The Curriculum

This curriculum is designed to create students prepared to enter into a professional career in making and selling art. It is expected that the program will take an average student about 4 years to complete. Not all students will be required to complete all assignments. Each student will be evaluated at the time of enrollment and throughout his/her training to determine the necessity of each assignment. That being said, MOST students will need to complete the entire program and should expect to do so. All assignments must be completed in a professional manner to be passed off. Multiples (IE: 5 line drawings, 5 charcoal drawings, etc.) must be approved consecutively to show consistency. Students should expect to do numerous studies before begining assignments listed in the drawing and painting sections

Perspective

Books *Required -- Perspective Made Easy by Ernest R. Norling

Assignment
Go through the exercises laid out in the book and create an assignment corresponding to each concept learned.

Final Assignments
1. Construct Chinese balls in a box
2. Construct two approved objects
3. Create an interior space (from your own floor plan design) with the following stipulations:

At least 5 vanishing points
At least 3 trace points
Equal sized and distanced objects receding into space. *Tiles, wheels, railing spindles…
At least 3 ellipses. *Columns, balls…
Projected shadows throughout the space
Multiple dynamic figures in different positions and angles.
At least 3 architectural details. *Curved tiles, ornate classical decorations…

Anatomy

Books *Required —Human Anatomy for Artists, the elements of form by Goldfinger

Assignments
Drawings of Skeleton

Hand
Arm
Leg
Foot
Torso (mid-thigh to chin)
Head and neck
Full body
Full body in motion

Drawings of Muscles

Hand
Arm
Leg
Foot
Torso
Head and neck
Full body front and back
Two full bodies in motion

Sculptures of Muscles (from inside out)

Hand
Arm
Leg
Foot
Torso
Head and neck
Full body (male or female)

Design

Books Design Basics (fourth edition) by David A. Lauer & Stephen Pentak

Drawing

Students should expect to do numerous studies before beginning final assignments listed in the drawing and painting sections

Study in line

1. study shape
2. study triangulation

Final Assignments

3 successful ‘jig saw’ Drawings
3 successful drawings using triangulation
5 finished line drawings (one inorganic, one organic, one figure). Only two values — white and 20% grey in pencil.

Study in Value

Final Assignments

Five finished charcoal drawings

Painting

Final Assignments

3 Grisailles
3 Color Grisailles — first in blue, then copy in red and green
Reflected Color
Creating depth using color intensity- at least 2 examples
Creating depth using temperature- at least 2 examples
Optical Mixing — 3 examples
Plane studies — 3 examples
Simultaneous Contrast Assignments--?
3 finished still lifes, applying principles above
Flesh studies — four sets of three portraits, ranging from de-saturated to saturated color.
Self portraits using different temperatures and limited palettes (skin can be any color).
3 finished figure paintings from life

Creative Exploration

Implementing students’ personal creativity (personality) — “Style = temperament”

Assignments

Choose one or more commonly painted subjects (objects), such as fruit or a figure, and come up with an original application for it. -3 examples
Complete at least 3 pieces of art using different (new) mediums.

Business

Preparing portfolios
Researching and applying to galleries
Learning how to work with galleries
Creating and running a business
General business practices

Final Requirements

Preparing a consistent body of work

ten paintings which demonstrate a clear direction
prepare a professional portfolio to submit to galleries