Through slides and other visual resources, reading, and discussion of assignments, students will learn drawing as an immediate means of expression. Image manipulation, basic animation and basic web design are the primary subject areas. While technical skills are important in the class, drawing and design strategies hold most of the focus. Introduction to basic etching techniques. A strong background in drawing is important.
Printmaking is a matrix-based art.
Subtle interventions between the hand and the machine provide the tension in which to work. Woodcut, while a much older printing method, is introduced in this course as the innovations of Gauguin and Munch in 1893-95, coupled with a blurring of European and Asian approaches, gave rise to the modern conception of this medium. I is not a prerequisite, students coming from that course will have the flexibility to include intaglio techniques in their work. An introduction to water-based painting media, techniques and materials with an emphasis upon perception and color. Assignments are designed to assist the student in understanding the creative process and interpreting the environment through a variety of subject matter expressed in painted images.