Spring 2005
Art 21A Painting: Beginning 2 units (UC/CSU)
Art 21B Painting: Intermediate 2 units (UC/CSU)
Classes meet on Mondays
Instructor:
Office Phone: 588-5378
Course Description: Students will
experience the characteristics of paint (oil or acrylic) in creating images, to
learn the language of color and their relationships. Students will study composition and color
through various assignments.
Suggested
Grading: Average grade of 2 portfolio reviews
first
portfolio is due on
second
portfolio is due on
Late portfolios will be
downgraded
70% on effort + perseverance +
attendance
30% on merit of the work +
completion of assignments
The combination of the two
categories will make up the final grade: top 90% A
80% B
70% C
60% D
59% & under F
Expectations:1. Each student
is expected to bring his/her own art supplies to each class meeting and to be
ready to work. There are lockers available
around the building for the student’s use.
2.
It is the student’s responsibility to follow the deadline for refund,
select CR/NC, or drop the class if necessary.
3. It is the student’s responsibility to make up
work outside the classroom and to meet with the instructor to make up absences
before the portfolio reviews.
Painting Supplies:
1. pre-stretched,
pre-primed canvases, 16”x20” or larger are recommended.
2. oil/acrylic brushes,
flat and/or round
3. turpentine and
linseed oil
4. oil paint or acrylic
paint, please have the following colors:
a) ultramarine
blue
b) cobalt blue or
phthalo blue
c) cadmium yellow
medium
d) cadmium yellow
light or lemon yellow
e) alizarin
crimson
f) cadmium red
medium or cadmium red light
g) raw umber
h) titanium white
or pro white
Please note: Do not buy black. You can mix raw umber with ultramarine blue
to get a much nicer black.
5. a container with lid
for used turpentine
6. rags, tin cans
7. a palette ( a paper palette pad recommended)
Optional Materials:
1. palette knives
2. a table easel
Art 21 A
Beginning Painting
Assignments:
1. A still-life set up with 1 primary color
2. A still-life set up with 2 adjacent colors
3. A still-life set up with a pair of
complementary colors
4. A painting with a pair of complementary
colors with the student’s choice in subject:
a
landscape, an
abstraction, a design, a black and white photo, etc.
5. A painting using 3 consecutive colors
6. A white still-life set up
7. A self-portrait
8. A personal still-life set up with a mixture
of color, and a combination of organic and
geometric
objects.
9. A triptych in which one panel is of an
interior, another is of an exterior, and the third
relates to the
other two.
10. Personal projects by students.
Art 21 B
Intermediate Painting
Assignments:
1. Self-portrait
2. A still- life painting using a Paul Cezanne
composition
3. A Painting with 2 pairs of complementary
colors
4. A landscape painting without a horizon line
5. Make an abstract painting from the
environment around you
6. Do a triptych of color field painting by
observing a fruit or vegetable, cutting it open, mixing
the exact three colors
that you observe on the fruit or vegetable
7. A painting utilizing unusual or unnatural
scale of objects
8. A still- life painting utilizing mirrors, or
mirroring images
9. Do a painting with an unusual size or
dimension canvas
10. Personal projects by students