Advanced Painting
In the final stage in the curriculum, students learn to paint with a full-color palette, and take advantage of the enormous versatility oil painting has to offer. A variety of paints/pigments and their corresponding properties are introduced, and students learn how to harness paints based upon their opacity and tinting strength. For example, some paints are more opaque, have relatively low tinting strength, and are best suited as ‘bulk colors’ to be added into, while others are more transparent and can be used more effectively as ‘tints’ into the ‘bulk’ paints or in subsequent glaze layers. At this stage in the curriculum students also begin working with projects of larger scale and complexity.
When a student begins to approach the end of their studies, they begin working on their final ‘Graduation Project’, which is meant to be a culmination of their studies, putting all the tools they have learned and experience to use.
When students complete their studies, a graduation ceremony and show is held at the end of the spring term to honor all their hard work and accomplishments.
Below is a list of key subjects covered in this section of the curriculum, supplemented with visual samples (click any thumbnail to enlarge):
-Painting Materials and Mediums II
-Composition II
-Photoshop II (Newly added to the curriculum, used to be a separate class)
-Advanced Painting Techniques: Sculpting with the paint-emulating the surface of the subject and building texture with impasto, Glazing over impasto.
-Advanced Portrait Painting
-Expanding your palette one color at a time and on a need basis according to the painting.
