Bedford School District                                                                 

Painting II - Competencies and Indicators

Course Description:

Students research and employ the basic concepts and techniques of painting, including both transparent and opaque painting mediums, working on paper, board and canvas. Color theory, composition, and a variety of techniques are covered through projects, demonstrations, and discussions. Subjects include still life, landscape, portraiture, and abstract works. Individual and group critiques and discussions will occur throughout the course to reinforce student articulation of both technical and conceptual understanding. Supplementary readings and modest artist research projects will also be assigned.

Competencies

A – Techniques (50%):

Demonstrate working techniques in watercolor and oil painting.

P - Design (25%):

Design unique compositions using a series of working sketches

N – Expression (25%):

Create images connecting personal expression with the intentional use of

materials.

Indicators common amongst all Units:

Techniques

Students will:

• Compose images with focus and emphasis through color and texture, working thin to thick in opaque medium.
• Develop color mixing and layering techniques, while keeping values distinct and will paint contrasting values and colors to articulate the illusion of three-dimensional form on a two-dimensional plane.

Design

Students will:

• Develop a painting journal, and use preliminary sketches to design unique compositions.
• Research an historical or contemporary artist and prepare a presentation for the class.
• Research the conceptual and technical characteristics of a particular master abstract artist.

Expression

Students will:

• Critique artwork in order to discuss approaches to painting, and concepts of finished esthetic quality.
• Apply the concepts of value contrasts and color theory to create realistic and expressive images in watercolor and oil paint.
• Analyze symbolic self-portraiture, to discuss the concepts of finished esthetic quality, and the use of color, gesture, and expression to convey emotions and sense of personality and character in a painting.

Unit Indicators

Unit 1: Abstraction

Techniques

Students will:

• Create a painting after the style, themes, characteristics, concepts, and techniques of an abstract painter of note.
• Design an abstract study after a portion of an artwork, referencing a major artist from history.
• Analyze the principles of abstraction focusing on the dynamic use of color theory and value contrasts to paint a non-representational painting in acrylic or oil.

Unit 2: Landscape

Techniques

Students will:

• Compose a landscape with a distant view in oil paint, and employ an under painting to establish distinct values and a sense of three-dimensional space.

Unit 3: Human Figure

Techniques

Students will:

• Paint the human form from observation, applying correct proportions, and gesture.
• Use printmaking techniques and layering of opaque colors to develop a figure study print.

Unit 4: Self-Portraiture

Techniques

Students will:

• Create self-portrait studies from direct observation and apply correct proportions of the human face.
• Employ a traditional palette and technical steps for portraiture painting in oil.
• Create a finished, traditional self-portrait from direct observation, and apply correct

proportions of the human face.

• Produce a realistic and large format self-portrait from observation, using an interpretive color palette.
• Paint a self-portrait from direct observation and incorporate creative ideas and facial

expressions to convey ideas about personality and character.

• Employ the elements of Cubism to paint a creative, abstract self-portrait.

Unit 5: Still Life

Techniques

Students will:

• Compose a still life painting from direct observation using a single light source, using transparent layers of watercolor paint.
• Apply techniques of mixing oil paint, while keeping values distinct including: highlight, light, shadow, core shadow, cast shadow, and reflected light.