For assignment instructions, information and demos see: www.tyleralpern.com\paint1.html 1. Aug 27 • Introductions • Materials needed/syllabus/set up • Color Lecture • Hue/Temperature Chart (part of 10 pt Color Mixing Charts) • Assignments – Begin Ptg 1 Free Expression Still Life 8 points - Due Sept 10 , finish Hue/Temperature Exercise & sketching (6 hours of work outside class for all assignments combined) 2. Sep 3 • Color Mixing - Value / Saturation Charts 10pts Purpose: To learn how to see value, temperature and saturation in color, to understand color theory, to learn how colors mix, how to darken, lighten and neutralize them. • Brain storming demo • Critique progress of Ptg 1 Free Expression Still Life 8pts • Assignments – Continue Ptg 1, Brain Storming Exercise 1pt - due Sept 10 & sketching (6 hours for all work outside class) 3. Sep 10 • Color Mixing - Value / Saturation Charts 10pts continued • Critique Painting 1 5pts • Continue Value/Saturation Charts • Due today – Painting 1 Free Expression Still Life 8pts • Assignments– Finish all Charts, make 30 Color Collage 1pt for Value Matching exercise, Brain Storming Part 2 1pt - due Sep 17 & sketching (Minimum 6 hours outside class for all) 4. Sep 17 • Value Matching / Complement Mixing 5pts Purpose: To fully understand complementary colors and seeing value. To develop brush technique. • Due today – 30 Color Collage for Value Exercise, all previous exercises. • Assignments – Finish Value Matching, create Painting 2 5pts based on Brain Storming – due Sept 24 & sketching (6 hours work outside class) 5. Sep 24 • Shading / Optical Mixing 5pts Purpose: To review color theory, discover optical mixing, gain confidence with the brush and understand crafting three dimensional volume on a flat surface. • Layering • Due today – Painting 2 5pts, Value Matching 5pts • Assignments– Finish Shading Exercise, Begin Painting 3 5pts a 3 dimensional still life using formulas shading and maximum value shifts to express volume - due Oct 8, Prepare 10 Compositional Sketches 1pt - due Oct 1 for Painting 4 10pts (6 hours outside class) 6. Oct 1 • Begin Painting 4 10pts - due Oct 29: Layering and Transparency Purpose: To learn how to craft a painting using an under painting, to begin to find an artistic voice. and Beyond Local Color Purpose: To learn how value is more important than hue in crafting an image. To find expressive, personal color. • Due today – 10 Sketches 1pt for Painting 4 10pts • Assignments – Continue work on Paintings 3 & 4, sketching (6 hours outside class) - Ptg 3 due Oct 8, Ptg 4 due Oct 29. Oct 8 • Simultaneous Contrast Demo Purpose: To learn how to change a color’s value and intensity with different surroundings. • Painting 3 3-D Volume 5pts critique • Painting 4 10 points continued Due today – Painting 3 3-D Volume 5pts Assignments – Continue work on Painting 4 10pts - due Oct 29 & sketching (6 hours outside class) Oct 15 • Acrylic Surface Demo Painting 4 Layering and Beyond Local Color 10pts continued Assignments – Continue Painting 4, produce 10 Compositional Studies 1pt for Painting 5 - due Oct 22 & sketching (6 hours outside class) 9. Oct 22 • Painting 5 Depth / Atmospheric Perspective 15pts - due Nov 19 Purpose: To learn how to craft a deep three dimensional sense of space on a flat surface. • Due today – 10 Compositional Studies 1pt for Painting 5 • Assignments – Finish Painting 4 Layering and Beyond Local Color, continue Painting 5 15 pts & sketching (6 hours outside class) Oct 29 • Juxtaposition, Substitution, Transformation Demo Painting 5 Depth / Atmospheric Perspective 15pts continued Due today – Painting 4 Layering and Beyond Local Color 10pts Assignments – Painting 5 15 pts continued, J,S,T Brain Storm 2 pts -due Nov 5 & sketching (6 hours outside class) Nov 5 • Acrylic Surface Demo Painting 5 Depth 15pts - due Nov 19 continued • Discuss individually J,S,T Brain Storm 2pts • Due today – J,S,T Brain Storm 2pts • Assignments – Plan J,S,T / New Reality 10 Compositions 1pts - due Nov 12, Painting 5 Depth 15pts continued & sketching (6 hours outside class) 12. Nov 12 • Continue Painting 5 Depth 15pts due Nov 19 • Begin Painting 6 New Techniques 15pts choose and use at least 2 of the following: crackle, transfer, additives, collage, subtractive, interference, skins, raised edges, resists, etc. to render your most effective J,S,T / New Reality composition - due Dec 10. Purpose: to incorporate surface considerations and push the possibilities of the medium and to communicate imaginative content in a visual language using contrast. • Due today – J,S,T / New Reality 10 Compositions 1pt • Assignments – Finish Ptg 5 Depth 15 pts - Due Nov 19, Continue work on Ptg 6 15 pts - due Dec 10 (6 hours outside class) 13. Nov 19 • Continue Painting 6 New Techniques / New Reality 15pts • Critique Ptg 5 Depth 15pts, • Written Test 10pts, • Due today – Sketchbook with all drawing and compositional studies and reproductions of 20 inspiring paintings from at least 15 artists 5pts • Assignment – Painting 6 New Techniques / New Reality 15pts continued - due Dec 10 (6 hours outside class) Nov 26 No classes, offices closed 14. Dec 3 • Continue Painting 6 New Techniques / New Reality 15pts • Assignment – Continue work on Ptg 6 15pts - due Dec 10 (6 hours outside class), If you finish Ptg 6, you can do additional paintings to fill out assigned hours. They are part of the 15 pts for Ptg 6. Dec 10 • Finish Painting 6 New Techniques / New Reality 15pts Critique of Ptg 6 15pts. No work accepted past this date. Remove all belongings from Studio. Point Breakdown: Ptg 1 8, Charts 10, Brain Storm 1 1, Brain Storm 2 1, Value 5, Ptg 2 5, Shading 5, 10 Comps 1 1, Ptg 3 5, Ptg 4 10, 10 Comps 2 1, Ptg 5 15, JTS Brain Storm 2, JTS 10 Comps 1, Ptg 6 15, Test 10, Sketchbook 5 = 100 points. Instructor: Tyler Alpern, MFA Department: Visual Arts Credits: 3 Office Hours: Thursday 11:30 - 12 or by appointment Office Location: Art Studio, Nalanda Campus, Arapahoe & 63rd Phone: 303/545-6955 E-Mail: talpern@Naropa.edu Class Website: http://www.tyleralpern.com/naropa.html Class Time: Thursdays, 12:00pm – 2:50pm Dates: August 27 – December 10, 2009 Location: Visual Arts Studio, room 9124, Nalanda Campus, Arapahoe & 63rd Course Description Students develop technical ability as painters and increase their creative options for art making. With the still life as subject, the course focuses on color theory, the formal elements of painting, and the various surfaces, tools, techniques and myriad effects that can be achieved with acrylic paint. Students explore the expressive potential of painting and discuss their process during class critiques. Knowledge gained enables students to be articulate about and have a better understanding of the paintings that they encounter in the world. Materials fee. Course Goals and Objectives This course is a basic introduction to the field of acrylic painting in contemporary art studio practice. Students will make art using acrylic painting techniques and understand the basic conceptual and intuitive modalities of two dimensional color art. Within the context of Realism, students will start to develop and experiment with their own styles and content while learning and practicing technical skills and color theory. Observation will be combined with subjective technical considerations to best create the illusion of three dimensional reality on a flat two dimensional surface. Students will learn to take risks and challenge themselves to make better paintings. Because of this, experimentation and risk taking occasional awful looking work is inevitable, expected and a part of the learning process. This class is an exercise and experience as well as a product oriented class. Just as a musician practices his or her craft for countless hours; to learn to paint, one must make paintings, heaps of them to become good. Students may make some really bad paintings. That is expected as part of the learning process. Learning to cope with and work with frustration is essential. This class will focus on creative exploration, development of technical skills and color: seeing, theory and mixing. Modes of Instruction Each course starts with an optional 5 minute sitting practice or other contemplative exercise which may on occasion be student led. Then there will be a demonstration with art materials, techniques or theory, followed by students working individually on the project assigned. Students are mentored one on one for the remainder of each class. Some classes include a critique where we look at and comment on the finished art assignments. Students will leave the instructor a written note at the end of each class outlining what they plan to achieve in unfinished paintings for homework. Course Projects We will do both exercises and finished work. Topics will include: Color, Value, Mixing, Transparency vs. Opacity, Shading and Volume, Local and Non-Local Color, Atmospheric Perspective, Layering, Content and Communication, Creativity, Composition, Style, Imagination. We will look at paintings from many different eras and cultures. You are required to draw outside of class (at least 20 minutes a week), so get a sketch book for this purpose and date each drawing. You are free to draw what you want in it. Develop ideas for paintings in your sketchbook. You will have to complete projects in class based on your own ideas that you formulate outside of class in your sketchbook. You will use your sketchbook for: 1.) Drawing and formulating ideas, 2.) Collecting a minimum of 20 painted images that inspire you from at least 15 different artists, 3.) Developing your ideas and compositions and making thumbnail studies, 4.) Taking notes. I will not read anything written in your sketchbook unless you ask me too nor will I mark in it so feel free to journal in it, etc. If you are required to keep a sketchbook or journal for another class, it is okay with me to combine them. Bring your sketch book to class every day. There will be many assignments that you complete outside of class. Explanations are given at the start of each class after contemplative practice so please BE ON TIME. Assignment details online at: www.tyleralpern.com\paint1.html Course Requirements and Grading System Every aspect and component of this class is equally important. What is valued most in this class is experimentation, innovation, discovery, and moving beyond expectations. Important aspects to be considered: Participation in group critiques and discussions is required Homework assignments are expected to involve six hours of work outside class each week No late assignments will be accepted unless prior communication with the instructor. Breakdown of final grade - Devotion Consistent wakefulness, ‘presence,’ and attentiveness is expected as part of the grade. This means no head phones or cell phones which could distract you and/or others. Being present but not wakeful, attentive or counts as being absent. A bad attitude on a day when we try something you do not like or not following assignment directions, or not using safe studio practices will count as an absence. Attendance in the regular class period is mandatory. You may receive one excused absence when the instructor receives a phone call or written notice that you are either ill, or have an emergency – this absence must be made up. Religious holidays can be made up at full credit if procedure is followed - please let me know your plans for them in advance. All other absences will lower the grade a full letter grade. Three unexcused absences results in an F. Three tardies, early departures, or excessive breaks equal one absence. Tardiness is counted after the optional contemplative practice, usually at 12:10. Missing more than 10 minutes of a period also counts as a tardy. Evaluation System Your grade is based on effort, attitude and attendance, not ability. I want you to take risks and not worry about beauty, success, or artistic ability of finished work, grades are only based on fullfilling assignment instructions and requirements. COURSE TOTAL = 100 POINTS. Grading scale: 100-90 = A, 89-80 = B, 79-70 = C, 69-60 = D, below 60 = F 1. Written Test 10pts, Skechbook 5pts,, Course work & Homework 85pts. 2 points deducted for late paintings each period past due when permission to be late had been granted. No credit given for late assignments 2 points or less. Extra work on assignments based on critiques past the due date can improve grade. Make-up classes or assignments (IF POSSIBLE) must be completed within 2 weeks and count up to 2/3's part credit. Grading scale for art projects A full engagement in the process; use of the set parameters and suggestions B an interesting work that does not quite fulfill the requirements C adequate, reasonably competent; a mixture of strengths and weaknesses, partially fulfills assignment D poor in content, form, and mechanics, does not follow assignment F incoherent, disastrously flawed, or not turned in Numeric grades: A = 90 - 100% points, B = 80 - 89%, C = 70 - 79%, D = 60 - 69%, F = 0 - 59%. Studio Policies / Safety Issues / Miscellaneous You must wash and clean your working area after each class as others use the room. Follow all posted studio procedures. To avoid ingesting hazardous materials, eating and drinking in the studio is not allowed. No toxic chemicals or paints shall be disposed of in the sink. Fixative must be used outside, chemicals properly stored. USE RESPECT: for yourself, your classmates, the room and materials in it. Realize that a portion of your grade is your conduct in the studio. That includes safety issues, respect for the work of others and cleaning up after yourself. Don’t lose your work. Label the back with a) Your Name, b) This Semester, c) Teacher’s Name. Unlabeled, mislabeled and outdated work will be either discarded or appropriated by another student. Place painting in rack reserved for this class. Be careful not to smear other work drying in the racks. Students with disabilities, language conflicts or having special circumstances during the semester should contact me early so that appropriate accommodations may be made. Requesting accommodation or allowances after the fact, or, at the end of the term, is NOT an appropriate solution. Communication is the key to success in this class. If there is anything of concern, see me, call or e-mail. Use of headphones allowed only if completely inaudible to others. Use cell phones outside of classrooms. The instructor reserves right to modify syllabus and calendar for the class. Assignments not finished in class are homework. Materials: Stay wet palette and papers, water containers, spray bottle, minimum of ten brushes that are not too soft (#1, #4 or #6 round and flat, #12 flat) - the more the better, sketchbook, drawing materials. Supports such as heavy paper, canvas and stretcher bars will need to be bought as needed. Avoid canvas board. PAINT: large tube of white (zinc or titanium), thalo (phthalocyanine) blue {by Golden}, ultramarine blue {by Golden}, rose: quindacridone or acra {that looks fuschia or magenta}, cadmium red hue {that looks red not orange}, burnt umber, cadmium yellow medium hue, zinc or lemon yellow. Optional colors: alizarin crimson, thalo green, yellow ochre, orange, purple, burnt sienna, anything you like. Avoid colors described as light, anything that has titanium in it (other than white) as you can create light colors yourself by diluting dark colors yourself. Buy primarily saturated, deep, dark colors. Acrylic painters should open paint and judge color quality by the paint not the label. A bright orange described as red will only frustrate you when red is what you need. DO NOT BUY BLACK. Do have at least one cool and warm red and blue. Check Prices - DO NOT SPEND TOO MUCH - look for cheap brands and ‘hues’ but rich, dark paint. Optional materials needed later: Gel Medium, texture, gloss or matte mediums, retarder (optional but highly recommended) & perhaps some of the following: hide glue, freezer wrap, isopropyl alcohol, bleach, plastic wrap, tape, metallics, vaseline, tar gel, tissue paper, sand, interference colors, etc. It is NOT necessary to have new supplies if you already have anything EXACTLY THE SAME as the list. If you have budget concerns, please bring it to my attention before a problem arises. It is entirely your responsibility to have the necessary supplies for each class meeting. Recommended Texts for inspiration, diverse techniques and possibilities: Acrylic Revolution, Nancy Reyner, North Light Books or New Acrylics, Rheni Tauchid, Watson Guptill IMPORTANT SPECIAL CASES: If you have any special needs that may require accommodations or if you will miss a class because of a religious holiday, please contact the instructor by the third week of class. Naropa University will provide accommodations for qualified students with disabilities. To request an accommodation, or to discuss any learning needs you may have, contact the Disability Services Coordinator, Holly Mayo. Her office is located in the Student Affairs Department in the Administration Building on the Arapahoe Campus. You may contact her at 303 245-4749 or email: hmayo@naropa.edu. | 
