Diane Hoffman | Teaching Portfolio | Foundation Studies

Foundation Drawing
Schedule of Assignments
Diane Hoffman

Week 1:
Model in morning
Introductions, Syllabus, Studio
Discussion/Critique of Visual History Homework
Raft homework due next week: Recreate history painting with found with small 3-d elements

Week 2
Model in morning: Marks and Space
Afternoon class: Shape drawing of 3-d re-creation
Raft homework: Finish drawing and find bring a light source (clip on lamp and bring extra bulbs) and light your set like original painting

Week 3:
Model in morning: Detail to an  Enlargement
Afternoon class: Raft Ink studies, Raft enlargement and transformation by mapping light and shadows and creating pathways
Raft homework: finish enlargement

Week 4:
In class: Critique on all Raft drawings
Homework: Friends drawing

Week 5:
Computer lab in the morning
Afternoon: Peer Critique small group Friends drawings.
Homework: Begin Horizon Line drawing (due at end of semester)

Week 6:
Models All Day:  Humans in a Perspectival space using Local Color to comprehend both objects and space
Homework: Dramatic Memory and light, make a 3 –d diorama of a memory

Week 7: 
Model in morning: Perspective
Homework: continue Dramatic memory project

Week 8:
Model in morning: Illusion of Bones Beneath Skin
Homework: Finish Dramatic memory drawing

Week 9:
Critique of Dramatic memory drawing
Homework: Start Final project

Week 10:
Models in morning: Continue the illusion of bones beneath skin
Homework : Final project

Week 11:
Models in morning
Homework : Final project

Week 12:
Models in Morning
Homework : Final project

Week 13:
Critique week
Final project and Horizon Line drawing due