Painting II

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Demonstrate a value of and investment in your peer community of artists and learn to take yourself and your painterly aspirations seriously, including budgeting time with a minimum of 6 hours per week of out of class worktime (homework).
• Take responsibility for building your own stretcher frames and preparing your own surfaces for each painting.
• Exercise active and iterative inquiry in preparatory painting processes including research of influences, preparatory drawing, mixing and color exploration, and sometimes reflective reading and writing.
• Learn how to actively keep a sketchbook as an index of visual and written ideation.
• Exercise decision making regarding the mimetic potential of paint as a physical medium and become comfortable challenging yourself with different modes of paint handling and different painting tools.
• Become more comfortable working on a variety of canvas sizes, including large canvases that challenge the physical relationship between the artist and the painted surface.
• Learn how to develop specific objectives within a painting, reinforced by your use of 2d and material visual language; better learn how to speak to your peers about your process in an intentional critically active way.
• Demonstrate active inquiry during lecture and critique by taking notes in your notebook/sketchbook and participating in discussion by both answering and asking informed and thoughtful questions.
• Begin to develop a personal relationship to the language of color and consider how your ongoing investigation of paint as material, and your paint-tools as both mimetic and expressionistic, amplify your particular range and voice as a painter.

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
Artistic work ethic (attendance, investment of time, preparedness, willingness to take risks and respond to criticism)	35%
Commitment to quality in all classwork and assignments (acceptance of constructive criticism, presentation of work, advancement during semester, verbal and attentive engagement, investment in short written responses and reading assignments)	50%
Presentation of final project and final portfolio	15%

Attendance/Participation:

Critiques: As a community, critique gives us the opportunity not only to discuss one another’s work, but also to better understand the practice of being self-critical and to develop our sensibilities as well as a personal voice as painters. It is expected that you will attend and be an active participant in all of these critiques.

Lectures: It is my responsibility as your instructor to feed your imagination in a prolific and multi-dimensional manner. In lectures I attempt to show a broad range of artists and will often explore them by the visual and conceptual themes that may unite their many differences. I will show both historical and contemporary practitioners and it is my hope that we can collectively apply a critical lens to the euro-centric, male-dominated, white, cis. canon traditional to the teaching of western painting. When showing artists who have been underrepresented within this traditional canon, I attempt to also introduce their thoughts and words so as not to coopt their space myself as a white woman. I welcome my students to introduce their own influences and experiences into this ongoing dialog.

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

I recommend having a Membership at Jerry's Wholesale Art Supply in Greensboro on Farragut St. This will save you quite a bit of money. Despite this, realistically, you will likely spend over $350 on the initial supply list.

• An assortment of LONG HANDLED Natural-bristle brushes #8 #10 and #12: Filberts and Flats are best. Rounds and some ‘odd sized brushes’...cheap but soft house painting brushes are good, one should be at least 1 1/2” wide
• Mirror (full length)
• Globe clam light and drop cord/extension cord
• Glass Palette (18x24”), purchased pre-cut at Bin Swanger Glass in Greensboro
• Sketchbook and drawing implements (charcoal and ink supplies)
• Glass jars for mineral spirits
• Jar for medium
• 2-3 painting knives and one palette knife
• Good cotton rags (old t-shirts)
• 1 Gallon of acrylic Gesso and 2” gesso brush
• Medium (1/3 thinner, 1/3 cold pressed linseed oil, 1/3 damar varnish)
• Glass paint scraper with replaceable blade
• Quality artist grade, medium weight, duck canvas
• Staple Gun
• 4, 2x4", 8ft long UNTREATED pine boards (prior to August 26th)
• Oil Paint: Gamblin or Windsor Newton Brandt ALL 150ml or LARGER: Titanium white (150 ml), Lemon or Cadmium Lemon Yellow, Cadmium Yellow Medium, Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Red Medium, Alizarin Crimson, Dioxazene Purple, Viridian Green, Phthalo Green, Phthalo Blue, Ultramarine Blue, Cerulean Blue, Cobalt Blue, Burnt Sienna, Raw Sienna, Burnt Umber (Necessary)