Date

 PAINTING 1

8/8

Introduction

Unit 1: WATERCOLOR MARKER -SPHERE
Objective: To understand gradient and demonstrate form using watercolor.
Lesson: Page of Watercolor Marker spheres 
Assignment: Watercolor Sphere

 8/11

Unit 2: LATIN AMERICAN ART HISTORY
Objective: To explore the rich cultural, political, and social narratives of Latin America through its visual art, understanding how artists have shaped and reflected identity, resistance, and transformation across time.
Artist:
Latin American/Surrealism/Magical Realism
Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Fernando Botero (Colombia), Wofredo Lam (Cuba).

Unit 3: Watercolor Exercises 
Objective: To advance skills at gradient and demonstrate form using watercolor.
Lesson:
1. Fabric
2. Fruit & Flowers  
3. Organic & Geometric Shapes
Assignment: Watercolor Sphere, Forms, & Fruit [30 pt]

Unit 4: Sphere in Oil Paint
Objective: To understand gradient and demonstrate form using oils. 
Assignment: Oil Paint: Sphere [100 pt]

Workshop: Back to Front / Thin to Thick 

Unit 6: Organic Oil Painting  
Objective: To demonstrate brush work by depicting shapes and forms that are objective and non-objective in oil paint.
Lesson:
1. Fabric
2. Fruit & Flowers
3. Organic & Geometric Shapes
4. Clouds with something in the foreground
Assignment: pick form the above [100 pt]
Watch: Organic form video

Unit 7: B/W or Monochromatic Composition.
1. Close-up human face: nose/ear/lips
2. Close-up animal, plant, fruit, or vegetable.
3. Close-up object
Assignment: Pick from the above [100 pt]

Unit 8: Lake & Streams Contest
Assignment: Lake & Streams painting [100 pt]
Lake & Streams video

Unit 9: Small Paintings
Objective: To appreciate the advantages of composing in a small scale.

1. Miniature Boards
2. Envelope Painting  
3. Greeting Cards

Assignment: Project: pick from the above [100 pt]

Workshop: How to Stretch a Canvas