sketches/ideas due for Thursday: Dec 8th C block

400 level advanced:

Have a 1/2 to full page FULLY realized sketch for your concept: No Rough sketches.
Your drawing should look like you put a good 1/2 on it outside of class. You can also include: color samples, xerox copies, images of inspiration artists.

You will have two -three minutes to present your idea to your peer group.

c block due tues. inspiration collage

Full page inspiration collage that will guide you during this project.

C block: Responses to part 3 of today's handout

Please respond to part three of today's handout... due Friday 12/2.
We will start developing ideas in art that day...
Final sketches are due: Dec 7th.

C block: Water color critique

Critique on Monday.

F block: homework;due Tuesday Nov. 15th

Bring in three different photographs or objects for your painting and your color scheme.


A: Student has brought in three images and knows their color scheme or has an idea of what they want to do.

If possible bring in your art one painting.

C block: Homework for weekend-- bring in an image to draw on watercolor

Hi Gang, sorry I was sick... Here are some examples of drawings done ontop of watercolor. Bring in three to five images of your own images or from stock photography site.If you are working on your portfolio, best to draw from direct observation ( so bring in a favorite object)

Heroine/Hero or Villan/Villanese Social Art statement. C block.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_%22Hope%22_poster

Read the article above about Shepard Fairy's poster of Barack Obama

then check out this link
http://www.vagabondish.com/malaria-awareness-mosquito-advertisement/

Political campaign created by Spanish ad agency Sra. Rushmore with great art direction by Ana Delgado and Marta Herradura, and creative direction by Miguel García Vizcaíno and Paco Conde

In your sketchbook create an art piece based on a political hero of villain. Use
any drawing media. Try to communicate Hero/ villian with the media and style you select. You can do it in the same style as Shepard Fairy if you wish. Graded on Creativity, Content, Craft ( technique).

Due Friday October 28th beginning of class:

Some of the portraits: Obama, The Dalai Lama, Mao, Angela Davis, Gloria Steinem...

B block! IMPORTANT!! Conf. on democracy and h/w details.

1. Meet at Conference on Democracy at theater building sharp NOT THE ART ROOM. I will take roll there, and we will sit together as a group.

2. Extension on bringing a photo: Now due: Monday Oct. 24th the beginning of class: We will be looking over our pictures and starting to grid.

Homework rubric:

A: Student comes prepared with three distinctly different photos; photo is current ( within the last year). Lighting is good, face is well lit, not blurry,
Photo has eyes, nose and mouth ( none of the features concealed). Photo has a background or evokes a mood. images are printed out NOT ON IPHONE OR COMPUTER

B: Student comes with less than three photos. Images looks like it was taken quickly, Lighting is okay, but not considered. Parts of the face are concealed.

C: Student comes prepared with one image, photo isn't current. Photo is blurry...

Find a good photograph for your pencil portrait drawing. When choosing your photo try and find a large photo to work from. As a Portrait Artist, drawing from a larger the original photo has more more detail to extract from it.

The key to a good pencil portrait is shading, and so a photo taken in natural light will get better results than a photo with the subject's face washed out by flash. See if you can find a photo where one side of the face is darker than the other, this will give the finished pencil portrait more depth.

Choose a good picture where you really look like yourself. Don't use the one photo where you are not yourself. What I can see on the photograph is what I will draw.

Another link can give you some ideas of concepts....

B block mouth video and drawing Due Tuesday Oct. 11th

Hi Gang, great work last class on drawing the nose ... Watch the video and do a copy of a mouth from the photo below . Dont' give up! Have fun.. Size should be about 4-5 inches ( 1/2 of your sketchbook). It will probably take you about 1 hr.
Choose one of the images below.

Just focus on the mouth!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saLH6IcNobI

draw paint eyes your own in sketchbook Due Oct. 4th.

Due Tuesday: Your eyes both from a mirror realistic 1/2 page in your sketchbook.
also Mirror Face due !

Eye tutorial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7WAL7D_Hig

pencil shading techniques... B block practice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXeIf-fpawo

copy at three of these techniques in your sketchbook. Make the spheres 3 inches diameter.

Due Friday Sept. 23rd

C block: Advanced Free drawing

Draw anything that you find intriquing.... in any medium... fill a page or two.

like these mod girls for example... ( WAIT!!! that's my homework!!!, okay bad joke..)


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Homage to Jim Dine... F block beginning drawing

Drawing of household object: inspired by artist Jim Dine

Jim Dine is considered one of the figureheads of the pop-art movement (exhibited along with Andy Warhol who is probably the most famous contemporary). Much of his work is the simple re-creation of "mundane" everyday objects in interesting and dynamic ways.

I want you to look at artist Shelley Davies blog about artist Jim Dine...
Notice how some of his drawings are "unfinished"

http://shelleysdavies.com/?p=1381



You are to do a drawing in the medium of your choice, ink or pencil observing an ordinary household object such as a hammer, a pair of scissors,hand mixer, hand can opener, swiss army knife, wrench etc. This drawing should be full page in your sketchbook.

Bring in your drawing on Tuesday 9/20

Profile... B block

Do a head study of someone from observation... strive for realism and put your own "style" on the drawing... can be done in any medium ( ink, pencil, color pencil...)

Check proportions. The drawing should be mostly line but can include some shading.
Also vary your line quality on the portrait. due: Monday 9/12

Resubmits weekend: 9/23-9/24

F block: Homework 9/8 due Monday.

Finish ball drawing

Bring a bell pepper from home to draw. An actual bell pepper not a photo.

figure drawing magazine B block

Three, 3-minute gestures from a magazine picture of a person full body Due Friday!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrGnMar2pAI


The link above gives you a tutorial... the actual drawing starts at 1:04 in the movie.
Enjoy!

F block Due Sept 7th drawing of a pair of shoes

Draw a modified contour drawing of a pair of shoes. Choose an interesting pair. Think about the relationship of one shoe to another. Contour line drawing requires that you keep your eye on the object, not on the paper. Imagine that the pencil is touching the shoe instead of the paper. Then slowly move your eye across the contours of the shoes and allow your eye to pull your pencil along with it. Full page

B Block: Draw 300 Contour drawing of bicycle Due: Wed. 9/7

Homework is a contour drawing of your bicycle-- aka continuous line drawing in ink: Some of these are from Laurie Stevens an art educator and her student work

The bike needs to include both wheels or you can do a detail version but it needs to be intricate. It should be drawn from observation, not a photosource, so it shouldn't be perfect!

400 Level: Chiaroscuro light and dark

400 level: The photo above is an excellent example of the kind of lighting needed to make a good drawing for chiaroscuro! Next Wednesday,9/7 you need to have three to five examples of what kind of image you want to draw. You should have your image and three sketches of how you would compose that image.

Sketches will be evaluated as follows:
A: Student has five different examples of composition; has source images ready at the BEGINNING OF CLASS, printed out NOT ON IPHONE. Concept is original and student sketched out 5 thumbnail versions of drawing. ( different angles, views, etc.)

B: STudent has three different examples of composition; has source images ready at the BEGINNING OF CLASS, printed out NOT ON IPHONE. Concept is original and student sketched out 3 thumbnail versions of drawing. ( different angles, views, etc.)
C: Student has one image shows up with it on iphone, has one sketch


if you don’t have strong source material you will receive zero credit! for the day!
posted by kat at 5:46 pm


Watch this video by Friday 9/3 and be prepared to engage in a short discussion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5qSwf-GTfs

B Block: 300 level drawing

Based on the assessments, I can see that we all could use a bit of review on our knowledge of perspective

What is due Monday Aug.  29th  

A review of one point perspective concepts  with the challenge of drawing a cup ( your personal cup or waterbottle in accurate perspective) ~ thus giving your practice at drawing ellipses.

here is what I want you to do: STEP ONE: This should be on one page

Go to the link below and READ the text, next at the bottom of the text is a good explanation of how to draw an ellipse from a circle... Copy that image ( don't trace it, copy it free hand, you may use a ruler for this part)

STEP 2:  Step your cup or bottle on a table so you can see both the bottom and top edge of the cup or water bottle.  Do your drawing exactly as you would do a one point perspective drawing... in other words , set up your horizon line, vanishing point,  and draw your top ellipse first or bottom which ever is easier.  This might take a few trys.



http://howtodraweasy.com/203/single-point-perspective-drawing/

What am I looking for:  an observed drawing, not from a photograph.
Fits on the page, isn't too small or too large ( check your proportions)
Shows that you read the article and that you followed instructions of this blog post
and yes, I am looking for accuracy, so it will take a few trys.   The drawing doesn't have to have shading, but do erase some of the lines to create an effect drawing and not to confuse yourselves.

F Block Sketchbook assignment 1

Draw 200: Do Master copy in your sketchbook

Full scale, upside down copy -- Use full page NO TRACING and drawn IN PENCIL

I want to see your corrections! ( i.e. eraser marks)
Give Credit to the artist!

Due Tuesday, August 30th

C Block : Perspective drawing REVIEW

Based on the assessments, I can see that we all could use a bit of review on our knowledge of perspective

What is due Monday Aug.  29th  


Group 1: ( assessment with orange tag)Boxes in perspective:  using the handout as an example,  create Do a Version not a copy of the exercise ( No TRACING)

Group 2:    Assessment with one point perspective or two point that is accurate.
A review of one point perspective concepts  with the challenge of drawing a cup ( your personal cup or waterbottle in accurate perspective) ~ thus giving your practice at drawing ellipses.

here is what I want you to do: STEP ONE: This should be on one page

Go to the link below and READ the text, next at the bottom of the text is a good explanation of how to draw an ellipse from a circle... Copy that image ( don't trace it, copy it free hand, you may use a ruler for this part)

STEP 2:  Step your cup or bottle on a table so you can see both the bottom and top edge of the cup or water bottle.  Do your drawing exactly as you would do a one point perspective drawing... in other words , set up your horizon line, vanishing point,  and draw your top ellipse first or bottom which ever is easier.  This might take a few trys.



http://howtodraweasy.com/203/single-point-perspective-drawing/

What am I looking for:  an observed drawing, not from a photograph.
Fits on the page, isn't too small or too large ( check your proportions)
Shows that you read the article and that you followed instructions
and yes, I am looking for accuracy, so it will take a few trys. 

sketchbooks 300 Level

Please bring your sketchbook it to every art class and Field Trip .Students are expected to generate 3-5 ideas (in this journal) for each assignment BEFORE you begin to develop a final piece. If you do not have it in class each day, your grade for class membership will reflect this. Growth, in terms sketchbook usage, is part of your evaluation for review each semester. There will be some days where we will work solely in our sketchbooks as part of these assignments.

Draw Paint 300 GRADE SKETCHBOOKS

-Students are expected to complete at least twelve pages of life drawings per semester (a drawing done from observing persons, places and/or things) only three drawings can be from photographs. They should show serious investigation and show time and effort, fill the page and show technical progress.  Most of these will be from assignments posted on this blog.

 -This is a MINIMUM REQUIREMENT. It is evaluated twice per quarter. 

Sketchbooks 400 Level

Draw Paint 400 sketchbook requirements

Student sketchbooks

Please bring your sketchbook it to every art class and Field Trip .Students are expected to generate 3-5 ideas (in this journal) for each assignment BEFORE you begin to develop a final piece. If you do not have it in class each day, your grade for class membership will reflect this. Growth, in terms sketchbook usage, is part of your evaluation for review each semester. There will be some days where we will work solely in our sketchbooks as part of these assignments.

Draw Paint 400 GRADE SKETCHBOOKS

You will be given or asked to create  a weekly sketchbook prompt that can be interpreted in any drawing medium. At the minimum, students at the 400 level should have 15 -20 pages completed in their sketchbooks per semester.  It is evaluated twice per quarter. 

Intermediate drawing

August:  Grid drawing
September:  Watercolor experiments and overlay drawing
October:  Portrait
November Portrait
December: End of portrait unit.

400 Level Advanced

August:  Color on black paper review
Sept:  Watercolor washes and Layered drawing
October:  Series begins ( any medium)
November: Series continues
December: Critique.

Beginning drawing

August:  Value drawing grid project
September:  watercolor experimental
October:  value work
November/October: photo overlap composition
November:  two point perspective
December:  Negative space

2011-2012 ALL DRAW PAINT CLASSES COURSE EXPECTATIONS

Course Expectations all drawing/painting classes 

 The willingness to take risks:  to be bold, and willing to fall down, the willingness to help each other , the curiosity of exploration, to look at things closely, to feel proud about your efforts, and concentrate and focus, to be full of wonder and discovery... to be happy and forget and get lost in your creativity.

The technical stuff:

v Further develop your drawing skills and painting skills

v Make effective use of the principles and elements of art.

v On-going critical analysis of work through individual and group critiques.

v Being consistently and constantly productive.

v Push and challenge yourself artistically.

Class membership
In this classroom, you are expected to behave as a respectful, responsible individual. You are also expected to have fun. I will expect to see you push and challenge yourself rather than fall back on what comes easy to you or what has been successful in the past.

Food for thought….

Work hard,keep up with the pace of the class.  Limit talking!  Talking and successful drawing don't work.  Drawing requires your full attention.  Also I will let you know about ipods AFTER the first two weeks of class.

Don’t procrastinate.

Work at home.

Remember you’re in this class because you love art.

Keep a journal to help remember ideas, make sketches.

Don’t give up, you will progress.

You will be expected to produce art while you are in this class. You will be expected to keep a sketchbook at all times failure to do so will result in the loss of participation points. You will be expected to complete drawings outside of class. You will be expected to visit art galleries.

The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning. Paul Gauguin 1848 - 1903

Drawing/Painting projects:35%Projects are evaluated in three areas of individual growth: Technique, Concept, and Presentation

(fullfilling the requirments of the project, risk taking, elements and principles of art in project, craftspersonship,focus and homework spent on project)

written essays/quizzes/sketchbooks35%:

Class membership 30% studio clean up help and participation and how you are in class. This includes completing
assistant credit: which would be signing up for one of these tasks: helping hang art around campus, storage closet maintainance, recycling. 

Sketchbook

You are required to keep a sketchbook throughout the duration of this class.  The purpose of this sketchbook is to record your visual thoughts, work through ideas, brainstorm or just doodle. I would also like to see evidence of ‘process’ for your outside class drawings. There will also be weekly assignments on the blog, so review it weekly
Always bring your sketchbook with you to class – you will lose participation points if you don’t.  ** NO TEAR OUTS WILL BE ACCEPTED... OR PAGES TORN OUT FROM OTHER SKETCH BOOKS AND TAPED IN. 

Late work: Unexcused late:l late work will drop a 1/2 grade for each class day late. Work more than two weeks late may not be accepted and can't be made up ( unless due to unforeseen circumstances, illness,etc.). Should you be absent ( excused only) the day something is due, it is expected that it will be ready upon your return. Should you be absent ( unexcused, if you cut class or are on suspension) the day something is due, your project is late. If you are absent for a studio class demonstration day, it is up to you to get the assignments from the class blog, or classmate and make it up on your own time.

Please don't turn in anything to Lindsay or the attendance desk. Turn it into me personally or you may turn it in on my desk in the art office.

Critique: Work not presented for critique is an automatic O. Have something ready to show. This is sacred time for feedback from your peers. Your art doesn't have to be perfect, but ready for critique.

Resubmits: Work submitted late cannot be resubmitted, UNLESS YOU HAVE AN EXCUSED ABSENCE.  Resubmits are due at the end of the week of the original due date. If the re-drawn work is superior, the lower grade will be dropped.   Resubmits are done on a case by case basis.

Art show:
There will be the chamber art show/art show in November
There will be the annual art show in May.  Participation is required for the May show.  Extra credit will be given to those who participate, help install or contribute art for the November show.

Gallery Visit on your own
A portion of your grade for this class constists of a gallery visit. This will be due at the end of the first term. The gallery visit is simple a report on a gallery or museum show that you visited sometime during the first term. We will be going on a field trip to the SFMOMA in the spring or fall and that will NOT count. The purpose of this assignment is to have you experience art outside of the classroom and to see what practicing artists within your own community are doing. The shows you choose to write about can be of any media and from any gallery or museum.

G block Due Wednesday MaY 23rd

Sketchbook assignment due MONDAY MAY 23rd--

if turned in after Monday, there will be a late penalty. I also need to have your sketchbook, so if you did a painting, bring your sketchbook as I need to record the grade in the back of your sketchbook.

G BLOCK pointillism: inspired by Seurat.

Exploration of Pointillism
Drawing of a piece of fruit with cast shadow and form shadow: sketch should fill 75% of the page

or your fruit should be 6 to 8 inches high or wide. The drawing to the right is in pointillism style... for white highlights leave the white of the paper. for shadows use a compination of colors to create shadows including the complementary color of the object itself.

Due: 1/2 way finished Thursday the 21st

( bring your sketchbook to class that day)

Final due: Monday 25th

G block Due Wednesday March 23rd

1 full page sketch of a view outside a window and practice sketches (these can be small)

graded on markmaking and value structure.

If using a photograph, attach it to your sketchbook.

in pencil or pen.

time spent should be an hour on the sketch.

ALSO: check out these drawings that Kelly Donahoe brought to my attention today.

The City Out My Window Matteo Pericoli

http://www.amazon.com/City-Out-My-Window-Views/dp/1416569901

These are more meticulous and not sketches; they are fabulous! Thanks Kelly!

C BLOCK: END OF 1ST QUARTER

LEVEL ONE: finish practice portrait, no white of the canvas

Level two: 1/2 way finished on portrait

Powerpoint presentation E block

Powerpoint presentation: Homage to an artist

Presentations will be next week after comment writing: Tuesday March 29^th

We will have this Thursday to work on research in class.

Your presentations should:

Include significant contributions culturally

Include Biographical information

5 images of artists work

4 images of other influences on the artists work (other important artists, art movements etc>)

you should be able to share this information without relying on note cards

( i.e. should be able to discuss work without reading off of note cards verbatim)

must cite where you gathered information ( websites, books, etc.)

Great job:

Student is well prepared with accurate information and can share the information easily without referring to note cards (memorization)

Student can draw connections between artist and other art movements or influences

Student uses the principles of art and design language (form, shape, movement, color, line, etc) to discuss the artist’s work.

Presentation is 7-8 minutes in length..

Good job

Student is l prepared with accurate information but refers to note cards.

Student draws some connections between artist and other art movements or influences

Student uses some of the principles of art and design language (form, shape, movement, color, line, etc) to discuss the artist’s work.

Presentation is 5-6 minutes

Needs work

Student is not prepared and refers to note cards consistently.

Student draws very few connections between artist and other art movements or influences

Student rarely uses the principles of art and design language ( form, shape, movement, color, line, etc) to discuss the artists work.

Presentation is under 5-6 minutes

cylinders and cup due Feb 18th G block!

Painting still life tutorial

E block: Homage Project homework and blog

Go to the wordpress blog

http://www.homageartist400.wordpress

and comment on at least three other blogs before Tuesday.

Comment on an element or elements of a particular artists work that your peer has choosen to post.

Free photo image site

Copyright free photographs for reference!

http://www.pics4learning.com/

E block: Homage Project homework and blog

Due Monday 1/24: your subject for how you want to start your project ( possible ideas) and.... don't forget to check out your new wordpress homage to an artist and post away... let me know if you have questions.

http://homageartist400.wordpress.com

I sent you your login and password to your ma email.

G block: hand drawing

Do your hand holding an object or if you did that last time, do the master copy... in pencil, lifesize in your sketchbook: Due Monday! and have fun practicing. I am very impressed with your growth!

Copyright free photographs for reference!

http://www.pics4learning.com/

C block: L, A,C,N,

Homage to a Modern or Contemporary painter 400 level

· MUST BE A PIVITOL PAINTER OF THE 19^TH/ 20^TH CENTURY

· ARTIST MUST HAVE MADE SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION TO ART HISTORY

· THIS IS NOT A COPY, BUT SHOULD SHOW YOUR INVESTIGATION OF THE ARTISTS WORK/PROCESS

1. Research element ( gathering of information, who to emulate, painting study/sketchbook work)=) You are graded on preparedness, and sketchwork.

What you need to have in your sketchbook by Wednesday for the group discussion in your sketchbook

What medium(s) does this artist work in? What medium do you prefer?

What are this artist’s favorite subjects? What is your favorite subject(s) in art?

In addition to gathering pertinent information on your artist, download and print out images of three of the artist’s

works for further study.

Possibilities: Choose a subject area of interest

The list of artists and subject matter:

Figure/portraits

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Käthe Kollwitz

Paula Rego

Egon Schiele

David Hockney

Henri Matisse

Frida Kahlo

Edvard Munch

Andrew Wyeth

Landscape/Cityscapes

Charles Scheeler

Edward Hopper

Vincent van Gogh

Georgia O'keefe

Pop Art

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Roy Lichtenstein

Jasper Johns

Andy Warhol

Abstraction/Cubism

Jackson Pollock

Picasso

Juan Gris

Robert Rauchenberg ( also could be pop art)

Surrealism/Dreams

Joseph Cornell

Rene Magritté

Lenor Fini

Salvador Dali

C block: Level 1: y, a, e.g., k, d, c, kt,z, l, l

In your sketchbook: select two historical artists whose use of paint in portraiture inspires you; write about the color, use of paint, and psychology of the portraits. The writing should be a page.

Due: Friday Jan 21st

I selected a handful of painters below who you might find intriguing:

Parsons

Frida Kahlo

Vincent Van Gogh

Gustav Courbet

Others include: Chuck Close, Lucien Freud,

Tamara de Lempinka, Elizabeth Vigee Lebrun

E block: Homage Project phase 1 due: Jan 18th

Homage to a Modern or Contemporary painter 400 level

· MUST BE A PIVITOL PAINTER OF THE 19^TH/ 20^TH CENTURY

· ARTIST MUST HAVE MADE SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION TO ART HISTORY

· THIS IS NOT A COPY, BUT SHOULD SHOW YOUR INVESTIGATION OF THE ARTISTS WORK/PROCESS

1. Research element ( gathering of information, who to emulate, painting study/sketchbook work)=) You are graded on preparedness, and sketchwork.

What you need to have in your sketchbook by Wednesday for the group discussion in your sketchbook

What medium(s) does this artist work in? What medium do you prefer?

What are this artist’s favorite subjects? What is your favorite subject(s) in art?

In addition to gathering pertinent information on your artist, download and print out images of three of the artist’s

works for further study.

Possibilities: Choose a subject area of interest

The list of artists and subject matter:

Figure/portraits

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Käthe Kollwitz

Paula Rego

Egon Schiele

David Hockney

Henri Matisse

Frida Kahlo

Edvard Munch

Andrew Wyeth

Landscape/Cityscapes

Charles Scheeler

Edward Hopper

Vincent van Gogh

Georgia O'keefe

Pop Art

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Roy Lichtenstein

Jasper Johns

Andy Warhol

Abstraction/Cubism

Jackson Pollock

Picasso

Juan Gris

Robert Rauchenberg ( also could be pop art)

Surrealism/Dreams

Joseph Cornell

Rene Magritté

Lenor Fini

Salvador Dali

G block: Annibale Carracci hand study

Do a faithful copy of the Annibale Caracci hand study that was given to you Friday.

Try to mimic the line quality and line thick/thinness in your study: make it larger than the original hand out. NO TRACING! If you lost the handout, here is a different one.

Be careful to observe proportions and have fun!!

Due: Tuesday Jan. 18th beginning of class

G block: Hand drawing Due Tomorrow/ Thursday.

hand drawing in your sketchbook line only ( vary your line quality)

C block: Intermediate painting spring syllabus

Spring Semester: Painting Intermediate

Supplies: Brushes, canvases, paint provided by the school.
Syllabus: January - Art Show Hang show/ critique show

January: basic Color theory: Matching tonal values/colors
February: oil techniques/ paint a portrait
March: Intro human behavior
April/May Final Painting; Art Show


Quarter 1 painting: Intro to Oil painting
Tonal scale and match colors with tonal scale
Exploration of light and shadow on painting limited palette Due 2nd week of February Quiz on painting materials.

Quarter 2 painting: Intermediate Intro to mixing skin tones and neutrals
Skin tone study Due: TBA
Portrait of Human Behavior (limited palette)
(A portrait of a family member or friend and their life events with background!)
Knowledge of how to match skin tonalities, composition)
Journal of Inspiration artist and why you choose the artist that you are working from (this needs to include sketches and research notes; plan on having 10-15 journal pages about your inspiration artist in your sketchbook. You will also do a presentation of some type on that artist during the semester.

One study and one final painting Portrait of Human Behavior

Homework: Painting requires more time spent outside of class than drawing. Because painting and drawing are inseparable “twins” you need to plan sketches and do small painted studies. Take time to evolve and require a lot of experimentation and knowledge of prior and new color theory and brush technique. Painting is not photography, it is not a computer, and it takes time and skillful manipulation of materials and techniques. Come prepared to paint, have your materials set up and your palette set up! You should plan on bringing small containers of paint home to work on your painting over the weekend. Should that prove impossible, then plan on spending time during free periods or afterschool. Be realistic as to what you are really capable of completing given your academic schedule and the fact that we only have 2.5 months to do a painting.



To earn an A in this class You are responsible for your time and need to document three hours a week outside of class on your paintings.
Student is prepared for each class, creates many studies in their sketchbook, has images of inspiration artist at their desk (no need to hunt around on the computer that day of class; has prepared outside of class) has worked on projects beyond the classroom –spent considerable time crafting work). Cleans their tools, space, clean up tasks and completes assignments with great integrity. Takes risks by acquiring knowledge in additional books, asks questions.