Found materials are used to explore problems in composition, concept, and the aesthetics of form, texture, and color. Study of the figure as a subject in painting through exercises in gesture, spatial location, and foreshortening. Life models are used, and each student also completes a full figure self-portrait. Fine Arts Courses Watercolor. Transparent and opaque watercolor techniques, including wash and dry brush, ink and watercolor, and intermixing with turpentine, charcoal, and pastel.
Emphasis is on the development of skills and expressive use of the medium.
On-site painting from nature. Students complete several sketches in any liquid medium from each field trip and keep a journal. Group critiques and the study of master landscape painters are included. Still Life Painting. The use of still life as painting imagery is expanded through problems and pictorial content.