Technique Glossary

Once you have your supplies, use this first week to explore the different brushes, paint, and water effects possible in watercolor. You may use any brush, color, water combination- or other related materials- to create a glossary of 24 unique watercolor effects. This glossary should be done in your watercolor pad (on watercolor paper). The effects should be displayed in a grid with each box being roughly 2-3 inches square. Make several notes below each effect to describe the materials or procedure.

Materials
Paper, paint, water, brushes, and any other materials- including salt, alcohol, tea, coffee, razors, wax, etc.

Due January 27

Calendar

Week 1
January 20
Introduction Course objectives
Student survey
Discuss Technique & Concept
Watercolor Themes, Artists, History
HW: 24 Techniques/Effects

Week 2
January 27 Color Mixing/Observed Object
Techniques: optical, & physical color mixing, hard and soft edges
Look at: Albrect Durer, Janet Fish, Joseph Raffael, Ralph Goings
HW: Observed Object, Color Chart

Week 3
February 3 Weather and Light
Technical skills: washes- flat, varieted, two color, wet in wet
Look at: JMW Turner, Trevor Chamberlain
HW: Weather and Light

Week 4
February 10 Dark Matter
Techniques: Negative Shapes, Lifting Out, and Resist construction
Look at: Gregory Gillespie, Carolyn Brady, Don Eddy
HW: Dark Matter

Week 5
February 17 Brushwork
Techniques: brush grip, direction, shape, drybrush
Examining Style
HW: Contrasting Style Paintings


Week 6
February 24 Experimental Technique
Techniques: wet-in-wet, blooms, slatter, adding materials, scratching out
Look at: John Marin, Arthur Dove, Alan Magee
HW: Storybook ideas

February 26 EXTRA class meeting required
Worcester Art Museum “Watercolor- Bodycolor”, 6:30 – 7:30 pm

Week 7
March 3 Midterm Break

Week 8
March 10 Figure Painting

Week 9
March 17 Children’s storybook illustrations
Look at: Jeff Scher “You won’t remember this”
HW: Storybook illustrations cont.

Week 10
March 24 Guest Artist: Irena Roman
Children’s storybook illustrations
HW: Project ideas

Week 11
March 31 Independent work

Week 12
April 7 Independent work

Week 13
April 14 Independent work

Week 14
April 21 Independent work

April 23 Senior Art Studio Thesis Exhibition
Traina Center, 5-7 pm

Week 15
April 28 Final Critique

Welcome

Welcome to Painting II. I look forward to working with all of you this semester on a number of interesting projects. I'll be using this blog frequently- so check back often.

John James Audubon
Tim Gardner
John Singer Sargent