Art 107 Painting 1/Art 108 Painting 2 Professor Perry Vasquez Southwestern College School of Arts and Communication Fall 2016 F, 8:15 am- 3:30 pm Rm 755 pvasquez@swccd.edu x5814 Office hours T 9am - noon Course Description Painting 1 is a basic studio course in the media and techniques of painting. Activity will emphasize the study of color, structure, creativity and aesthetic values in general. A command of techniques and materials, both traditional and experimental, will be taught. Painting 2 will receive more advanced assignments with increasing emphasis on the expressive possibilities of the medium. Course Objectives 1. Student will identify and utilize a variety of historical and contemporary painting styles. 2. Student will describe and apply the elements and principles of design in paintings. 3. Student will identify and utilize the principles of color theory in paintings. 4. Student will experiment with a variety of painting techniques to develop a working knowledge of the creative potential of each technique. 5. Student will synthesize the elements and principles of two- dimensional design and color theory to solve design problems. 6. Student will analyze and depict spatial relationships in a composition using both realistic and abstract representation. 7. Student will describe and apply hand and power tools to prepare surfaces for painting. 8. Student will experiment with a variety of painting surfaces in order to describe and explain how paint reacts to different surface qualities. Attendance Policy Attendance for all classes is mandatory. Five absences over the course of the semester will result in the reduction of your grade anywhere from a half to a full letter grade depending on your performance while you are in class. More than 5 unexcused absences and you will be dropped from the class. Each student must attend the first class meeting or make arrangements with the instructor of he/she is going to be absent. Failure to attend the first class meeting will result in being dropped from the class. Though a student may be dropped, he/she must drop classes according to the posted deadlines to ensure refunds and unsatisfactory grades. If emergencies arise, a petition for leave of absence should be filed in Admissions.
When you return to class after an absence, speak with me immediately before or after class so that I can give you any handouts and/or assignments. Disability Support Services Southwestern College recommends that students with disabilities discuss academic accommodations with your professor during the first two weeks of class. Alternate format of this syllabus and class handouts are available upon request. Academic Accommodations Academic accommodations are modifications made in an academic setting to afford the student with a disability an equal opportunity to learn in a lecture and lab course and to show what they have learned on tests. Southwestern College recommends that all students discuss accommodation requests with their professor during the first two weeks of the semester. An alternate format of the syllabus and class handouts is available upon request. If you need additional information on academic accommodations, please contact the DSS office located in room 422 and can be reached at 619. 482. 6512 Academic Success Center To further your success, reinforce concepts, and achieve the stated learning objectives for this course, I refer you to the Academic Success Center learning assistance services. Upon request for tutorial services, you will be automatically enrolled in NC 3: Supervised Tutoring, a free noncredit course that does not appear on your transcripts. Services are located in the ASC (420), the Writing Center (420D), the Reading Center (420), Math Center (426), the Library/LRC Interdisciplinary Tutoring Lab, MESA, specialized on- campus School tutoring labs, the Higher Education Center at National City, and the San Ysidro Education Center. Online learning materials and Online Writing Lab (OWL) are available at www.swccd.edu/~asc. Classroom Environment Leave the studio/lab as clean and neat as you possibly can. I have and will continue to try to provide you with as clean and pleasant an environment in which to work and learn as possible. However, I cannot and will not do it alone. We must work together for the health, safety and well being of all. Advisory Statement The subjects and material covered in this course may sometimes be of such a nature as to be offensive to your personal beliefs. Politics, religion, sexuality and morality have often been the content of artists efforts and will be discussed openly and in a mature manner with no intent to create a hostile environment.
Grading "A" grades are given for outstanding work. You are doing extremely well. Improvements will be towards higher degrees of refinement. "B" grades are given for above=average work. You are doing very well> Improvements will be toward higher refinements of concept and execution. "C" grades are given for average work. You are meeting an acceptable level or expectation. Improvements will be towards acceptable levels of project requirements. "D" grades are given for below=average work. You are under-achieving in quality and/or motivation. Improvements will be towards acceptable level of project requirements. "F" grades are given for failure. You are not reaching the expected level for college work. Improvements are to review goals, seek assistance and increase efforts "I" grades are only given in very rare circumstances when students are prevented from completing the course requirements due to circumstances beyond their control. Grading distribution Class participation/ Attendance 10% Portfolio Evaluation 84% Museum Report 6% Plagiarism Academic dishonesty of any type by a student provides grounds for disciplinary action by the instructor or college. In written work, no material may be copied from another without proper quotation marks, footnotes, or appropriate documentation. Field trips All field trips are mandatory. If you cannot attend a field trip due to sickness ort some other situation, you will be expected to make up the trip, especially if a writing assignment is attached to the visit. Out of class assignments In the event that I must cancel class due to sickness or any other reason you will be given an assignment to make up the work missed in class. Helpful websites http://www.essentialvermeer.com/ Helpful books Dali, Salvador. Fifty Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship. First ed. Dover Fine Art, 1992. ISBN: 978-0486271323
Schedule Week 1 Art 107 Art 108 Introduction, syllabus, handouts, film, discussions Week 2 Week 3 Color Theory lecture Color exercises subjective color circles, objective color grid Color theory quiz Color exercises chromatic value scale saturation scale Week 4 Zedist composition Learn by Painting: Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11 Week 12 Week 13 Week 14 Week 15 Finals Zedist composition Still life painting Using a high key Still life painting Using a high key Chiaroscuro painting Using a low key Chiaroscuro painting Using a low key Chiaroscuro painting Using a low key Thanksgiving holiday no class Final presentations A self- directed, individually focused, and autonomous research into what you want to paint. Students will choose from a variety of formal and conceptual challenges and aesthetic and intellectual categories then design a series of paintings to explore that universe. Over the course of the next 13 weeks create a series of paintings based on your own goals.
Art 108 Learn by Painting Learn by Painting is a self- directed, individually focused, and autonomous research for Art 108 students. Students will choose from a variety of formal and conceptual challenges and aesthetic and intellectual categories then create a series of paintings to explore that universe. Art 108 students will be given the freedom to focus longer on fewer projects in order to develop skills and techniques more profoundly. Week 1-3 Art 108 students will work on color theory assignments along with Art 107 students. AT the completion of the color theory sequence they will begin working on their individual projects. Week 4-15 The art of painting goes far beyond naturalistic representation and includes a wide variety of strategies and approaches that encompass problems beyond traditional modes of painting. Below is a list of keywords that will help you think about which categories, techniques and dilemmas you would like to incorporate into your assignments. Processes Thematic Content Formal content Collage Bricolage Abstraction Relief Chance Stencil Repetition Patternmaking Destruction Subtractive Additive Leakage Drip/Gravity Generative Blotting Non- traditional materials and tools Pastiche Color theory Dance Architecture Popular Culture Geometric shapes Organic shapes Interior objects Imaginary landscape Human condition Modernism Post- modernism Time History Futurism Dreams Mythology Silence Interchangeability Indeterminacy Religion Language Abstraction Realism Muralism Portraiture Landscape Still life Figurative
Materials This list of materials can be bought at the Southwestern Community College Bookstore or at the following locations: Artist and Craftsman Supply 3804 Fourth Ave San Diego CA 92110 Phone: (619) 688-1911 Dick Blick Art Materials 1844 India Street San Diego, CA 92110 Phone: (619) 687-0050 Visual Art Supply 3524 Adams Ave San Diego, CA Phone: (619) 501-5585 Canvas: 1- pad 14 x 17, Canvas Paper Pads, 12 sheets You may also buy stretched canvas if you want to pay more Stretched Canvas and Masonite will be purchased as needed directions given in class. Brushes: Storage box to hold and carry supplies #1 round sable brush #6 round sable brush #8 filbert sable brush #12 filbert sable brush #8 flat brush #12 flat brush 3" house painting brush for applying gesso grounds to paper and canvas Palette knife: tapered, 3" (76 mm) steel blade Acrylic Paint: 1-5 oz tube titanium white 1-2 oz tube alizaron crimson 1-2 oz tube cadmium red 1-2 oz tube cadmium orange 1-2 oz tube cadmium yellow 1-2 oz tube thalo green 1-2 oz tube permanent green 1-2 oz tube thalo blue 1-2 oz tube cerulean blue 1-2 oz tube cobalt blue 1-2 oz tube ultramarine violet 1-2 oz tube burnt umber 1-2 oz tube yellow ochre
1-2 oz tube raw umber 1-2 oz tube mars black Mediums and special materials: Retarder (slows down drying time of acrylic paint) Gel medium (extends paint and allows for glazing) Accessories: Disposable pad or Double thick glass (tape the edges), or a traditional wooden or an oven pan. Mall stick (optional) This is a wooden dowel of about 2 or three feet with a padded tip and his used to rest your arm while keeping it away from the wet paint surface. Flexible knife or painting knife for mixing paint. Optional supplies from a local hardware or discount store: Kitchen paper towels Lock for your locker 1-1/2 inch roll of masking tape 1 - roll of paper towels 1 - Color wheel 1 - small sketch book You should also have standard drawing supplies: Strathmore pad, charcoals, erasers, etc.