Color Theory syllabus and materials

Catalog Description: This course investigates the role of color in the organization of the two-dimensional surface, as well as its practical use in our visual environment. Various aspects of color usage, such as physical and optical mixture, spatial and transparency illusions, and color relativity are explored then applied to projects concerned with practical design issues.
Major Topics of Study: Color and its indigenous properties. Color for design, color for artistic expression, and color for rendering. Student Learning Outcomes: Will be able to match color swatches with paint. Hue, Value, Saturation/Neutralization, Temperature, Color wheel, Relativity, Transparency, Spatial misconceptions, Optic Vibration, Objective and Subjective expression

Required Textbook: None Attendance policy: 8 or more absences will result in automatic failure of the course.

Objective:
This course is designed to introduce students to the properties and methods of mixing color as well as concepts and techniques in digital media. We will address the various ways color has been used throughout art history, while demonstrating the methods of matching color as they relate to the figure, still life and other subject material. Learning to see color and interpret the correct value, chroma and intensity will be a large part of class exercises. It is my experience that the more time spent practicing mixing color the more knowledge one may attain. Students will gain the most through these exercises where they will practice color mixing in various applications. Students will learn how to execute and identify traditional color theory using various digital imaging and painting applications. At the end of the course the student should be able to choose a technique and or style introduced in class and then create a well crafted final project, digital exploration will culminate with the creation of a digital portfolio of the semester’s works.

Supplies:
1-Bristol board pad 11x14 smooth (can be shared) 1- Roll of artist tape 4- Sheets of 20x30 Illustration board white Crescent 300 cold press Rubber cement (optional) Water container (glass or plastic) X-acto blades and Knife Thumb drive Paper towels (optional) Mixing palette (rectangular glass) Palette knife (optional) Glass Scrapper (optional) Clear Plastic Ruler Graphite or charcoal pencils Kneaded and white plastic Erasers Sketchbook for thumbnails
Acrylic Paint Liquitex Brand
Ivory Black 50ml Titanium White 50ml Cadmium yellow medium 50ml Raw sienna 50ml
Cadmium orange light 50ml Cadmium red medium 50ml Quinadocidrone crimson 50ml Dioxazine purple 50ml Cobalt or cerulean blue 50ml Permanent green 50ml The aim is to have bright colors in each chroma
Brushes (watercolor brushes NO BRISTLE) Flats soft hair or synthetic 2,4,8 (small medium and large)
Rounds soft hair or synthetic 2,4,6,10