Division: Communications, Arts, and Social Sciences
Subject Code: ART Course #: 132
Course Title: Painting II
HARRISBURG AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE
FORM 335
Course Form 335 must be updated at least every five years to qualify for state reimbursement.
1.
Digital Description [§335.2]:
Credit hours:
Lecture hours:
Lab hours:
3
2
3
2. Catalog Description [§335.2]:
More advanced painting concepts and techniques. Emphasis is on experimentation with various materials and individual expression. A laboratory fee is required.
Minimum Grade Required
3. Prerequisites: ART 131 C
Corequisites:
Other:
4.
Learning Outcomes [§335.2]
[These outcomes are necessary to enable students to attain the essential knowledge and skills embodied in the program’s educational objectives.]
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

Demonstrate a more advanced understanding of mark making, color interaction and mixing color as it relates to paint media.

Incorporate a more in-depth understanding and application of the elements and principles of design in the completion of many kinds of paintings.
 Utilize more advanced skills and knowledge in the process of building stretcher frames, and the stretching and priming of various kinds of painting surfaces.

Demonstrate a higher level knowledge and understanding of the anatomy/skeleton through paintings depicting the figure including muscles, proportion and movement.

Continue the study and analysis of paintings that represent historical and contemporary art of varied cultures through class presentations, visits to galleries, museums and/or campus media resources.
 Effectively present advanced concepts and terminology learned in class while describing and interpreting paintings during critiques and oral presentations.

Utilize a variety of techniques and mixed media in the completion of work and refine a more advanced portfolio.
1

Division: Communications, Arts, and Social Sciences
Subject Code: ART Course #: 132
Course Title: Painting II

Demonstrate a more advanced level of craftsmanship and presentation in the completion of paintings including framing and matting.

Utilize library resources and/or other media to conduct independent research/paper relating to coursework.

Identify hazardous art materials and unsafe studio practices. Students should be able to demonstrate safe practices while using materials and equipment in the art studio and at home.
 Research and conduct a major assignment project along with a connection with an artist from a list with approved topics for a series of four paintings and a written paper.
5. Planned Sequence of Learning Activities [§335.2]
[These must be designed to help students achieve the learning outcomes.]

Subject matter/genres – Further exposure to more complex areas in still life, interior/exterior perspective, self-portrait/portraiture, landscape abstraction, human anatomy (models – 15 sessions or three fourths of semester) in traditional studio environment.

Shape – Gain more experience involving simplification, mass, planes, volume, background, and stages of development.

Line – Further knowledge and use of advanced types of line, contour and line quality.

Color – Acquire skills in more advanced mixing and use of limited palettes, intensity, color wheel, scales, temperature, color interaction, toned ground, under painting, local and arbitrary palettes.

Measuring – Further experience in guidelines of proportion, sighting angles, volume, mass, planar analysis, developing figure and ground simultaneously.
 Value – Continue development of value range, gray scale, tonal shape, tonal edge, chiaroscuro, contrast, and lighting (natural and artificial).

Perspective – Advanced methods create illusory space: spatial depth, linear, one-point, twopoint, three-point, aerial perspective and foreshortening.

Techniques – Acquire more advanced methods of paint application and handling tools using different densities, including: glazing, under painting, palette knife, scrumbling, collage, encaustic, acrylic staining methods and neopoletan.

Texture – Explore more advanced ways mark-making; discuss combining various materials, pattern, including collage and language into artwork.

Principles of design – Further understand working with advanced concepts in repetition, continuity, contrast, economy, closure, focal point, golden mean, similarity, and types of balance.

Presentation – Continue to acquire skills involving methods of mat cutting and framing to create a more refined portfolio.

Further knowledge in safety hazards with art materials in the studio and home setting.

Identify a major area of painting involving a series and culminating in a final presentation.
6. List of Texts, References, Selected Library Resources or other Learning Materials
(code each item based on instructional use: C-lecture/lab, A-lecture, B-lab, I-internet, and V-video course) [§335.2] [These resources must be easily accessible to students.]
Full-time Faculty Textbook
2

Division: Communications, Arts, and Social Sciences
Subject Code: ART Course #: 132
Course Title: Painting II
Robertson, Jean and Craig McDaniel. Painting as a Language Material Technique Form
Content. (Latest edition). Fort Worth, TX. Harcourt College Publications.
Optional
Dunning, William V. Changing Images of Pictorial Space, A History of Spatial Illusion in
Painting. (latest edition) Syracuse University Press.
Adjunct Faculty Textbook
Robertson, Jean and Craig McDaniel. Painting as a Language Material Technique Form
Content. (Latest edition). Fort Worth, TX. Harcourt College Publications.
Optional
Dunning, William V. Changing Images of Pictorial Space, A History of Spatial Illusion in
Painting. (latest edition) Syracuse University Press.
7. Prepared by Faculty Member: Monica Smith Talbott
8. Approved by Dean: Thaddeus Sampson
Date: 10/3/07
Date: 10/15/07
This course meets all reimbursement requirements of Chapter 335, subchapters A / B.
This course was developed, approved, and offered in accordance with the policies, standards, guidelines, and practices established by the College. It is consistent with the college mission.
If the course described here is a transfer course, it is comparable to similar courses generally accepted for transfer to accredited four-year colleges and universities.
Whether transfer or career, this course is articulated with other courses so that it is an elective or a requirement of one of the college programs and it does not require students to have more than 30 credit hours of post secondary study prior to enrolling in the program.
9. VP, Academic Affairs and Enrollment Management: Ronald R. Young
Date: 10/29/07
10. Original Date of course approval by the college: 1975
11. Date(s) of subsequent reviews: 1997, 2000
Textbooks Updated: April 2002
Revised Textbooks: April 2003
Project Review: 12/2004: Revisions: Learning Outcomes, Learning Activities, Textbooks. sy
Revisions: Reviewed March 2006.
3

Division: Communications, Arts, and Social Sciences
Subject Code: ART Course #: 132
Course Title: Painting II
Revisions made: Learning Outcomes, Learning Activities, Textbooks. Sy
Chair approval: Pre-requisite --- 10/07 ko
12/1/04
4