Painting Architecture: Int
Alex Kaiser

Intermediate - Spring 2010

39 Reading Room
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.

 

Image: Course
Student: Patrick Usborne
    • Session 1: Monday 18th Jan:

    • -Foundation drawing techniques

    • -Introduction to the creation of digital paintings

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    • Session 2: Monday 25th Jan:

    • -Perspective, thumbnailing, and composition

    • -Shadows, atmospheres, chiaroscuro

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    • Session 3: Monday 1st Feb:

    • -Speed painting, digital brushwork, glazing pixels

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

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    • Session 4: Monday 8th Feb:

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

    • -Advanced texturing; painting straight onto 3d objects

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    • Session 5: Monday 15th Feb:

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

    • -Bump, specular and diffuse mapping; realistic texturing

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    • Session 6: Monday 22nd Feb:

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

    • -Fusing painting with rendering

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    • Session 7: Monday 1st Mar:

    • -Introduction to matte painting and compositing techniques

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

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    • Session 8: Monday 8th Mar:

    • -Final review with invited critics

    • -Course submission

     

  • Enrolled Students

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    • Enrique Agudo Rubio

    Merve Anil

    Oleg Bilenchuk

    Daniel Schandl Christiansen

    Eleanor Jane Dodman

    Saki Ichikawa

    Ioana Maria Iliesiu

    Ilina Kroushovski

    Nathalie Matathias

    Charlotte Nissen Moe

    Kevin Primat

    Roland Shaw

    Elizaveta Tatarintseva

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