**Painting Major-I* (FINA-6209)**

FINA-6209 Painting-I (Major) 4(0-4)

Description

This course is designed for beginners and those who have minimal painting experience. Students will learn the basics of handling oil paints and brushes and explore a variety of techniques and subject matter (landscape, still life, and abstraction). The course will cover the fundamentals of composition, tone, and blending colors. One-on-one and group discussions will also touch upon concepts crucial to the creative process, including critical thinking, discipline, spontaneity, metaphor, and others. Technical demonstrations and short writing projects will complement our studio work. The goal of this course is to give students the basic tools and ideas necessary to begin their own personal painting practice.

Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to:

Demonstrate an ability to paint observationally, appropriately applying an understanding of basic painting and drawing skills, gesture, proportion, and artistic anatomy.
develop and understand good composition principles
develop and understand technical skills such as simple drawing needed to render well composed 2-dimensional designs

develop your creative and visual abilities in their practice

Demonstrate knowledge of the perspective, architecture, cityscape.

Course Contents:

Technical Skills.
1.1 Properly prepared surface.
1. Composition
2. Colour; optical; symbolic; properties of certain
  pigments and hue
3. Traditional and experimental approaches in
  painting the figure, landscape, non-objective
  and still life.
Still life composition and Light Study
1. How to Compose a Still Life
2. Still Life with two Objects
3. Still life with more than 5 Objects
4. Still life (white object ,surface, background
5. Effects of light on still life
6. Still life (white object ,surface, background) with fruits or vegetables
Drapery Study
1. Study of different Textures
2. Study of Drapery
3. Drapery on Figure
4. Still life with colorful Drapery
5. Study of Furniture and Vehicles