ART 255 Beginning Painting for Art Majors

5 credits

Covers theory as well as practice and encourages originality and creativity. Furthers student understanding of the methods, materials, and ideas that are central to the practice of painting still lifes, figures, and landscapes.

This course meets the Humanities general education distribution requirement.

Prerequisites: ART 121

Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Duplicate a master-painter’s landscape
Compose a landscape with atmospheric perspective
Transfer drawn images onto canvas with emphasis on preliminary drawing
Blend unique hues through the mixture of primary, secondary, and neutral colors/tones.
Construct tonal under-painting with glazed/scumbled hues to create a still life painting
Layout compositions with an emphasis on drawing and design fundamentals
Explore painted composition through rapid sketches
Expand drawing skills through paint media
Assess a variety of painting styles and schools
Finish a proposed final project in a chosen artistic style

General Education Distribution Area Outcomes
Students who successfully complete courses in the Humanities distribution area will be able to:

Discuss and explain methods of creative expression, social interaction, and aesthetic considerations employed by individuals and societies
Employ methods of intellectual and creative inquiry central to the selected Humanities course of study, using the vocabulary, concepts, historical perspectives and materials common to the chosen area
Dependent on the Humanities area selected, interpret specific artifacts from art, film, history, language, literature, philosophy, religious thought, or narrative form and develop one’s own viewpoint or artifact using the techniques common to that area

Total Hours: 60 Theory (Lecture) Hours: 40 Guided Practice (Lab or Clinical) Hours: 20