T/TH

SECTION 3: T/TH 1:40-4:20P

SECTION 4: T/TH 4:45-7:20P

WEEK ONE

1/22 Introductions; read through syllabus; get oriented with blog;  buy all materials labeled NEEDED BY NEXT CLASS. (see materials list); buy text.

IMPORTANT: We will make a sketch book during class on Tuesday, 1/29-  be sure to arrive to class that day with all sketchbook papers prepared and ready to use (see materials list for details).

1/24  LINE AND OBSERVATION;  contour, gesture, sighting 

Homework- due next class:

- prepare sketchbook papers (for details see MATERIALS list on blog)

- read chapter on LINE in text (p 2-10)

- due 2/7: Assignment 1: materials tests, contour drawings, sighted contour drawing (still life)

WEEK TWO

1/29 Sketchbook Workshop

Homework:

- due next class: label sketchbook sections

- work on Assignment 1

1/31  LINE AND OBSERVATION; still life

Homework:

- for next class, read pp 10-29 in text (shape and texture)

WEEK THREE

2/5 SHAPE AND TEXTURE; mass/volume summary; reductive drawing

Homework: - due next class -- Read Chapter 7, Developing Critical Thinking (pp 140-155)

2/7  LINE / GESTURE DRAWING

Homework:

Finish Assignment One

- Introduction to Assignment: Sun Bleach Prints (explained in class) (Due Week 14)

WEEK FOUR

2/12   GROUP CRITIQUE- Assignment One Due -  TIME PERMITTING: Value Scales in sketchbook

Homework: 

- Introduce artist presentation assignment (Due Week 13- Pick out your artist by Week 6) 

- Introduce exhibition review assignment (Due with final portfolio)

- For next class: read chapter on Value in text (pp 29-35)

2/14 LIGHT AND SHADOW / INTRODUCE ASSIGNMENT TWO

Homework:  

-due 2/19- read chapter on perspective
-Introduce midterm project (due 3/13)

WEEK FIVE

2/19  PERSPECTIVE 

2/21 PERSPECTIVE

Homework:

- for next class, read Chapter Three

WEEK SIX

2/26  COMPOSITION

Homework:

2/28 Due today: name of artist for Artist Presentation assignment

Homework:

- work on Midterm Project and Abstracting from Life
- bring to class on Tuesday: 18 x 24" good paper and object for Abstracting From Life Assignment

WEEK SEVEN

3/5 Studio Day: work either Midterm or Abstracting From Life in class- bring all materials needed

3/7 Group Critique- Assignment 2

WEEK EIGHT

3/12 Studio Day- Finish Midterm Projects

3/14 Critique Midterm Projects / Portfolio and Sketchbook Due

--- NO LATE PORTFOLIOS WILL BE ACCEPTED. NO EXCEPTIONS. ---

Homework:

- read p 38 - 63 (COLOR) and other readings to be determined

WEEK NINE

3/19 --- COLOR --- Lecture and materials demo. Bring gouache and brushes to class.

3/21 --- COLOR --- IN CLASS EXERCISES

Introduce Assignment 3- COLOR STUDIES:

IN SKETCHBOOK- explained in class:

-Materials Tests
- 2 color wheels

- 2 master studies (one in new palette)

ON 18 X 24" WATERCOLOR PAPER (WILL BE PROVIDED):

- Multiple Views of Pikes Peak: incorporate color; choose a location you can return to at three different times of the day. Paint the same landscape three times, in different light.

WEEK TEN

3/26 SPRING BREAK

3/28 SPRING BREAK

WEEK ELEVEN

4/2  STUDIO DAY- WORK ON ASSIGNMENT 3 IN CLASS

homework:

- TAKE HOME TEST DUE WEDNESDAY 4/3 

(THIS IS 5% OF YOUR GRADE... LATE TESTS GRADED DOWN ONE LETTER GRADE PER DAY LATE) 

4/4  FIELD TRIP-- Aaron Cohick Exhibition at Coburn Gallery, Colorado College

- Readings on shape & pattern (to be determined)

- ART & TEXT / INTERDISCIPLINARITY- readings from Cabinet Magazine

WEEK TWELVE

4/9  IN-CLASS EXERCISES: COLOR & PATTERN CONTINUED; GEOMETRICAL DRAWING & COLLAGE

4/11 IN-CLASS EXERCISES: COLOR & PATTERN CONTINUED; GEOMETRICAL DRAWING & COLLAGE

WEEK THIRTEEN

4/16  Studio Day: work on color & pattern;

- Color Exercises Due today (checked off during class)

4/18  Critique selections from Assignments 3 & 4: 

1 View of Pikes Peak on 18 x 24" paper
1 master study
1 Color & Pattern 

WEEK FOURTEEN

4/23 Artist Presentations

4/25 Artist Presentations

WEEK FIFTEEN

4/30  Studio Day- finish Assignment 4

- DUE TODAY BY 9PM: EMAIL FIRST DRAFT OF EXHIBITION REVIEW

5/2  Assignment 4 Due: Group Critique, selections from Assignments 3 & 4

-Introduce Final Project

WEEK SIXTEEN 

5/7 STUDIO DAY- WORK ON FINAL -- NO MARINA 

5/9 STUDIO DAY -- WORK ON FINAL -- NO MARINA

- DUE TODAY BY 9PM: EMAIL FINAL DRAFT OF EXHIBITION REVIEW 

WEEK SEVENTEEN

5/ 14 Final Critique; Final Portfolio and Sketchbook Due

5/17 Pick up portfolios and sketchbooks; Grades Posted on Blackboard