This class is
the introduction to Painting. I use oil paint as the medium of instruction
in this class because it is the most flexible and versatile painting
medium and it is also the primary medium used over time in the development
of painting technique. In Painting III and IV students may chose
to work in another medium and I encourage experimentation but on
the introductory level it is best to learn one medium well. |
I
have several goals for the first level of painting: I wish to see
students learn how to handle the medium through such techniques as
flat paint application, blending, impasto, glazing and scumbling,
wet into wet. I wish students to work further with compositional
skills acquired in Drawing I and Color and Design to create images
with interest and tension as well as pleasing relationships of color,
scale, texture, value and line. I wish students to understand how
to mix color, which means having a grasp of color theory and relationships.
I wish students to understand how color relates to space. I teach
the basic skills involved in rendering: that is how to minutely observe
surface detail and color and light to "paint what you see". |
We will progress
through a series of problems designed to develop a sensitivity to
paint application and surface quality, to color, to value, to composition;
to volume, light and space as the necessary elements of recreating
perceptual experience; and finally to incorporating the more abstract
aspects of painting side by side with the more perceptually based
aspects. |
This course is
designed to build on skills of rendering objects in space with color
and light. I hope to encourage an exploration of more expressive
qualities of color and surface at this stage. I have set up a series
of problems which run from quite structured to less structured for
this class. The strategy is to help me determine each individual's
need for structure, since you are on several different levels of
experience. It is also geared toward getting each individual to start
to develop a sense of responsibility for their own ideas and images. |
I have set up
a series of problems that run from quite structured to very loose
for this class. It is geared toward getting each individual to start
to develop a sense of responsibility for their own ideas and images.
The ideas for these assignments are drawn from concepts relevant
to contemporary art. |
Figure Drawing
is a course which teaches basic anatomy of the human figure as well
as drawing technique. We will cover use of different drawing media,
skills of rendering correct proportion and foreshortening, composition
and visual elements, and will execute both gesture drawings and long
poses. We will conduct class critiques. |