ARTS 354 - Figure Painting 3 s.h.

This class explores painting from a model. Students will work through direct observation from life, and personal art photographs from people they know personally. Students will also examine representational styles, and abstraction. Painting studies are designed to explore: human proportion, form, anatomy, and applied color theory. This course exposes students to academic oil painting techniques, studio practice directly from the model, and homework assignments. Students will paint from long poses, and personalized arts photo research of the human figure on canvas paintings. Also, presented through this course are techniques in: drawing and painting observational measurement, traditional underpainting processes, accurate portrayal of human anatomy and figure structure, and simplification of masses via two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes and form. A-E Only. Offered fall semester.
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Prerequisite(s): ARTS 252.