PAINTING
Painting is a year long visual art course where students will explore and experience a variety of painting techniques, media, and historical approaches to art. Painting is a problem-solving course dealing with form, color, line, and texture (figurative and abstract). Through the use of the world outside the classroom, models, drawings, photographs, and imagination, students interpret and express the painter ’s world in a variety of materials including acrylic and tempera paint, watercolor, ink, paper and canvas as well as a variety of experimental media.
This course will provide a foundation in visual arts concepts with an emphasis on:
- cultivation of creativity and the art-making process
- self discovery: developing the student’s individual and unique artistic voice
- the elements of art and principles of design
Course Topics:
-The Elements of Art & Principles of Design
- Color Theory
- Composition
- Painting Techniques & Media Experimentation
- Idea generation and cultivating originality
- Art History, Painting movements, and evaluating art
- Presentation of your Painting Portfolio