Computer Graphics

Computer Graphics

1. COURSE TITLE: PAINTING (L3)

   COURSE NUMBER:	6035
   COURSE LENGTH:	Full Year
   COURSE VALUE:	1 Credit

2. COURSE DESCRIPTION:

   The student is introduced to a variety of techniques in painting, the study of color, form and aspects of pictorial composition. The student will be able to develop and increase creative expression through the variety of painting media and styles learned in this course. Included mediums are tempera, watercolors, gouache, acrylic, and mixed media. Weekly homework assignments researching famous painters, as well as semester research papers and outside semester assignments of reproducing a famous painting are required. All units covered will include written and sometimes practical tests.

3. TOPICS COVERED:
   1. Tempera Painting
      1. Study of Color Terms
      2. General Information

   2. Painting subjects designed to cover the following color problems:
      1. Value Scale
      2. Monochromatic
      3. Analogous
      4. Color Families

   3. Watercolor Painting
      1. Historical Background, terms and general information
      2. Still Life Subject
         1. Limited palatte of two colors
         2. Introduce wet on wet technique
         3. Wet on dry technique
         4. Suggesting details

   4. Group Landscape of photo subject supplied by instructor, introducing:
      1. Atmospheric (aerial) perspective: Cloud studies
      2. Dry on dry technique
      3. Use of frisket
      4. Reflections
      5. Caniferous trees
      6. Water

   5. Free Choice Landscape, photo supplied by student

   6. Gouache Painting: subject supplied by instructor

   7. Acrylic Painting
      1. General information: introduction to materials, names of colors, etc.
      2. Still Life, introduction to:
         1. Mixing colors
         2. Creating depth
         3. Textures

   8. Surrealism Painting
      1. Historical background
      2. Introduce stretching a canvas
      3. Application of previous skills learned to make realistic objects fit into surrealistic scenes

   9. Impressionism or Cubist Painting

   10. Abstract Expressionism Painting
       1. General information and examples
       2. Design and execution of abstract expressionism painting
       3. Written test on terms and artists of cubism and abstract expressionism

   11. Painting on Location
       1. Watercolor on-site outdoor paintings on-site
          1. Clouds
          2. Trees
          3. Sky lines

   12. Final Painting: Free Choice
       1. Student Choice of Subject
       2. Student Choice of Medium

4. TEXTBOOKS USED: Brommer, Gerald E. and Kinne, Nancy K. Exploring Painting, Davis Publications, Worcester, MA, 1988