ART 281 - Painting I

3 Credit(s)

Course Description: Encourages students to develop critical as well as creative thinking through the exploration of materials, processes, concepts, and imagery. Through exposure to a wide range of ideas, students are enabled to develop an individual sense of direction. This course introduces opaque painting techniques using acrylic paints.

Course Learning Outcomes:

CLO#1: Utilize fundamental knowledge of color mixing and various color schemes/relationships with acrylic paint with a variety of application techniques. (ILO: Communication)
CLO#2: Imagine creative solutions to subject matter, non-objective concepts, design, and expression within specific project.
CLO#3: Successfully explore individual solutions to problem-solving opportunities.

Typical Required and Recommended Equipment and Materials: Acrylic paint in a variety of primary, secondary, and neutral colors; stiff bristle brushes, soft bristle brushes, palette knives; palette. Painting surfaces: Substrates including, but not limited to canvas board, stretched canvas, and a paper variety.

ACTI Code and Course Type
100 Lower Division Collegiate

Length of Course:
A required state minimum of (60) and a standard RCC delivery of (66) lecture/lab hours per term, not to exceed (72) hours per term.