History of Color & Mixing Colors

Bachelor Degree in Art History

ART 225

Breyer State University

Instructor: Karan Schneider Ph.D., MS, BBA, GC-C, CH-C, SC-C

SYLLABUS

COURSE OVERVIEW: Welcome to History of Colors and Mixing Colors, a Bachelor Level course in the curriculum for the degree, Bachelor of Fine Art in Art History. The primary focus of this course is to understand color is the perception of the physical world. The texts offer reader friendly introduction to provide backgrounds on the color of an artist's palette and full explanations of the main properties and dimensions of pigment color including temperature, intensity, opacity, and value. Expect to find the connections between colors and the uses of them in history as well as the social and political meanings that color has carried through time full of extraordinary insights. The course will unravel to students a reference to all the major media of oil, acrylic, watercolor, gouache, soft pastel, ink and pencil. The program will help eliminate confusion and discouragement of time and expense of mixing the vast range of colors needed to achieve in a project. Learn from a faculty member who is a practicing instructor and a successful independent business owner in the Arts, Alternative Health Care Modalaties, Angelology and Hypnotherapy field.

TIME FRAME: This is an eight semester hour course. This course is allotted ten weeks of time. You must complete all of the requirements for the course successfully by the end of the ten-week period. The first day of week one will begin the day that you register for the course, or the day which you notify me that your textbook has arrived and you are ready to begin your studies. Please be cognizant of the time frame. It is rare that extensions of time are permitted, unless you have good justification. Upon successful completion of this course, you will be awarded eight semester hours of credit.

Prerequisite: ART 100, ART 110, ART 215, ART, 220.

TEXTBOOKS: There are two (2) required textbooks for this course.

Book 1: Color, A Natural History of the Palette, Victoria Finlay, Ballantine Books: ISBN # 0812971426.

Book 2: Color Mixing Bible, Ian Sidaway, Watson Guptill, ISBN # 0-8230-0723-5.

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EXAMINATIONS: There is one final examination, for both of the books in this course, which will be a Learning Portfolio. There will be one exam after reading each book, which will cover the material in each of the books, "Color, a Natural History of the Palette" by Victoria Finlay and "Color Mixing Bible" by Ian Sidaway. The Learning Portfolio may take at least two weeks to do, so please make sure you allow yourself this kind of time after reading each book and taking the exams after each book.

The exam is programmed and is located in the classroom for this course. The examination is "open book" objective type. You will have two (2) days to complete your exam, once you access it from the classroom. To access the exam, you must send me an email and request to have access to the exam. Upon registration, you will receive my email address. I will then program your access in. You will receive an email back from me telling you that you are now authorized to go ahead and to access your exam. To access, you will come into the classroom, click on testing, and click on the exam you are taking. You will need your User ID and PASSWORD to access the exam. The exam will appear on your screen. Once you access the exam, you have forty-eight hours to submit your answers. The program provides me the exact date and time that you accessed the exam. The program also notifies me of the exact date and time that you submitted your answers. Thus, the program is timing you. When you are ready, go back into the classroom and click in your responses and then click submit. Shortly, you will receive the exam in your email box with your computed score. You will also know what questions, if any, that you missed, and what the correct answer is. I also receive a copy of your exam and your score.

GRADING: You will receive a letter grade on the mid term exams, and a Pass/Fail on the Learning Portfolio. The Learning Portfolio may take at the least two weeks to do, so please make sure you allow yourself this kind of time after reading the two books and taking the exams.

The grading scale for this course is as follows:

90-100%    = A
80-89%      = B
70-79%      = C
Below 70% = Fail

COMMUNICATION: You are encouraged to communicate with me. I am available as a teacher, coach, and mentor to assist you in meeting your goals for this course. Primarily, communication is through email. However, I am also available for conversation by telephone if you would like. Our classroom for this course has a "chat" room. I am also very willing to meet with you one-on-one in the chat room at your request. From time to time, depending on how many students are enrolled in this course at a particular time, we will have some scheduled group chats. You will receive more detailed information at the time such chat sessions are scheduled. Please keep my email address handy so that you can contact me whenever necessary. If at any time during this course you change your email address, please be sure to notify me right away.

WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS: All of the assignments for this course are detailed in the classroom. Go back to the classroom page and click on "assignments."

COURSE CONTENT:

1). The physical materials that color our world.
2). Social and political meanings in color.
3). What are the connections of color and history?
4). How did color travel so far?
5). Colors we choose determine the history of culture.
6). Color creating, spatial awareness, composition, perspective & atmosphere.
7). Choosing your own palette of colors.
8). Working with limited range of color.
9.) Color charts.
10.) Color mixing, range, adequacy, tones, hues.

INFORMATION: If you have any questions regarding this program, you may contact your instructor at kschneider4@neo.rr.com.

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