This course is designed to enable students with a particular interest in the outback environment to devote an extended and concentrated time in the field to researching a remote location through drawing and painting. By direct encounter and observations, students will deal with the natural world as an invaluable resource of ideas and inspiration particularly relevant to the focus of their major studies in drawing and painting. Students will be encouraged to investigate, identify and document new material that they can gather in the field that they feel will be most relevant to their developing work in the studio. In preparation of the field experience, students will investigate the work of contemporary artists working in similar genre.