Water Media

Catalog description

This course develops artistic expression in water-based painting media while developing skills with watercolor, ink, acrylic, and natural pigments. ART 260 Water Media introduces techniques and concepts relevant to the creation of artworks using water based painting media, materials and techniques, including watercolor, ink, acrylic, and natural pigments, as well as different grounds and surfaces. Basic techniques are introduced and skills are developed while experimentation and innovation are encouraged. Water based painting media such as watercolor, ink, acrylic, and natural pigments, are covered. Examples from historical and contemporary water media painting practice will be presented and discussed. Particular emphasis will be placed upon the development of individual expression and a critical awareness concerning processes, composition, and content. Students apply their emerging skills and expressive preferences in developing a concentrated body of work. A goal is that the work demonstrates technical competence and conceptual awareness through the pursuit and refinement of an evolving personal vision. Students are introduced to the process of `critique, which is central to the critical learning skills that are core experiences to the studio experience. This course gives students the requisite technical and conceptual skills to take more advanced painting and drawing courses such as ART 320 ADVANCED DRAWING and ART 350 INTERMEDIATE PAINTING among others. ART 260 will be offered once a year in the Spring semester.