Semester-Long Elective

The nature of this course is to establish a solid foundation of understanding design, drawing, and painting skills by focusing on the disciplines of observation, research, and kinetic exercises. This class will primarily be concerned with the development of each student’s artistic perception and creative expression by exploring the techniques of drawing shapes, textures, line quality, shading, single and two-point perspective, and colors of animate and inanimate objects. They will look at objective and non-objective artists and their works for inspiration in their unique expressions. The focus will shift to watercolor and acrylic painting techniques fusing both drawing and painting together. The subject matter will vary according to the community or world events as well as seasonal themes through constant connection and application of the given art form. The final project is a series of images related to a single theme or concept in mediums of their choice.