Drawing Working with line and tone, as well as color, students explore issues of structure, space and light. Students work from still lifes, the urban landscape, and nude models while experimenting with a variety of mediums including pencil, charcoal conte, pastels, and toned and colored papers. This elective track introduces students to graphic design and illustration as they explore medium and typography, as well as basic design principles. Students use skills developed in each of the two electives to produce a number of portfolio pieces showing an understanding of a variety of techniques and media. In this workshop students are introduced to the world of graphic arts.
Students learn basic design principles, composition, and the visual language of communication.
Projects may include posters, package design, and t-shirt design. Illustration Working in a variety of mediums, students complete a series of projects which reflect the work done by professional illustrators. Projects may include CD covers and book jackets and will explore black and white as well as color techniques. In this elective track, students experiment with issues of color, composition, medium, and technique in both painting and sculpture. Working in collage, gouache, acrylics, and mixed media sculpture, they create images from observation and imagination.