D606 Exploration in Painting and Illustration

This capstone course is dedicated to the development of visual art methods to create a more marketable portfolio. Students will evaluate industries where their products can be sold successfully. The final project is a visual art portfolio that can be produced into useable products for the marketplace. (3 semester credit hours)

REQUIRED SOFTWARE & BOOKS
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator

Watercolor Paint (see specific colors below)
Acrylic Paint (see specific colors below)

You will need these specific colors in both mediums
Lemon Yellow
Cadmium Yellow
Cadmium Red Light
Alizarin Crimson
Ultramarine Blue
Phthalo Blue
Paynes Gray

300 lb Cold Press Watercolor Paper 
1 pad-140 lb Cold Press Watercolor Paper
1 pad-400 Series Acrylic linen finish Paper
1-16x20 canvas or larger
# 8-10 watercolor round brush
# 12 watercolor flat brush
A palette (anything you can mix paints on)
Small metal or plastic palette knife for mixing pigments
Containers for water to clean brushes
Paper towels
Natural light (it will help with your mixing)
Tape (Blue Painters Tape Masking works best) 

Optional:
Gardner’s Art Through the Ages by Fred S. Kleiner
Modern Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Photography by Sam Hunter, John Jacobus and Daniel Wheeler
Vitamin P3 New Perspectives in Painting by Phaidon
50 Paintings You Should Know by Kristina Lowis and Tamsin Pickeral
Additional Paints
Lunar Black
Chinese White
Titanium White
Drawing Gum 
Palette Paper
Brushes

PREREQUISITES: B204 or B205

MORE ABOUT THIS COURSE: In addition to your online lectures and materials, there are class times throughout the semester, please check your Canvas calendar and syllabus for these class times.