Observational/Representational Painting: The Figure and Its Spaces

Emphasizes observational skills and the conventions of representational art while exploring the human figure and its contextual spaces as subjects. Develops methods of oil and/or water-based painting and how to assess subject, form and content in a work of art. Begins with traditional academic methods for representing the figure working directly from live model before exploring a series of independent approaches to the figure. Includes historical and contemporary contexts for interpreting the human figure.