Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

How does Remote/Hybrid Learning Work?:

This class will be a mixture of Zoom meeting time and At-Home Asynchronous work. Asynchronous means that you are responsible for completing the work on your own time each week. In a remote/hybrid course, you will get out of the course what you put into it. 

For your asynchronous (at home) work, I will be using various tactics. You will be assigned videos to prepare for projects or the next week's course, small sketchbook exercises, discussions, and/or quizzes. If you don’t do the asynchronous work you may be confused in the Zoom sessions or miss sketchbook exercises.

How does this class differ from an In-person Painting Class?:

If you were taking this class in person, your class period would be 2, 3-hour courses twice weekly. We meet for 2, 2 hr. Zoom sessions twice weekly. This means that you are responsible for 2 hours of independent asynchronous (at-home) learning as well as 3-4 hours of homework a week. The homework expectations are the same as an In-Person course.

Another big difference is that a lot of the ongoing feedback happens via the discussion boards and during scheduled critiques. 

Time Commitment:

Creating a painting is not a fast process. You should expect to spend prolonged periods on one exercise or project. You will have around three to four hours of homework a week on top of the 4 Zoom class hours a week and 2 at-home asynchronous hours. Set aside a minimum of 6-7 hours a week to work on this class outside of Zoom.(ballpark)

Course Overview:

This class is a 4 credit-hour studio-based course. In this painting class, you will be exposed to a variety of painting techniques, strategies, and visual principles. Through guided assignments, a variety of smaller studies, and demonstrations you will experiment with the formal properties of color, shape, form, texture, and space. Through a combination of personal projects, ideation, discussions, and critique you will develop a language to understand painting as both a formal construction and a tool for expression. In-class group Critique will engage us in the interpretation, evaluation, and analysis of works while developing a more sophisticated vocabulary and strengthening problem-solving skills.        

Learning Outcomes

The learning outcomes of this course will be mapped to their developed rubrics. They may shift with the needs of the students as the course progresses. Possible learning outcomes for the course include:

Art 181A

• Solve aesthetic and material problems through the appropriate use of tools, processes, and techniques of painting.
• Communicate using basic art vocabulary to engage in critical conversations about the aesthetics, and social and historical contexts of paintings.
• Express personal experience through making paintings. 
• Assess the value and quality of artwork about the practices and standards of painting.

Art 281A 

• Solve and develop aesthetic and material problems through the appropriate use of tools, processes, and techniques of painting.
• Communicate using intermediate art vocabulary to engage in critical conversations about the aesthetics, and social and historical contexts of paintings.
• Refine expression of personal experience through making paintings.
• Assess and improve the value and quality of personal work in response to the practices and standards of painting.

Main Course Components

Materials

A kit has been built for you for this course by Blick Art Materials. The Kit has everything that you will need for the course. You can purchase this kit at the bookstore with cash/check/card or financial aid.

Book Store Kits

If you already have a few painting supplies and you would just like to supplement the supplies that you have here are the supplies needed for the course. You don’t need to get these exact brands - I was just trying to make it easier for ordering online purchases.

• Utrecht Heavy Body Paint: Raw Sienna - 2oz
• Utrecht Heavy Body Paint: Ultramarine Blue - 2oz
• Utrecht Heavy Body Paint: Cerulean Blue - 2oz
• Utrecht Heavy Body Paint: Cadmium Red Hue - 2oz
• Utrecht Heavy Body Paint: Quinacridone Red - 2oz
• Utrecht Heavy Body Paint: Cadmium Yellow Hue - 2oz
• Utrecht Heavy Body Paint: Phthalo Green - 2oz
• Utrecht Heavy Body Paint: Titanium White - 2oz
• Utrecht Heavy Body Paint: Mars Black - 2oz
• Utrecht Heavy Body Paint: Raw Umber - 2oz Palette Paper 9in x 12in
• Golden Glazing Medium
• Fredrix Canvas Pad 9x12 - 10 Sheet
• Palette Knife 3in flat
• Golden Taklon Value Brush Set
• 2 DB Studio Traditional Pre-Streched and Gessoed Canvas - 16in x 20in
• 1 Blick Canvas Panel Boards - 5pk 10in x 12in
• 1 Small Sketchbook