Notice: It is the responsibility of the student to enrolled in the class by the add deadline (http://www.sa.utah.edu/regist/pages/Deadlines.html). Late slips will not be signed by the department. It is also the responsibility of the student to make sure that dropping or withdrawing from the class has been officially completed in the Registrar's office.

Course Description
ith the human figure as its subject, students will concentrate on forming and structuring ideas for proper expression of visual literacy.

Course Fee

Course Text and Other Readings

Painting As Language; Jean Robertson & Craig McDaniel; ISBN: 0-15-505600-X.
How To Paint Like The Old Masters; Joseph Sheppard;ISBN:0-8230-2672-8.
Oil Painting Techniques And Materials; Harold Speed; ISBN: 0-486-25506-9.

Course Content and Objectives

This course will introduce students to a variety of oil painting materials and techniques for painting the human figure.  Different approaches will be addressed through in class and out of class projects.  The work of a variety of figurative painters will be examined along with class discussions on contemporary approaches to representing the figure.  Students will be encouraged to develop an individual ‘voice’ and body of work based on the project areas covered.

Through in class exercises and formal assignments, students will demonstrate comprehension of the following concepts and the ability to perform the following skills:

• Reiteration of the concepts presented in figure drawing: sighting and measuring, expansion of linear perspective, role of positive and negative space, etc.
• Use of gesture in line and mass
• Use of color in visual language
• Spatial devices including foreshortening, atmospheric and more complex linear perspective
• Use of different oil painting techniques
• Expanded concepts of advanced composition, the picture plane, and integration of the narrative.
• Use of color in painting including the concepts of local color, color mixing and temperature.

Expanded vocabulary and critical awareness as it relates to the subject and media.

Course Outcomes:

On completion of this course, students should be able to demonstrate the following:

• Successful use of sighting and measuring to achieve accurate proportions.
• Use a variety of oil painting techniques for creative expression.
• Be able to utilize color as part of a visual language.
• Utilize a variety of spacial devices to show depth and space within a painting.
• Control compositional elements successfully.
• Use color and color mixing to show observation skills.

Teaching and Learning Methods

The format of the course will consist of working in the classroom setting for the most part from direct observation.  Conceptual projects will be introduced and examples of works by other artists will be shown.

Attendance Policy

There are no excused absences.  The accumulation of more than four absences will result in the student’s failure for the class.  No exceptions will be made.  Students adding the class once the semester has commenced are required to make up missed classes prior to their add date.

Additional Policy:
Each student is required to be in class on time.  Students arriving more than ten minutes late for class or returning from break (if one is given), more than five minutes late will receive a late mark.  The accumulation of more than four late marks will be considered equal to one absence.

Student conduct:
Each student is required to conduct herself / himself appropriately during class.  Any student, whose behavior is not acceptable to the Professor, will be asked to leave the class and consequently will receive an absence.

Evaluation Methods and Grading Scale

Grading Opportunities:

In order to receive a pass grade at the end of term, each graded project must be completed and graded.

There will be one grading opportunity each week.  All graded projects will carry equal weight when figured into the final grade.  There will be extensive out of class work.  Each student is expected to spend a minimum of 7 hours per week on homework. 

Graded projects will be returned to students as soon as possible and must be picked up from the ‘graded pile’.

Incomplete:
Please refer to University policy. 

Late projects.
Students will typically be given one week to complete each homework assignment.  If an assignment is handed in up to one class late, it will receive a drop in the letter grade.  Assignments that are more than one class late still must be completed but will only receive an ‘o.k. grade’, which is equal to 50 points.  This will affect the final grade.

Grades may be discussed at any point during the term (please see office hours).

A project may be reworked and re-graded providing it is handed in on time to begin with.

Sketchbooks.
Each student is required to keep a sketchbook to practice elements taught in class, create thumbnail sketches and work through individual ideas.  Students may draw, smudge, paint, stick, write or sew in their sketchbooks. Sketchbooks will not be graded at the end of term.

Draw as much as you can.  ‘Practice makes perfect’!

Grading criteria

Project will be graded on the ‘project goals and outcomes’ as well as on the following criteria:

1. Understanding of the project goals and techniques.
2. Demonstration of the required effort applied to the creation and completion of drawings.
3. Overall success of visual aesthetic.
4. Successful thoughtful enquiry into the subject.

Mid semester and final grades will be calculated based on an average of all project grades.

Grading Standards:

Each graded project will receive a letter grade and a number grade as follows:

A            90 – 100          Excellent.
B            80 – 89            Good.
C           70 – 79            Average.
D           60 – 69            Passing.
F            0   - 59             Failing.

ADA statement
The University of Utah seeks to provide equal access to its programs, services and activities for people with disabilities. If you will need accommodations in the class, reasonable prior notice needs to be given to the Center for Disability Services, 162 Union Building, 581-5020 (V/TDD). CDS will work with you and the instructor to make arrangements for accommodations.

All written information in the course can be made available in alternative format with prior notification to the Center for Disability Services.