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Bibliography for Research

Each student of SA121 will be conducting research both in their sketchbooks and for the foundation of a writing project and multi media presentation they will deliver to the class.  Please glean this information from the  URLs  listed below. Many of them include direct links to the artist's websites.  Famous Contemporary Artist List 25 Young Contemporary Painters you Need to know List and URLs to Modern artist list 12 Masterpieces of 21st-Century Painting You Need to Know Now Top 300 artists on Artnet Artnet artist list 10 Contemporary artists under 40 Top 14 living artists

Final Exam Schedule

For  Spring 2018  exams campus wide as set by the Registrar early in January 2018 Cazenovia College  SPRING 2018 FINAL EXAM SCHEDULE  Class Start Time Final Exam Time  8:00AM MWF                   8:00AM – 10:00AM Tuesday, May 8  9:05AM MWF 10:15AM – 12:15PM Wednesday, May 9  10:10AM MWF 10:15AM – 12:15PM Thursday, May 10  11:15AM MWF 12:30PM – 2:30PM Wednesday, May 9  12:20PM MWF 12:30PM – 2:30PM Tuesday, May 8  1:25PM MWF 3:00PM – 5:00PM Thursday, May 10  6:00PM MW 5:30PM – 7:30PM Wednesday, May 9  7:30PM MW 7:45PM – 9:45PM Wednesday, May 9  8:00AM TTH 8:00AM – 10:00AM Thursday, May 10  9:30AM TTH 10:15AM – 12:15PM Tuesday, May 8  11:00AM TTH 12:30PM – 2:30PM Thursday, May 10  12:30PM TTH 3:00PM – 5:00PM Tuesday, May 8  2:00PM TTH 5:30PM - 7:30PM Tuesday, May 8  3:30PM TTH ...

Course Calendar + Pacing Schedule

Classes Begin Tuesday January 23 Spring Break Begins Monday MAR 12 Classes Resume Monday MAR 19 Last Day of Classes Campus wide is Monday MAY 7 TU JAN 23   i. Introduction to course - Elements and Principles of Art + Design - Color Wheels TH JAN 25  i. Signed Statement of Understanding printed and due  ii. 2 Value Scales in 11 steps TU JAN 30  i. Introduction to Project II: Optical Color / Vibrating compliment pairing ii. Color wheels / primaries / secondaries / tertiaries  TH FEB 1  i. Project II: Vibrating Compliments ii. Introduce independent research on paintings for analysis and collect in Sketchbooks OPENING IN THE REISMAN HALL ART GALLERY, video installation 4 - 5:30 PM TU FEB 6  i. Project II: Vibrating Compliments TH FEB 8 i. Project II: Vibrating Compliments TU FEB 13  i. CRIT:  Project II: Vibrating Compliments ii. Introduction Project III: Alla Prima paintings from direct obse...

Student Statement of Understanding

SP 2018 . SA121. Intro Painting . Professor Pepper This document needs to be printed out by you, read, signed, dated and submitted to me by the next class period.   Should a student be unable to sign this document, you must make an appointment to see me to discuss your reasons. Statement of Understanding I, __________________________________, have received and read the course syllabus for SA121.01   I acknowledge that as a student enrolled in this course, I am responsible for adhering to the policies, procedures and course requirements outlined in the syllabus. I understand that it is my responsibility to contact the course instructor if I require further clarification regarding any aspect outlined in this syllabus. ______________________________________________________ Student Signature   Print and submit to me at our next class meeting. ___________________________________________________

Project VII Extra: Gridded Selfies

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Chuck Close at work in his Hampton Studio, NY MOSAIC GRIDDED PORTRAITS PROCESS: PART ONE Bring a portrait photo into Photoshop - chest upward Overlay a grid  For knitting, determine size of grid first as it will affect the size of the finished piece.  Pixelate the photo to line up with the grid   – Filter - Mosaic.  You can play with the cell size to get the boxes to line up with the grid. PART TWO From here you have a pattern, but it's still a bit color confusing and needs to be color blocked.  You can color block right in Photoshop.  Make use the  eyedropper tool  to select a color and then the brush tool (square) to paint in the grid using the photo as a starting point, blocking out chunks of color.  Print this simplified pattern and work from it. NOTE: Large enough to work with. This, for example, was a better solution for some of the student examples lower, as some of them were  so complicated  ...

Project II: Vibrating Compliments, Tints, tones + tertiaries

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Color Theory explorations   Additive Painting Investigations Vibrating Complementaries Optical movement This assignment follows your exploration of the additive color wheel that include primaries, secondaries, tertiaries and tints and tones of those colors and your monochromatic value scales in eleven steps, while achieving  optical movement through understanding vibrating complimentary  pairing       Student Work color wheel Student Work - value scales Student Work color wheel                  Andy Goldsworthy Made in and of the landscape Objectives i. Activate a 2D Plane  ii. Transforming Representational forms into pure Abstraction iii. Activate a Unit to System Relationships iv. Understanding Primaries, Secondaries,  Tertiaries   and the tints and tones of those and how to create them additively v. Understandin...

Project I: Color Wheels + Value Scales

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Color  explorations   Additive Painting Investigations This first assignment allows you to explore the world of additive painting palette in a color wheel that will include primaries, secondaries, tertiaries, and the tints and tones of those colors as well as two monochromatic value scales in eleven steps.           Student Work color wheel Student Work - value scales Student Work color wheel                  Methods:   Part One: Color Wheel Do the Math i. Create a 10" color wheel in pencil floating in the center of an 11" x 14" piece of Bristol board paper -- How will you center this circle onto the rectangle? ii. Divide circle into 3  equal parts, followed by > 6 equal parts with a pencil iii. Use acrylic gouache/acrylic color to additively mix together creating your secondaries Secure Primaries (however, add white to your dark ultramarine or cob...