4/24/2024 4:39:28 AM	ART 13 Course Outline as of Fall 1981	New Course (First Version)
CATALOG INFORMATION
Discipline and Nbr:  ART 13	Title:  WATER COLOR
Full Title:  Watercolor
Last Reviewed:12/12/2023

Units		Course Hours per Week			Nbr of Weeks	Course Hours Total
Maximum	3.00	Lecture Scheduled	2.00		17.5 max.	Lecture Scheduled	35.00
Minimum	1.50	Lab Scheduled	4.00		2 min.	Lab Scheduled	70.00
		Contact DHR	0			Contact DHR	0
		Contact Total	6.00			Contact Total	105.00
		Non-contact DHR	0			Non-contact DHR Total	0

Total Out of Class Hours:  70.00

Total Student Learning Hours: 175.00

Title 5 Category:  AA Degree Applicable
Grading:  Grade or P/NP
Repeatability:  08 - May Be Taken for a Total of 6 Units
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Catalog Description:

A painting class using watercolor to explore color, form, & composition. Working from still life, landscape, the figure, as well as non-objective subject matter.

Prerequisites/Corequisites:

Recommended Preparation:
Completion of ART 3 or ART 4 or ART 7A and drawing and design skills.

Limits on Enrollment:

Schedule of Classes Information
Description:

Painting in water colors, including drawing & composition, light & shade.

(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:
Recommended:Completion of ART 3 or ART 4 or ART 7A and drawing and design skills.
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:CSU;UC.
Repeatability:08 - May Be Taken for a Total of 6 Units

ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION

Associate Degree:		Effective:		Inactive:
Area:
CSU GE:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
IGETC:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
CSU Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Fall 1981	Inactive:
UC Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Fall 1981	Inactive:
C-ID:

Certificate/Major Applicable: Certificate Applicable Course

COURSE CONTENT

Outcomes and Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:

1.  Develop awareness of the pictorial elements: shape, volume, value

   and color contrast, light, space, etc.

2.  Initiate investigation into solutions for reconciling the above

   elements.

3.  Exercise compositional skills.

4.  Sharpen perceptions.

5.  Stimulate the senses.

6.  Engage visual thinking.

7.  Foster good habits of "pacing" a painting by building it up

   progressively.

8.  Become conversant with the creative process, its viscissitudes,

   pitfalls.

9.  Develop critical judgement, appraisal of one's own work and work of

   others through individual and group critiques.

10. Cultivate flexibility, an open receptiveness to the many possible

   resources for ideas, information, and inspiration.

11. Learn the basics of color dynamics, color mixing and specific

   characteristics of watercolor.

12. Exercise the essential craft of using the tools of watercolor

   painting: paint, brushes, papers, etc.

13. Build confidence in the use of imagination and artistic expression.

14. Relate pictorial problems to good examples of painting of the past

   and the present, Western, Asian, Primitive, etc.

Topics and Scope

1.  Review Basic Color Dynamics.

     a. contrast of complements, values, saturation, temperature, etc.

     b. desaturating a color with its complement.

     c. influence upon color by size, shape, texture, opacity, etc.

     d. interaction of color relations

     e. spatial tensions (pull/push)

     f. expressive aspects

2.  Introduce Basic Pictorial Considerations.

     a. the picture plane

     b. axes, two and three dimensional movement

     c. harmony of similar elements and contrast of dissimila ones;

        reconciliation of these tensions

     d. proportion, scale, ratios, intervals

     e. orchestration of darks and lights

     f. figure/ground relationships, including reversals and ambiguities

     g. use of color as a means to create volume, light, space,

        expression

     h. the role of texture, pattern line, edge characteristics and

        qualities

3.  Work from a Variety of Sources.

     a. still life

     b. the landscape

     c. the figure

     d. drawings

     e. photographs

     f. memory

4.  Learn the basic characteristics of color mixing and watercolor

   techniques.

5.  Become familiar with various skills of wetting, stretching, taping,

   and supporting paper.

6.  Use a variety of sizes, and paper surfaces to discover their effect

   and influence.

7.  Practice the cropping of an image to alter its composition and find

   the most appropriate, expressive format.

8.  Analyze reproductions and slides of master paintings, past and

   contemporary, for value contrasts, spatial solutions, color dynamics,

   compositional elements, figure/ground relations, paint handling,

   expressive means, emotional and conceptual content.

Assignments:

1.  Series of exercises using transparent washes to explore effects of

   saturation, light, space.

2.  Still-life set-ups for study of composition - simple subject to

   complex.

3.  Still-life set-ups for study of color relations.

4.  Complementary contrasts stressing warm/cool interaction.

5.  Varying the ratio of water to pigment and exposure of paper surface.

6.  Looking at objects and their surroundings to create effects of volume,

   space, and light:

     a. cast shadows

     b. highlights

     c. reflected light and color

     d. warm/cool contrast

     e. varied saturation

     f. value changes

     g. color modulation and interaction

7.  Apply and expand upon the basic concepts above in subjects such as:

     a. landscape

     b. the draped model and its immediate environment

     c. the self portrait

     d. objects enlarged, isolated, given significance for their

        objectness and/or metaphorical meanings.

8.  Use still-life, landscape, figure or other objective subject-matter

   as basis and point of departure for varying degrees of expression

   and abstraction.

9.  Experiment with some of the dynamic interractions of formal elements

   in a painting without objective subject matter.

10. Interpret an old or contemporary master painting to analyze its

   structure, value contrasts, color relations and facture.

Methods of Evaluation/Basis of Grade.

Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing.		Writing 0 - 0%
None
This is a degree applicable course but assessment tools based on writing are not included because problem solving assessments and skill demonstrations are more appropriate for this course.
Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills.		Problem Solving 40 - 60%
Homework problems
Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams.		Skill Demonstrations 10 - 30%
Class performances, PAINTINGS & SKETCHBOOKS
Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams.		Exams 0 - 0%
None
Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories.		Other Category 10 - 30%
A BODY OF WORK INVOLVING PAINTINGS & SKETCHES WILL BE THE MAJOR BASIS OF COURSE GRADE. OTHER FACTORS: ATTENDANCE, EFFORT, GROWTH, PARTICIPATION

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