Drawing with the R.O.D.VAL.® Method

Lecture

The lecture explains why drawing is not sufficiently valued during childhood, particularly because of the lack of a structured learning method. This shortcoming can persist into adulthood as the frustrated desire to draw accurately, without making mistakes when depicting the world around us. The basic principles of the method and the results achieved with children, adolescents and adults will be presented.

Workshop

During the workshop, participants explore the characteristics of marks and lines before moving on to drawing from observation, tackling increasingly complex subjects. They gradually discover the “secret” of learning to reason about what they see and thereby improving their drawing skills.

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Workshop Topics

Workshop I. Objects

● Regaining lost confidence

● Why copy reality?

● Why we make mistakes

● Structural analysis of lines

● Harmonising hand movements

● Formal and functional logic

● Composing arrangements of objects

● Composing objects in relation to their surroundings

Workshop II. Urban and Natural Landscapes

● Elements of perspective geometry

● Architectural spaces

● A landscape seen from indoors

● The natural landscape seen from outdoors

● The urban landscape seen from outdoors

Workshop III. The Human Figure

● Human anatomy

● The human face

● Self-portrait

● Hands, feet and joints

● The full figure

● Light and shadow

Who Is It For?

Anyone who believes they cannot draw.
Maximum of 30 participants.

Duration

R.O.D.VAL.® workshops involve 16 hours of work over a weekend.
Participants must complete the first workshop before attending the second, and the second before attending the third.
Maximum of 15 participants.

Cost

The fee for each workshop is agreed with the participants.

Download workshop information sheet (PDF, Italian)

Lecture preview

Seeing, Observing, Drawing, EVALuating: A New Method for Everyone

The R.O.D.VAL.® method is an initiative designed to reawaken and develop graphic thinking, which grows and finds expression through drawing.

The project emerged from a teaching methodology developed by Giovanni Spinicchia over 46 years of educational experience. His meeting with the Institute's director, Simone Casu, made it possible to write a teaching text—forthcoming at the time of the original text—without which the R.O.D.VAL.® method could never have been documented.

This methodology enables anyone, regardless of talent, to learn to draw accurately, just as they have learned to write, read and perform mathematical calculations.

For the first time, a learning system is available that enables anyone to learn to draw in a very short time. Naturally, learning times vary according to the individual and the amount of drawing practice. Yet no one, according to the method's proponents, has been unable to develop the ability to draw the reality surrounding them through R.O.D.VAL.®.