Outline of Course Contents

Assignments and exercises will acquaint students with:

Basic equipment use (brushes, paint supports)

Making Marks and using found objects for texture

Tone, Value, Color

Composition, Scale and Perspective

Underdrawing & Underpainting

Texture - Spattering, Stippling, Drybrush

Resists, Additives, Removing Paint and Masking

Working Light to Dark and Dark to Light

Wet into Wet techniques

Blending

Glazing and Overpainting

Assignments for grading

Near the end of the term, I will want each student to turn in a body of work for review. I am looking for effort, participation, and personal progress. Class participation is an important part of the grading process.

Teaching Philosophy

Each student comes to my classes with their individual background. I want to see them grow in their understanding and mastery of the materials used in class, so that means I want to see an effort and willingness to try new things.

It is not my purpose to create clones of my own style, instead, I want to find out what each student is bringing to their art and help them develop it towards their maximum potential.

Syllabus info from Wikipedia

A syllabus is an outline and summary of topics to be covered in a course. It is often either set out by an exam board, or prepared by the professor who teaches the course, and is usually given to each student during the first class session. A syllabus usually contains specific information about the course, such as information on how, where and when to contact the lecturer and teaching assistants; an outline of what will be covered in the course; a schedule of test dates and the due dates for assignments; the grading policy for the course; specific classroom rules; etc.

The syllabus serves many purposes for the students and the teacher such as ensuring a fair and upfront understanding between the instructor and students such that there is minimal confusion on policies relating to the course, setting clear expectations of material to be learned, behavior in the classroom, and effort of student's behalf to be put into the course, providing a roadmap of course organization/direction relaying the instructor's teaching philosophy to the students, and providing a marketing angle of the course such that students may choose early in the course whether the subject material is attractive.

Many items can be included in a syllabus to maximize course organization and student understanding of expected material such as grading policy, locations and times, other contact information for instructor and teaching assistant such as phone or email, materials required and/or recommended such as textbooks, assigned reading books, calculators (or other equipment), lab vouchers, etc, outside resources for subject material assistance (extra-curricular books, tutor locations, resource centers, etc), important dates in course such as exams and paper due-dates, tips for succeeding in mastering course content such as study habits and expected time allotment, suggested problems if applicable, necessary pre-requisites or co-requisites to current course, safety rules if appropriate, and objectives of the course.