Description
A three-part course, students will first use water-based media in both traditional and nontraditional ways to create evocative paintings on paper with pigments (both art and non-art) suspended in water. Watercolor is one of the oldest pigment-based media and continues to be used widely by artists, illustrators, designers, and architects in finished paintings or as preparatory studies and, thus, will be one focus of the class. This course will introduce some of the effects of layering, transparency, translucency, and absorbency inherent in the watercolor medium. We will use landscape, portraiture, and other subject matter to represent water, light, flesh, atmosphere, and solid earth. In conferences, students will be able to explore a specific theme or content. Students will also learn sustainable painting practices through organically-created pigments. The second sequence of this course will use the human form while considering the ways the body has been represented and used in art of t