Materials List

This is in your syllabus, but just in case, here's the materials list for the semester:

1 pad of newsprint – 18” x 24”

1 pad of thick (at least 80 lbs) drawing paper – 18” x 24”

3 sheets of medium-toned paper

1 sketchbook

2 boxes of Char-kole

4 sticks of brown or red conte

2 sticks of white conte

Variety of charcoal pencils (6B, 4B, HB, 2H)

Variety of graphite pencils (6B, 4B, HB)

1 tub of black ink

1 bamboo brush (#6 or 8)

3 small lidded containers (can be baby food jars or small tupperware, for example)

4 kneaded erasers

1 white plastic eraser

1 roll of masking tape

1 shammy clothe

Pencil sharpener

All materials can be purchased at Dick Blick (201 S. Clinton).

Homework

For Thursday, August 27, please bring a pad of newsprint, box of char-kole, and kneaded eraser to class.

For Tuesday, September 1st, please complete at least 3 self-portraits. Use char-kole sticks and newsprint, and do them from life (ie a mirror and not a photograph). Keep track of the order in which you did the drawings. While working on them, concentrate on the material of the char-kole and try to utilize what it seems to do well. Make sure you spend at least 6 hours on your drawings.

Welcome!

Welcome to the Basic Drawing blog! In the future I will post assignments, things to check out, and other useful information. You will also be asked to contribute to the blog. Hopefully, this will become a useful resource for you as well as a tool to stimulate conversation and new ideas.

I look forward to getting to know all of you over the course of the semester!