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  • 3.00 Credits

    Class hours: 2.0 Lecture/4.0 Laboratory Prerequisite: ART 110 or equivalent with a grade of Pass or "C" or higher. This course teaches how to draw the live model. Students learn the language and the elements of drawing, anatomy, and the perspective of the human form in space. Demonstrations are given on a variety of approaches to drawing the figure. Students develop technique with an appreciation for the inherent beauty of the material they are working with charcoal, conte, colored pastel and watercolor. Transfer Credit: CSU; UC
  • 3.00 Credits

    Class hours: 2.0 Lecture/4.0 Laboratory This course looks at visual storytelling techniques through graphic novels, storyboards, and comic books. Students will learn to effectively communicate a story through pen and ink techniques, draw a pre-visualization for a live-action production, or draw a pre-existing short story. This course may be taken for a maximum of 2 times. Transfer Credit: CSU
  • 1.00 Credits

    Class hours: 3.0 Laboratory Prerequisite: Corequisite: Concurrent enrollment in or prior completion of ART 116 or ART 117 with a grade of Pass or "C" or higher. This is a lab course intended to complement other courses in the Printmaking curriculum. It is designed to give practical experience in working with the techniques of relief printing, intaglio (etching, aquatint, drypoint, softground, viscosity, and photoetching), screenprinting and photoscreenprinting, collagraphy, embossing, and monotype. The course will increase the skill and creative output of the student in areas of his/her choice. This course may be taken for a maximum of 4 times. Transfer Credit: CSU; UC
  • 3.00 Credits

    Class hours: 2.0 Lecture/4.0 Laboratory This is an introductory course in the theory and practice of printmaking that will expose the student to the historical development and contemporary practice of printmaking as an original art form. The student will explore the processes of relief printmaking (linocut and woodcut) intaglio printmaking (etching, drypoint, and softground), and screenprinting and their contemporary interaction with photographics and digital imagemaking through application and appreciation. Recommended for drawing and painting majors, graphic design majors, and photography majors. Transfer Credit: CSU; UC
  • 3.00 Credits

    Class hours: 2.0 Lecture/4.0 Laboratory Prerequisite: ART 116 or equivalent with a grade of Pass or "C" or higher. This is a course designed to further the student's investigation into the aesthetics and techniques of screenprinting, intaglio (aquatint etching softground, whiteground, sugarlift,) multiple color relief printmaking, and collagraphy. Related photographic and digital image-making techniques will be studied and applied further, such as photo-screenprinting, photo-etching, halftoning, posterization technique, and use of the enlarger, digital camera, flatbed scanner, and slide scanner. This course may be taken for a maximum of 2 times. Transfer Credit: CSU; UC
  • 3.00 Credits

    Class hours: 2.0 Lecture/4.0 Laboratory ART 120 is an intensive studio course that introduces the practical and the conceptual aspects of two-dimensional design. Working in both color and black and white, students will use the materials, tools, and techniques of design to create a portfolio. They will study the aestetic functions and formal concerns of line, shape, value, texture, and surface and develop the understanding and vocabulary of the two-dimensional design. Transfer Credit: CSU; UC* *UC credit limits may apply. Any or all of the following architecture courses - ARCH 110, 112, 122, 212 ? C combined with ART 120 and ART 121: maximum credit, 18 units.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Class hours: 2.0 Lecture/4.0 Laboratory Prerequisite: ART 120 or equivalent with a grade of Pass or "C" or higher. This course will serve as an introduction to organization and problem solving in three-dimensions with an emphasis on formal concerns. It will also serve as an introduction to the materials, techniques and tools used in the making of three-dimensional forms. This course will emphasize the use and comprehension of the vocabulary of three-dimensional design and its application to the visual image. Transfer Credit: CSU; UC* *UC credit limits may apply. Any or all of the following architecture courses - ARCH 110, 112, 122, 212 ? C combined with ART 120 and ART 121: maximum credit, 18 units.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Class hours: 2.0 Lecture/4.0 Laboratory This course is an introduction to the material and creative processes of painting. Students learn how to think about pictorial space, how to structure composition, the characteristics and handling of paint, and the application of color theory. Painting is primarily from still-life, with the students' personal interpretation and use of imagination encouraged. Transfer Credit: CSU; UC
  • 3.00 Credits

    Class hours: 2.0 Lecture/4.0 Laboratory Prerequisite: ART 130A or equivalent with a grade of Pass of "C" or higher. This course is a continuation of ART 130A. The student works more deliberately with the expressive properties of color, value, and the organization of pictorial space. A variety of still life painting problems provide the student opportunity to discover his or her strengths and artistic persuasion. Lecture and critiques open the student to a deeper sensibility as well as an increased theoretical understanding of painting. Transfer Credit: CSU; UC
  • 3.00 Credits

    Class hours: 1.0 Lecture/5.0 Laboratory This introductory course pursues the study of the various techniques and methods of watercolor as used by artists today: transparent, opaque, dry brush, glazing, mixed media, egg tempera, air brush, and colored pencils. Emphasis is placed on traditional, modern, and oriental approaches as relative to other art studies, such as drawing, design, calligraphy, oil painting, and history. The student will be directed towards developing skills in the painting of still life, landscape, figure, portrait, and abstraction. Transfer Credit: CSU; UC
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