Art 231: Painting I
Art 232: Painting II
Spring 2007 Syllabus

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3 credits
Prerequisite for Art 231: none
Prerequisite for Art 232: Art 231 Painting I
Instructor: Connie Peng
E-mail: pengc@wncc.edu
Meets: Mondays and Wednesdays 1-3:15 p.m. in Aspen 210

Transferability:

Art 231, 232   Painting I-II – 231 applies towards an elective for an AAS degree in Graphic Communications.  Both 231 and 232 apply toward an elective for AA degree in Fine Arts.  231 and 232 are both tranferrable to UNR and most colleges for major requirement.

Objective:

Painting I - this class will introduce you to the fundamentals of composing a work with paint.  We will explore basic elements in painting, color mixing, color quality, material, composing work with color.
Painting II - This class will further your understanding of what your paint can do for you.  Building on the basic foundation, you will begin to develop a conscious visual thinking and awareness of artistic purpose.

Grading:

Your grade is based on your attendance, participation, portfolio, and homework:

• Attendance and Participation: Since the understanding and the skills of drawing are a cumulative result of doing the work, attendance is mandatory. 4 absences will result in dropping one whole final grade, and 5 absences will result in failing the class. It is the student's responsibility to withdraw from a course if he/she feels the need to drop the course.) Excessive tardiness will affect one's grade.  3 late/leaving early will count as one absence.  Brief group critiques will happen periodically, and students are expected to participate in the critique.
• Midterm review: include all your in-class works up to this point.  A midterm grade will be given.
• Final portfolio: include all your class projects. It is your responsibility to keep all of your work.  Personal growth and effort are emphasized.  A final individual critique will be given at the end of the semester.  (Both Midterm and Final Reviews will add together as 70% of your final grade.)
• Homework:
  Painting 1: homeworks will be assigned every week and collected at the beginning of the following Monday class.  Homeworks will be drawings and color exercises.  Students are expected to spend minimum 2 hours on each homework assignment.  Homework grades count as 30% of the final grade.  Students are encouraged to keep a journal.
  Painting 2: You are expected to keep a journal, minimum one sketch entry per week.  Journal will be collected at Midtern and Final Reviews.

If there are any students in this class who have special needs because of a learning disability or any other kind of disability, please feel free to come and discuss your situation with me.

Materials:

You have the choice to use either oil or acrylic paint, although I highly recommend using oil.  I recommend either The Art Store Oil Paint available through www.dickblick.com or student grade Winton (manufactured by Windsor and Newton).  You may begin with smaller tubes in 32ml or get 200ml Large tubes if you plan to do a lot of painting.

1. Paint in the following colors:
   Cadmium Red Medium, Hue OK (or Permanent Red)
   Alizarin Crimson,
   Ultramarine Blue
   Cerulean Blue
   Cadmium Yellow Light, Hue OK (or Permanet Yellow)
   Yellow Ochre
   Viridian Green 
   Burnt Sienna
   Raw Umber
   Titanium White (large tube)
   Ivory Black
   Other suggested but not required colors:
   Colbalt Blue 
   Pthalo Green
   Cadmium Red Light
   Cadmium Yellow Medium
   Permanent Green
   Pthalo Blue
   Cobalt Green
   Payne's Grey
   Violet
   Naples Yellow
2. Brushes - nylon, bristle, or sable.  You must have at least a  #6, a #8, and a #10.  Choose from rounds,   
3. brights, filbert and flats, preferably one of each to learn the differences.
4. Canvases -  Class will provide 2 canvas panels, and 2 pre-stretched canvas.  You will puchase
5. 2-4 pre-stretched canvases after that.
6. Palette - (no smaller than 12"x14") masonite, glass, or plexiglas with rounded, taped edges, or disposable paper palette
7. Palette Knife
8. Rags
9. Several Glass jars with lids for thinner or water.
10. Optional - A small piece of metal window screen for keeping thinner from being muddy.

Class will provide:

1. Solvent  - We use ONLY odorless Turpenoid in class.
2. Medium – We use Liquin.

Places to purchase art supplies:

www.dickblick.com  great prices on large tube of student grade oil paint Winton; shipping is free for orders over $200.   *** I have put together a list of items you need with dickblick, including item number.

www.utrecht.com  Their prices on Winton oil paint is a little more expensive than DickBlick.  Free shipping for orders over $150.

Painting 1 Assignments (subject to change):

1. Monochromatic Painting, Still-Life in Monochromatic (Black and White)
   Glazing
2. Alla Prima – Still Life
3. Mixing Color – Image collage.
4. Still Life – Neutral Colors.
5. Still Life – Full Palette.
6. Warm and cool
7. Final Project

Painting 2 Assignements (subject to change):

1. Direct observation – still life.  Set up a Still life of your own.  When you set it up, think about positive and negative space, composition.  Do several compositional studies first.  Pay attention to contrasts, eg., saturation contrasts, hue contrasts, value contrasts.  Also pay attention to paint application.  Try several different ways to apply paint: brush, rag, palette knife, scrape off, etc.  there should also be contrasts of paint applications.
2. Complex Space – More complex composition using entire interior space.  You may pick a focal point, but work with everything in view.   Think about foreground, middleground, and background.  You may set up a still-life as your forground and the interior furnitures as your middle ground, and the interior structure as your background. Or,  you can do sketches or one or several spaces and paint from you sketches. The Goal of the painting is to keep a unity of complext structure, at the same time develop spatial relationship.  What is the overall atmosphere or exressive quality you wish to convey?  How would you start to go about it?  Are you gonna use representational colors or color relationship that will better convey your expression.  Do you wish the painting to be realistic or a different experience? 
3. Concept Development
4. Self-direct projects – either work on larger canvas or thematic development of several cavases.  Select a subject matter.  Work out your sketch (unless you’re working with abstraction.)  Try to make it as complicated of space and composition as you can.

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