Fall 2013 and Spring 2013

This unique drawing workshop, conducted in the Drawing course, presented by Jim Anderson, a landscape architect and illustrator with over forty years of practical design presentation experience and training, will introduce and explore a variety of media, techniques and drawing approaches with an emphasis on discovering many of the tricks, shortcuts, secrets and resources for time-saving and effective visual drawing. He will also explore some of the biases and myths about learning to draw and identify some of the no-no’s that limit and frustrate students' efforts.

The workshop will expand the students' appreciation of both the art form and artistry of their drawings while, importantly, focusing on the issues that Landscape Architecture students want to know most about getting better at communicating their work with more enjoyment and less fear.

The instructor will incorporate lectures, Powerpoint presentations, entertaining demonstrations, studio and field sketch exercises and individual and studio critiques over four weeks of instruction. In addition, the instructor will lead sketch exercises during the scheduled Berlin field trip!