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Catalog 2017-2018 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ART 111 Beginning Painting for Non Art Majors

5 credits
Introduces students to traditional and contemporary concepts and techniques in oil/acrylic painting. Students learn to organize form, color, and tone while practicing various methods of application, color mixing, and surface preparation.

Quarters Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring

Student Outcomes/Competencies:
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
  • 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
  • Explore painted composition through rapid sketches
  • Assess a variety of painting styles and schools
  • Complete a proposed final project in a chosen artistic style


Total Hours: 60 Lecture Hours: 40 Lab or Clinical Hours: 20