COURSE NUMBER AND TITLE 511 332 DW Section 01 (Thursdays)
Painting, Colour and Composition
INSTRUCTOR Andres Manniste
INSTITUTION Dawson College
PROGRAM Creative Arts
SEMESTER Autumn 2012
OBJECTIVE AND COMPETENCY 01D6-B To use techniques of creation or interpretation in the creative arts or literature

OFFICE & TELEPHONE Office: 2G6-3 Telephone: 931-8731, ext. 3203
amanniste@dawsoncollege.qc.ca

Week  1 (August 23):

Lecture: Introduction to course and explanation of materials.

Week  2 (August 30):

Studio work: Painting: Working from the still life #1 (5%).
Monochromatic, mixing and various sketching techniques. (Explore the relationship between figure and ground).

Week  3 (September 6): 

Studio work: Painting: Working from the still life (5%).

Monochromatic and analagous paintings (link)

Week  4 (September 13):

Studio work: Monochromatic painting (10%). On one or two sheets of mayfair (you can prepare them with a ground at home; hint: bring your camera to class) paint the still life that is set up in the studio.
Use black, white and one colour to create a monochromatic depiction of the still life. (Explore representational approaches to painting by working from observation )

Home Assignment #1 Colour wheel (5%)(.pdf) and introduction to colour wheel.

Week  5 (September 20):

Studio work: Painting a Still life (10%). (Explore colour relationships such as hue, value, intensity through painting. You can prepare them with a ground at home; hint: bring your camera to class)

Week  6 (September 27):

Studio work: Working in colour from the still life (10% on canvas or larger scale)

Week  7 (October 4, Mid-term assessment): 

Studio Work: Continuing working in colour from the still life.
Home Assignment #2: Small Self Portrait (5%). Look at the history of figure painting in the library and on the internet. Paint or draw a small self-portrait from a mirror (not a photograph).

Week  8 (October 18):

Lecture and Slideshow: Non affirmative painting (Analyze contemporary and historical paintings in relation to themes covered in class .Explore representational and non-representational approaches to painting )

Colour Painting due.
Small self-portrait due.

Critique of colour painting.

Week  9 (October 25):

Painting or museum visit.

Week 10 (November 1):

Painting the human figure:
Studio work: Painting model in class (20%)
(Explore representational approaches to painting by working from the figure)

Week 11 (November 8):

Studio work: Painting in class: Model.

Week 12 (November 15):

Painting from model due.
Major Assignment 1 due.

Lecture: Walter Benjamin : what place does all this occupy in the studio?
(concerning the ever-changing developments in technologies. It’s relation to philosophy in terms of art, ethics, science and society. How has technology changed images? Conceptual images, cinema).

Studio: Major painting assignment. The Elements (20%) Other techniques - collage, impasto (Explore techniques such as glazing, scumbling, underpainting, drybrush, and alla prima)

Week 13 (November 22):
Studio work: Colour exercise in class.

Divide a sheet of mayfair paper to four areas. Paint a simple still life using analagous colour (neighbour colours), warm/cool colour, complementary colours
Complete at home and submit on week 14.

Major painting assignment continues.

Week 14 (November 29):

Major painting assignment continues.

Week 15 (December 6):
Major Assignment 2 due.
Colour Assignment due.

Finishing up...Final critical evaluation of work completed to date!

(December 13, 3:00 pm, absolutely last time for submission of ALL work for credit)

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