ART 204 Beginning Watercolor (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities with Performance; General Transfer Elective
Course Description
A studio course that will explore the elements of watercolor techniques. Students will express themselves using methods applicable to transparent and opaque watercolor approaches and gain a historical overview of watercolor.
Course Content
A. Integration of basic sketching skills and principles.
B. Translating three-dimensional form onto a two-dimensional picture plane built using watercolor media.
C. The visual elements of line, shape, value, texture, and space as they correspond to the principles of organization.
D. Exposure to the water media applications and introduction to materials
E. Understanding of materials and practical experience with their application – paint/papers/other tools.
F. Historical and theoretical background of watercolor medium.
G. Awareness of research sources and opportunities for further study.
Student Outcomes
- Explore and develop sketching and painting techniques
- Design and complete creative individual painting projects.
- Apply fundamental design concepts to the organization of compositional space.
- Research and incorporate historical and contemporary approaches to water-based painting.
- Analyze, interpret, and evaluate one’s own work and the work of others.
- Employ safe and ecologically sound painting and disposal practices.
- Reflect on how the medium of watercolor is/has been used in various contexts (e.g. cultural, socio-economic etc.)
Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire critical skills to interpret, analyze, and evaluate forms of human expression, which can include creation and performance as an expression of human experience.
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.
Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.
Lecture Contact Hours 35
Lab Contact Hours 30
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 65
Potential Methods
Projects
Studio projects
Peer and instructor critiques
Exhibition of work
Museum and gallery visits
Portfolio presentations
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