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Introduction to Drawing
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This Course is Available through these Programs:
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Foundations in Studio Art
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French Language & Liberal Arts
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International Business
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International Internship
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Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Academic Institution: CEA GlobalCampus: Paris
Location: Paris, FrancePrimary Subject Area: Drawing
Other Subject Area(s): Studio Arts
Level(s): 200
UNH Course Code: SAR211
Instruction in: English
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 45
Description
Leave your inhibitions behind and explore your artistic potential here in the City of Light. Make Paris your private studio where your artistic purpose and responsibility is to develop a personal, experimental and expressive response to its medieval streets, varied social and daily life, bustling marketplaces and legendary cafés. In this course you will explore the rich cultural heritage of Paris through an expressive, inspired, and intensive process of on-site and studio drawing.
During the initial part of the course you will be introduced to the fundamental principles and elements of drawing technique and media. These include gesture, contour, tone, mark making, and modeling. Traditional media will be pencil, charcoal, conté and ink. On trips to the specialized museum collections, you will see how these principles and techniques have been used in some of the best work of the French Masters. In this way, you will gain firsthand knowledge of original and historic masterpieces by studying and sketching them on site and you will learn how to translate that exposure and research into a more personal expression.
You will also take up temporary "residence" in the city's romantic gardens and sidewalk cafes from which you will develop your technical skills in landscape, still life, movement, composition and perspective. And in addition, and like the most renowned of French artists, you will draw from the human figure in a relaxed studio environment.
As the course progresses, your choices will be more confident and experimental. Media will become mixed and your artistic identity will start to emerge. The act of looking and recording your surroundings will bring you into closer, more thoughtful contact with the cityscape of Paris, its inhabitants, its furniture and its energy.
The result of your efforts will be a portfolio of on-site and studio drawings which will be informative and imaginative, together acting as a visual diary of your experience and mood here in Paris and as a initial exploration into what drawing is all about. Throughout the course you will develop both your skills of observation and a personal and expressive language which, when used together, will allow you to analyze, interpret and communicate the visual landscape you encounter here in Paris.
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