“Illusionist Painting” is an atelier style course focused on contemporary representational practices, with an emphasis on creating the illusion of form from the live figure. Students will have extended class time to accomplish paintings from a diverse grouping of live figure models of varied race, gender, sexual identity/orientation, and disability/differently-abled backgrounds. The course will include an observational approach to painting the human figure and will develop skills in proportion, perspective, modeling form and illusion, based on an intermediate level. The intermediate class will emphasize the completed image “lay-in” stages of drawing, painting, and proportions, color concept, and narrative elements in painting. We will cover contemporary methods and materials, and traditional methods in panel painting, canvas and chassis, ground preparation, pigment preparation, varnishes and mediums, and mural painting among other methods and practices.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DIL 231, DIL 247