This is the entry level course for the visual arts program. This course introduces students to designing, drawing, and painting. Content covered includes, but is not limited to, structured experiences which develop visual perception and expression of proportional, textural, and spatial relationships in a variety of media. Examples of high quality work from master artists are studied.

This course is designed for studio production and critiquing of more complex ideas and/or images in two-dimensional media such as painting and drawing. The elements of color, value, line, space, shape/form and texture are organized to create arrangements by using the principles of emphasis, balance, rhythm, unity, repetition, contrast and proportion.

This course is designed to give students studio practice and art appreciation in two-dimensional media such as acrylics, watercolors, pencil, pen or brush and ink, crayon, chalk and mixed media. Basic compositional skills using line, space, form, texture and color are practiced through drawing, painting, printing and critiquing.

This course is designed for studio practice with an in-depth study in design and composition and application of this knowledge to more complex art assignments. Students are exposed to a variety of tools, techniques and processes and encouraged to advance their methods of expression in their art work.