Technical Directive 13 October 2004 Parts of Line Drawing A line drawing has the following elements: • Its SPACE is the blank paper. • Its DIMENSIONS (sizes or measurements) are distances between any two points. • Its LINES represent edges—the boundaries where parts of objects end and the space begins. A line can be straight [...]
Technical Directive 12 October 2004 What to Draw We use still life (objects, fruit and plants) as subjects to draw. Each separate thing is a prop. The props are arranged on a backdrop cloth draped over a stand. We call a complete arrangement a setup. Working from setups is the fastest way for students to [...]
Technical Directive 11 October 2004 The Infinity Drill I’ve created a drill that focuses on the mechanics of sketching—from the way to sit to how you hold a pencil. The idea is to be COMPLETELY RELAXED and sketch as LIGHTLY AND LOOSELY as possible. This makes it much easier to see and fit parts together. [...]
Technical Directive 10 October 2004 Basic Building Blocks of Art If you’ve ever built a sand castle, you know that the broader the base, the higher it can go. The same is true of ART. The broadest base for Art is contained in the tiny root word, ar, from the ten-thousand-year-old language of Sanskrit. It [...]
Mission: Renaissance Standard Operating Policy C O N F I D E N T I A L 4 May 1999 The Staff Statistics On 9 April this year I issued a Policy regarding the G.I. divided by staff stat. The purpose of the stat was to indicate whether we are over or under staffed [...]
Mission: Renaissance Standard Operating Policy C O N F I D E N T I A L 28 February 1998 Revised 28 June 2000 Posting Evaluation Procedure I often find myself pulled into the area of posting assistants to programs. It is not due to anyone else's lack of doing so, simply I have [...]
Mission: Renaissance Standard Operating Policy C O N F I D E N T I A L 7 October 1996 Revised 28 June 2000 Classification Change Routing Form All instructor classifications are awarded by the Quality Assurance Director, Division 5. Communication must freely flow from this division to others to ensure that all other interested [...]
Mission: Renaissance Standard Operating Policy C O N F I D E N T I A L 9 August 1996 Flat Rates and the C.P.I. There are some staff members who are on a flat rate salary. Such salaries are to be increased on a yearly basis the equivalent of the Consumer Price Index (CPI). [...]
Mission: Renaissance Standard Operating Policy C O N F I D E N T I A L 6 August 1996 Revised 27 June 2000 When to Re-Issue Policies Now, with many of the policies compiled and located on the computer network, it is possible to pull the master of any given policy and re-issue it [...]
Mission: Renaissance Standard Operating Policy C O N F I D E N T I A L 5 August 1996 Speaking in Gross Terms When discussing dollar figures in regards to pay, it is always discussed in GROSS terms. Most staff will tend to look at the NET of their pay and, to them, this [...]
