ARTT 227 Watercolor Painting I
This course is for students with no watercolor experience. Fundamental techniques like washes, dry-brush, controlled strokes, and wet-into-wet applications will be covered. This course will introduce pigment properties, composition, and color design. There will be an emphasis on the representational conventions of form and space, covered with a variety of subject matter including still life, landscape, interiors, and figures.
Hours Weekly
4 hours weekly
Course Objectives
- 1. Run a controlled wash
- 2. Apply paint with a variety of basic stokes for a variety of effects
- 3. Demonstrate basic controlled wet-into-wet application
- 4. Draw the composition using basic design principles
- 5. Demonstrate the use of focal points, attractions, and eye movement for a balanced
composition - 6. Demonstrate the use of color mixing to achieve the hue, value, and intensity of the color
desired - 7. Demonstrate the use of the principles of color harmony
- 8. Represent light and shadow with effective shapes, values, and edges
- 9. Represent different degrees of space and depth with effective values and edges
- 10. Make beginning level compositional choices for expressive purposes
Course Objectives
- 1. Run a controlled wash
- 2. Apply paint with a variety of basic stokes for a variety of effects
- 3. Demonstrate basic controlled wet-into-wet application
- 4. Draw the composition using basic design principles
- 5. Demonstrate the use of focal points, attractions, and eye movement for a balanced
composition - 6. Demonstrate the use of color mixing to achieve the hue, value, and intensity of the color
desired - 7. Demonstrate the use of the principles of color harmony
- 8. Represent light and shadow with effective shapes, values, and edges
- 9. Represent different degrees of space and depth with effective values and edges
- 10. Make beginning level compositional choices for expressive purposes