Drawing: Technical Practice (Term One)
Mondays | 5:30–7:30 PM
Term 1: June 22 – August 10
5333 Ave Casgrain, unit 900E
This course treats drawing as a practice of perception rather than technique alone. Across eight weeks, students move through grayscale, colour, form, memory, geometry, and portraiture, combining studio work with short meditation and attention exercises.
Each class begins with a guided moment of stillness and intention-setting, followed by a brief contextual introduction, extended making, and reflection. Drawing is approached as something that emerges through sustained looking, where material, attention, and time shape what appears on the page.
Historical references span early mark-making, symbolic systems, Renaissance perspective, mnemonic and geometric structures, and modern approaches to gesture and abstraction. These are used as ways of understanding how image-making has always been tied to perception, memory, and meaning.
By the final week, students work with a live model, integrating contour, gesture, and long observation to explore presence over accuracy. The focus throughout is on slowing down perception and noticing how seeing itself constructs form.
