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• TUES: Introductions, procedures
• THUR:
  • 
    Lecture 1: Intro to Color
  • download outline and bring to class
  • Class introductions

Homework:

1. Purchase Materials. Click here to download a Materials List (pdf).
2. Download readings.
3. Work on chart.

Discussed in Lecture 1:

• Isaac Newton (1643-1727)
• Goethe (1749-1832)
• Johannes Itten (1888-1967)
• Additive / Subtractive mixing
• Pigment

READING 1 (4 parts). To access, the readings below click here. Enter login and password. Click on 'Required Readings.' Look for the four readings listed below and click on the title to download each one.

• Charles Wallschlaeger. Basic Visual Concepts & Principles, Chapter 8 Light & Color (pg. 8.2-8.10)
• Charles Wallschlaeger. Basic Visual Concepts & Principles, Chapter 8 Color Mixing (pp.)
• Becky Koenig, Color Workbook, Chapter 5, The Materials of Color
  (Part 1: Pages 101-115) and (Part 2: Pages 116-124)

• TUES: Materials needed: watercolor paper pad, acrylic paints, pallet, brushes, pencils, ruler, water containers...
  • Studio: Masstone, Undertone, Tinting Strength Chart.
    <click on Chart
  • Studio: Color Wheel
    <click on Wheel
• THUR: Studio: Personal Pallet

HOMEWORK:

1. Finish Chart and Color Wheel
2. Finish READINGS and post comment.
3. Color-Aid FEE ($10) due next week
   

Also discussed in Lecture 1:

• Color Wheel
• general pigment information
• organic / inorganic pigment list

• TUES:
  • Lecture 2: Color Schemes
  • Click here for description of Color Scheme assignments.
  • Studio- Analogous color scheme
• THUR:
  • Complementary color scheme
  • Triad
    

HOMEWORK

1. Finish all Hue assignments (CRITIQUE Tuesday)
   • Chart and Color Wheel
   • Personal Pallet
   • Analogous Colors
   • Complementary Color Scheme
   • Triad
2. Bring Color-Aid FEE ($10) due Tues

Color schemes - see:

• ANALOGOUS color scheme:
  • Luc Tuymans (see current SFMOMA show)
    Georgia O'Keeffe, Red Canna
• COMPLEMENTARY color scheme:
  • Van Eyck, Arnolfini Wedding 1434
  • Wayne Thiebaud (see upcoming SJMA show)
• TRIAD:
  • Mondrian (primary triad)
  • Kazimir Malevich (primary triad)

READING 2: Pentak, Stephen and Richard Roth. Color Basics. color wheels and schemes. p16-25 and p66-73.

• TUES:
  • CRITIQUE- HUE assignments:
    • chart and color wheel
    • personal pallet
    • color schemes (3)
  • Lecture 3: Color & Value
• THUR: Studio- value projects

  Value Scale > > > Bring the two cut ILLUSTRATION BOARD pieces.

HOMEWORK:

1. Begin PHOTO SHOOT (self portrait, single light source). See Value Project page for directions and a video to inspire your photoshoot. (prints due 3/2)
2. Color scheme: set of 6 photos due 2/23 (put link on blog or bring printed photos)

LINKS related to lecture (light/dark & color)

• Mark Rothko 1903-1970
• "Mark Rothko: A Whole New Light," Times (includes video)
• Rothko: National Gallery images of work
• CHIAROSCURO
• Caravaggio 1573-1610
• Jan Vermeer 1632-1675
• Rembrandt van Rijn 1606-1669

Reading Comment DUE on blog: 2/23

Color scheme: set of 6 photos due 2/23 (put link on blog or bring printed photos)

• TUES: Value/Hue Chart (4 hues)
• THUR: Equal Light / Equal Dark Study (5x5" with border); Photos check (photos due)
  

Homework: Portrait photos due 3/2

VALUE PROJECTS:

1. Value Scale (achromatic)
2. Value/Hue Chart (4 hues)
   

related to photo shoot homework:

• Cindy Sherman
• Annie Leibovitz

• TUES: Furlough
• THURS: Self-Portrait begins (bring canvas, photo, glaze medium)

HOMEWORK:

1. Look over the website links on underpainting & glazing > >
2. Have the undercoat and drawing done on canvas (bring canvas & drawing on Tues)

review in preparation for portrait:

• Jan Vermeer 1632-1675
• Caravaggio 1573-1610

SEE the following site on technique for portrait:

• underpainting
• glazing

Reading Comment DUE on blog: 3/3

• TUES: STUDIO: Self-Portrait (Chiaroscuro/Value in color, Transparent color mix)
  
• THURS: Self-Portrait continues

Homework: Finish value projects (due date will be announced Thursday)

related to portrait:

• See essentialvermeer.com for glazing techniques.
• More Caravaggio (zoom into paintings)

related to new reading:

• Claude Monet
• Impressionism

READING 4:
MONET'S LETTERS (excerpts from Monet's Landscapes by Vivian Russel)

email me for access to reading

• TUES: Lecture> SATURATION / LOCAL COLOR. Self-Portrait continues
  
• THURS: Studio> Self-Portrait continues; Saturation Projects begin (Materials: bring the "saturation project piece of illustration board - cut from before. 15x5")

Homework: First Monet Project (due Thursday, 3/19)

color systems

• Munsell Color System (wikipedia)
• CIE Color System
• Pantone

• Claude Monet (1840-1926)
• the Rouen Cathedral paintings
• the Haystack paintings

Reading Comment #4
DUE on blog: 3/17

• TUES: CRITIQUE> All Value Projects; Lecture> Museum Visit & final paper.
  
• THURS: DUE> first Monet painting; Studio> Saturation Projects
  

HOMEWORK:

• Paint #2 of the Monet Projects
• Look over the links to these artists and make note of your favorite. (don't worry about the library part yet)

related to Saturation lecture:

• Giorgio Morandi (low saturation)
• Henri Matisse (high saturation)
• Richard Diebenkorn (contrast in saturation)

See Information page for links to museums and galleries.

READING 5: COLOR IN CONTEXT - Color Basics by Pentak, Stephen and Richard Roth. Chapter 3.

SPRING BREAK ......

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• TUES: Furlough
• THURS: Saturation Project continue (Contrast in Saturation composition and finishup of Saturation chart)

Homework: Finish Saturation Projects (DUE Tues)

Paint #3 or the Monet Projects

Reading Comment #5 DUE on blog: 4/7

• TUES: Lecture> ALBERS; Critique> Saturation Projects
• THURS: Albers Exercises, work in groups. (Students must attend all sessions for full credit on Albers)
  

Current Projects & Research:

1. STUDIO:Albers Exercises: Work will be in groups.

Explore these sites related to Albers:

• Josef Albers
• Interaction of Color by Albers
• Bauhaus
• Black Mountain College
• Color Contrast (Brown University)

READING 6:
DESIGNING WITH COLOR - Color Workbook by Becky Koenig. Chapter 10.

• TUES: Albers exercises continue; Lecture>Artist Research
• THURS: LIBRARY RESEARCH - King Library (3rd floor)
  Choose an artist (see list of artists) and check out a catalog. Bring it home and spend some time browsing through the art - looking at color. (note: students who need more work on Albers should meet back in class at 1:30pm)

HOMEWORK:

• Finish Monet Project (due 4/21)
• Work on Albers compositions

See Art:21 for videos on many contemporary artists

James Turrell (Art:21 video)

Reading Comment DUE on blog: (due date exteded to Wed, 4/22)

• TUES: Albers check (if needed) LECTURE> COMPOSITION / Artist pallet; Critique- Monet Project
• THURS: PERSONAL PALLET project begins. BRING the following material:
  1. Leftover piece of illustration board (15x10")
  2. Acrylic paints, bristol board, ruler etc.

STUDIO: PERSONAL PALLET continues

HOMEWORK: Finish Albers

Color Chart:

• COLOR CHART (an exhibition at New York's Musuem of Modern Art)
• Gehrard Richter color charts

READING 7. For the final reading choose one of the following:

1. COMPUTER COLOR - Color Workbook by Becky Koenig. Chapter 6. (basic)
2. COMPUTERS AND COLOR - Real World Color Management by Bruce Fraser et. al. (Peachpit Press) p51-69. (more technical)

• TUES:LECTURE> Color & Light; Critique- Albers Project Studio: Personal Pallet Project
• THURS: Furlough

Color & Light Project

HOMEWORK: Color Chart for chosen artist: (total 27 RGB colors)
POST link to your chart in comment section of "Artist&Project" blog.

RGB Color information:

• RGB Color Model (wikipedia)
• Color Picker (hue, saturation, brightness)

Video and Digital Media art to browse:

• Bill Viola (video artist)
• Cory Archangel (digital media artist)
• ArsVirtua Gallery (founded by students in CADRE, SJSU)
  

Reading Comment DUE on blog: 5/7

• TUES: Light Project begins - Color Chart (Materials: laptop computer or alternate materials discussed with me); signup for individual meetings
• THURS: Artist Color Chart due - link posted in blog comment section; Light Project continues; INDIVIDUAL MEETINGS

All students must meet with me individually regarding the LIGHT PROJECT in progress. See schedule.

Homework: Finish Personal Pallet Project (due Tues for critique)

see the following artists who's work inspired the light project:

• Eve Sussman's (work used for videos include Velasques and David)
• Bill Viola (video artist)

• TUES: Critique: Personal Pallet Project; Individual Meetings
• MUSEUM PAPER DUE today (no late acceptance)

Here is the link to the PROJECT PAGE with COLOR CHARTS | see note>

FINAL CRITIQUE: LIGHT PROJECT & discussion of artists - Wed., May 20 @ 9:45am - 12.

SJSU Spring 2010 Final Exam Schedules

TIMELINE for LIGHT PROJECT:

• 5/16: UPLOAD PHOTOS (if there are special circumstances with your project email me)
• 5/18-5/19: VIEW ALL PROJECTS and COMMENT on at least one.
• 5/20: FINAL CRIT (see below)

Note: Those of you who are using Flickr - please put your photos into a SET using the Organize link at the bottom of the page. Here is a facts page for flickr. See "The Organizr" for directions.

grade breakdown

some food for thought regarding grades