SCHEDULE AND
TOPICAL OUTLINE
This
schedule may be subject to change with advance notice provided
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Week 1:
Introduction
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9/6
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Studio: Introduction- Syllabus / materials /
questionnaire / thoughts about painting Homework: Purchase Supplies |
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Week 2:
Drawing
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9/13
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Studio: Using your materials / using the
studio / review of drawing basics: gesture, perspective, mass, composition,
balance / creating thumbnails; Drawing
exercises Homework: drawings of glassware / thumbnail compositions (due 9/20) |
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Week 3:
Value
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9/20
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Studio: greyscales / Greyscale study of an Old Master Painting
from a postcard
Homework: Complete greyscale
study (due 9/27)
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Week 4:
Color
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9/27
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Studio: Lecture on color mixing
and approaches to color: local, optical, arbitrary, symbolic; creating your
palette; Color mixing exercises and
saturation scales
Homework: Complete saturation
scales / obtain one natural object (due
10/4)
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Week 5:
Object
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10/4
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Studio: Discussion of paint
application + techniques—wet-on-wet, impasto, blended, sgraffito, drybrush,
staining/washes; Monochromatic (single
color) study of a natural object
Homework: Paint application
+ technique studies / bring in consumer good object for next class (due 10/11)
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Week 6:
Still Life
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10/11
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Studio: Localized color still life study using direct painting (alla prima)
Homework: Drawing-
Representational self-portrait with prop (due
10/18)
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Week 7:
Self
(representational)
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10/18
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Studio: Discussion on content; discussion
of representation vs. abstraction; Representational
self-portrait with prop, in localized color, using indirect painting
Homework: Complete self-portrait /
Drawing- abstract self-portrait (due
10/25)
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Week 8:
Self (abstract)
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10/25
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Studio: Discussion on landscape
painting; Hard-edged abstract self-portrait using indirect
painting and arbitrary palette
Homework: Complete abstract
self-portrait / Drawing + painting- landscape studies and photographs
(printed) (due 11/1)
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Week 9:
Place: Landscape
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11/1
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Studio: Landscape painting using optical color and modified direct painting
Homework: Complete
landscape painting (due 11/8)
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Week 10:
Place: Interior
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11/8
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Studio: Interior painting using indirect painting and cool/warm color palette
Homework: Complete interior
painting / Drawing: develop maps (due
11/15)
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Week 11:
Place: Map
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11/15
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Studio: Discussion on narrative;
Map painting in symbolic color using indirect
painting
Homework: Complete map
painting / Drawing: sequential narrative (due
11/22)
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Week 12:
Narrative
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11/22
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Studio: Discussion of
iconography; Sequential narrative
painting using hard edges, symbolic color, indirect painting
Homework: Complete
sequential narrative painting / obtain natural object for next class (due 11/29)
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Week 13:
Sequential
Abstraction
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11/29
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Studio: Discussion of sequential
abstraction; Develop and begin final series
(three panels) of sequential abstraction using three different color
palettes, three different application techniques
Homework: Complete
sequential abstraction project (due
12/13)
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Week 14:
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12/6
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NO
CLASS: STUDY DAY
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Week 15:
Final
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12/13
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Studio: Critique
of completed final projects and process notes (12 to 3pm)
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