ART 250 Beginning Landscape Drawing and Painting (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities, General Transfer Elective
Course Description
An entry level drawing and painting course that provides a framework for a variety of themes, materials, and techniques related to landscape art making traditions. This is an exploratory course that focuses on the observation and representation of three-dimensional form on a two-dimensional surface using traditional drawing and painting media. Classes can take place both indoors on campus and outdoors as the weather and students’ schedules can accommodate.
Course Content
Three-dimensional to two-dimensional translation
Visual elements (e.g. line, shape, value, texture, and space)
Objective analysis of form and content
Plein air painting (open air or on location) and urban sketching practices
Compositional processes
Survey of equipment for studio and plein air painting (e.g. easels, pochade boxes, other useful tools, aids and resources)
Logic of light and shadow (chiaroscuro)
Value systems that range from high-key to low-key
Color theory
Wet and dry media (e.g. pen and ink, charcoal, watercolor, gouache, acrylic, oil paints, etc.)
Historical, contemporary and culturally-located approaches to landscape rendering
Formal elements of art (e.g. line, shape, value, texture, form and space)
Spatial rendering (e.g. line weight, variation, proportion, comparative measurement, and perspective)
Human history of landscape subjects
Student Outcomes
- Translate three-dimensional landscape into a two-dimensional picture plane.
- Apply basic observational and representational techniques in order to demonstrate increasing visual awareness of natural and man-made features.
- Create images that demonstrate objective analysis and synthesis of formal elements of art.
- Demonstrate creative application of elements of spatial rendering.
- Use light logic and chiaroscuro to create the illusion of three-dimensional volume and form.
- Create a portfolio that exhibits technical, conceptual, and creative growth.
- Expand awareness and appreciation of historical, contemporary and culturally-located approaches to landscape centered drawings and paintings.
- Create images that reflect an understanding of the human history of the landscape subject.
Degree Outcomes
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.
Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods.
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.
Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire skills to critically interpret, analyze and evaluate forms of human expression, and create and perform as an expression of the human experience.
Lecture Contact Hours 35
Lab Contact Hours 30
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 65
Potential Methods
Individual projects
Class critiques
Group discussion
Sketchbook evaluation
Optional museum and gallery visits
Original paintings/ drawings
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