Painting Calendar

“One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.”
-Picasso

Schedule is subject to change. Please check back often!

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
August 31	Sept. 1	Sept. 2	Sept. 3	Sept. 4
NO SCHOOL	First Day of the Term! Introductions and Class Expectations Homework: 1.Print, Read, Sign Class Expectations 2. Find, Buy, Make a Sketchbook A-Z personal still life	Warm Up "Control Painting" Clean Up Procedures Overview	"Control Painting" "Control Painting" FINISH	Signed Course Expectations DUE! Warm Up Elements of Art/Principals of Design Review Elements of Art Review PPT INTRO TO MUSEUM VISIT Museum Visit Sheet (Intro to Independent Project)
September 7	September 8	September 9	September 10	September 11
NO SCHOOL-LABOR DAY	GROUP REVIEW: ELEMENTS/PRINCIPLES Warm Up COLOR WHEEL ASSIGNMENT Color-wheel-project	QUIZ: ELEMENTS OF ART/PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN Warm Up COLOR WHEEL ASSIGNMENT Color-wheel-project	Warm Up COLOR WHEEL ASSIGNMENT	Warm Up Meet a Painter: JULIAN SCHNABEL OPEN STUDIO--Independent Project Start OR COLOR WHEEL ASSIGNMENT
September 14	September 15	September 16	September 17	September 18
Color Wheel Assignment DUE CRITIQUE Warm Up Color Wheel self-reflection/rubric Warm Up and PPT on Composition and Value Understanding Value & Composition Practice work--still life with value	Warm Up Monochromatic Still Life Painting- Warm Up:Tempera	LATE START Warm Up Monochromatic Still Life Painting-	Monochromatic Still Life Painting with one color and tints and shades	Monochromatic Still Life Painting with one color and tints and shades
September 21	September 22	September 23	September 24	September 25
Finish Monochromatic Still Life Painting with one color and tints and shades Monochromatic self-reflection IND. PROJ EXAMPLES	CRITIQUE-Monochromatic CRITIQUE PPT Stick Paintings! Worth 10 points	All About Brushes Example Brush example assignment (1 day assignment-worth 10 points) 3RD PERIOD -PORTFOLIOS! BTSN @ 6pm	Lemon Value Project Worth 10 points	OPEN STUDIO-Independent Project Time! Warm Up OR finish stick paintings or brush examples
September 28	September 29	September 30	October 1	October 2
No School	Finish Lemons	BEGIN COLLAGE PAINTING	COLLAGE PAINTING "I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music." -Joan Miro	Independent Project Day
October 5	October 6	October 7	October 8	October 9
COLLAGE PAINTING	COLLAGE PAINTING “A painting is never finished - it simply stops in interesting places.” - Paul Gardner	COLLAGE PAINTING	COLLAGE PAINTING CRITIQUE Warm Up ALL LATE WORK DUE BY 4PM TODAY!!!! "You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free." -Salvador Dali	INDEPENDENT PROJECT DAY Warm Up
October 12	October 13	October 14	October 15	October 16
Warm Up Watercolor Landscape Painting Watercolor Basics-- Painting "en plein air" Watercolor Techniques watercolor warm up See Jesse's art here!	Warm Up Color Schemes PPT Color Schemes Chart Color Schemes info sheet	Warm UP PSAT shorten schedule Demo: Gridding-Landscape "You are lost the instant you know what the result will be." - Juan Gris	Work on Gridding Landscape with Color Schemes NO WARM UP "Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms." - Roy Lichtenstein "Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist." - Edward Hopper	NO WARM UP Work on Color Scheme Painting
October 19	October 20	October 21	October 22	October 23
NO WARM UP Work on Gridding Landscape with Color Schemes	WARM UP Work on Color Scheme Painting Color History Power Point	LATE START WARM UP Work on Color Scheme Painting "Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad." - Salvador Dali	COLOR SCHEME SELF REFLECTION Work on Color Scheme Painting "The essence of drawing is the line exploring space." - Andy Goldsworthy	WARM UP OPEN STUDIO (Independent Project) "The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette." - Henry S. Haskins
October 26	October 27	October 28	October 29	October 30
COLOR SCHEME PAINTING DUE CRITIQUE	WARM UP Flesh tone Fleshtone Assignment Fleshtone_Example	Fleshtone exercise	WARM UP	OPEN STUDIO: (Independent Project Time) Meet a Contemporary Artist: Lucien Freud
November 2	November 3	November 4	November 5	November 6
SKETCHBOOKS DUE! Last Day for "Re-Grade Conferences" or to turn late work in. Cut-off time is 4:00 p.m. today.	MINIMUM DAY MIDTERMS! NO CLASS!!!!!!!!	MINIMUM DAY END OF 1st QUARTER PERIODS 3 AND 4	Gouache self-portrait	MEET A CONTEMPORARY PAINTER:Mark Ryden
November 9	November 10	November 11	November 12	November 13
	FLESH TONE EXERCISE #1	No School Veteran's Day	COLOR SCHEME CRITIQUE! FLESH TONE EXERCISE #2	REVIEW SHEET Begin Gouache portrait or self-portrait
November 16	November 17	November 18	November 19	November 20
Gouache self-portrait	Gouache self-portrait	LATE START WARM UP Gouache self-portrait	Warm Up Gouache self-portrait DUE Critique!	OPEN STUDIO FOR PARENTS! OPEN STUDIO: (Independent Project Time)
November 23	November 24	November 25	November 26	November 27
FALL BREAK!!!	FALL BREAK!!!	FALL BREAK!!!	FALL BREAK!!!	FALL BREAK!!!
November 30	December 1	December 2	December 3	December 4
Museum/Gallery Sheet DUE!!!!! Free admission Tuesdays@ Balboa Park! Museum Visit Sheet INTRO: Plexi Project	Work day: Plexi Project	Work day: Plexi Project		OPEN STUDIO: (Independent Project Time)
December 7	December 8	December 9	December 10	December 11
Warm Up Texture Painting DUE! QUICK CRITIQUE HOMEWORK: Contemporary Painter website CLICK HERE!	Warm Up Begin Contemporary Painter Project			OPEN STUDIO: (Independent Project Time) Period 2B-Library Contemporary Painter Project Info click here!
December 14	December 15	December 16	December 17	December 18
Period 3B-Library Warm Up Contemp.Painter Project	Contemp.Painter Project Warm Up	Contemp.Painter Project	Contemp.Painter Project Presentations	Finish Presentations Written piece about a Contemporary Painter OPEN STUDIO: (Independent Project Time)
January 4	January 5	January 6	January 7	January 8
Discussion of Concentrations: --2 paintings that have a similar theme (MUST BE 12x 16 or LARGER! --Written artistic statement about your work	Concentrations	Concentrations Painting Test #2	Concentrations	OPEN STUDIO: (Independent Project Time)
January 11	January 12	January 13	January 14	January 15
Concentrations	Concentrations	Concentrations	Concentrations	OPEN STUDIO: (Independent Project Time)
January 18	January 19	January 20	January 21	January 22
No School: MLK Day Holiday	Concentrations HOW TO WRITE AN ARTISTIC STATEMENT	LATE START Concentrations	Concentrations	OPEN STUDIO: (Independent Project Time) Concentrations
January 25	January 26	January 27	January 28	January 29
Concentrations	Concentrations	INDEPENDENT PROJECTS DUE!!!!! ALL LATE WORK DUE!!!!!	FINALS! NO CLASS PERIODS 1 AND 2 ONLY!!!!	FINALS! CONCENTRATIONS DUE WITH ARTISTIC STATEMENT!!!

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