Painting Architecture: Int
Alex Kaiser

Intermediate - Autumn 2009

39.101 [39 Bedford Square]
Mondays 2-5pm

 

"In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing"

– Vincent van Gogh

 

Whatever happened to painting? No, not painting as in writing computer scripts to manipulate pixels in an automatic, generative fashion, or connecting mathematical software applications to CAD packages, but real painting, as in the creation of well-balanced, well-proportioned lines and curves and fields that represent actual or dreamt-up scenarios, compositions that are printed out as plates that you can keep in a portfolio and take out whenever you feel like tracing one of those lines or curves with your finger?

 

The art of crafting an architectural painting seems to have vanished in a digital smudge of Rhino scripting and Maya blobs. Whilst recognizing the value of contemporary software packages, this course argues that the lust for line is not dead, that a basic understanding of traditional drawing methods can be fused with contemporary 3D packages to quickly and efficiently create new and innovative images.

 

During eight sessions – a 21-hour painting session – we seek to develop strong skills through the amalgamation of photographs, renders, drawings, and paintings into a cohesive whole. The students are given a greater understanding of how materials, light, form, shadows, perspective, and so on, work, in order to re-create these better on the pictorial plane.

 

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Alex Kaiser: Whispers of Intricacy
    • Session 1: Monday 5th Oct:

    • -Foundation drawing techniques

    • -Introduction to the creation of digital paintings

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    • Session 2: Monday 12th Oct:

    • -Perspective, thumbnailing, and composition

    • -Shadows, atmospheres, chiaroscuro

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    • Session 3: Monday 19th Oct:

    • -Speed painting, digital brushwork, glazing pixels

    • -Figure/ground relationships, line/form/value, layering

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    • Session 4: Monday 26th Oct:

    • -Introduction to three-dimensional real-time sculpting in Zbrush

    • -Advanced texturing; painting straight onto 3d objects

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    • Session 5: Monday 9th Nov:

    • -Accelerating the painting process (3D Studio Max)

    • -Bump, specular and diffuse mapping; realistic texturing

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    • Session 6: Monday 16th Nov:

    • -3d lighting: exposure controls, indirect illumination, HDRI lighting

    • -Fusing painting with rendering

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    • Session 7: Monday 23rd Nov:

    • -Introduction to matte painting and compositing techniques

    • -Individual session: making the beautiful stunning and the stunning beautiful

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    • Session 8: Monday 30th Nov:

    • -Final review with invited critics

    • -Course submission

  • Enrolled Students

  • Hessa Al-Bader

  • Julin Ang

  • Flavie Audio Colliac

  • Adelina Chan

  • Evangelos Gerogiannis

  • Selim Halulu

  • Summer Islam

  • Basmah Kaki

  • Shen Fei Lam

  • Song Jie Lim

  • Manon Mollard

  • Borja Muguiro

  • Antonis Papamichael

  • Kassymkhan Ulykbanov

  • Huida Xia

  • Ananth Ramaswamy

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  • *Please note, any students unable to be enrolled in a MS Autumn 2009 course will be prioritised for enrolment for the Spring 2010 term.

Recent Student Work

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Adelina Chan
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Ananth Ramaswamy
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Andrea Gillow Kloster
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Antonis Papamichael
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Ariadna Barthe
 
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Basmah Kaki
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Borja Muguiro
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Evangelos Gerogiannis
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Harri Williams Jones
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Hessa Al Bader
 

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