Watercolor I

Course Number:
ART 286
Transcript Title:
Watercolor I
Created:
Jul 25, 2022
Updated:
Jan 23, 2023
Total Credits:
3
Lecture Hours:
0
Lecture / Lab Hours:
60
Lab Hours:
0
Satisfies Cultural Literacy requirement:
No
Satisfies General Education requirement:
Yes
Grading Options
A-F, P/NP, Audit
Default Grading Options
A-F
Repeats available for credit:
0

Course Description

Explores basic studio watercolor painting techniques, materials, and concepts while addressing historical and contemporary issues to increase visual literacy. Presents a conceptual framework for critical analysis along with basic art theory. Audit available.

Course Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  1. Solve problems creatively using a variety of acquired strategies for expressing visual ideas through the watercolor painting medium.
  2. Create personal works of art, which demonstrate a basic understanding of the watercolor painting discipline, and the processes, materials, and techniques associated with it.
  3. Ask meaningful questions, identify topical issues, and employ a basic watercolor painting vocabulary in critical dialogue about the watercolor painting discipline.
  4. Understand, interpret, and appreciate watercolor painting from different cultures, facilitating a lifelong engagement with the diversity of perspectives in the human experience.
  5. Enjoy a heightened awareness of the physical world, the nature of the relationship of human beings to it, and our impact on it via the experience of watercolor painting.
  6. Implement self-critiquing skills in route to autonomous expression through watercolor painting with respect to the standards established in contemporary and historical works of art.

Alignment with Institutional Learning Outcomes

Major
1. Communicate effectively using appropriate reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills. (Communication)
Major
2. Creatively solve problems by using relevant methods of research, personal reflection, reasoning, and evaluation of information. (Critical thinking and Problem-Solving)
Not Addressed
3. Extract, interpret, evaluate, communicate, and apply quantitative information and methods to solve problems, evaluate claims, and support decisions in their academic, professional and private lives. (Quantitative Literacy)
Minor
4. Use an understanding of cultural differences to constructively address issues that arise in the workplace and community. (Cultural Awareness)
Minor
5. Recognize the consequences of human activity upon our social and natural world. (Community and Environmental Responsibility)

To establish an intentional learning environment, Institutional Learning Outcomes (ILOs) require a clear definition of instructional strategies, evidence of recurrent instruction, and employment of several assessment modes.

Major Designation

  1. The outcome is addressed recurrently in the curriculum, regularly enough to establish a thorough understanding.
  2. Students can demonstrate and are assessed on a thorough understanding of the outcome.
    • The course includes at least one assignment that can be assessed by applying the appropriate CLO rubric.

Minor Designation

  1. The outcome is addressed adequately in the curriculum, establishing fundamental understanding.
  2. Students can demonstrate and are assessed on a fundamental understanding of the outcome.
    • The course includes at least one assignment that can be assessed by applying the appropriate CLO rubric.

Suggested Outcome Assessment Strategies

The determination of assessment strategies is generally left to the discretion of the instructor. Here are some strategies that you might consider when designing your course: writings (journals, self-reflections, pre writing exercises, essays), quizzes, tests, midterm and final exams, group projects, presentations (in person, videos, etc), self-assessments, experimentations, lab reports, peer critiques, responses (to texts, podcasts, videos, films, etc), student generated questions, Escape Room, interviews, and/or portfolios.

Course Activities and Design

The determination of teaching strategies used in the delivery of outcomes is generally left to the discretion of the instructor. Here are some strategies that you might consider when designing your course: lecture, small group/forum discussion, flipped classroom, dyads, oral presentation, role play, simulation scenarios, group projects, service learning projects, hands-on lab, peer review/workshops, cooperative learning (jigsaw, fishbowl), inquiry based instruction, differentiated instruction (learning centers), graphic organizers, etc.

Course Content

  • Study influential master water color artists from different eras and cultures.
  • Develop methods of handling materials for picture making, which may include, transparent tube colors, transparent cake colors and gouache.
  • Become familiar with different kinds of brushes and the marks they produce.
  • Experience various watercolor papers and surfaces; pulp paper, rag content paper, hot press watercolor paper, cold press watercolor paper, etc.
  • Discuss the interaction of color in terms of hue, value and intensity, and its effect on the visual statement.
  • Experience a broad range of watercolor techniques which may include: wet on wet, wet-on-dry, wash, dry brush, glazing, masking, etc.
  • Experience use of watercolor with other media; ink, magic marker, charcoal, pastel, conte, collage, etc.
  • Study the formal elements of art such as; color, line, value, texture, shape, volume and mass, composition, and spatial illusion.
  • Learn to understand color theory and its application to the watercolor medium.
  • Learn color wheel and how it applies to watercolor painting. Learn to see value relationships in watercolor painting.
  • Understand uses of warm and cool colors in watercolor painting.
  • Understand color intensity through use of transparent and opaque applications in watercolor painting.
  • Learn to understand how watercolor paint works and mixes; staining colors, transparent colors, and opaque colors.
  • Learn how to display artwork.

Department Notes

A minimum of 3 hours of homework per week in the form of private exploration of the concepts and processes introduced in class will be required.