Syllabus for 2-D Design

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


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