This program consists of eight courses in the fine arts. Six courses are required, and students choose two electives in fine arts, digital imaging, or multimedia. Course descriptions are as follows:
- Intro to Visual Arts: What makes a painting work? What inspires a sculptor to create? In this 3-lesson course, you'll develop an understanding of the fine arts by exploring your own artistic creativity. You'll explore paintings, sculptures, and experimental pieces, learning to critique their composition and decode their social or political purpose. The focus is on understanding the elements that make up a visual message and building a vocabulary of fundamental terms and techniques.
- Intro to Drawing: Provides a thorough and engaging introduction to drawing. Students learn how to draw with proper techniques, learning how to represent what they see through studies in contour drawing, perspective, positive/negative space, and value. By the end of the course, students will capture a complex still life.
- Drawing I: Learn how to analyze what you see in the world around you and communicate it on paper. Through hands-on projects, and guided by a professional artist, you will explore the critical concepts of line, mass, form, perspective, value, and composition, building a solid foundation for all your art and design work.
- History of Art: Build a foundation in art history and gain a deep understanding of art and the artists who create it. Explore profound themes that have concerned artists for centuries: nature, the human body, society, religion, and politics. Through engaging lectures and projects, you’ll learn how to identify the mediums, materials, and techniques artists use and discuss the styles of important artists, art movements, and historical periods from antiquity through the mid-20th century.
- Digital Photography I:Explore the interaction of photography techniques and environmental factors to create powerful digital images. Students learn the fundamentals of lighting, perspective, and set-up and explore techniques for classic assignments: portraits, product shots, indoor and outdoor location shoots, and fast-action sports. Whether you're a fine artist, graphic designer, or Web developer, a mastery of digital photography gives you creative control of the medium.
- Figure Drawing: Learn how to make your figure drawings come to life. Following traditional methods, you’ll learn the standard measures and proportions artists use to achieve naturalistic and expressive figure drawings. Illustrations and activities will guide you through the structure of the human skeleton and help you understand how the body’s anatomy shapes its external form. The course builds progressively from the fundamentals to the challenges of portraiture, three-dimensional form, composition, and expression.
- Electives include: Painting I, Watercolor, Portrait Painting, Color Theory, Photoshop Basics, Digital Photography II, and more.
Fine Arts Certificate
GES 504 -- 420 hours
Course Outline
- Intro to Visual Arts: What makes a painting work? What inspires a sculptor to create? In this 3-lesson course, you'll develop an understanding of the fine arts by exploring your own artistic creativity. You'll explore paintings, sculptures, and experimental pieces, learning to critique their composition and decode their social or political purpose. The focus is on understanding the elements that make up a visual message and building a vocabulary of fundamental terms and techniques.
- Intro to Drawing: Provides a thorough and engaging introduction to drawing. Students learn how to draw with proper techniques, learning how to represent what they see through studies in contour drawing, perspective, positive/negative space, and value. By the end of the course, students will capture a complex still life.
- Drawing I: Learn how to analyze what you see in the world around you and communicate it on paper. Through hands-on projects, and guided by a professional artist, you will explore the critical concepts of line, mass, form, perspective, value, and composition, building a solid foundation for all your art and design work.
- History of Art: Build a foundation in art history and gain a deep understanding of art and the artists who create it. Explore profound themes that have concerned artists for centuries: nature, the human body, society, religion, and politics. Through engaging lectures and projects, you’ll learn how to identify the mediums, materials, and techniques artists use and discuss the styles of important artists, art movements, and historical periods from antiquity through the mid-20th century.
- Digital Photography I:Explore the interaction of photography techniques and environmental factors to create powerful digital images. Students learn the fundamentals of lighting, perspective, and set-up and explore techniques for classic assignments: portraits, product shots, indoor and outdoor location shoots, and fast-action sports. Whether you're a fine artist, graphic designer, or Web developer, a mastery of digital photography gives you creative control of the medium.
- Figure Drawing: Learn how to make your figure drawings come to life. Following traditional methods, you’ll learn the standard measures and proportions artists use to achieve naturalistic and expressive figure drawings. Illustrations and activities will guide you through the structure of the human skeleton and help you understand how the body’s anatomy shapes its external form. The course builds progressively from the fundamentals to the challenges of portraiture, three-dimensional form, composition, and expression.
- Electives include: Painting I, Watercolor, Portrait Painting, Color Theory, Photoshop Basics, Digital Photography II, and more.
This program consists of eight courses in the fine arts. Six courses are required, and students choose two electives in fine arts, digital imaging, or multimedia. Course descriptions are as follows:
