Painting Architecture: Int
Mechanical Landscapes
Alex Kaiser

Intermediate - Autumn 2011

33 Bedford Square-
First Floor Back
Wednesdays, 2-5pm

 

“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.”

– Pablo Picasso

 

Whatever happened to painting? No, not painting as in writing computer scripts to manipulate pixels in an automatic and generative fashion, not painting as in connecting mathematical software applications to CAD packages, but real painting: 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 recognising the value of contemporary software packages, this course argues that the lust for line is not dead, that a basic understanding of traditional drawing and painting methods can be fused with contemporary 3D packages to quickly and efficiently create new and innovative spatial constructs, ideas and sequences.

Our paintings will start out as references which we will re-paint, collage and deconstruct, but will then evolve into finished pieces though experimental brushwork, serendipitous thumbnailing, orthographic painting, 3D modelling, value sketching, and digital overlaying. Students are given a greater understanding of how materials, light, form, shadows, and perspectives work in order to re-create these better on the pictorial plane. Not only will we be designing through painting, we will be discovering the design through painting.

 

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    • Session 1: Wednesday 5th Oct:

    • -Experimental brush/line/collage techniques
      -Fast thumbnail ideation
      -Orthographic painting and composition

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    • Session 2: Wednesday 12th Oct:

    • -Composition: chiaroscuro, focal points, figure/ground relationships
      -Clarification of idea through painting

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    • Session 3: Wednesday 19th Oct:

    • -Translation of painting to 3D – 3D Studio Max crash course
      -Spatial searching and Composition hunting
      -Rendering base plates for painting

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    • Session 4: Wednesday 26th Oct:

    • -Perspective crash course/Designing through perspective
      -Pictorial/Sequential Composition
      -Creating a detailed line drawing

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    • Session 5: Wednesday 9th Nov:

    • -Painting lighting and values, building tone
      -Build-up of atmosphere

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    • Session 6: Wednesday 16th Nov:

    • -Working up main paintings, overall compositional dynamics
      -Texture/Material/Colour theories

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    • Session 7: Wednesday 23rd Nov: 

    • -Working into the details, refining paintings.
      -Painting Marathon
      -Final Submission

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    • Session 8: Wednesday 30th Nov:

    • -Final course submission

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    • Friday 2nd Dec:

    • -Department Submission

  • Enrolled Students

    Eleonore Catherine Marie Audi
    Asad Bazraa
    Yonatan Buchhandler
    Leslie Cacciapaglia
    Su Yi Choi
    Michelle Choi
    Eric Craig
    Noel Drangu
    Cao Fang
    Neha Dhiren Gandhi
    Elizabeth Hobart
    Naida Iljazovic
    Ada Keco
    Hao Wen Lim
    Erez Missri
    Amanda Morgan
    Reem Nasir
    Sudipto Sengupta
    Sarah Wan
    Andrea Sze Teng Wong
    Hung Kit Yuen
    Yiling Zhang
    Qin Zhao

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  • *Please note, any students unable to be enrolled in a MS Autumn 2011 course will be prioritised for enrolment for the Winter 2012 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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