2D Design and Color (112-003)
Fall 2012
MW 1:50-4:00 PM
Room: A/C S217
3 credits
Instructor: Sharon Lindenfeld
lindenfs@uwosh.edu
Office hours: A/C 513, MW 10:45am- 12:15pm
Overview
In this semester, we will learn tools to help us make effective artworks. We will
develop a design vocabulary and skills to utilize elements of design, composition,
color, and visual illusion to communicate our ideas. We will also learn how to
analyze and talk about art.
Course Objectives
-Learn design devices and principles
-Explore color theory
-Learn to mix and use color
-Balance and unify compositions
-Acquire a visual vocabulary
-Learn studio habits
-Be able to critique and analyze 2-D artworks formally
-Collect a set of guidelines and questions to return to throughout college and your
long artistic life
Required Text
Launching the Imagination: A Comprehensive Guide to Basic Design (4th edition)
Mary Stewart/McGraw Hill ISBN: 978-0-07337924-1
Supplies
There is a $10 lab fee for this course.
This course will provide acrylic paint, miscellaneous media (eg pastels, Mod Podge),
plastic trays, tracing and transfer paper and a few tools.
You must also purchase:
Sketchbook 8.5 x 11
1 pad of bristol paper 18 x 24
Acrylic paint – black, white, red, yellow, blue, magenta (4 oz.) for your final project
Assorted brushes
Metal ruler
Glue sticks
Assorted black markers (thick and fine)
HB pencil
gum eraser
Attendance and Grading Policy
Three unexcused absences are allowed. Final grades will be lowered by a full letter
grade (eg. an A- to a B-) for each additional absence. Three late arrivals or early
departures (over ten minutes) are equal to one absence. This means that after four
absences (or three absences and three early departures), the highest possible grade
you can earn is a B+. After four absences, a C+, and so on. Seven absences will
result in an automatic failure. Written documentation (a note from a health care
provider or dean of students) is required to excuse an absence. You are responsible
for keeping track of how many absences you have.
Attendance and work at critiques are mandatory. One missed critique (ie. no work
in the critique) will result in a full letter grade reduction on that project. A late
project will result in a third of a letter grade (eg. A- to a B+) deducted per calendar
day that it is late.
Final Grade Breakdown
60% Five Projects (10%, 10%, 10%, 10%, 20%)
5% Reading Quizzes
5% Sketchbook
20% Activities
10% Participation (prepared for class, participation in critiques)
Activities
We will be doing a series of activities in class and as homework. You will turn these
in every other Monday (on odd numbered weeks). They will be graded based on
effort, skills acquired, concepts explored, and experimentation/risk.
Activities will be deducted one full letter grade (from an A- to a B-) if turned in on
the following Wednesday after the Monday it was due, or deducted two letter grades
(from an A- to a B-) if an entire week late. It will not be accepted after that.
Projects
Larger projects will be assigned and critiqued in class.
Project Grade Breakdown
Projects will be based on effort, skills acquired, concepts explored, level of
completion, aesthetic success of the image, quality of solution to the design
“problem,” craftsmanship, and presentation.
Sketchbook
Include all notes, thumbnails and more developed sketches. You will turn these in
four times over the course of the semester. You will also paste any inspiration
research (photos, magazine cut-outs, print-outs etc).
Email
Check your email at least once a day and read any announcements I send out; often
they have important information in them. You are responsible for that information,
as long as I give you 24 hours notice. The best way to reach me is through email
(lindenfs@uwosh.edu). I will check my email once a day, so if you need to reach me
before class, email me at least 24 hours before class. If you email me the day of
class, I might have already checked it that morning and may not receive your email
in time. While I try to keep to the syllabus, sometimes we fall behind or run ahead.
Therefore, if you miss class, contact another student or me to find out the
assignment. If you miss class, you are still responsible for keeping up with
assignments.
Contact information:
Building Access
The building opens at 7 AM and closes at 11 PM, but the doors lock at 10 PM, so you
need to be inside by then. If you want to work later than that, you can request
permission from me to sign a late pass that allows you to stay after hours. The fine
for staying late to work without a pass is pretty high, and you are responsible for
getting a pass from the Art Office on the 3rd floor.
Storage
You can get a locker in the basement by purchasing a combination lock, placing it on
a locker, and registering this lock with the Art Office on the third floor. There is also
a shelf where we can temporarily leave a few projects but not supplies.
Cellular Phones and iPods
Use of cellular phones is prohibited in this class.
You may listen to your iPod during personal worktime.
SCHEDULE
This schedule is subject to change. In class I will give you all the information
on assignments.
WEEK
1
2
DATE
W 9/5
M 9/10
W 9/12
3
M 9/17
W 9/19
4
M 9/24
W 9/26
5
M 10/1
READING ASSIGN.
LTI Ch 5
Ch 1 “Line” pp 210, Ch 6
Ch 1 “Shape” pp
10-22
Ch 1 “Texture” pp
22-29
ACTIVITIES/PROJECTS
Line
Shape
Turn in activities
Ch 7 “Critical
Texture
Thinking” 140-148
CRITIQUE Line Shape and Texture
Project
Ch 1 “Value” pp
Value
29-35
Turn in activities and sketchbook
W 10/3
6
M 10/8
7
W 10/10
M 10/15
8
12
13
14
Expressive/Symbolic Color
Turn in activities
M 10/22
Ch 2 Quiz
M 10/29
Ch 3 “Unity and
Variety” pp 66-74
Ch 3 “Balance” pp
74-81
Ch 3 “Scale and
Proportion”
“Rhythm” and
“Emphasis” pp 8287
M 11/5
W 11/7
11
Ch 2 “Emotion and
Expression” pp
58-63
CRITIQUE Color Mixing and Schemes
Project
W 10/31
10
Ch 1 Quiz
Color Theory
W 10/7
W 10/24
9
Ch 2 “Color
Physics and
Defining Color” pp
38-48
Ch 2 “Harmony
and Disharmony”
and “Composing
with Color”pp 4958
M 11/12
W 11/14
M 11/19
W 11/21
M 11/26
W 11/28
M 12/3
W 12/5
Ch 4 “Creating the
Illusion of Space”
pp 92-101
Ch 4 “Illusion of
Motion” pp 102107
NO CLASS
Ch 8 “Constructing
Meaning” pp 158177
“Repetition with Variation”
Turn in activities and sketchbook
CRITIQUE Balance and Unity Project
due
Ch 3 Quiz
Turn in activities
CRITIQUE Space Project Due
Ch 4 Quiz
THANKSGIVING
Turn in activities and sketchbook
Discuss Final Project
Discussion of Economy, Subject vs.
Content
15
M 12/10
W 12/12
FINAL PORTFOLIO CRITIQUE final project, Turn in project
and sketchbook