Week 10: Wednesday, October 27

1:00 - 1:30PM

Please use this time to pin-up your in-progress assignment, Color Chart with Three Columns in Watercolor. Faculty will be on hand to help. It is not important that you hang up as a section. See instructions posted in the 4th Floor Hallway.

To Clarify
You are pinning up the design you will be turning in next week. It should be penciled in. If you have begun taping the borders/design, that’s fine. You may have started painting. All acceptable.

If you have been painting neat, orderly, proper columns that are not part of your final design, I consider that research, or more specifically, a wonderfully methodical way of testing your colors. I have not specified in what form your color mixing tests should take. It could be pages of squiggles. In any case, have these tests ready to show your reviewer today, but no do pin them up.

204/ 1:30PM

All sections will meet in 204 at 1:30PM. Please bring your Visual Journals and sharpened Prismacolor Pencils and/or any other media you want for an in-class drawing exercise. We will discuss the review process, which will follow our session in 204.


There are no site visits scheduled for this afternoon.

Assignment: Color Chart with Three Columns in Watercolor

A PDF of this assignment can be downloaded from myTulane.blackboard.com under "Course Documents."

Week 9: Wednesday, October 20

204/ 1PM

All sections will meet in 204 at 1PM. Please bring your Visual Journals and sharpened Prismacolor Pencils for an in-class drawing exercise. I will be introducing the new assignment, Color Chart with Three Columns in Watercolor. 

Due: Prismacolors on Kraftpaper

Please tape them in your Visual Journal. I, along with your studio instructor, will be looking at them Wednesday afternoon. 

Site Visits/ Field Sketching 2-5PM *

Ruff, Liles, Tate

* Please take your digital cameras to photograph simple perspectives to use as a source image for an assignment in Week 12 called, "Perspective, Line, and Shape Analysis."

Desk Crtis/ AVSM Studio 2-5PM

Harmon, Stouse, Zarse


Mark Your Calendars
Devin Oatman will be having watercolor painting tutorials in the evenings on Monday (10/25, 11/1) and Tuesday (10/26, 11/2). Times to be decided.

Independent Study Week 8: Prismacolors on Kraft Paper

PDF for this Independent Study can be found under "Course Documents" at myTulane.Blackboard.com.

Week 8: 10/13

204/ 1PM

All sections will meet in 204 at 1PM. Please bring your Visual Journals, viewfinders, and sharpened Prismacolor Pencils for an in-class drawing exercise. If you have misplaced your viewfinder, make your own.

Due: Color Study Collages in the Style of Anne Ryan

Sections Harmon, Stouse, and Zarse put them in one pile in the front of 204

Sections Ruff, Liles, and Tate have a pin-up.

Pin-Up Color Study Collages *

2PM Ruff

3PM Liles

4PM Tate

*Please pin-up your assignment by section in a compact grid in the 4th Floor Hallway. Hand-in your Extra Credit after critique.

Site Visits/ Field Sketching

Harmon, Stouse, Zarse

After Fall Break We Begin Watercolor Painting 

WATERCOLORS/ .27 fl.oz. TUBES: 
Cadmium Red Light or Vermilion Red
Utramarine Blue (also called French Ultra.)
Cadmium Yellow Medium
Zinc White or Chinese White (opaque)
Ivory Black
Additional colors; your choice.

SUGGESTED BRUSHES: 
Flat square hair brush 1” wide or larger
Round hair brush #2 or #4
# 0 round hair brush
Round hair brush #10 or #12
1 ¼ “ flat hair brush

WATERCOLOR PAPER:

Canson or Strathmore (or similar brand), 15-Sheet, Watercolor Pad, 15” x 20”

Week 7: Wednesday, October 6

204/ 1PM

All sections will meet in 204 at 1PM. 

Ever Wonder What They Do?

Mini-presentations by Liles, Tate, Harmon, Ruff, and Stoll.

Looking Forward To Next Week:

Pin-Up: Color Study Collages 

2PM Ruff

3PM Liles

4PM Tate

Site Visits/ Field Sketching

Harmon, Stouse, Zarse