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Week 1 |
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Class 1 |
Introduction to Course, Materials, Syllabus, Expectations
Slideshow.
Assignment: Buy supplies |
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Week 2 |
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Class 2 |
Lecture and Demonstration: How to Stretch Canvas
How to prepare canvas, paper, masonite, plywood.
In Class: Prepare canvas |
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Class 3 |
Demonstration: How to lay out your palette and materials.
How to mix paint and clean your brushed, Health and safety factors.
In Class: Simple still life
Assignment: Work on your painting |
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Week 3 |
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Class 4 |
In Class; Work on your painting
Assignment: Work on your painting. |
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Class 5 |
Slide Lecture and Demonstration: Color Theory for the Painter, and the Nature of Pigments.
Warm/cool and complementary relationships. Pigment tinting strength and drying time differences, masstone, undertone, transparent and opaque colors.
In Class: Work on painting #2
Assignment: Work on your painting. Read and absorb color theory handout and terminology |
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Week 4 |
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Class 6 |
In Class: Color theory quiz. Continue work on your painting.
Assignment: Finish your painting |
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Class 7 |
In Class Lecture: Glazing
In Class: Begin work on painting #3. Small glazing project.
Assignment: Finish your painting |
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Week 5 |
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Class 8 |
In Class Lecture: The Limited Palette.
In Class: Begin work on Limited palette painting (Titanium white, Burnt Sienna, Yellow Ochre, Ultramarine Blue)
Assignment: Work on your painting |
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Class 9 |
In Class: Work on your painting
Assignment: Work on your painting |
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Week 6 |
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Class 10 |
In Class: Speed painting
In Class: Begin and complete one painting with designated still life
Assignment: Prepare supports for next few painting |
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Class 11
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In Class: Speed painting
In Class: Begin and complete one painting with different designated still life
Assignment: Rest |
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Week 7 |
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Class 12 |
Lecture: How to Give and Handle a Critique
In Class: Critique
Assignment: Spend time in the museum or art library looking at paintings. |
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Class 13 |
Lecture: Value and Chiaroscuro
Dealing with Value and Color at the same time.
In Class: Begin painting. |
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Week 8 |
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Class 14 |
In Class: Continue Painting
Assignment: Continue Painting |
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Class 15 |
In Class: Continue Painting
Assignment: Complete Painting |
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Week 9 |
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Classes 16, 17 |
Spring Break |
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Week 10 |
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Class 18 |
Lecture: How to render texture
In Class: Short texture investigations
Assignment: Continue texture investigations. |
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Class 19 |
In Class: Short texture investigations
Assignment: Continue texture investigations |
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Week 11 |
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Class 20 |
Lecture: How to render reflective surfaces
In Class: Still life emphasizing reflective surfaces
Assignment: Work on painting |
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Class 21 |
In Class: Work on painting
Assignment: Work on painting |
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Week 12 |
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Class 22 |
Lecture and Demonstration: Making Your Own Paint from Pigment
In Class: Make paint. Don't forget your supplies!
Assignment: Try out your new paints. How do they differ from store bought? |
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Class 23 |
In Class: Pigment and paint discussion and experimentation
Slide Show and Lecture: Multi-panel and Serial Painting Approaches
Assignment: Develop final project ideas |
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Week 13 |
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Class 24 |
In Class: Present final project ideas, Group discussion
Assignment: Prepare supports for final project. |
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Class 25 |
In Class: Work on final project
Assignment: Work on Final Project |
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Weeks 14,15 and 16 |
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In Class: Work on final project
Assignment: Work on Final Project |
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Last Class |
Final Critique |
