Class Schedule: Spring 2012

Intro to Painting (ART 150)

Phone: 461-7328

Week 1
Jan. 31st

Syllabus Reading

Assign drawers, drying racks and

materials
Feb. 2nd

Demo: Value Alla Prima

Week 2
Feb. 7th

Demo: Hue and Intensity Alla Primas

Demo: Stretching and Gessoing a Canvas

Feb. 9th

Studio Day
Week 3
Feb. 14th

Painting Assignment #1: Simple

Forms Due!!!!

Both Canvases Due, each 16 x 20,

Gessoed, Toned Ground Dried and
Ready To Paint on!

Take Quiz

Introduce Painting Assignment #2:

Transparent/Reflective Still Life

Demo: Thumbnail Sketches,

Underdrawing
Feb. 16th

Underdrawings for Painting

Assignment #2 Due!!

Demo: Palette Mixing

Studio Day
Week 4
Feb. 21st

Studio Day
Feb. 23rd

Studio Day

Instructor: Kelly Manning

Email: kmanning@hastings.edu
Office Hours: MF, 10-10:03am or by appt.

Mar. 6th

Studio Day
Mar. 8th

Studio Day
Week 7
Mar. 13th

Studio Day
Mar. 15th

Due: Painting Assignment #3: Food

Still Life!!!
Week 8
Spring BreakNO CLASS!!
Week 9
Mar. 27th

Introduce Painting #4: Mastercopies

Demo: Gessoing Panels

Mar. 29th

Studio Day
Week 10
Apr. 3rd

Due: 18 x 24 panel, Gessoed, Toned

Ground Dried and Ready To Paint
on!!

Due: Chosen mastercopy image

printed out (can be in black and
white)!!

Demo: Grid System for underdrawing

Apr. 5th

Due: Underdrawing for Mastercopy

Demo: Color Palette and Painting

Strategies

Studio Day
Week 11

Week 5
Feb. 28th

Painting Assignment #2:

Transparent/Reflective Still Life
Due!!!!

Introduce Painting Assignment #3: Food

Still Life

Demo: Impasto, Blocks of Color, and

Dabbing
Mar. 1st

Underdrawings for Painting #3 Due!!

Studio Day
Week 6

Apr. 10th

Studio Day
Apr. 12th

Studio Day
Week 12
Apr. 17th

Lecture: Choosing a photograph for

Painting #5

Studio Day
Apr. 19th

Studio Day
Week 13
Apr. 24th

Due: Mastercopies, Mastercopy Paper

Due: 18 x 24 panel, Gessoed, Toned
Ground Dried and Ready To Paint on!!
Introduce Painting #5: Portrait from
Photograph
Demo: Palette mixing from a photographic
source

Apr. 26th

Studio Day
Week 14
May 1st

Studio Day
May 3rd

Studio Day
Week 15

May 8th

Studio Day
May 10th

Studio Day
Week 16
Final Day: Wednesday, May 16th @ 12-2pm

Due: Painting #5: Portrait from

Photograph!!

Clean Painting Studio

Last day to make up quiz!!