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F A 1 1 b : B E G I N N I N G P A I N T I N G S p r i n g 2016 Prof. Susan Lichtman, [email protected], Class hours: Monday/Wednesday 10:00AM-‐12:50 PM Office hours: Before and after class, and other days by appointment. TA’s Gina [email protected] and Jason [email protected] Beginning Painting was conceived as a full year experience, recommended for students wishing to pursue painting as a Studio Art Major in the Fine Arts Department and other students with a serious commitment to learning about the language of painting. Students can enter mid-‐year who have suitable experience and interest. A pre-‐requisite of a college drawing course is required, a previous semester of painting is strongly recommended. This second semester of Beginning Painting will focus on increasing complex pictorial ideas and will focus on figure painting for most of the semester. Using oil paint, you will explore color, space, form and the expressive possibilities of perceptual painting through structured assignments.
Dana Schutz, Am. 20/21st
Class requirements: FA 11b meets six hours a week, and students will be expected to work outside of class another six hours each week – or more, as required. Class attendance is mandatory, and repeated absences will lower final grade. Please e-‐mail [email protected] with the reason for your absence the day you must miss class. Do not arrive late or leave early without permission, especially on days when models are scheduled. Monitors are on duty in Goldman/Schwartz weekday evenings and weekends. (Hours will be posted.) You may have access to the building after/before monitor hours as long as you are not alone in the building. Call Campus Security, with a friend or classmate, to unlock the door for you. If you are alone, they will check to make sure there are others in the building before letting you in. Grading is based on performance in the class – on the quality of your effort, on your understanding, creativity and growth. (A specific grading rubric will be provided later in the semester.) Homework assignments must be done on time, and are an opportunity for you to work at your own pace, exploring methods and imagery that interest you. Participation in group class critiques is required. Private final critiques take place at the end of the semester.
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Students with disabilities should request the kind of assistance they need to perform well in this class. Course work will be done primarily in oil paint on canvas, but will also include collage, drawing and water-‐based media. The materials for the class are quite expensive. Please let us know if you have a problem acquiring what is needed. Every effort will be made to provide materials for class use. You will have a palette table with a locked cage to keep your paints and brushes and a cubby for your canvases. Many of the materials used in this class are toxic if not used correctly. Pay attention to all health and safety recommendations, as posted in the building and explained in class. Jon Koppel, [email protected] , is the F.A. department studio tech, and can assist you with issues relating to materials and safety concerns. I am not on campus every day – my own studio is at home – but I am always available by e-‐mail if you have questions or concerns. Syllabus: This second semester will begin with a still life of a reflective object, but in early February will involve working from models, both clothed and nude. When classes have models, you must spend 6 hrs on a homework painting on panels provided, choosing from a subject provided. Mid semester we will work on a large constructed figure painting. In April you will make a 22x66 inch painting of a standing self-‐portrait or a panorama still life. A final series of small paintings, on a subject of your choice, will be the final assignment. Images of paintings both art historical and contemporary will be posted on Latte periodically and viewed during class. A museum visit will be scheduled later in the semester and it is expected that you will visit the Rose, familiarize yourself with the creative arts collection in the Goldfarb Library. During the semester you will give a 10 minute slide talk on a contemporary or modern painter assigned to you. SYLLABUS Week 1 W1/13 Course description/ materials Homework: Stretch and prime canvas, Draw reflective object, W1/20 Reflective object Homework : Work 3 hrs on reflective object Week 2 M1/25 Reflective object W1/27 “ Homework: Finish still life. If finished, do a homework panel from list. Week3 M 2/1 Izebel COLLAGE W2/3 Izebel “ Homework: HW panel Week4 M2/8 Edward W2/10 Edward Homework Winter Break Week5
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M2/22 Model TBA W2/24 Model Homework: Bathroom or bedroom interior w/floor must be completed by next class. Week 6 M2/29 Izebel in an interior W3/2Izebel in an interior Homework: Stretch/prime canvas for narrative painting Week 7 M3/7 Model/Izebel Constructed Narrative Painting W3/9 Model/Izebel “ “ Homework Week 8 M3/14 TBA W3/16 TBA Homework Week 9 M 3/21 Model/Narrative Painting W3/23 Model/Izebel Narrative Painting Homework Stretch and prime 22”x66” canvas Week 10 M (no class) W 3/30 22x66 Painting: Standing self-‐portrait or panorama still life Homework: Work 3 hrs on 22x66 Week 11 M 4/4 22x66 Painting W 4/6 “” Homework: 3 hrs on 22x66 painting. Week 12 M4/11 22x66 painting W4/13 22x66 Homework Finish 22x66 painting. Week 13 M4/18 Critique W4/20 Final Series Homework Passover Break Last Class M 5/2 Final Series/critiques
David Park, Am. 20C
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H O M E W O R K The following are 12 starting points for 6 small paintings to be made outside of class when models are scheduled during class. These topics are intended to complement in-‐class work and stimulate exploration in new directions. Topic #13 is required but you should choose your other five subjects from this list. Most paintings will be made on panels provided, which you will gesso. Because of their small in size, you can paint them in one sitting-‐ though some have a few steps. If you have acrylic paint or gouache, you may do some of the paintings using these water-‐based paints, especially if you are working at home without proper ventilation. Every Monday starting on Feb. 11, your homework paintings will be hung on the studio wall for consideration. 1. Light on snow. Painted outside or from a window, after a snowfall. 2.Feet. (Bare feet, your own or someone elses.) 3. The night studio. Turn of most of the lights in the studio – or find a studio in GS where you can turn off most of the lights. Paint the interior as you would a nocturnal landscape or the deep woods. 4. A mango, papaya or melon painted slowly, as one would paint flesh. 5. A pair of old, well worn shoes 6. Painting as social networking: Ask someone you know only slightly, but whose appearance you admire in some way, if you can paint their portrait. 7. A painting with the title “Laundry.” (An interior or a still life or a figure painting.) 8. A painting about food – a meal, or someone eating. 9. Full length self portrait – standing or sitting – wearing “formal” attire. 10. Part 1: A late-‐winter landscape painted on a found object. The object can be flat or round, metal, glass, wood etc. Part 2: Make a painting of the painted object sitting in a real space. 11. A copy of a European painting made between 1500-‐1900 and which has three or more figures. Suggestions: Use a limited palette: black, white, raw umber and burnt sienna. OR use a “fauve” palette of subjective, saturated color. 12. An unmade bed, with or without sleeping person13: Required by February 29: A domestic interior: Bathroom, bedroom or kitchen. (You will paint a model, in class, into this space.) Please include some floor.
Henri Matisse, Fr. 20th C Berthe Morisot, Fr. 19th C
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FA 11b. Beginning Painting II. Spring 2106 Prof. Susan Lichtman [email protected] M A T E R I A L S L I S T If you were enrolled in FA 11a or 107a, please replenish used-up tubes of paint, buy some new colors, replace worn brushes and palette knives of various sizes as needed. If you have materials from another former painting experience, please make sure you have the equivalent of the materials listed below. E-mail me if you have questions. You will be given the following supplies and will not need to buy: cotton duck canvas, Masonite supports, gesso, glass palettes, palette scrapers, solvents, oil paint mediums, (i.e. linseed oil.) We will be recycling old stretcher bars – removing old canvas and re-stretching with new. Recommended stores: Utrecht/Blick Art Supplies: Boston or Cambridge or all over the US Blick http://www.dickblick.com or www.utrechtart.com Jerry’s Artarama www.jerrysartarama.com/
O I L P A I N T Buy the best quality you can afford. Each company prices paint by “Series”. Series 1 colors have less expensive pigments than Series 5. You can buy Utrecht’s own brand, or if at other stores find good quality student paint, ie Winton or Gamblin student grade, or better quality paints such as Windsor Newton, Gamblin artist grade, Rembrandt, Sennilier etc. At Blick or Utrecht, Utrecht brands paints of the following colors cost $5-7 for a 37ml tube. yellow ochre burnt sienna venetian red. Mars or ivory black , (or mars/ivory) cadmium yellow light (imitation or “hue” ok) or hansa yellow zinc yellow cadmium red light, (imitation cadmium ok) alizarin crimson ultramarine blue cobalt blue or prussian blue chromium oxide green titanium white (2 150ml tube-) (Suggestions for extra colors to try: Napthol red, Cadmium red medium, Cadmium orange, viridian, manganese blue, unbleached titanium, raw sienna, raw umber, paynes grey. B R U S H E S / K N I V E S IMPORTANT: 2 diamond shaped palette knives (2-3inch) 6 $ each 5 Long handle, white natural bristle brushes: flats or filberts: #2,4,6, 8 rounds: # 4, 6 5 Long handle, soft bristles (imitation sable): flats # 4,6 rounds: #4, 6 ($45 total) MISCELLANEOUS I T E M S:
• Paper palette for homework done outside of the studio • Combination padlock for your palette table- storage cart • From drugstore: 8 oz. Baby oil or Mineral oil and • Large bar Ivory soap for cleaning brushes • Optional but recommended: Light –duty staple gun and staples. (ie Arrow JT21 ) ($15)
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