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Abstract Painting

You’ll explore modern art from its inception to today, discovering how form and color are distorted to elicit an emotional response and applying this to your own painting interpretations. (This course is cross-listed with FA 608.)

Writing the Short Story

Become a creative storyteller. You’ll apply the elements of the narrative genre to write a short story with dialogue, character development, plot, and setting.

Clothed Figure Drawing 2

Use value to draw the clothed figure. You’ll learn to see and use shapes in value to create patterns and develop a sense of staging, with a focus on structure, drapery, and the ways light reveals form.

Watercolor

A technical, historical, and practical survey of watercolors will inform your painting choices. You’ll gain skills specific to watercolors, including transparent application, value underpainting techniques, flat wash, dry brush, and wet-on-wet techniques. (This course is cross-listed with FA 665.)

Western Civilization

Explore Western civilization from ancient civilizations to the Renaissance, focusing on ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, and Islamic religion and societies.

Advanced Digital Painting

Preproduction art, print illustration, and web imagery work require digital painting skills. You’ll create digital paintings that include the illusion of three-dimensional form and depth in digital environments.

Advanced Photo Imagery

Strong compositing skills open unlimited artistic and commercial possibilities. Using Adobe Photoshop, you’ll learn concepts and techniques for capturing ideal source photos and combining them to make a unique final image.

Product Development: Concepts & Design

Successful product development is both a science and an art. Examine the supply chain, sourcing, and the product development process. Learn how fashion brands conduct trend research, create product concepts, and design collections to bring ideas to market.

Survey of Traditional Interior Architecture

Know your design history. Focusing on major movements and innovations, you’ll examine the societal, political, environmental, and economic influences that impacted architecture, design, furniture, and materials until the early 19th century.

Node-Based Compositing 2

Develop your ability to plan and solve problems in a production environment. You’ll apply the independent skills you’ve acquired in Nuke and other software to real-world projects. (This course is cross-listed with ANM 641.)