12/27/2024 9:23:11 AM	ART 107 Course Outline as of Fall 2008	Changed Course
CATALOG INFORMATION
Discipline and Nbr:  ART 107	Title:  DRAWING IN COLOR
Full Title:  Drawing in Color
Last Reviewed:12/5/2005

Units		Course Hours per Week			Nbr of Weeks	Course Hours Total
Maximum	1.50	Lecture Scheduled	1.00		17.5 max.	Lecture Scheduled	17.50
Minimum	1.50	Lab Scheduled	2.00		3 min.	Lab Scheduled	35.00
		Contact DHR	0			Contact DHR	0
		Contact Total	3.00			Contact Total	52.50
		Non-contact DHR	0			Non-contact DHR Total	0

Total Out of Class Hours:  35.00

Total Student Learning Hours: 87.50

Title 5 Category:  AA Degree Applicable
Grading:  Grade or P/NP
Repeatability:  39 - Total 2 Times
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Catalog Description:

A basic color drawing and composition course through the medium of pastels. The course will emphasize drawing foundation concepts such as: line, shape, volume and proportion, as well as introduce students to color theory and color interactions.  

Prerequisites/Corequisites:

Recommended Preparation:
Completion of Art 7A.

Limits on Enrollment:

Schedule of Classes Information
Description:

A basic color drawing and composition course through the medium of pastels. The course will emphasize drawing foundation concepts such as: line, shape, volume and proportion, as well as introduce students to color theory and color interactions.  

(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:
Recommended:Completion of Art 7A.
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:
Repeatability:39 - Total 2 Times

ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION

Associate Degree:		Effective:		Inactive:
Area:
CSU GE:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
IGETC:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
CSU Transfer:		Effective:		Inactive:
UC Transfer:		Effective:		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:

Upon completion of this course, sttudents will be able to:

1. Recognize visual elements such as line, shape, volume, value, and space

  in a drawing.

2. Employ hand skills necessary for pastel drawing.

3. Synthesize various pastel drawing techniques.

4. Create pastel drawings from observation of objects, scenery, and models

  as well as from imagination or from memory.

5. Integrate tonal, analogous, complementary, and local color relationships

  into pastel drawings.

6. Critique the strengths and weaknesses of their own and others drawings.

7. Analyze examples of master drawings, historical, and contemporary.

8. Students repeating this course will:

  a. Enhance hand skills necessary for pastel drawing.

  b. Enhance pastel drawing techniques.

  c. Create additional/different pastel drawings.  

Topics and Scope

I. Composition

   A. Elements of Drawing

     1. Line

     2. Shape

     3. Volume

     4. Value

     5. Space

     6. Texture

   B. Positive and Negative Space

   C. Relating Parts to the Whole

   D. Scale Relationships

   E. Cropping

II. Value

   A. Grey Scale

   B. Value Reduction

   C. Value in Color

   D. Light on Forms

III. Color

   A. Color Wheel

   B. Analogous Color: Value

   C. Warm and Cool Color Contrast: Temperature

   D. Complementary Color Relationships: Color Contrast

   E. Colored Grounds

IV. Pastel Technique

   A. Tools

   B. Sketching

   C. Blocking

   D. Blending

   E. Scumbling

   F. Hatching

   G. Dry Wash

   H. Fixing and Storing Pastel Drawings

V. Subject Matter

   A. Direct Observation

     1.Still Life

     2.Figure

     3.Landscape

   B. Abstraction

   C. Art Historical

VI. Critiquing Work

VII. With Repeat:

    A. Enhancing hand skills

    B. Enhancing pastel drawing techniques  

Assignments:

Assignments may include any or all of the following:

1. Making color samples and tests on various colored grounds.

2. Sketching from the still life, landscape or model.

3. Drawing in pastel without blending.

4. Building a pastel drawing through hatching and cross-hatching.

5. Complementary color drawing based on complementary color still life

  arrangement.

6. Complementary color translation of observed local color.

7. Drawing from strongly lit model or objects translating value into

   color.

8. Drawing in a series using a constant subject but varying the pastel

  technique for each drawing.

9. Drawing in a series using a constant subject and technique but

  varying the composition in each drawing.

10.Master copy drawings of pastel works by such artists as: Chardin,

  Liotard, Degas, Redon, Kirchner, Klee, Dove, William Merritt Chase,

  Marsden Hartley, Yvonne Jacquette.

11.Viewing slide lectures and videos.

12.Critiquing the aesthetic and technical aspects of one's own and other

  students' work. Student may: fill out critique sheet, give oral

  presentations analyzing their own works, fill out a scoring rubric.

13.Constructing a still life away from class.

14.With repeat: create new/additional pastel drawings, demonstrating

enhanced hand skills and techniques.  

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 10 - 20%
Participation in individual and group critiques.
Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams.		Skill Demonstrations 60 - 70%
Pastel drawing assignments
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 20 - 30%
Participation and attendance.

Representative Textbooks and Materials:

Wright, Michael. An Introduction to Pastels in Association with the Royal

Academy of Arts. Dorling Kindersley, 1993.

Heywood, Anne. Pastels Made Easy.  Watson-Guptil Publications Inc., 2003.  

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