Eastfield College Arts, Language and Literature Division Spring 2012 Advanced Painting: ARTS 2311-4002 Credit hours: 3 Room F-219 Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:00p.m.-4:50p.m. Instructor: Suzanne K. Clark Contact Information: The best way to reach me is via email: [email protected] Office Hours: (held in classroom or adjunct office) after class, Tues/ Thurs or by appointment. Contact me via email or leave a message at the Adjunct office. Adjunct Office C-201 phone is 972-391-1046 Course Description ARTS 2311 Advanced Painting This is a Texas Common Course Number. Prerequisite: Recommended prerequisites for Art Majors, Arts 1311, Arts 1312, Arts 1316, and Arts 1317. This course will focus on two or three dimensional projects in a special topics area. Emphasis is on individual expression. This course may be repeated if topics and learning outcomes vary. Coordinating Board Academic Approval Number 5004015326 Textbooks and other Course Materials: Textbooks and Other Course Materials: There is no required text, however the following are recommended. Advanced students should be reading periodicals such as Art in America, Art News and Art Forum. Painting as a Language: Material, Technique, Form, Content, by Jean Robertson and Craig McDaniel, Harcourt College Publishers, 2000. ISBN: 0-15-505600-x Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting, Introduction by Barry Schwabsky, Phaidon Press, New York, 2004. ISBN: 978-0-7148-4446-6 The Painters Handbook, Mark David Gottsegen, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, 1993. ISBN: 0-8230-3003-2. The Artist’s Handbook of Materials and Techniques, Ralph Mayer, (Fifth edition), Viking Publisher, New York, 1991, ISBN: 0-670-83701-6 On Drawing (fourth edition) Roger Winter, Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., Lanham, Maryland 2008. ISBN: 13-978-0-7425-5916- MATERIALS LIST FOR PAINTING I, II and ADVANCED PAINTING IMPORTANT NOTE: It is not possible to complete the projects necessary to pass this course without the materials on the below required materials list. You must have all of the supplies you need to paint with you for each class meeting. It is your responsibility to purchase all supplies. THE INSTRUCTOR DOES NOT PROVIDE SUPPLIES , NOR DO YOUR CLASSMATES. If you have difficulty obtaining your supplies, please contact your instructor. Advanced students may need other supplies than what is listed.(Students may need additional supplies) Advanced students may use this list as a guide. Buy what you need to produce your body of work. Paint: Suggested Brands: Winsor Newton, Grumbacher, Gamblin, Daniel Smith, Rembrandt, Lukas, Classico. Be sure you are buying the proper type of paint. If buying oil paint, do not mix with water soluble paints such as Artisan or Max. If you are buying Acrylic paint, please buy Golden Acrylic, Interactive or Liquitex brand. Required Colors: Do not substitute colors. Be sure to avoid colors labeled “hue” Cadmium Lemon* Cadmium Yellow Light Cadmium Red Light* Alizarin Crimson or Madder Lake Deep* (Rembrandt). In Acrylic also Quinacrodone Crimson, Acra Crimson* Ultramarine Blue,* or Ultramarine Blue Deep, French Ultramarine Blue or Permanent Blue Thalo Blue, or Pthalo Blue or Pthalocyanine Blue Permanent Green Light Dioxanine Purple or Permanent Red Violet (Rembrandt). In Acrylic also Quinacrodone Violet or Prism Violet Ivory or Mars Black* Large tube of White 150ml * (Permalba is good) Burnt Sienna for Acrylic painters (* must have these colors) Optional Colors: Thalo Green, Viridian, Green Gold, Yellow Ochre, Raw Umber, Red Oxide, Indanthrene Blue, Cerulean Blue, Cobalt Blue, any reds, yellows or blues that look interesting to you. Mediums and Thinners: Use only Turpenoid, Turpenoid Natural or Gamsol. (We will discuss in class). Buy a gallon with a friend in class. It is much less expensive to buy gallons than pints or quarts. For mediums use Refined Linseed Oil, Stand Oil, Walnut Oil, Poppyseed Oil, Res-n-Gel, Liquin or Gamblin mediums. There are many mediums on the market which we will discuss in class. For acrylic painters, get a “slow dry” medium, if using the traditional acrylics. Golden Open and Interactive’s are slower drying and mediums are available to slow drying even further.. I would suggest that you try some of the new texture gels available in acrylic and get some mat medium. Brushes: Try a variety of shapes and sizes. No tiny brushes! Avoid buying very inexpensive brushes. They don’t hold their shape and fall apart quickly. Recommended brands: Escoda,(in catalogs), Robert Simmons Signet, Princeton. (try to get a finer quality pure bristle). Don’t waste your money on Bristle Brights. 3 Filbert, Round or Flat Bristle or Bristle Blend Brushes, (small, medium, large), between sizes 4-10 or from ¼” to 1” or larger if you want to paint large paintings. 1 small round bristle brush for drawing. 1 cheap 11/2” or 2” flat bristle brush for applying gesso or primers. You may need more than one if you use different types of primers. Buy at hardware store, should cost less than $1.00. Surfaces to Paint on: Stretched canvas can be expensive if you buy a good quality brand. (Utretch is great) Check the catalogs for sales. But if you are on a budget, there are many inexpensive alternatives. You can paint on just about anything as long as it is gessoed. We have gesso in the studio for your use. Surfaces like heavy paper, cardboard, mat board, metal flashing, wood panel, wood 1 x 12”, masonite or similar products are fine. Canvas board, (canvas glued to cardboard) is available very inexpensively as well as Canvasette pads.You will need approximately 30 surfaces for the semester. For small studies, color work, gesture studies, direct painting studies and techniques experiments, you may use gessoed or primed paper, cardboard, mat board etc. If you would like to try a rigid surface like masonite or ¼” plywood you can find these at any good art supply store or go to Home Depot or a lumber yard and buy a 4 X 8 sheet of material. They will cut it for you. (There may be a cutting charge). Any surface you paint on with oil paint must be primed with gesso or other primer. It is helpful to prime surfaces for acrylic as well. We will discuss these options in class. You may buy canvas in many ways: i.e. stretched primed, canvas boards, primed unstretched (on a roll), or unprimed (on a roll), primed canvas mounted to wood cradles. These are the canvas