This four-week studio intensive course, held on Saturdays, Sept. 7 through 28, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., will help students learn basic drafting skills necessary to record and effectively communicate scaled site plans. Taught by Tom Smith of Springfield Technical Community College, the course will cover reference books, drafting supplies, media/paper types, line weights, lettering, and scale reading. Drafting demonstrations will familiarize students with professional drawing techniques, and students will begin to draft basic site plans and explore map-making. During the last half of the course, students will learn to develop a landscape graphic palette to illustrate trees, shrubs, perennials, and groundcovers, as well as hardscape materials such as stone terraces.

Tom Smith teaches at Springfield Technical Community College.  His past career adventures include precision machining, HVAC ductwork fabricator, installer and apprentice service technician, and the U.S. Navy.  He also wore many 'hats' within a small landscape company as a designer, estimator, salesperson, horticulturist, and construction crew leader.