ART 111 - Painting 1

Credits: 5
Introduces students to traditional and contemporary concepts and techniques in oil painting. Working from still life and landscape, students learn to organize form, color, and tone while practicing various methods of application, color mixing, and surface preparation.

Satisfies Requirement: Humanities/Fine Arts/English
Course Fee: $50.00

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

Demonstrate compositional development of objects/shapes in the picture plane.
Create simple to involved landscape and still-life assignments.
Demonstrate light and shade theories as applicable to painting.
Demonstrate color evaluation and its relationship to creating depth and volume.
Demonstrate the ability to become more fluent in making their concepts and responses materialize.
Demonstrate the ability to respond to and evaluate an aesthetic experience using reasoned judgment.
Demonstrate the ability to abstract and examine relationships between parts.
Demonstrate the ability to be creative and value good craftsmanship.

Program Outcomes

Demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles of visual arts.
Demonstrate responsibility by class attendance and completion of assignments and projects.

College-wide Outcomes

Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.