ADVANCED PAINTING SYLLABUS
Class Materials Fee $10.00
Home materials that may be helpful for sketch book work and two long-term home
projects.
Digital Camera
Color Pencils
Markers
Glue Stick
Scissors
Sketch Pencil (regular #2 is fine)
Water Color Set and Brush
Black Sharpie Ultra Fine, Fine, and Medium tips
3-4 acrylic brushes (not required, but helpful)
acrylic paint (primary colors, white, black and raw umber brown (are fine, unless
you would like a more diverse set- again, not required but helpful)
tempera paint and medium (not required but helpful)
Outside of Class “Homework” or Art Room Work Requirement
For every 20 minutes spent in class, 20 minutes of outside work is expected. All
missed class time must be made-up as soon as possible and no more than two weeks after
absence. Sketch book requirements are included in this time. A summary of all time spent
is to be kept in sketch book lof. (As most weeks alternate two and then three meetings,
students are expected to work six hours and forty minutes every two weeks. (2 hours and
40 minutes plus 4 hours)
Projects (2.5 two- three week units per quarter and 1 at home substantial project)
Students find artist from each movement to share to class during the unit of study.
Sketch Book/Journal (These will be made in class.) Bring Sketch Book/Journal to class
everyday. Depending on outside work assigned, regular sketch book entries are expected
including: free sketches (equivalent of 20 thirty minute sketches by the end of the
semester), artist’s responses (done in conjunction with units of study- 7 total during the
semester), and a minimum of 20 collected art reproductions and responses for Student Art
Collection (one per week and this counts toward sketch book time).
SEC 1 Sketch Book Log Pages (handout provided)
SEC 2 UNIT SECTIONS (correspond with projects)
1. cezannesk fruit study
2. fauvist animal in its environment
3. analytical cubist figure,
4. OKeefesk watercolor
5. allegory or assembledge
6. Self Portrait with Text
7. Minimalist Landscape
FOR EACH UNIT THE FOLLOWING ARE TO BE INCLUDED:
Artist’s Responses (handouts provided)
Unit Research (collection of images to work from)
Assigned (planning) Sketches
Progress Photos
Evaluations
SEC 3
Choice Sketches (Start-time, end-time, and date by each entry.)
SEC 4
Student’s Art Collection (sources required)
Include a response paragraph.
SEC 5
Final
Planning Sketch
Artist Statement
Photos of Wall and Show
Digital Portfolio on CD
FIRST QUARTER PROJECTS
*Cubistic Fruit Painting- Acrylic (Cezanne)
Qui ckTime™ and a
decompressor
are needed to see thi s pi cture.
Ginger Jar and Fruit (Le vase paille)
c. 1895 Oil on canvas 28 3/4 x 23 5/8 in. (73 x 60 cm)
The Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania
The Artchive
file:///Users/teacher/Desktop/advanced%20painting%20images/Cezanne%20cubism/Cezanne,%20Paul:%20Ginger%20Jar%20and%20Fruit.webarchive
*Movement/Expressionist/Figure Study- Tempera (Nude Descending- Duchamp)
Qui ckTime™ and a
decompressor
are needed to see thi s pi cture.
Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2
(French: Nu descendant un escalier n° 2) is a 1912 painting
Wikipedia- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nude_Descending_a_Staircase,_No._2
Home Assignment:
*Fauvist Painting (animal/s in a setting)- Acrylic (Marc)
QuickTime™ and a
decompressor
are needed to see t his picture.
QuickTime™ and a
decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
FIRST/SECOND QUARTER PROJECT
*Close-Up Painting Flower- Water Color (O’Keife)
QuickTime™ and a
d eco mpres sor
are nee ded to s ee this picture.
Red Snap Dragons c. 1923
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/O/okeefe.html#images
SECOND QUARTER PROJECTS
*Self Portrait- Text and Image- Acrylic (Robert Shetterly)
QuickTime™ and a
decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
*Minimalist- Simplified Landscape- Oil Pastel and Thinner (Maine Artists?)
QuickTi me™ and a
decompressor
are needed to see thi s pi ctur e.
QuickTi me™ and a
decompressor
are needed to see t his pict ure.
Sarah Brandon –
Kristen Stein Fine Art –
Contemporary Artist – Minimalist Landscape
Steuben, Maine.webloc Paintings.webloc
Home Assignment:
*Narrative/Alligory/Illustrative/Canvas Stretching- Acrylic
QuickTime™ and a
decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
Allegory of Music by Filippino Lippi. Tempera on panel,
61 × 51 cm, c. 1500. The "Allegory of Music"
or
*Installation (Saar)- Mixed Media
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de com press or
are need ed to se e th is p icture.
Final Exam Arts Extravaganza student individual art display. Design wall, mount
images, write artist’s statement, greet visitors, provide visitor comment
opportunity. Digital documentation of exhibit and experience submitted on cd.