course

Course Credit:  3.0

An exploration of the range in direct painting with various emphases including portraiture. Students will work through paintings of various duration, all confined to a single day: Paintings ranging anywhere from around 20 minutes all the way up to a few hours will be executed in our search for what salient, telling information delivers the core of what any one artist is aiming to realize. This is as much about what to paint as it is about what to eliminate and the time constraints involved will be used to enforce the necessary, rapid decision making process. Students will work from life, under a variety of lighting, from development of their own concepts, and from live figure models. Historical examples of direct painting will be examined as appropriate.