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 painting
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

College-Wide Learning Outcomes
This course teaches to the college-wide learning outcome of Communication, the ability to engage effectively in verbal, non-verbal, written, and/or symbolic expression.

This course teaches to the college-wide learning outcome of Cultural Humility, the ability to practice lifelong learning and critical self-reflection in order to understand one’s own cultural identity and its impact on being open to and supporting the cultures of others.

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