Photography Printmaking and Book Arts Sculpture and 3-D Media Faculty Areas of Study Painting Courses Students in painting and drawing benefit from the variety of views of a faculty of practicing and exhibiting artists. They enjoy critique and review sessions by the resident faculty, as well as by visiting artists and critics. The unique, generous facilities provide opportunity for exploration of all media in studio art. Painting I 4 Credits. Every semester An introduction to oil painting.
Projects focus on a variety of attitudes toward making paintings.
Some of the assignments use the model of direct observation, while others involve transformation and abstraction from a given motif. Color is examined in relationship to observed hue, value, and intensity. Painting II 4 Credits. Spring Focuses on further developing students' ability to paint from direct observation. Emphasis is placed on the effect of light and color on objects in a shallow space, translating what is observed onto a 2-D surface.