In this course, you'll delve into the creative process with focus on the self-portrait. Then you'll create your own self-portraits. Three lessons focus on drawing. You'll learn to use and combine the simple elements of line, shape, tone, and change of direction to foster self-expression. In the process, you'll discover how simple and natural drawing actually is.
Students often express surprise at how easy it is to learn something they always thought difficult.
Classes are held in the studios of the Department of Fine Arts, with ample space, light, and comfort for creating works of art. In this course, you will actively explore fundamental questions about the nature of beauty through viewing art, reflecting on your own experience in discussions and writing, and creating art in studio sessions. You will also examine what great creative geniuses have said about art, focusing on how art mirrors the qualities, structures, and highest aspirations of human consciousness, your own Self. This course, which includes a fine arts field trip, cultures your ability to appreciate art, nature, and life itself. At its best, the theater arts have sought to reveal the mystery of being, to link human life with the divine.