HARRISBURG AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE



HARRISBURG AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE

FORM 335

Course Form 335 must be updated at least every five years to qualify for state reimbursement.

1. Digital Description [§335.2]:

Credit hours: 3

Lecture hours: 2

Lab hours: 3

2. Catalog Description [§335.2]:

An introduction to basic painting techniques and concepts. Emphasis is on construction, mixing of color, and paint qualities. A laboratory Fee is required. (Offered Fall only.)

Minimum Grade Required

3. Prerequisites: ART 122 C

Corequisites: ART 122

Other:

4. Learning Outcomes [§335.2]

[These outcomes are necessary to enable students to attain the essential

knowledge and skills embodied in the program’s educational objectives.]

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

▪ Create paintings that demonstrate a fundamental understanding of mark-making, color interaction and mixing color as it relates to paint media.

▪ Utilize the elements and principles of design in the completion of painting coursework.

▪ Demonstrate the basic skills of building stretcher frames, stretching and priming various kinds of painting surfaces.

▪ Demonstrate knowledge of the human anatomy/skeleton through paintings depicting the figure including muscles, proportion, movement, and gesture.

▪ Study and analyze paintings that represent historical and contemporary art of varied cultures through class presentations, visits to galleries, museums and/or campus media resources.

▪ Effectively present concepts and terminology learned in class while critiquing paintings during discussions and oral presentations.

▪ Demonstrate a proficient level of craftsmanship and presentation in the completion of paintings including framing and matting pieces in a portfolio.

▪ Demonstrate the use of various painting techniques, mark-making, and mixed media in the completion of many kinds of paintings.

▪ Utilize library resources and/or other media to conduct research of historical and contemporary artists of varied cultures.

▪ Identify hazardous art materials and unsafe studio practices. Students should be able to demonstrate safe practices while using materials and equipment in the art studio and at home.

▪ Produce a final project that utilizes the skills and knowledge learned throughout the semester.

5. Planned Sequence of Learning Activities [§335.2]

[These must be designed to help students achieve the learning outcomes.]

The following topics will be addressed in the context of lecture, showing visual images, demonstrations, and critiques:

▪ Subject matter/genres – Introduce basics on still life, interior/exterior perspective, self portrait/portraiture, landscape abstraction, human anatomy (models - 8 sessions or one third of the semester) in traditional studio environment.

▪ Color – Acquire skills in basic mixing limited palettes, color wheel, temperature, intensity, color interaction, toned grounds, under painting, local and arbitrary palettes.

▪ Measuring – Continue to work on guidelines of proportion, sighting angles, fusing both figure and ground simultaneously.

▪ Value – Build more experience in codifying tones from observation, gray scale, tonal shape, tonal edge, and chiaroscuro.

▪ Perspective – Strive to create illusory space: linear, one-point, two-point, three-point, aerial perspective and foreshortening in interior and exterior settings.

▪ Shape – Develop more practice with simplification, mass, planes, volume, background, and stages of development.

▪ Line – Experience the use of various types of contour and line quality.

▪ Techniques – Explore working with various methods of applying paint and handling tools to achieve different densities, including glazing, wax, under painting, palette knife, scrumbling, collage, and neopoletan.

▪ Texture – Acquire skills with ways of mark-making; discuss combining pattern and detail into artwork.

▪ Principles and elements of design – Develop an understanding of repetition, continuity, contrast, economy, closure, focal point, golden mean, similarity, types of balance.

▪ Presentation – Practice methods of mat cutting, traditional and non-traditional framing, and stretching papers.

6. List of Texts, References, Selected Library Resources or other Learning Materials (code each item based on instructional use: C-lecture/lab, A-lecture, B-lab, I-internet, and V-video course) [§335.2] [These resources must be easily accessible to students.]

Full-time Faculty Textbooks

Recommended:

Robertson, Jean and Craig McDaniel. Painting as a language Material, Technique, Form Content. (Latest edition). Fort Worth, TX. Harcourt College Publications.

Optional:

Stephenson, Jonathan. The Materials and Techniques of Painting. Watson-Guptill Publications.

Adjunct Faculty Textbooks

Recommended:

Robertson, Jean and Craig McDaniel. Painting as a Language Material, Technique, Form Content. (Latest edition). Fort Worth, TX. Harcourt College Publications.

Optional:

Stephenson, Jonathan. The Materials and Techniques of Painting. Watson-Guptill Publications.

7. Prepared by Faculty Member: Monica Smith Talbott Date: 3/2006

8. Approved by Dean: Thaddeus Sampson Date: 3/2006

This course meets all reimbursement requirements of Chapter 335, subchapters A / B.

This course was developed, approved, and offered in accordance with the policies, standards, guidelines, and practices established by the College. It is consistent with the college mission.

If the course described here is a transfer course, it is comparable to similar courses generally accepted for transfer to accredited four-year colleges and universities.

Whether transfer or career, this course is articulated with other courses so that it is an elective or a requirement of one of the college programs and it does not require students to have more than 30 credit hours of post secondary study prior to enrolling in the program.

9. VP, Academic Affairs and Enrollment Management: Ronald R. Young

Date:

10. Original Date of course approval by the college: 1975

11. Date(s) of subsequent reviews: 1997, 2000, 2001

Textbooks Updated: April 2002

Revised Textbooks: April 2003

Project Review: 12/2004: Revisions: Learning Outcomes, Learning Activities, Textbooks. sy

Revisions: Reviewed March 2006.

Revisions made: Learning Outcomes, Learning Activities, Textbooks. sy

12/1/04

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