QCC/CUNY
Department
of Art and Design
Painting—Arts
262/263—Spring 2019
Wednesdays;
2:10 p.m. 5:50 p.m.; 4 hours, 3 credits; Studio 104, Building C
Professor Julia Healy
Professor Julia Healy
Course Description: (from college catalog):
262: Assumes basic knowledge and experience in oil or acrylic
painting. Individual creativity encouraged.
263: Continuation of Arts 262.
Academic program(s) for which the course is required:
A.S. Art: (Concentration: Art and
Design)
Course-specific student learning outcomes:
1.
Personal Aesthetic: Student will demonstrate the ability to
construct a unified work by employing color, value, composition and/or
processes that are indicative of an established and evolving creative personal
aesthetic or process.
2.
Revision: Student will participate in group critiques to analyze
the formal elements of a painting and to formulate objective criticism. Student
will evaluate objective criticism directed at his/her own work to revise and
refine its formal qualities.
3.
Composition: Student will demonstrate competence in composition
as evidenced by balance or expressive choices in the use of positive and
negative space, patterns, rhythm and/or visual paths through the arrangement of
all elements on the canvas.
Program-specific outcomes:
1.
Demonstrate a progressive understanding of the various elements
and basic interrelated processes of creation, interpretation, and execution
within their discipline
2.
Integrate personal observation and objective criticism in the
evolution of their artistic work.
3.
Apply increasingly sophisticated design principles to various
media and visual forms.
Other program
outcomes (if applicable).
A.
Integrate knowledge and skills in the program of study
Introduction: This course will further your
exploration of painting. Students will continue to develop their
skills using form, tone, color and composition. Subject matter will include a
focus on personal choice that might include the still life, the landscape
and/or portraiture.
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 as to what we are working on and when it is due. Previously-absent students must come to the following class with all of the appropriate work finished for that class.
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 as to what we are working on and when it is due. Previously-absent students must come to the following class with all of the appropriate work finished for that class.
Methods
by which student learning will be assessed and evaluated; describe the types of
methods to be employed; note whether certain methods are required for all
sections):
The general
education outcome is assessed by participation in lectures, class
discussions and group critiques. An analytic rubric is used to assess
knowledge and skills as evidenced by the integration of various elements of
painting to achieve a unified whole, while expressing a particular vantage
point or personal creative aesthetic.
Grading: Individual grades will be given for
each of your paintings and averaged to make up 80% of your grade. Class
participation/preparation and attendance will count as 10%, Museum Paper counts
as 10%. Two unexcused absences will
lower your grade by one letter grade. (From a B to a C, for, instance.)
I expect you to already know and understand:
262:
I expect you to already know and understand:
262:
•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
263:
•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
•Understand some of the possibilities of glazing, scumbling,
sfumato and chiaroscuro.
•Be able to identify transparent colors
•Be able to identify opaque colors
•Have a rudimentary understanding of the interaction of color
ªHave a body of work that exhibits a personal style
•Have a direction you want to explore this semester
Course Objectives/Outcomes:
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
•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,
including one inspired by a museum visit.
•Continue to develop thinking and writing skills through a paper
that will highlight aesthetic inquiry
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!!!
Sessions:
1/30 Introduction and Syllabus; Supply Tutorial, Group Abstraction Project. Think about your direction for this semester.
2/6 Baseline Painting (#1) (Focusing on Color, Composition and Edge)-Bring a smallish (11 x 14, 12 x 16”) canvas and all your supplies.
2/13 Continue Baseline
Painting( #1) (Focusing on
glazing)-Bring all materials and have another canvas on hand in case you
finish. We will begin plotting your direction. Bring documentation of previous
work.
2/20 Critique for 262/263, Begin Personal Painting (#2)
2/20 Critique for 262/263, Begin Personal Painting (#2)
2/27 Continue Personal
Painting (#2).
3/6 Finish Personal
Painting (#2) and/or begin Personal Painting (#3)
3/13 Museum
Compensation Time—trip is 3/24 (Sunday)
3/20 Personal
Painting (#3)
3/24 Group Museum Trip,
(Sunday). Meet in the main hall of the Metropolitan Museum of Art at noon. If
you can’t make this, you will go to a museum on your own!
3/27 Personal
Painting (#4)
4/3 Personal
Painting (#4)
4/10 Personal
Painting (#5)
4/17 Personal
Painting (#5)
5/1 Personal
Painting (#5)
5/8 Critique.
Think about the following:
Think about the following:
Big Ideas
Struggle,
War, Peace, Idealism, Power, Fear, Mystery, Simplicity,etc.
Then,
Then,
CHOOSE YOUR SUBJECT MATTER: PORTRAIT, STILL LIFE, ANIMALS, LANDSCAPE,
CITYSCAPE, SEASCAPE, HISTORICAL/DOCUMENTARY, ABSTRACTION, ETC.
CONCENTRATION(S): SCALE, POINT OF VIEW, COLOR EXPLORATION, NARRATIVE,
STYLE/MEDIUM: REALISM, SURREALISM, ABSTRACTION, EXPRESSIONISM, etc.
CONCENTRATION(S): SCALE, POINT OF VIEW, COLOR EXPLORATION, NARRATIVE,
STYLE/MEDIUM: REALISM, SURREALISM, ABSTRACTION, EXPRESSIONISM, etc.
Academic Integrity Policy
Academic honesty is expected of all students. Any violation of
academic integrity is taken extremely seriously. All assignments and projects
must be the original work of the student or teammates, if applicable.
Plagiarism will not be tolerated. Any questions regarding academic integrity
should be brought to the attention of the instructor. The following is the
Queensborough Community College Policy on Academic Integrity: “It is the
official policy of the College that all acts or attempted acts that are
violations of Academic Integrity be reported to the Office of Student Affairs.
At the faculty member’s discretion and with the concurrence of the student or
students involved, some cases through reported to the Office of Student
Affairs, may be resolved within the confines of the course and the department.
The instructor has the authority to adjust the offender’s grade as deemed
appropriate, including assigning an F to the assignment or exercise, or, in
more serious cases, an F to the student for the entire course. Please refer tot
the college’s Academic Integrity Policy.
"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 Light
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 or 6 canvases in all. If you are a fast worker, buy more!!!
Earphones, ipod if you want to “zone out” while painting
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