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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.

Directed Study

Refine your skills. As a Master of Fine Arts degree candidate, you’ll complete course assignments to develop the conceptual, design, and technical skills needed to successfully complete your MFA Thesis Project and/or portfolio. You must have passed your midpoint review. Director approval required. Fees and prerequisites will vary by topic.

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.

Book Arts

How does the art of bookmaking relate to your work and direction? You’ll develop answers to that question through a critical examination of the concept of bookmaking and an exploration of diverse binding forms. (This course is cross-listed with FA 631.)

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.