Through technical and practical exercises they becomefamiliar with color charts and color wheel blending grids, monotone exercises and analysis of chroma execution. Exercises include value scales, mixing, neutralizing, and color rendering with watercolor, acrylics, gouache, color pencil and marker. The correlation of color in daily life and its application within an interior environment, packaging, and expressing a feeling or mood is also studied. This is a foundation course where problems are presented for the student in line, tone, space, form, color and texture. Organization of design is explored by learning the principles of balance, rhythm, proportion, variety and harmony.
Emphasis is placed on developing and understanding composition.
Projects include posters, brochures, CD covers and logos. Each class period is devoted to discussion and demonstrations or viewing different examples of media and graphic techniques. Students personally experiment with each medium in class. The course is an overview of the last two centuries in the art world. A sense of history is gained through class lectures, the viewing of slides, and regular field trips to the Museum of Fine Arts.