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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.

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.)

Landscape Painting

Refine your approach and response to natural and man-made environments. You’ll paint landscapes from locations and photographic references in studio. (This course is cross-listed with FA 605.)

Color Theory

Get an education in color. You’ll enhance your capacity to make informed color choices in your artwork by studying scientific research (theory) and through a series of hands-on projects (practice) designed to help you personalize color.

Clothed Figure Painting 1

Learn to understand the body under clothing. You’ll revisit proportion, gesture, light, shadow, value, and color relationships to structure, mass, and form. Plus, learn various properties of clothing, drapery, and the relation of the figure to its environment. Read More

Introduction to Anatomy

Humans have 206 bones and 650 muscles. You’ll learn the dynamics of anatomical form and how it relates to figurative art through drawing from models.