PAINTING 1 SYLLABUS

PAINTING 1

Cara Bean, Room 210

Lexington High School

What materials will we use in this class?

We will be using watercolor and acrylic paint

You will be given a set of brushes that you must maintain for the entirety of the semester.  You will also have access to canvas, paper, an easel, and a painting board.  You are expected to treat all classroom materials with respect. 

Sketchbooks:

In your sketchbook you will sketch ideas for projects as well as collect text and imagery that is meaningful to you.  Your sketchbook should illustrate an ongoing sense of exploration.  Project ideas will begin flowing into your head more easily the more you continue working in your sketchbook.

What painting concepts will be covered in class?

Color Theory and Color Relationships

You will learn how to mix colors and understand how color relates to space.

Painting Techniques

You will learn different manner of paint application, blending, impasto, glazing and scumbling, wet into wet, and stippling (to name just a few.)

Compositional Skills

You will create images with interest and tension as well as pleasing relationships of color, scale, texture, value and line.

Rendering / Observation

You will learn how to minutely observe surface detail and color and light to "paint what you see."

Art History

You will research and learn about master artists. 

How do I achieve in this class?

Come to class ON TIME and ready to work every day.  Never skip class.

Put forth your greatest effort every day. 

Tell the teacher if you are having a hard time focusing on doing your best work.

Take care of your assignments and materials.  Make sure that assignments are clean and presentable for evaluation.  Turn your assignments in on time.  A thoughtfully completed reflection sheet should accompany each of your assignments.

MS. BEAN’S CLASSROOM RULES!!

1.)  No disrespect to teacher or fellow students.  Use appropriate language.  Be nice.

2.)  Clean up after yourself and alert the teacher if there is a spill or equipment malfunction.  Be honest.

3.)  Don’t eat food in the art classroom.  Keep food away from art supplies and materials.

Water is OK, but RECYCLE empty bottles. 

Do not put containers that still have liquid in the recycling bin.  (Gross!)

4.)  Technological distractions are not allowed and will be confiscated. 

5.)  Alert the teacher if you need to leave the room during class.  (Bathroom breaks, etc.)

Make eye contact with the teacher when you notify her that you are leaving.

6.)  Here is an attendance scenario.  You are more than two minutes late and you…

A.)   Have a pass and hand it to the teacher (good job)

B.)  Quietly enter the room with no pass and then sign the LATE BOOK.  (The late book is a record that you are not absent and will save you from getting a detention for skipping class.)

C.)  Realize it is the second time you are late to class.  YOU GET A DETENTION WITH THE TEACHER!  Noooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!