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