Assignments


Extended Place Study

Assignment: Take a 40-page notebook, and fill it with drawings made at/about your place, along with a running journal/commentary of notes opposite each drawing.

Duration: four weeks (2/3-3/3)


Iterative Place Study

Assignment: Make a single drawing of or about your place, along with a journal/commentary of notes.

Duration: one week, repeated


Rubbing

Assignment: Make a composition on a single piece of paper, exclusively through rubbings of your place.

Duration: one week


Palette landscape

Assignment: Make a single-sheet encyclopedia of color for your place, mixing at least 15 unique colors that are actually observed in your place. Use your palette to make a series of small works of and about your place.

Duration: one week


Blow-Up

Assignment: Take one unfinished sketch, and blow it up to a massive scale using a scanner and plotter printer. Print three exact copies of the blow-up, and make three different large-scale drawings from each copy.

Duration: two-three weeks


Compass

Assignment: Make a series of 12 small directional drawings at your place.

Each drawing should correspond to a view from a specific direction, like the hands of a clock.

Duration: three weeks




Final project: Drawing with Place