I and challenges the student with concept directed projects. The color class is a one semester exploration of color action and interaction, its history and its contemporary paradigms and applications. Studio work includes both laboratory studies and improvisatory exercises and uses colored papers, gouache, light and related materials. I is an introduction to oil painting. The course will provide an integrated approach to formal issues, content and technical means.
Students work from direct observation with still life, landscape and the figure.
Students will leave the class with a basic knowledge of materials and with a repertoire of techniques and methods. This course is appropriate for beginners and individuals with some painting background. Painting I or permission of the department. This course focuses on the further development of techniques in painting and the refinement of individual style. Students will work from still life, landscape and the nude model as well as personal resources.