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Abstract Painting

You’ll explore modern art from its inception to today, discovering how form and color are distorted to elicit an emotional response and applying this to your own painting interpretations. (This course is cross-listed with FA 608.)

Watercolor

A technical, historical, and practical survey of watercolors will inform your painting choices. You’ll gain skills specific to watercolors, including transparent application, value underpainting techniques, flat wash, dry brush, and wet-on-wet techniques. (This course is cross-listed with FA 665.)

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.

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.)

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.

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.

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.