SP2020.CAZ.SA121.Painting

GOALS Each of you have gained much painting experience of SA 121.  So this is where you really can show your talents, what you've learned, and where you wish to direct your time in subject matter and application.   You have experienced basic studio practice of observational painting, to abstraction, and a variety of applications you have practiced in color temperature, color saturation, stains, impastos, using simple forms in space, as well as still lifes of your own making, all the way through to abstract measures. In addition, each of you have considered structure and color within your compositions.  Each student in SA121 will create a self directed final project.  Think back to all that has been learned and experience in SA 121 and select a variety of things within your group of three paintings. A group like this is called a triptych .  Your project will consist of three separate canvases and should show an evolution of growth from the previous c...

Pancakes with Pepper Professor Pepper has set up a ZOOM CHAT ROOM  Every  Monday and Wednesday from 10:30 am - 11:30 am. This is a great way to come in and chat and see your colleagues.... Ask questions about the course, etc. >> And a nice way to decompress a bit. It is  not  mandatory --  just an outlet to drop in with your coffee! I will send you a  ZOOM invite at about 10:25 am  that looks like the image below.  Should you not have the Zoom app. it is easy to download to computers/phones, etc. Hope to see you tomorrow!  :: P epper

I am hoping these following YouTube links will be informative! Here are 4: Stretching a Canvas onto a Frame Stretching a Canvas for Beginners Stretcher a LARGE canvas How to stretch a painted canvas on a frame

BLUE SKIES...   oh, yes, indeed! Here are a few captured moments that I want to share with each of you, reminding all of us there are many, many individuals who care about each of us while we  shelter in place. Let's play this gesture forward.  Your job is this:  Make a textual sign of your wishes for others. Go to three interesting locations and take your image message. Send me a jpg at  jpepper@cazenovia.edu You may also use any other type of visual text you wish to include... Thank you one and all!! From Noel Evelyn Madden... From Jess Kane From Tessa Barry

THU APR 02  @ 6 PM - DUE 30  virtual sketchbook entries of #40 total - Pepper will INTRODUCE  Project #6   (BELOW)   and  Project #7  Student Directed Final - DUE  Complete your  critique points for  3  (minimum) of your colleagues'  Project #5  works.  In them, be thorough, be thoughtful, be mindful of all that we've learned. Include discussion of formal principle and design elements that are operating in the work.  Upload to   FBsite PROJECT #6 As tragic and troubling the COVID-19 pandemic has left the world, it also, in a very strange way has brought us together to share in our care for humanity.  Sometimes the gesture of caring shows through people in teaching others about their expertise of many things, as well as simply sharing their passions with those who will take the time to listen.    Project #6 embraces this notion fully! Mahatma Gandhi Born OCT 2,...

 Below are your colleagues' multi media presentations and their full papers.     This blog page allows for you to make comments within each of them.   Please do so on  4  students' works, minimum.    --------------------------------- LINK TO PPT HERE >   Alicen Simpson: INKA ESSENHIGH multi media presentation Alicen Simpson Professor Pepper SA 321 Intermediate Painting March 15, 2020 Research Paper #1: Inka Essenhigh Biography     Inka Essenhigh is a contemporary American painter. She was born in 1969 in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania and she graduated from Upper Arlington High School. After high school, Essenhigh went on to study at the Columbus College of Art and Design and the School of Visual Arts in New York where she earned a Master of Fine Arts degree. It didn’t take long for Essenhigh’s career to gain momentum and for people to begin to notice her. Influenced by being a member of a generation of artist...