ART 242 - Portraiture 2

3 credit hours - Two hours of lecture and two hours of studio weekly; one term.
Build upon knowledge acquired in ART 142. Explore paint media and use various techniques and compositional devices while working from the model. Develop an understanding of the emotive and expressive qualities embodied in portrait painting. Lab fee $70.

Prerequisite(s): ART 142 or permission of department chair.

Location(s) Typically Offered: Arnold Main Campus (MC)

Term(s) Typically Offered: Fall and spring

Course Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Demonstrate fluency in contemporary and global historical portraiture techniques.
Demonstrate an advanced ability to achieve likeness in a drawing in a variety of situations from short timed poses to longer sessions.
Develop fluency in relating planes of the head and upper torso to geometric building blocks.
Explore advanced understanding of how value (light through dark) informs a fully modeled portrait drawing.
Demonstrate advanced understanding of how anatomy affects the human form.
Develop artwork with personal thematic content.
Communicate and assess visual concepts verbally at an advanced level during critique and in response to lectures.