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| Week 1 | |
| Class 1 |
Introduction to Course, Introduction to Materials
Assignment: Buy supplies, read about Line, Write Paper describing any piece of 2-dimensional art in the LVM museum as best you can in 2 typed pages. |
| Week 2 | |
| Class 2 |
Due: Paper
Lecture: Abstract Qualities of Line Assignment: Line quality exercise: Fill 15 4" x 4" squares with as many different kinds of line as you can, using as many supplies as you have. |
| Class 3 |
Due: Line quality exercise In class: Introduction to the Kohler Art Library Assignment: Bring in still line objects Monday, readings on contour, Depth/Line assignment: create an abstract composition emphasizing depth using only lines that do not cross (i.e. no cross hatching for shading). |
| Week 3 | |
| Class 4 |
Due: Depth/Line Assignment In Class: Handout re Critique, discussion of what is a critique. Critique of Line/Depth assignment. Contour drawings of still life objects. Lecture: Contour Assignment: Contour drawing with focus on composition. Read about Unity, Variety, Shape |
| Class 5 |
Due: Contour Drawing In Class: Quick critique, Lecture Unity, Variety, Shape construction paper project Assignment: Read about value, 9 square project |
| Week 4 | |
| Class 6 |
Due: 9 square project In Class: Lecture: Value In Class Project: Value Scales Assignment: Value Scale. Read about texture. |
| Class 7 |
Due: Value Scale
In Class Project; Drawings emphasizing value In Class Lecture: Texture Assignment: Read about texture Texture Project. 40 index cards, 4 each (drawing, rubbing, object and collage) for 10 different adjectives. |
| Week 5 | |
| Class 8 |
Due: Texture Project
In Class Lecture: Abstraction, Rhythm. Quiz on vocabulary and textbook reading so far. In Class Critique: Texture Assignment: Collect objects for Pattern Project |
| Class 9 |
Due: Object(s) for pattern project
In Class Lecture: Pattern In Class Project: Drawings of selected objects. Learning to crop and abstract. Assignment: Thumbnail drawings of objects, plus one pattern design |
| Week 6 | |
| Class 10 |
Due: Thumbnails, etc.
In Class Project: Time to work on pattern designs. Individual attention. Assignment: 2 of 6 patterns, and thumbnails for layout |
| Class 11 |
Due: 2 of 6 patterns, thumbnails
In Class Project: Faith Ringold movie, and work time Assignment: 4 of 6 patterns, and final layout design[Guest Instructor] |
| Week 7 | |
| Class 12 |
Due: 4 of 6 patterns, final layout
In Class Project: 6 of 6 patterns. |
| Class 13 |
Due: Pattern Project
Critique: Pattern Project Assignment: Read about Depth. Optional: can work on magazine examples, which will be formally assigned March 16. |
| Week 8 | |
| Classes 14,15 | Spring Break |
| Week 9 | |
| Class 16 |
In Class Lecture: Methods of Creating Depth
Lecture/Demonstration: Perspective In Class Project: Perspective Drawings Assignment: 15 perspective thumbnails, and magazine examples of 6 methods of creating depth |
| Class 17 |
Due: 15 thumbnails, magazine studies
In Class Project: Perspective drawings with collage Assignment: Create a composition utilizing 5 methods of creating depth. |
| Week 10 | |
| Class 18 |
Due: Composition utilizing depth
Critique: Composition utilizing depth Lecture: Paint, Brushes, Pigments Assignment: Read color theory. Quiz next Monday. |
| Class 19 |
Lecture: Color Theory, Color Wheels
Demonstration: How to use gouache In Class Project: Color Studies, get acquainted with paint Assignment: Color Wheel. Quiz Monday on color theory vocabulary. |
| Week 11 | |
| Class 20 |
Due: Color Wheel
In Class project: Quiz on Color Theory terms. Working with neutrals. Assignment: Neutral scale |
| Class 21 |
Due: neutral scale
In class Project: neutral painting Assignment: Restaurant painting |
| Week 12 | |
| Class 22 |
Due: Restaurant Painting
Critique: Restaurant painting In Class: Introduce the final paper and provide art list to work from. In Class Lecture: Serial work, how to make several pieces cohere. |
| Class 23 |
Due: Thumbnails of Color House Project
In Class: Field Trip to LVM to work on final paper in Small groups. Assign: Complete working plan, and partially complete one of six pieces |
| Week 13 | |
| Class 24 |
Due: Working pan and part of one complete composition
In Class Project: Work on Color House. Optional: field trip to Instructor’s MFA show. Assignment: 2 of 6 compositions |
| Class 25 |
Due: 2 of 6 compositions
In class project: Work on Color House. Show Frida Kahlo Video. Invite students to instructor’s MFA opening tonight. Assignment: 4 of 6 compositions due |
| Week 14 | |
| Class 26 |
Due: 4 to 5 of 6 compositions
In Class Project: Work on Color House Assignment: Complete House Project |
| Class 27 |
Due: House Project
Critique: House Project Field Trip: Kohler Artist Book Collection Introduce Book Project Assignment: Story board for Book Project. Final Paper Due Monday |
| Week 15 | |
| Class 28 |
Due: Story board, Final Paper
In Class Project: Small group critique of story board, work on story board Assignment: Maquette |
| Class 29 |
Due: Maquette
Lecture/Demonstration: Bookbinding (Mark Wagner and Lisa Beth Robinson) and Pop-up Structures (Liz Roth) In Class Project: Work on book Assignment: Work on book. Discuss Final portfolio requirements. |
| Week 16 | |
| Class 30 |
Work on Book
Assignment: Complete Book |
| Class 32 |
Critique: Final Book. Discuss Portfolio requirements
Assignment: Complete Final Portfolio |
| Hand in Final Portfolios | |
| Class 33 | Final Critiques |
