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Heads and Hands

Attention Illustration, Visual Development, Animation, and Fine Art students: take this class. You’ll focus on the form and structure of the head and hands to create dynamic drawings that include expressions and emotions.

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 607.)

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 220.)

Fall Painting Studio

You will be given an opportunity to expand upon your chosen direction along with producing in class work and homework. You will be guided in terms of quality, concept, and your own personal vision.

Anatomy for Artists

Understand the skeletal and muscular systems of the human body. You’ll investigate the complexities of the human form to enhance your figurative drawing skills.

Chiaroscuro

Apply classical drawing principles to render a 3D form. You’ll dive deep into the five-value system of tonal rendering, composition, value pattern, variation of form, cast shadow edges, and light and shadow relationships.

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 328.)

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.

Figure Studio

Represent the human figure in pictorial space based on your observations and your study of the human form. You’ll gain skills in proportional accuracy, foreshortening, and form and cast shadows to achieve convincing three-dimensional form of the figure.