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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, both in plein air and in studio. Location: Florence, Italy, and throughout Tuscany.

Quick Studies

Develop your intuitive skills for paint handling by producing painted quick studies. These on-the-fly studies in acrylics or oils will give you color, composition, paint handling, and quick indication-of-subject abilities, capturing the essence of the subject. (This course is cross-listed with FA 644.)

Mixed Media Drawing and Painting 1

Discover new possibilities. By varying surfaces and mixing media, you’ll discover how the descriptive and expressive qualities of line—alone or combined with tone and color—can give dimension, texture, and vitality to your work.

Senior Portfolio Workshop/Professional Practices

Become an artist-entrepreneur. You’ll increase your business acumen in resume and biography preparation, invoicing, commission work, grant applications, public relations, income tax, contracts, insurance, and portfolio assembly.

Painting

Know the painting process. Using various brushes, painting mediums, and surfaces, you’ll create simple compositions that explore monochromatic and limited pallet color schemes, demonstrate value and value relationships, and inform painting approaches like realism and impressionism.

Introduction to Painting: Figure

Paint the human figure using oils or acrylics. You’ll gain skills in value, color, form, shape, structure, and composition relating to the figure.

MFA Thesis Preparation/MA Portfolio Review

As an MFA student, you’ll refine your thesis concept and prepare works to include in your midpoint review. Once you finalize a thesis concept, you will write content and prepare work for individualized instruction and critique. As an MA student, you’ll prepare for your final portfolio presentation by completing three… Read More

Head Drawing

Learn basic drawing principles for fine artists and illustrators. You’ll draw the human head to learn composition, perspective, proportion, focal point, value pattern, and the use of light and shadow.

Quick Studies

Develop your intuitive skills for paint handling by producing painted quick studies. These on-the-fly studies in acrylics or oils will give you color, composition, paint handling, and quick indication-of-subject abilities, capturing the essence of the subject. (This course is cross-listed with FA 322.)

Wildlife Painting 1

Take a walk on the wild side. This course is open to Illustrators, Painters, and Animators. Visit zoos, ranches, farm, or wildlife sanctuaries to observe, sketch, photograph, and develop color studies on animals. Using the medium of your choice, you’ll create strong compositional paintings of animals and the real or… Read More