BA Painting

At the first level of painting, students learn how to handle the medium through such techniques as flat paint application, blending, impasto, glazing, scumbling, and wet into wet. Students work further with compositional skills acquired in Drawing I and Two Dimensional Design to create images with interest and tension, as well as pleasing relationships of color, scale, texture, value and line. Students learn how to mix color, which means having a grasp of color theory and relationships. Students come to understand how color relates to space. Basic skills involved in rendering are covered: how to minutely observe surface detail and color and light to paint what you see.