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CLASS SYLLABI summer 2013

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CLASS SYLLABI SUMMER 2013
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LIGHT AND SPACE: MOOD AND DRAMATIC NARRATIVE IN PAINTING
Mondays, 6pm-9:30 pm June 17 to Aug. 19, 2013

1 Light: moonlight, fire, dappled shadow, twilight, fog or rain
Demonstration: Mixing color in a chromatic scale, thumbnail sketches, sourcebook of images
Homework: Start painting project

2 Color & Reflected Light
Class Assignment: chromatic scales on paper
Homework: continue painting project

3 Color & Glowing Light
Homework: continue painting project

4 Romanticism in Nature
In-Class: review first painting
Homework: Start second painting project: painting in “Romantic” style

5 Deep Space and Shallow Space
Homework: continue second painting

6 Aerial Perspective and Linear Perspective
In class: review second painting
Homework: start third project: a painting emphasizing a complex space

7 “Scale” in Composition
Homework: continue third painting

8 Dramatic Narrative: The language of photography (backlight, cast shadow, deep focus, camera angle)
In class: review third painting
Homework: start fourth project: a painting using lighting & “camera angle” to emphasize a narrative

9 Dramatic Narrative: Architectural Space
Homework: continue fourth painting

10 Final crit of all assignments

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MATERIALS

(SEE COLORFUL PAINTING, BELOW)

BOOK
Color for Painters: A Guide to Traditions and Practice

by Al Gury $16.50 (Order from Amazon)
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COLORFUL PAINTING: OBSERVATION & INTUITION
Saturdays 10am-1:40pm June 15-Aug. 17, 2013

All painting media are welcome: ink, watercolor, gouache, acrylic or oil. After a series of 4 warm-up exercises, students will paint a Series Projectthree+ paintings exploring one or more of the following: 

Color and Process: mixing through intention (for illusion) and through accident (for surprise)
Color, Emotion and Monochromatic Mood
Color, Emotion and Light
Style (Palette of a Master)
Glazing and Transparency
Color in contrasting layers (subdued color over bright color or bright color on a dark ground)
Color and flesh – (figurative and portrait approaches)

BOOK
Color for Painters: A Guide to Traditions and Practice

by Al Gury $16.50 (Order from Amazon)

MATERIALS 

Acrylic, Oil, Watercolor or Gouache
(Golden or Liquitex or Utrecht or Gamblin or Windsor-Newton brands)


a "warm yellow"             Cadmium Yellow Medium          
a "cool yellow"              Cadmium Yellow Light or Pale or Lemon
a "warm red"                 Cadmium Red Medium or Light             
a "cool red"                   Quinacradone Crimson or Alizarin Crimson         
a "warm blue"                Ultramarine Blue           
a "cool blue"                  Cobalt Blue or Cerulean Blue or Turquoise Blue
a "warm green"              Sap Green or Chromium Oxide Green or Perm Green Light         
a "cool green"               Pthalocyanine Green or Viridian             
a "warm brown"             Burnt Sienna or burnt umber      
a "cool brown"              Raw Sienna or raw umber                      
a "black"                       Any kind          
a white                       “Acrylic Gesso”  - sold in bottles

Medium: Golden brand acrylic polymer medium or Liquin brand oil medium

Brushes

Canvas or Paper  watercolor paper – cheap 140 pound 11x14 pad and/or 22"x30" sheets  

Other Stuff 
sketchbook (any size), pencil, eraser  
cups, paper plates, paper towels (lots) spray water bottleplastic wrap (e.g. "Handiwrap") scissors,
X-acto knife, masking tape 

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SF ART INSTITUTE INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED PAINTING
Wednesdays, June 5 - August 7, 2013 
6:30pm - 9:30pm

This course is designed for motivated and independent artists. Students in this course are encouraged to develop an original body of work, to engage conceptual issues in their painting, to express mood with power, and to experiment with materials – to make art with as much “ambition” as possible – however you define it.

ISSUES EXPLORED IN THE CLASS

Abstraction Improvisation or mathematical procedure ... blends of "real" & "abstract?"

Materials As subject matter (texture, found objects, assemblage, etc)

Art History (Europe) Art which refers to European art history in theme and composition

Art History (Not Europe) Global culture, "Third World," folk art, "outsider" art, children

The Body Allegory (figure) or Individual Identity (in portraits)

Psychology Dream, Myth, Archetype, Shamanistic traditions...

Landscape Fact, Fantasy, Utopia. Abstraction; Nature Untamed, or Nature Destroyed

Politics - society Sociology, history, war and peace

Politics - identity Gender and race

Politics - technology Science as subject or as procedure

Pop Art Low Culture and High Culture

Public Spaces Institutional art, installation, time-based, community collaboration

RECOMMENDED READING

Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting by Barry Schwabsky

WEEK BY WEEK

  • Course project a series of paintings
  • Value and the illusion of "light"
  • Color and the illusion of "light" and "space"
  • Figure and Portrait
  • Mixed Media
  • Composition
  • Text and Poetry in Painting
  • Contemporary painting concept I
  • Contemporary painting concept II
  • Final Crit

RECOMMENDED MATERIALS

See materials list for "Colorful Painting," above.


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