1996 was the first year I taught the Landscape Graphics course. This is a techniques and craft course in which both manual and computer applications are emphasized. Landscape Graphics by Reed and Color Drawing by Doyle were the texts for the course.
The course begins with the simple and bold graphics required for
schematic graphics. The students were given rough sketch of a schematic diagram and
asked to improve the grahics by interperting the importance of the various elements
and using bold graphic symbols and colors.
The next drawing, by Ryan Leigh, shows an example of black and white
plan graphic technique. This assignment was preceeded by an exercise in which
students devised and demonstrated plan view material symbols
Color theory is addressed through both lectures and a series of
exercises.
The following images illustrate student experiments in the application of color
schemes and rendering techniques. The third drawing shows a technique where felt
tip markers are applied to the back of a vellum sheet and colored pencil is applied
to the front.