| Week | Unit | Topic | Objectives |
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| Week One | | Introduction | |
| Weeks Two & Three | Acrylics | Handling Paint, Value, and Creating Volume |
- Gray scales, color mixing & charts
- Transparent color wheel
- Beginning still life in gray scale, monochromatic values
Intermediate Students:
- Your choice of paint and subject matter, introductory painting
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| Weeks Four & Five | Acrylics
Still Life
#1 | Developing a Color Palette |
- Choosing colors: warm and cool complements
- Creating harmony and discord
- Working with washes
- Building a strong composition
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| Weeks Six & Seven | Acrylics | Developing Ideas & the Creative Process |
- Working from imagination and observation
- Childhood memory assignment
- Building stretcher bars and priming canvas
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| Week Eight | | Mid-Term Meetings and Critique |
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| Weeks Nine & Ten | Oils
Still Life
#2 | Introduction to Oils |
- Handling oil paint
- Dealing with space: creating depth
- Interpreting lights and darks
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| Weeks Ten & Eleven | Oils | Texture |
- Developing texture through technique
- Modeling paste and palette knives
- Using grounds & layering
- Introduction to final project, proposals due
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| Weeks Twelve & Thirteen | Oils or acrylics | Final Projects |
- Refining ideas
- Large-scale canvases
- Final Critiques and meetings
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