Laguna College of Art and Design
Portrait/Life Painting
Fall Semester 2011
GA212
3 units
Instructor: Professor Sandy Appleoff
Thursday 10:00-4:00
Email: sappleoff@lagunacollege.edu
Office hours: by appointment before and after class
Course Description
GA 212 must be taken concurrently with GA 211. Digital Analytical Figure Drawing is designed to provide the student with structural and analytical knowledge of the figure and Portrait /Life Painting is design to apply that knowledge with traditional skills to the specifics of portraiture and life painting. The course will utilize information gathered from the model in GA 211 and apply that information to do extended studies on facial structure and then move into quick sketch life painting.
This course investigates gesture, movement, spatial relationships, foreshortening, anatomical studies, light and shade, composition, color harmony, and the figure in environment. Students learn to make visual and artistic decisions in the context of historical and contemporary figure drawing and painting styles.
Drawing from the head with an introduction to the general rules of proportion as it relates to portraiture, and the investigation of individual features: eyes, nose, mouth, ears, hair, and skeletal structure as they relate to the entire human head. Emphasis is on planar structure to develop strong volume with drawing media.
Course Objectives
· The objective is to build a solid figurative foundation through visual perception, as it relates to the development and basic understanding of portraiture and painting mediums useful for quick life studies.
· To heighten all the senses as a support to see well into all that is before you.
· To enhance your ability to define shape and mass and express it’s relationship to the figure within an environment.
· To learn structural breakouts of the human head for understanding and utilizing volumetric shape for both representation and stylistic renderings.
· The student will become proficient with quick painting/sketch traditional tools for studies of the human form with limited time constraints.
· To put motive into every line you make.
Learning Outcomes
On the completion of Portrait/Life Painting you will be able to:
· Understand the structural composition of the human head and be able to use that information to render portraits both representational and stylistic.
· Learn to handle water-based painting to facilitate a solid sketching tool based on traditional medium working with limited time constraints.
· Know how to successfully mix color to depict desired effects as it applies to the human form.
· Be able to mentally transfer structural figurative information from digital to traditional and back.
· Render the effects of light and shadow and cast shadow as it applies to the human form.
· Understand volumetric shape and line language as building tools for solid structural and compositional works.
Course Requirements
· Attendance is mandatory and any absence excused or not will lower your grade.
· Lectures begin at 10 AM and will not be repeated.
· Maintain a professional attitude with respect toward fellow students in arriving promptly for critiques and classes with all necessary materials.
· All assignments will be scanned and uploaded to the server for critique prior to arriving to class
· Sketchbooks are required and will be graded.
· Use of cell phones will in class in any way will get you removed from the class for the remainder of the day and C- for that day. This is what breaks are for.
• Class participation - Students are encouraged to participate in class discussions and critiques. Points are awarded for class participation. These points are awarded for a) being in class, b) showing up on time, c) participating / paying attention during lecture and d) working diligently during the lab times. Class Participation will account for 10% of your final grade. Missed class hours are added cumulatively throughout the course.
· Missing (1) full class days (or the equivalent) will result in a reduction of 1 letter grade.
· Missing (2) full class days (or the equivalent) will result in a reduction of 2 letter grades.
· Missing (3) full class days (or the equivalent) will result in a grade of F.
Grading will be based on CRAFT, CONCEPT, AND COMPOSITION and the level of advancement in handling rendering and linear and painting tools as they apply to the human form. Your sketchbook out of class assignments will be 50% of your grade and failure to have them stamped for approval from the instructor will lower your grade for that day to C-. Completion of only assigned work in your sketchbook will land you a “B”, for every 10 pages you fill and have stamped and dated your grade will raise by .10% towards an “A”.
LCAD Grading Scale
A 4.0 A- 3.7
B+ 3.3 B 3.0
B- 2.7 C 2.3
C+ 2.0 C- 1.7
D+ 1.3 D 1
D- .7 F 0
Behavior/ Conduct
Respectful behavior is expected at all times. Please turn your cell phones, pagers and alarms to Silent / Off during class time. Anyone using a cell phone, playing games or texting at any point during the class will be asked to go outside or be removed from class completely. Please be punctual.
LCAD Policies & Guidelines
Adding or dropping Course:
A student may add or drop a class by completing an Add/Drop form. If the student does not complete a drop form and ceases to attend class, he / she will receive a grade of “F” for the class. The grade will be recorded on the student’s transcript and will be reflected on his / her Grade Point Average (GPA). Specific add / drop dates are posted at the beginning of each semester.
Add and Drop dates, with and without assessment, vary according to the course length and start/end dates. Adherence to these dates will be strictly enforced except in serious compelling and mitigating circumstances. It is the student’s responsibility to ensure that all signatures are on the form before it is turned into the Registrar’s Office.
• LCAD Plagiarism Guidelines:
Plagiarize - According to Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary Tenth Edition: “to steal and pass off, the ideas or words of another as one’s own: use a created production without crediting the source, to present as new and original and idea or product derived from an existing source.” Submitting assignments that you did not originally write or create in whole or part, or presenting the words or ideas of others without giving proper credit is considered plagiarism. This applies to any research not collected by you.
Giving credit for all borrowed information, whether literal or visual, will alleviate issues of plagiarism. Explain relevance of borrowed material and the transition into your own voice, literal and visual. All written assignments for LCAD must be documented by providing: MLA formatted works cited page by citing the exact page or source.
Regardless of the material cited, your writing needs to be clear where the cited work begins and ends. LCAD has a formal committee that regularly reviews suspected plagiarism cases and issues appropriate penalties. Plagiarism is a violation of trust and academic honesty; it will severely affect your status in the college and can ruin your academic career. Students found guilty of plagiarism are subject to the provisions of the Student code of Conduct as listed in the current Student Handbook, and may be submitted to disciplinary action to and including dismissal.
This Syllabus is subject to change throughout the Semester.
| Week | Course Schedule |
| Jan 19 | Introduction, “Materials and how they apply to both portraiture and life painting” Model 12-4pm |
| Jan 26 | “Portrait” Model 11-4pm Sketchbook due |
| Feb 2 | “Understanding shape and volume as it applies to the human head.” (assignment to follow) Model 11-4pm Sketchbook due |
| Feb 9 | “Stylization and Representation” (assignment to follow) Model 10-4pm Sketchbook due |
| Feb 16 | Finished portraits in class Model 10-4pm Sketchbook due |
| Feb 23 | “Paintbrushes as pencils and the dance of the brush sketching the human form”: linear (assignment to follow) Model 10-4pm Sketchbook due |
| Mar 1 | “Skills and tools when painting with light on the human form” (assignment to follow) Model 11-4pm Sketchbook due |
| Mar 8 GDC | “Shape language and value in painting” (assign Master-Study) Model 11-4pm Sketchbook due |
| Mar 22 | Painting in class no demo Model 10-4pm Sketchbook due |
| Mar 29 | Sketchbook critiques, painting in class Model from 10-4pm |
| Apr 5 | Life Model Model 10-4pm Sketchbook due |
| Apr 12 | Life Model Model 10-4pm Sketchbook due/visiting Alexey Steele |
| Apr 19 | Life Model Model 10-4pm Sketchbook due |
| Apr 26 | (Master Life study is due) Critique Model 1-4pm |
| May 3 | Last day of class – FINAL CRITIQUE, sketchbook, and digital scans or digital photographs of all work due, |
Portrait/Life Painting FALL 2011
Professor Sandy Appleoff
In the first class we will discuss brushes, paper and watercolors. You may want to wait to do your bulk purchase after the first class.
We will discuss materials and I will demo watercolor and talk about what colors and brushes will be needed. You will need to bring a sketchbook and drawing tools either ink or pencil. No small sketchbooks but do get something you can handle comfortably when working out in public.
We will also construct a sketchbook in this class that will compile your sketches and watercolors done in class. You will end up with two sketchbooks to be handed in at the end of semester.
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