junior portfolio

Junior Portfolio
Due: Monday December 4th

Outline of Important dates:
11.13 – 11.14 – Slides, art history, and notes
11.15 – Begin sketching final composition, based on drawings done at Waterloo
11.16 – Experiment with color schemes on scraps of watercolor paper. Choose one to use for your painting
11.17 – Transfer full size sketch to final surface (canvas paper)
11.20 – Sketchbook #1 Due, and begin painting in class
11.20 – 12.3 – Paint
11.27 – Sketchbook #2 Due
12.4 – Completed painting and Sketchbook #3 is due
12. 5 – 12.6 – Mat paintings, self portraits, figure studies
12.7 – 3 Mats due and in-class crit of Paintings
12.8 – Written Crit Due and complete in-class crits

Painting
You will be using acrylic paint on canvas for this painting.
Your completed painting must include the following criteria:
1. Accurate rendering of architectural/natural elements
2. A specific color scheme (achromatic, monochromatic, complementary, analogous, split complementary, or triadic.)
3. Focal Point
4. Implied texture
5. Obvious light source
And should or could include the following elements:
1. Real texture
2. Leading lines
3. Linear perspective
4. Repetition, Pattern, Variation,
5. Chiaroscuro
6. Atmospheric perspective
7. Contrast

Some useful definitions
Complementary colors - Colors that are directly opposite each other on the color wheel, such as red and green, blue and orange, and violet and yellow. When complements are mixed together they form the neutral colors of brown or gray.
Achromatic - Color having no chroma — black, white and grays made by mixing black and white.
Monochromatic - Consisting of only a single color or hue; may include its tints and shades.
Analogous colors - Any two or more colors that are next to each other on the color wheel and are closely related.
Split complements - One color plus the two colors that are on either side of its complement on the color wheel.
Triad - Three colors equally spaced on the color wheel. For example, red, yellow and blue form a triad.
Focal point - The portion of an artwork's composition on which interest or attention centers. The focal point may be most interesting for any of several reasons: it may be given formal emphasis; its meaning may be controversial, incongruous, or otherwise compelling.
Texture - An element of art, texture is the surface quality or feel of an object, its smoothness, roughness, softness, etc. Textures may be real or implied. Actual textures can be felt with the fingers, while simulated textures are suggested by an artist in the painting of different areas of a picture — often in representing drapery, metals, rocks, hair, etc. Words describing textures include: flat, smooth, shiny, glossy, glittery, velvety, feathery, soft, wet, gooey, furry, sandy, leathery , crackled, prickly, abrasive, rough, furry, bumpy, corrugated puffy, rusty, and slimy.
Light source - Either the sensation of light, a source of light, its illumination, the representation of it in a work of art, or an awareness as if there were light on a subject.
Chiaroscuro - A word borrowed from Italian ( light and shade or dark ) referring to the modeling of volume by depicting light and shade by contrasting them boldly.
Atmospheric perspective - Variations in color and clarity caused by distance.