UPDATED Painting Syllabus 262--Fall 2017

Painting—Arts 262—Fall 2017

Tuesdays; 2:10 p.m. 5:50 p.m.; Studio 104, Building C

Office Hour: Tuesday, 1-2 p.m.
Professor Julia Healy

Jhealy@qcc.cuny.edu

http://paintingatqcc.blogspot.com

    

Introduction: This course will further your exploration of painting.  Students will continue to develop their skills in using form, tone, color and composition. Subject matter will include a focus on the still life, the landscape and/or portraiture.

I expect you to already know and understand:

•The color wheel

•Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, Complimentary Colors

•How to dull colors without using black

•The idea of edge (as opposed to line) in painting

•How to blend

•How to make different marks with the same brush and different brushes

•Composition

•Foreground/Middle Ground/ Background

•The importance of light and dark to create illusion

•How to use texture to great advantage

•The importance of subject matter

Note: If you don’t know the above, you might want to embed some of the items in your Painting Plan for the Semester. (See Below.) There may be occasional quizzes to test your knowledge of the above, so don’t be shy as to what you still need to learn. Painting is a sequential subject and it helps to build up your knowledge of basics before moving to more difficult work.

Course Objectives

At the end of the course, students will:

•Refine techniques of mixing and blending color
•Create the effects of three-dimensional forms with shadow and light

•Use composition to create dynamic works

•Analyze your personal work through critique and feedback from classmates and the instructor

•Examine works by other artists that relate to their process

•Create five or more paintings

•Continue to develop thinking and writing skills through personal reflections and aesthetic inquiry

Attendance and Lateness: Attendance is mandatory and essential to your performance.  There is no substitute for working and participating in class. Three absences are grounds for a failing grade.

    

Please be on time. Class begins promptly at 2:10 p.m. Two tardies can be counted as one absence.  If you will have an ongoing scheduling conflict, please discuss it with me at the beginning of the semester. Note that parking is always an issue, so allow time to find a space or take public transportation.

Make-Up Policy: As a student in this course, it is your responsibility to make certain you obtain information covered, should you miss a session. This syllabus and our blog have the information you need to know what we are working on and what it due. Previously-absent students must come to the following class with all of the appropriate work finished for that class.

    

Grading: Individual grades will be given for each painting and averaged (at 15% each) to make up 75% of your grade.  Class participation/attendance will count as 10% and your written assignments/reflections will count for another 15%.  Two unexcused absences will lower your grade by one letter grade. (From a B to a C, for, instance.) Note: If we decide to do a Museum Trip, there will be a written assignment and the percentages will change to paintings, 70%, participation (10%) and written work 20%.

Supplies: See below. Materials and supplies for this class are not inexpensive but if you take care of them, they will last a long time. We will discuss how to approach buying the materials the first class.  You must come prepared to work every week, with all the materials you need. Do not expect other students to lend you paint, brushes and canvases!!!

Writing Help: You may want to refer to a very helpful website operated by Purdue University: http://owl.english.edu 

The format to use is the MLA one and they have many resources available to help you make your writing better.

Sessions:

    

8/29   Introduction and Syllabus; Supply Tutorial, Group Abstraction Project. Homework: Fill out Semester Planning Sheet, due next week (9/5).

9/5    

9/12  

NO CLASS 9/19 

9/26  

10/3     

10/10 

10/17 Group Critique on First Two Paintings (1 & 2) at 2:10 p.m
10/24
10/31 MODEL

11/7   MODEL

11/14 

              NO CLASS 11/21

11/28
12/5
12/12  Final Critique and Surprise Project.

"ACCOMMODATIONS FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES:

 As stated in the current college catalog, any student who needs specific accommodations based on the impact of a disability should register with the office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) to be eligible for accommodations, which are determined on an individual basis. The SSD office is located in the Science Building, room S-132 (718-631-6257). Students should also contact their instructor privately to discuss their specific needs."

    

Supplies

I use Dick Blick or Utrecht (online). Michael’s is expensive, except for when canvases are on sale or there are special deals.

Apron or old shirt to use as smock. You will ruin your clothes otherwise!

Container for paints such as a large shoebox, tackle box or canvas tote.

A glass jar or two with a lid for turpenoid. Label with your name.

Soft pencil 4B and eraser (optional)

Scissors (optional)

RAGS: LOTS OF THEM! OLD COTTON BEDSHEETS RIPPED UP, OLD WHITE T-SHIRTS, ETC. NOTHING WITH A NAP, LIKE A TOWEL.

Turpenoid in the BLUE AND WHITE container (not the green one)

Master’s Brush Cleaner

Brushes: DON’T BUY CHEAP SETS…THEY ARE USUALLY A RIP-OFF. Get soft, sable or sableline, Wonder Whites (from Blick), not the stiff hogs-hair kind. Those are harder to control and clean. If you take care of your brushes, they will last a long time.

Minimum Brushes Needed:

BRIGHT SOFT (not bristly) BRUSHES: Choose at least 6 brushes (smalls (0, 1, 2, 4), mediums (6, 8, 10, 12), bigger ones (14, 16, 20, 24)

              

At least 1 ROUND brush smallish (0, 1, 2)

                  

Optional Brushes:  filberts, flats, a fan brush

Palette knife

Palette—Palette paper tear-off pads are fine (12” x 16”gives you enough mixing room)

Paint

Oil is preferable for beginners. If you have to use acrylic, see me. I use Gamblin Paints, but Windsor and Newton, Utrecht, and Grumbacher are also good. The best student grade oil paint is WINTON.

Basic Beginning Colors

37 ml tubes of:

Cadmium Red Medium

Cadmium Yellow Medium

Alizarin Crimson

Ultramarine Blue

Permanent Green Light

Viridian Green

Burnt Umber

Raw Sienna or Yellow Ochre

Burnt Sienna

Ivory Black

Large 150ml tube of Titanium White

Optional Colors:

Cadmium Orange

Cerulean Blue

Terra Verte Green or Hooker’s Green

Dioxazine Violet

Magenta

Raw Umber

Payne’s Gray

Supports—stretched canvases or canvas boards or a combination thereof to total 5-6 canvases in all:

3-12” x 16”

1 or 2-14” x 18”

1 or 2- 16” x 20”

Optional Fold-Up Table Easel (Black kind is best)

Earphones, ipod if you want to “zone out” while painting

Checklist for Success—Prof. Healy-Painting 262

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