This course is for students who would like to review their drawing compositional skills and approach to painting. The first few weeks will be spent reviewing drawing skills, developing ideas for painting and discussing painting materials, demonstrations of color mixing and how to transfer their subject to the canvas. Midway through the course, students will begin creating paintings based on their drawings and exploring painting as a medium. Students may choose for them selves from a range of paint including oil, ink, guache, or acrylic paint as their medium.
What you will learn:
1. The importance of scale and composition in painting
2. Drawing with paint
3. Transcribing color values from black and white drawings to color
4. Painting techniques and paint mixing
5. How to tell when a painting has reached its conclusion
Please note: This is an 8-session class. Class will not meet on Monday, January 20 in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and on Monday, February 17 in observance of President's Day.