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Figurative Painting

Fine tune your fine art figure painting skills. Learn the basics and expand your personal style by experimenting with composition, color theory, form, and structure.

Intermediate Figure Drawing

Obtain basic figure drawing skills studying the nude model. You’ll learn gesture, structure, form, proportion, and examine light and shadow as it applies to defining form and anatomy.

Still Life Painting

Join this three-week painting adventure and enjoy the thrill of painting from direct observation! Learn the basics with still life setups of multiple subjects, where you’ll refine your skills step-by-step, and create a finished masterpiece. Wrap it all up with an exhibition to showcase your work for everyone to admire!

Silkscreen 1

Learn to use the direct photo emulsion stencil method of printing with water-based inks. You’ll learn to use a variety of papers and inks to create works of fine art and contemporary communications.

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.

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.

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