VMA 122Painting for General Education

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This introductory studio course examines the basic vocabulary, skills and principles of painting from observation. The course emphasizes drawing, composition, color, value, and paint quality. Through working with various tools and materials, discussion, critique, and research, students will explore how the combined elements of visual design can produce the illusion of volume, space, light and movement in order to depict observed and imagined subject matter, and be used to express ideas and emotion. This course meets the General Education requirement for Creative Work.