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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.)

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

Portrait Painting

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