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Composition and Painting

Increase the quality, scope, and breadth of your imaginative compositions. Make better paintings through a better understanding of the creative process and a deep dive into composition, value, pattern, tone, staging, mood, and color theories.

Still Life Painting

Develop your paint handling skills in value and color as you explore different organizational and compositional approaches to painting still life arrangements.

Abstract Painting

You’ll explore modern art from its inception to today, discovering how form and color are distorted to elicit an emotional response, then applying this to your own painting interpretations. (This course is cross-listed with FA 423.)

Printmaking

Know your print mediums. You’ll learn traditional printmaking processes like etching, silkscreen, monotype, book arts, lithography, and relief printing to produce a portfolio and a book of prints.

Drawing

Demonstrate your understanding of perspective, proportion, gesture, and foreshortening. You’ll learn to depict objects, architecture, and figures using line, tone, and begin modeling.

Process and Thesis Development

Begin a successful thesis project. In addition, regular instructor critiques, you will discuss approaches to you Final Portfolio and/or Thesis Project with graduate student peers. The goal is project cohesiveness, work quality, concept strength, and process through critique and feedback. Each Group Directed Study (GDS) course requires a minimum of… Read More

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.)

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.)

Still Life Painting 1

Learn the indication of form, color, light and shadow through still life painting. Create interesting compositions along with various concepts relating to all majors.

Urban Landscape

Cityscapes are dynamic, complicated places. Learning to paint cars and buses, buildings, and people as objects or shapes will help you develop the principles of dramatic light and shadow, atmospheric perspective, focal point, and perspective. (This course is cross-listed with FA 368.)