foundation year

Sequenced instruction provides rigorous training in the use of gesture, anatomy, and structural figure drafting. Structural drawing and perceptual skills are expanded through study of the figure’s relation to environment, life-scale, movement, and draping.  Students discover individual sensibilities of mark-making and aspects of personal vision through a variety of traditional and experimental drawing media and techniques.

A sequenced investigation into the dynamics of various organizing principles using traditional and contemporary media (i.e. photography, photo-copying, computer graphics, etc.).  Students learn fundamentals of value manipulation as determinants of visual order.  Elements of visual literacy provide a basis for the study of composition, including focal point(s), directional elements, and visual weight.