Water-Based Media Painting
Course Description & Objectives:
This foundational painting course will explore color and tonal relationship through a variety of applications and techniques of water-based painting media such as watercolors, tempera, and color inks. We will be also exploring different kinds of papers and other painting surfaces. Students will learn to use painting materials, tools, and processes as they develop skills for visual perception, dexterity, creative problem solving and conceptual development. Students will learn to identify and study art elements (color, line, value, texture, shape, form etc.). The first paintings will be based on direct observation and technical skill acquisition in preparation for personal content development. Students will explore the technical and formal aspects of painting, including value, color and temperature relationships, color mixing, brush and paint handling, and various application techniques. As the semester progresses, there will be growing emphasis on content and meaning through artistic expression, experimentation and the development of personal ideas, aesthetics, and direction in painting through idea-based prompts.
The class will be structured around group discussions, critiques, and PowerPoint presentations of diverse contemporary and historical works to investigate a range of concepts and ideas about painting, including “non-traditional” approaches that expand our notions of what painting can be. Fundamental techniques and painting elements will be learned through experimentation with many different papers and surfaces.
Students will be encouraged to implement a working vocabulary of art terminology and be actively involved during group art critiques.
Course Description & Objectives:
This foundational painting course will explore color and tonal relationship through a variety of applications and techniques of water-based painting media such as watercolors, tempera, and color inks. We will be also exploring different kinds of papers and other painting surfaces. Students will learn to use painting materials, tools, and processes as they develop skills for visual perception, dexterity, creative problem solving and conceptual development. Students will learn to identify and study art elements (color, line, value, texture, shape, form etc.). The first paintings will be based on direct observation and technical skill acquisition in preparation for personal content development. Students will explore the technical and formal aspects of painting, including value, color and temperature relationships, color mixing, brush and paint handling, and various application techniques. As the semester progresses, there will be growing emphasis on content and meaning through artistic expression, experimentation and the development of personal ideas, aesthetics, and direction in painting through idea-based prompts.
The class will be structured around group discussions, critiques, and PowerPoint presentations of diverse contemporary and historical works to investigate a range of concepts and ideas about painting, including “non-traditional” approaches that expand our notions of what painting can be. Fundamental techniques and painting elements will be learned through experimentation with many different papers and surfaces.
Students will be encouraged to implement a working vocabulary of art terminology and be actively involved during group art critiques.
- Teacher: Monika Malewska
JC_SEMESTER: 25 SP