Projects and Color Studies
A project that was a welcome back to painting while also a chance to study another contemporary artist in-depth.
What is "Painter Mentor"?
Painter featured on the Canvas landing page for our class.
Who is Dana Schutz?
In the acronym "HVS", "H" stands for this.
What is "hue"?
Dutch painter who created an enormous, influential body of work between the ages of 27 and 37.
Who is Vincent van Gogh?
The name of our current senior show.
What is SURGE!?
A color study that moves through main hue and saturation categories.
What is "progression" or "extension"?
A figure painter based in Fort Collins, CO, and former classmate of Prof. Chad.
Who is Haley Hasler?
In the acronym "HVS", "V" stands for this.
What is "value"?
Considered one of Mexico's greatest artists, badly injured in a bus accident early in life and known for magic realist self-portraits.
Who is Frida Kahlo?
The spring 2025 commencement speaker.
Who is Tommy Orange?
A painting that illuminates some things about a subject's life, interests, and personality.
What is "interpretive portrait"?
Artists who were profiled in video for our "Painting+" project. (Name either of the 2)
Who were Juane Quick-To-See-Smith and Trenton Doyle Hancock?
In the acronym "HVS", "S" stands for this.
What is "saturation"?
A German-Swiss painter and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style, and is considered one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century.
Who is Hans Holbein the Younger?
The name of our canine mascot.
Who is Goose?
The subjective sensation or image of a sense other than the one being stimulated.
What is "synesthesia"?
Artists who were profiled in video during our Interpretive Portrait project. (Name any of the 3)
Who were Kehinde Wiley, Amy Sherald, and Liu Xiao-Dong?
The mixing in of a "common denominator" color with all other colors in a composition, to achieve visual unity.
What is an "admixture"?
A German-born American sculptor known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. She is one of the artists who ushered in the postminimal art movement in the 1960s.
Who is Eva Hesse?
The name of our live model.
Who is Hannah?
A project that expands the process to include some manner of mixed media.
What is "Painting+"?
Painter who said "Painting is a combination of carpentry and catastrophe". Also, one of Prof. Chad's painter mentors.
Who is Terry Winters?
The hue bias of a color.
What is "overtone"?
The great 17th century master from Delft.
Who is Johannes Vermeer?
Famous Russian novelist and synesthete from the 20th century.
Who is Vladimir Nabokov?