended to suggest a set of minimum expectations or standards from which specific individual objectives and approaches can be developed. Instructors may provide additional experiences, content and skills, but they should cover what is outlined to assure continuity among courses with similar titles.