Landscapes final journal and project assignments

Journal: pick three dwellings at RHC that have some resonance for you. Do a fairly detailed sketch for each, and then try to imagine what daily life was like. What did it feel like to be living there? What sort of chores would consume the resident's day? What reflections on your own life does it spark? Make detailed notes.

Final project: pick one dwelling from among the three and tell the story of that place. Use your notes from the journal and expand on them. Try to find out the story behind the dwelling. Let your curiosity guide you to ask questions (some of which you may not be able to answer, but bring them up anyway). For example, what did they eat? What was winter like inside the home?

Be creative if you like--include recipes, imagine that you are that homesteader and write a letter to the folks back home, plan a Christmas celebration for the home, etc...

Include a refined drawing of the place.

Journals and projects are due December 9th at 1:30 pm. You may pick them up next semester.

Have a great Holiday!

Landscapes weather update

Don't worry about riding your bikes today--we'll be staying at the Ranching Heritage Center. Also, be sure to dress warmly, as we'll be sitting and drawing.

Landscapes for November 20th

Meet at the Ranching Heritage Center by 2:20. The reading for the week will be in the milk crate outside my office after 11am on Tuesday.

Landscapes for November 20

Homework due: What is Main Street? Is it an idea? A place? Some combination of both? How does downtown LBB fit or not fit into your argument? What are the physical aspects of the landscape there that inform what you have to say about it? Think of all the things you can use to describe the space that help to define it as a particular place (e.g. angled parking) and not someplace else.

Make copious notes/sketches, and include analysis.

Reading and location for class on November 20: TBA

Landscapes for November 13

Greetings all! I hope you had a great time at the coffee houses last week.

Your midterms are graded and in the milk crate outside the door of my office. There is also a copy of this week's reading by Stilgoe. Don't forget to pick up a copy and read it before class on Thursday.

We will be meeting on Thursday, with our bikes (tires pumped up and ready to go!) , outside the Honors College north entrance. We will be riding to the downtown area of LBB.

BBB for November 11

Meet at the pond behind Goedeke Library (South Loop 289 and Quaker), in the west side parking area.

Bring your art kit, binoculars, and something comfortable to sit on. We will practice drawing birds in the field.

Next week, bring whatever reference materials (including natural hisotry info) you need to do a final bird drawing. You pick the bird, either from the skins I brought last week, or another. Look up what habitat the bird would be found in, since you will be doing a drawing of the bird in its environment. Bring thumbnail sketches to class showing how you plan to compose the drawing. Once the composition is approved, you will proceed in the usual fashion.