Painting

Painting is an expressive medium that dates back to the beginning of art history. It remains alluring as an outlet of personal expression and meaning making. Painting translates the world visually through color, composition and brushwork. Painting classes are limited to 18 students.

The studio provides easels, taborets, and an overhead lighting system, to enable students to learn through observation and practice. Our still life collection is bursting with interesting objects to draw such as skulls, plaster casts, households items and wooden boxes. The studio is open Fridays each term for extra work on in-class assignments. The painting studio is in Building 3, room 121.

For examples of student paintings, see Recent Student Art in the Student Gallery area.

ART281 Painting

Get a solid foundation in painting techniques using acrylics, a safe and versatile medium. Explore visual principles through slide lectures, demonstration and studio practice. Learn how to represent light, volume and color through observation, color mixing, and application. Participate in group and individual critiques to explore painting development and improvement.

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ART281B Intermediate Painting

Build upon painting foundations through further color exploration, application methods and varied subject matter. Explore influences and compositional choices in more depth. Begin to work with reference materials. Participate in group and individual critiques to explore painting development and improvement.

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ART281C Advanced Painting

Add to the painting skills through independent, theme based projects. Participate in group and individual critiques to explore painting development and improvement.

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ART282 Landscape Painting

Use oils or acrylics to explore the landscape on site, with some reworking in the studio. Historical and contemporary approaches to landscape painting are covered in slide lectures and readings. Good outdoor set-up stategies and low impact painting practices are stressed.

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ART284 Watercolor

Learn to paint with transparent watercolor pigments on paper. Through a variety of lectures and exercises gain confidence in the use of basic techniques, materials, and the expressive potential of the medium. Find out some of the unique charactoristics of watercolor tools.

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ART285 Intermediate Watercolor

Build upon foundation skills by participating in discussions and exercises with the concurrent Beginning class. Then, move onto advanced assignments.

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ART286 Advanced Watercolor

Build upon foundation skills by participating in discussions and exercises with the concurrent Beginning and Intermediate classes. Then, move onto advanced assignments.

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