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Course Syllabi for:
Art 27: Beginning Color
Fall,
2002, Driesbach
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The goals of this class include developing a vocabulary for dealing
with color and sensitivity to its effects and nuances. You will
be expected to acquire verbal skills related to describing the use
of color in selected art works and historical objects. You will
be expected mix and apply paint, and to participate in group critiques.
Brief outline:
Early weeks:
The organization of color into palettes:
traditional palettes/process color
specific cultures/specific artists
the symbolic implications of color
specific styles
The power of color to define space:
scientific palettes/optical mixing*
Munsell, Itten, Ostwald classification systems
methods of color application: paint versus light
Weeks one and two:
Using collage students will create pages devoted to symbolic use
of color in Western and in other cultures will be made in class.
Please bring paper, collected collage material, glue, cutting surface,
knife, straightedge and templates during classes for both days of
second week.
Students should acquire paint and brushes during this period. There
will be discussion of purchasing paint as a group and broadening
the available palette through sharing.
Weeks three and four:
Students will begin to use acrylic paint. Each student should
have eight tubes of quality acrylic paint as discussed in the materials
list. A series of notebook pages will be created which demonstrate
color relationships. For example, dots of one primary color may
be pasted on to another primary color background. Colors of equal
value may be juxtaposed.
Color wheels from various systems will be recorded and discussed.
Factors such as simultaneous contrast will be examined. Subjective
effects will also be discussed including those created by color
relationships such as analogous, complementary, variation of value,
intensity, and scale.
* Color systems used on computers will be addressed under transparency
later in the semester.
Art 27- Beginning Color
Instructor: John Driesbach
Fall 2002, continued:
Grading:
Grading will be done based on projects, the quiz, and notebooks.
Equal weight will be assigned to projects, the notebook, and the
quiz.
Absences beyond four will begin affecting the grade (one letter
grade per four absences), especially if the work produced is weak.
The grades given on projects can be raised. Each project
will be graded on a card and broken into sections (e.g. neatly painted,
colors fit the assignment, color matches are accurate, and the student
is present or not present at critique.) Characteristics such as
paint quality can be changed, but absences during critique cannot.
Clearly, it is to your benefit to show up for critiques but, don’t
come in through four feet of snow flogging your sled dogs.
There will be approximately six grades given equal weight.
Materials List:
Tools:
Utility Knife, Exacto knife, pencils, hole punch, ruler, brushes
(see below,) hair driers*, water container, palette, palette knife,
stapler'1', and a smock or apron.
Papers:
Chipboard (matboard) or illustration board, index paper, India paper,
magazine material, tape* tracing paper*.
Brushes:
basting brushes (2) small nylon bristle (#3, #6)
Paints:
Acrylic paints such as two of each primary below:
Blue:
Pthalocyanine, cerulean, cobalt, Prussian, cyan, ultramarine, turquoise
blue.
Yellow:
Cadmium yellow light, medium, or dark, nickel/cadmium yellow, zinc
yellow, azo yellow, hansa yellow, indian yellow, yellow ocher.
Red:
Cadmium red light, medium, deep, quinacridone red, magenta, Venetian
red, alizarmne crimson, vermillion.
Black and white:
Ivory black, and Titanium White (possibly 2 tubes)
Helpful additions:
brilliant blue*, prism violet"', dioxazine purple*, permanent
green*, pthalo green*, bright green*, bright orange*, azo orange*.
Gloss medium...far cheaper in bulk! !!!
Other materials:
notebook, binder, page protectors, bar or liquid soap, and a container
for tools and supplies, container for water. Apron or "studio
clothes"
*Less than one needed per student. These materials can be shared.
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