Drawing 1
This is a class designed to teach us to draw what we see, not what we want to see. The goal is for our drawings to be as realistic as possible. In order to do this we take advantage of two different drawing techniques to help our hands accurately respond to what our eyes are seeing.
1. Gesture drawing
- Quick sketch used to capture movement or the basic proportions of an object.
2. Contour drawing
- Sketching the outline and basic details of an object without adding value or shading.
- Blind contour is a technique where you draw and object while solely looking at it and not your paper. And yes, it is as hard as it seems.
Art History
The focus for this Art History class is bodies (I will have to take another class with a different focus to meet my requirement). Right now we just finished studying ancient Egyptian art and are moving on to Greece.
English 102
I took English 101 last semester. It was more focused on grammar and just getting us to write. English 102 is concerned with teaching us how to write academically. As a class we have discussed topics such as critical thinking and what a good thesis statement looks like. The class will culminate in a research paper at the end of the semester.
Spanish 111
I took a 'Spanish' course in high school (Rosetta Stone) but was unable to test out of Spanish 111. I am enjoying the class so far and think it will be beneficial for me to start over a the basic level and pick up on some concepts that I missed. So far we have learned about greetings, the alphabet, pronunciation, various nouns, the verb 'to be', and some common -ar verbs.
