Fall 2001 W. REED WEST
Rationale and Course goals
The course is designed to give the you an opportunity to express themselves through a visual art form. The course very quickly puts the brush in your hands, so that you might learn by experiencing the process first hand. The goal is to allow the you to become a competent painter with the background to understand and execute scenic painting. Each of the three projects is designed to teach a different set of techniques that will lead to a greater understanding of the art of scene painting. The course culminates in a final project that will test your understanding of the course. You do not need to have any "artistic ability"; the course is designed for everyone. Expect to spend at least three to four hours a week outside of class working on the painting projects. In addition to the in-class projects, you will be required to help with the painting on an actual production. We will use the theater program's productions as a living laboratory. This will give you a sense of scale not allowed in the individual painting projects. You will experience first hand how the scenic artists contribute to the collaborative art theatre.
General Education Statement
Visual and Performing Arts (FSVP) The study of the visual and performing arts involves scrutiny of the forms, traditions, meanings, and historical contexts of works in various visual and performance media. It also involves exploration of issues pertaining to the methods, processes, and personal resources integral to the production and appreciation of such works. In requiring a course in this field of study, the faculty hopes that by investigating and perhaps even experiencing the creation and interpretation of works of art, students will develop a heightened understanding of art as both an artistic and intellectual achievement. Supplementing approaches typical in other fields of study, such courses should demonstrate that people are as powerfully and profoundly influenced by what they hear, see, and feel as by the collection of ideas that they store in their minds.
REQUIREMENTS FOR CREDIT
SCENE PAINTING
1. Textbook Scenic Art For The Theare
By Crabtree and Beudert
2. Tools required to buy: plastic bucket, sponge, 3/4" liner brush, and 3" lay in brush.
3. One midterm test and a final. 10% each.
The tests will mainly consist of material from lectures and the textbook.
4. There will be three major painting projects.10% each.
5. The final project will be a major undertaking using all the skills and knowledge acquired in the class. 20%
6. Twelve lab hours. 15%
You must sign up for lab in advance.
Extra credit hours need no advanced warning.
The shop hours are usually 2pm to 6pm Tuesday through Friday and 7pm to 10pm Tuesday and Wednesday.
You must check the board outside the shop for the official hours and to sign up.
Saturday and Sunday hours see calender
7. Class work and attendance. 15%
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
| August 2001 | ||||||
| 26 | 27 | 28 | 29
First Class. About the course. Read chapter 4. Setting up the painting area. |
30 | 31
Building the flat and materials. Read chapter 5 Painting |
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| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
| September 2001 | 1 | |||||
| 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
Mixing color , gradation and texture. Read chapter |
6 | 7
Stones and brickwork, highlight and shadow. |
8 |
| 9 | 10 | 11 | 12
Rough wood and framing. Read chapter 7. Painting |
13 | 14
Start work on project one. Read chapter 8. Laying out |
15 |
| 16 | 17 | 18 | 19
Project one in class |
20 | 21
Finish project one Read chapter 9. Two- |
22 |
| 23 | 24 | 25 | 26
Project one due at beginning of class. Review for test one. |
27 | 28
Meet in design lab. |
29 |
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| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
| October 2001 | ||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3
Read chapter 10. Aging and decorating. |
4 | 5
No Class. |
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Trees and foliage demo lecture |
11 | 12
Demo cont. Start project two Read Chapter 11. Ancient |
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FALL BREAK |
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FALL BREAK |
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FALL BREAK |
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FALL BREAK |
17
Work on project two. Read chapter 1. Training the Artist. |
18 | 19
Continue work on project two. |
20 |
| 21 | 22 | 23 | 24
Continue work on project two. |
25 | 26
Project two due |
27 |
| 28 | 29 | 30 | 31
Lecture demo on interior woodwork |
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| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
| November 2001 | ||||||
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Lecture demo on Marble. |
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| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7
Lecture demo on wall paper and drapery. |
8 | 9
Begin work on project three. Read chapter 12. Renaissance and Baroque. |
10 |
| 11 | 12 | 13 | 14
Project three Read chapter 3. Scenic Studio. |
15 | 16
Work on Project three Read chapter 13. Romantic and |
17 |
| 18 | 19 | 20 | 21
Thanks |
22
Thanks |
23
Thanks |
24 |
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Project three due at the beginning of class. Review for test. |
29 | 30
meet in design lab |
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| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
| December 2001 | 1 | |||||
| 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7
Work on final |
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| 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14
FINAL PROJECT DUE BY NOON |
15 |