This course provides a structured program designed for beginning students. Projects focusing on composition and design, color mixing and essential painting techniques will be investigated. Acrylic paints are preferred. A supply list will be provided on the first class.

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Course Number: AA102-4

This course provides a structured program designed for beginning students. Projects focusing on composition and design, color mixing and essential painting techniques will be investigated. Acrylic paints are preferred. A supply list will be provided on the first class.

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Course Number: AA102-5

This is a hands-on class that explores painting through practical applications and experiences that relate line, form, texture, and color, while also investigating how these visual relationships relate to the artist’s intentions and the meaning of the work. A supply list will be provided upon registration.

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Course Number: AA102-1

This course will encourage students to work from various sources, including sketches, color studies and photographs in order to create landscape paintings. Watercolors, acrylics, oils and pastels may be used. A supply list will be provided upon registration.

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Course Number: AA102-8

This studio course will function as an experimental laboratory, and will examine the potential of painting. Since the Mid-Century, many artists who consider themselves painters have pushed the boundaries of the two-dimensional. Robert Rauschenberg said that there was “a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very proud of paint and have let it behave openly”. We will look at artists that bridge and blur the distinction of painting and sculpture, with an emphasis on those using unconventional materials for painting.  We will explore work by sculptors that “paint” with form/shapes, and painters that compose with unconventional materials and/or invent new ways using paint. Some of the artists we will look at are Louise Nevelson, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Lee Bontecou as well as more contemporary artists such as Jessica Stockholder, Polly Apfelbaum and Ari Peterson. The studio component of the class will center on students' individual work, development and experimentation.  Techniques will be demonstrated to build 3 dimensional substrates in wood using panels and lumber and introduce students to some basic woodworking techniques, integrating found objects onto and into a surface using physical fasteners, and various approaches to assemblage.   Painting does not refer to just oils and acrylics any longer! This class will be co-taught by painter Jenna North and sculptor Kim Valdez.

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Course Number: AA108-1

So you made a mistake, don’t throw it away! Painters make a lot of slip-ups, and the average laymen may be familiar with the phrase “happy mistake”- sure we make some happy ones, but we also make mistakes that are impossible to remedy. In this class we will find solutions for those past art projects that you just can’t bring yourself to throw away. Exploring possibilities for future works, we will literally deconstruct our fables of the reconstruction.

Participants in this mixed-media Painting course will explore alternatives to having our unresolved, damaged, or otherwise undesirable painting projects from ending up in the landfill. As a class we will learn techniques to successfully pull out areas of interest and re-materialize and incorporate them into current works in progress and/or new projects. Essentially this class aims to offer painters an outlet for their growing art in storage, however these experiments could branch into methods and processes to be used regularly as well as intentionally in future practice. The collage process opens doors to endless possibilities in mixed media, and these will also be explored, exercising several methods of integrating collage components. An individual approach to abstraction, representation and/or conceptual projects are encouraged. We’ll have group discussions about the painting process, presentations of successful painters using these types of techniques, as well as regular constructive critiques on work produced in class.

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Course Number: AA108-2

Prerequisite: Some background in Printmaking and Painting and a desire to experiment.

Exploring and utilizing ancient techniques of both Turkish marbling and Japanese suminagashi, artist Jenna Rose North will lead the class into an experimental and ultimately individual approach to painting on water. Demonstrations and lectures will be balanced with appropriate studio time to fully explore the possibilities of capturing fluid mediums on paper and other substrates.

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Course Number: AA108-3