PAINTING 1,2,3
Course #: 112341/212341
Credit: .50
Length: Semester
Fee: $11/Sem
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS: 1: Students will complete works using watercolors, acrylics, and oils. Students will paint on a variety of surfaces (paper, hard board, canvas board, and canvas.) Students learn fundamental technique and how to “see like a painter.” Coursework will focus on composition, value (light & shadow) and color ( mixing, layering, & schemes). Students will document ideas, process, problems, and solution in a visual journal. 2 & 3: Students will continue to explore and develop techniques and processes learned in Painting 1. Students choose which paint medium, style, and subject matter to explore in-depth. Emphasis will be on developing student’s personal style, completing larger scale works, and working more independently. Coursework will focus on the role of painting in society, application of techniques, and a completed body of artwork. Students will document ideas, process, problems, and solution in a visual journal.
PAINTING 1
PAINTING 2
Tempera or Coffee Still Life
Visual Journal Work: Thumbnail Sketches
Resources: Parts of Light, (Pepper Painting), Composition Tips, Thumbnail Sketching
Demos & Techniques: Palette Setup, Mixing Tints & Shades, Seeing in Shapes & Values, Massing & Blocking
Style Mash
Resources: Major Painters & Styles, Google Arts & Culture Art Movements
Slideshows: Styles & Movements
Demos & Techniques: Building a Stretcher, Dry vs. Wet Stretching Paper, Toning a Canvas, Advanced Mixing.
Using an Easel, Digitally Manipulating Images
Watercolor Series
Visual Journal Work: Color Value Bars
Resources: Watercolor Series Project, All About Paper, Shadows Without Black
Slideshows: Color Schemes & Temperature, What is Abstract art?
Demos & Techniques: Gradated Washes, Ink & Marker, Masking Agents, Experimental, Basic Color Schemes
Non-Brush Painting
Artists: Henri Matisse
Slideshows: Cut Paper Painting
Demos & Techniques: Reverse Plexi-Glass Fingerpainting, Cut Paper Painting, Timed Paintings or Window Paintings
Iris Scott, Kimberly Adams, Painting without Brushes, Inventive Techniques
Non-Brushes: Hands/Fingers, Twig/Artificial Flower, Rag, Toothbrush, Comb, Found Objects, Spray Paint
Acrylic Landscape
Visual Journal Work: Complimentary Sphere & Cube
Resources: Vocabulary List, Brushes Types, Landscape Composition, Atmospheric Perspective
Slideshows: Monet & Impressionism
Demos & Techniques: Priming Surfaces, Palette Knife Painting
Historical Portrait
Resources: Portrait Proportions, Portrait Features, See a Face in Paint, Google Arts & Culture Historical Figures & Events
Slideshows: Portraits
Demos & Techniques: Review Portrait Proportions & Strategies, Flesh Color Recipes, Oil Pastels on Printed Portrait, Painting w/ Ink & Instant Coffee.
Oil Re-Creation
Resources: Styles & Movements
Slideshows: Styles & Movements
Demos & Techniques: Stretching & Priming Canvas, Using an Easel
Student Choice
Resources: Creative Thinking Strategies
Idea Box
Demos & Techniques: Oil Painting w/ Oil Pastels, 3D Pop-up Painting
PAINTING 3
Recycled Painting
Resources: SCAMPER
Demos & Techniques:
Building a Stretcher
Toning a Canvas
Oil Pastels and Color Pencils Over Photocopies, Modifying an Existing Painting
Student Choice
Resources: Themes In Painting
Slideshows: Trompe L'oeil Painting
Demos & Techniques: Using Additives, Magazine/Digital Collage
Unique Ground Ideas: Photograph, Metal, Glass, Object, Clothing, Shoes, Patterned Fabric, Books, Photocopies, & Magazines
Self-Portrait
Resources: Portrait Proportions & Feautres
Slideshows: Self-Portraits, 50 Portraits
Demos & Techniques: Portrait Proportions, Photo-Transfer Collage.
Student Choice
Resources:
Demos & Techniques: Monoprint Prints & Painting
SPECIAL PROJECTS & EXHIBIT OPPORTUNITIES
Forest Park Village Mural 2018
Painting 2/3 classes were asked to design and paint a mural for a new arts & crafts room at the Forest Park Village, an elderly living community, at 2901 North 7th Street in Wausau. Our mural is 8' high and 20' long. A grant from the Community Foundation made the creation of this new space possible. Residents will use this room to take classes and pursue their creative interests.
This organization enlists student artists to paint portraits of orphaned children from around the world. These portraits are then given to adopting families as a gift with their child.
Over the past several years students have painted portraits for children from Guatemala, Haiti, Thailand, Mexico, & Ghana.
Zion Project 2013-14
Zion Lutheran Church, 709 6th Street in Wausau, was seeking high school art students to create a series of paintings based on the Stations of the Cross. The paintings will be unveiled during 2014 Easter services and remain on display in the church afterward. Eight advanced painting students volunteered to accept this commission and worked closely together to develop proposal sketches, construct stetcher frames, and completed the 2' X 4' oil paintings. View the entire project on our blog: http://www.eastpainters.blogspot.com/
