ART 340
Painting, Spring 2004

instructed by
Ralph Larmann


University of Evansville

Art Department


Spring 2004

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Required materials

First Semester Students
Assignments, Papers, and Projects

Second Semester Students
Assignments, Papers, and Projects

Third Semester Students
Assignments, Papers, and Projects

Fourth Semester Students
Assignments, Papers, and Projects

Art Studio Chalkboard:Painting

SYLLABUS: Third and Fourth Semester

REQUIRED MATERIALS: Same as 1st semester students, plus...

2nd, 3rd, and 4th semester students: Students who have completed the first semester of painting may select any painting medium.
Suggested supplies by medium:

OILS:

  • MEDIUM: 8 oz each of damar varnish, pure gum turpentine, cold-pressed linseed oil

ACRYLICS:

  • COLORS, BRUSHES, PALETTE, RECEPTACLES, CLEAN UP, SKETCHBOOK: same as oil paints.
  • MEDIUM: 8 oz. Acrylic Gel Medium

BOTH: these supplies are for both media.

  • GESSO: 1/2 gallon white acrylic gesso
  • CANVAS: 2 yds. 48" wide
  • MASONITE BOARD: 2- 18" x 24"
  • GESSO BRUSH: 2" house painter brush
  • WOOD: 2- 6' sections of 1"x 2" firring, 2- 6' sections 1" quarter round.
  • SUPPLIES: wood glue, 1" brads
  • STAPLE GUN: and staples

OTHER MEDIA: Will be discussed individually.

THIRD SEMESTER PROJECTS

Third Semester Students:
This to be a transitional semester in the painter's development, and this will be a semi-directed term with some assigned elements. The intention is to create a cohesive visual vocabulary and foster self-motivated working habits. Experimentation and an emphasis on developing a visual "style" will dominate course work. Third semester students will be required to submit a proposal of intended work and a schedule of personal deadlines, meet with the instructor twice a week, and make slides of all finished works. There are four thematic elements which must be incorporated into the proposed intended work. They are:

  • interior space
  • the human figure
  • plant forms
  • serial progression
During the semester, a student must use these thematic elements, the semester is open to self-directed expressions of painted imagery. Any media, scale, etc. Space will be available for third semester students in the Studio 224 (224 Frederick). This semester there will be an emphasis on the idea: living thing as commodity. It may manifest itself in the choice of research topics, materials, subject, scale, etc.

FOURTH SEMESTER PROJECTS

Fourth Semester Students:
Emphasis is on the continued development of a visual vocabulary and a cohesive body of work. Fourth Semester students will be responsible for submitting a proposal of work and a schedule of deadlines, meet with instructor once a week, and make slides of all finished works. Students need not work during ART 340 class time, but should be available to participate in critiques. Working space will be available in the Studio 224 for fourth semester students.

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PAINTING INFORMATION

OTHER
COURSES:

ART 105
Introduction to the Visual Arts

ART 322
Design

CONTACT:
rl29@evansville.edu
(812) 479-2782
FA 203 (Krannert)