Lyme Academy

Drawing I is a two-semester course focusing on the fundamentals of drawing,emphasizing perceptual, analytical and imaginative approaches. The course enhances students’ observational sensibilities and hand-eye coordination, develops an understanding of methods, concepts and drawing systems, and encourages experimentation and “outside the box” thinking. Through regular critiques,students begin to make critical decisions about their work.

Estimated cost of materials: $100.00

3-D Design introduces students to basic principles, processes and materials used in 3-D design and concept generation. Students learn to define space through the use of line, planes and solid forms, and to manipulate mass, volume and void through a series of projects that encourage drawing, experimentation and construction. Presentation skills and craftsmanship will be developed, as well as creativity and critical judgment.

Estimated cost of materials: $50.00
This course will run provisionally and will be assessed for final approval at the end of the 2010-2011 academic year.

This two-semester course provides students with the skills necessary to construct paintings using the three-dimensional world as reference. Using oil paint, students proceed through a series of sequential assignments designed to promote a thorough understanding of value and color and to introduce them to formal conventions employed by both historical and contemporary painters. Students develop an intentional, reliable approach to painting, familiarity with materials and techniques and understanding of composition and color theory, improving their creative approach and critical judgment.

Estimated cost of materials: $150.00

This two semester introductory course explores the observation and duplication of three dimensional form and composition. This course also serves as an introduction to the tools, materials and techniques of modeling the human figure. The history and traditions of sculpture will be discussed as a foundation and context for understanding class exercises. Observation of basic forms will begin the systematic study of convexity, concavity, planar orientation, projection, volume, silhouette, line, symmetry and proportion. These foundational concepts will be coupled with methods for accurately observing, measuring and depicting an object in three-dimensions. The synthesis of these methodologies will be the cornerstone for assessing figural archetypes and anatomical structures.

Estimated cost of materials: $65.99

Physiological principles covered in Anatomy I are related to a system of description that proceeds on the basis of comparisons between anatomical structures and drawable Euclidean-type solids. Ways in which the representation of the human body by means of such comparisons can be seen to serve goals common to both scientific and artistic endeavors—particularly the goals of comprehensibility, regularity and predictability—are established. Students prepare individual projects delineating the skeletal and muscular systems for figures they either have chosen from among artistic representations or that they themselves have generated. 

1.5 instructed hours and 3 hours of required independent work each week.

Estimated cost of materials: $25.00

This is a two-semester required course examining major periods, styles, and themes in Western Art. The first semester examines works from the Prehistoric era to the Gothic period, continued in the second semester by the study of works from the Renaissance through the early twentieth century. Lectures and readings are devoted to presenting students with a repertoire of significant painting, sculpture, and architecture, and an understanding of the meanings of these works within their original cultural contexts. Students are also challenged to expand their observation and vocabulary skills through close formal analysis of the visual properties of art. Exam essays and writing assignments develop research skills and promote the development of analytic and critical thinking. Requirements each semester: purchase of textbook, assigned readings, museum visit, two exams, a short presentation and essay. Completion of both semesters of this course is required for entry into all upper level Art History courses.

Required:
Art History, Volume 2 (4th Edition), Stokstad & Cothren, ISBN-13: 978-0205744213, Retail: $151.00
Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series, Berger, ISBN-13: 978-0140135152, Retail: $15.00
Recommended
A Short Guide to Writing about Art (7th Edition), Barnet, ISBN-13: 978-0321101440, Retail: $42.19

This two-semester sequence provides a structured transition from Sculpture I, offering a systematic method and further development of modeling, casting and finishing a sculptured figure. Demonstrations are given on constructing the total figure with additional methods of modeling feet, hands and head. Frequent class critiques are held. Various methodologies are explored in constructing a figure from memory as well as from the model with particular
emphasis on producing a finished sculpture. Composition is discussed with emphasis on constructing the figure using composition concepts and devices.

Sculpture majors must earn a minimum grade of C- in this course to receive credit.
May be taken by juniors and seniors on a space-available basis to count towards fulfilling the Figure Sculpture requirement.

This course is an introduction to the process of concept formation and the manifestation of the concept into three-dimensional, compositional projects within the parameters of a set format. During the first semester projects are assigned to enable the student to see the various elements that constitute composition. The elements that will be addressed are rhythm, space vs. mass, alignment, timing, contained shapes, and more which are presented
through the means of lectures and critiques. The projects of the second semester are treated as commissions and all the necessary requirements of such can be demonstrated through the use of the creative process. The creative process includes, but is not limited to, the following steps: concept formation, written proposal, drawings, primary maquettes, and a final enlargement. With this knowledge of translating an idea into three-dimensional form, the student gets a sense of what it is to be a professional sculptor as well as becoming prepared to enter and manage the upper division classes with confidence.

Sculpture majors must earn a minimum grade of C- in this course to receive credit.
Estimated cost of materials: $100.00

Students model from life, at first using points and measurements. By training the eye in this way, the student begins to see and understand three-dimensional planes, forms, and the construction of the head and works toward achieving a likeness reflecting the character of the model posing. Throughout the course, students are encouraged and guided in developing their own interpretation of the model through a pose of the head and its expression.

Estimated cost of materials: $135.00

Drawing strategies are established and applied meeting the artistic challenges of creating whole pictures. In a variety of formats, including studio set-ups, on-site landscape and imaginative composition, successful over-all pictorialization is pursued as an effect of artistic completeness and unity to which each pictorial element and part has contributed.

Drawing majors must earn a minimum grade of C- in this course to receive credit.
Estimated cost of materials: $50.00

Choose elective studio course this semester.

The College offers a range of sculpture courses.  Please review the semester’s course schedule for specific information regarding topic, the instructor of record, and time/days offered.

Please review the semester’s course schedule for the specific figure sculpture course being offered, the instructor of record, and time/days offered.

This course is intended for Junior Sculpture majors in the BFA program. It is also open to students who have had at least a full year of figure study and two years of anatomy. The course involves students working with compositional concepts from ancient masters to contemporary sculptors. Critique is conducted at the end of each assignment. This course comes to conclusion with the completion of a project chosen by the student involving his or her own creative ideas that is intended to prepare the student for the senior studio process. Prerequisite: SC275. Sculpture majors must receive a C- or above in this course to advance within the major.

Estimated cost of materials: $100.00

Mold making is explored through the various techniques and methodologies of constructing a mold incorporating the various materials such as plaster, silicone, latex, polyurethanes and alginates. Positive form or the cast from the mold is explored through use of various materials such as plaster, ultracal, FGR95 used with polymers, cement, epoxy, polyester resin, polyurethane resin and wax which is used for the lost wax bronze casting process. The foundry process of the “raw cast” is explored to facilitate learning in welding, chasing and the patina process in finishing a bronze sculpture. Students are required to make a mold and finish a cast in the materials of their choosing.

Estimated cost of materials: $275.00

The study and application of ideas pertaining to the representation of bodily movement.Practice is gained in representing the human figure as a series of Euclidean-type volumes,interlocked yet moving, each in its own trajectory. Specific strategies are then discussed and practiced for fusing multiple poses/views in a single figure in order to create, upon the page, a compelling and convincing figural fiction that advances students’ independently developed expressive aims. The artistic impact and import of the free but purposive orchestration/ exaggeration of visual forms, including the re-setting of proportions, invented anatomical transitions and forms spawned through calligraphic energy, are also explored.

Drawing majors must earn a minimum grade of C- in this course to receive credit.

Choose elective studio course this semester.