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Study Abroad

Travel to an inspirational location to practice your craft. You’ll create art that reflects your personal insights about the place. (This course is cross-listed with FA 903.)

Painting: Still Life

This fun and exciting course teaches basic painting principles including drawing, mixing and understanding color and value, and various techniques of painting. Students begin with two days of painting objects supplied by the instructor. Three days of drawing and painting animals from photographs supplied by the instructor or pet portraits… Read More

Techniques of the Masters 1

Learn the techniques of the masters. You’ll study painters who were influential in the modification of painting methods and receive hands-on instruction working in the painting processes of the masters.

Portrait Painting

Take a classical approach to formal portraiture. You’ll explore both ala prima and chiaroscuro approaches to portrait painting.

Paper Sculpture

Create a bas-relief paper sculpture using a variety of imagery. You’ll gain the skills and learn techniques to sketch, design, cut, bend, and mount paper to create the illusion of three-dimensional images. You’ll love this truly unique, super popular contemporary art course.

Spring Painting Studio

This course will focus upon the artist’s individual interest. This will enable each student to begin to develop a body of work and explore their individual approach to their chosen subjects.

Head Painting 1

To paint the human head with accuracy, you’ll analyze head structure and traditional techniques and explore the development of head forms through mass, value, shape, texture, and color.

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!