CRITERIA AND QUALIFICATIONS FOR FULL COURSE CREDIT

Required: All projects and in-class assignments will be graded on a number of criteria including: craftsmanship, research, creative thinking, effective use of class time, presentation at critique, knowledge of subject and ability to effectively manipulate materials.

Attendance at critiques is always required. Anyone missing a critique or arriving late or departing early during critiques will receive a project grade reduction.

REQUIRED TEXT:
Launching the Imagination, Mary Stewart. Available in the bookstore.

MATERIALS

• Sketch pad 11 x 14
• 10 sheets black paper 8 1/2" x 11"
• 18" cork-backed metal ruler
• 1" white synthetic flat acrylic brush
• Gouache (1 or 2 oz. tubes): titanium white, ultramarine blue, cobalt blue, cadmium yellow medium, cadmium red medium, ivory black
• plastic palette and water containers
• rubber cement
• drawing pencils: 2h, 3b, Ebony
• erasers: white plastic eraser, artgum
• markers: black, 1 wide tip and one fine tip
• utility (mat) knife and x-acto knife
• black matboard (as needed)
• white foam core (as needed)
• illustration board(as needed)
• bristol board (as needed)
• a box to hold supplies is highly recommended

LINE

Line, Time and Rhythms

Using only vertical lines of different widths, create an interesting visual rhythm. Read the design from right to left, like you would a piece of text. You may use influences from mathematics, music, or any visual form.

Experiment with positive/negative, illusion of space, repetition, and pay attention to the speed the eye moves through the composition.

Size: 3" high by 9" long
Format: White sketch paper
Drawing materials: markers, ruler, black paper

Should be matted on 5" x 11" piece of heavy black paper or matboard

Line and Pattern

Cover a 6"x 6" white groundsheet with similar non-parallel lines. Create an overall pattern. They may be drawn in ball point pen, technical pen, or marker or they may be cut from black paper. Whatever media you choose will affect your final image.

Sources for visual imagery may come from organic forms, science, or forms of written language.

Size: 6" high by 6" long
Format: White sketch paper
Drawing materials: ball point pen, technical pen, marker, or cut black paper

Should be matted on 8" x 8" piece of heavy black paper or matboard

FORM

Metamorphosis of Form

Start with one shape and in seven steps change it into another shape. You must create the change in a uniform and flowing manner. The change should appear natural and logical. Black and white media.

Size: No larger than 18"x 24" and no smaller than 3"x4."
Format: any black or white ground
Materials: black and white media

Should be presented with matting.

Letter Forms in a Representational Design

Use letters in any form (type, printed matter, writing, computer print, etc) to create a representational picture of a still life, landscape or person.

Size: No larger than 18"x 24" and no smaller than 3"x4."
Format: any black or white ground
Materials: black and white media

Should be presented with matting.

VALUE

Gray scale

Create a 10-step scale with black and white at the beginning and the end. Make the steps equal in their steps from white to black.

Size: 10" high x 1" wide
Format: white illustration board
Materials: black and white gouache

Transforming Local Color to Local Value

Working from a copy of a famous painting, convert it to values of gray. Either look carefully and paint the values you see on a separate sheet or divide the painting into a grid of squares, reproducing on a separate sheet the predominant value in each square. Simplify the work from its original image.

Size: Same size as the reproduction that you are working from.
Format: white illustration board
Materials: any black, white, and gray media

Visual Layers

Using dramatically different styles of working, i.e., hard edge/soft edge, do two works that exist on top of one another. There should be some implied transparency, but no transparent materials are permitted.

Size: 9"x 12"
Format: Illustration board
Materials: black, white and one color gouache

COLOR

Color Chart

Create a color chart, any shape, that designates the parts of the color wheel and makes it possible to identify complementary colors and analogous colors.

Size: 6"x 8"
Format: white illustration board
Materials: acrylic paint

Vibrating Edges and Afterimages

Create a design with two colors that, when placed together, form vibrating sensations along the edges where they meet or afterimages against a white background.

Size: 9"x 12"
Format: white illustration board
Materials: acrylic paint

Optical Color Mixing

On top of an overall ground color using 1/8" wide strips of colored paper, create a simple design. The strips should be placed parallel to each other 1/8" apart. Shape of areas should be large enough to accommodate 6 strips. 3 or more colors that are uniform.

Size: 9"x 12"
Format: Colored ground
Materials: any uniform color material such as colored paper, painted strips of paper, etc.

Should be matted on black matboard

Color Travel Ad

Take pieces of colored paper and create an image of a desirable vacation spot. Rely on simplicity and the attributes of the color.

Size: 9"x 12"
Format: White or Colored ground
Materials: any uniform color material such as colored paper, painted strips of paper, etc.

Should be matted on black matboard

3-D

Collection and Packaged Object

Collect a group of objects that will fit in one hand or both hands cupped and create a package or packages that changes how they are perceived.

Size: no more volume than will fit in two hands

Should be prepared for exhibit

Controlled Time

Create a composition where time is an active element. The time must regulated in some way. Broad interpretation and problem-solving skills are important. Students may work in teams of two for this assignment.

Time

StoryBoard

Using any material you like do a 4-6 frame storyboard or maquette of an event that happened to you. Abstracted, cartoonish, or appropriated items may be used.

Size: no larger than 12"x 12"x 12"

Should be prepared for exhibit