ART 221 - Watercolor Painting 1: Theory and Elements

Credits: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3
Description: This course examines the fundamental theories, techniques and processes utilized in watercolor and water-based media. In addition, students study the elements watercolor artists incorporated into their published works of art.

Prerequisites: ART 120 or Consent of department
Corequisites: None.
Recommended: None.

Course Category: Liberal Arts | Humanities
This course counts toward Schoolcraft’s General Education Requirements.
This course counts toward a Michigan Transfer Agreement General Education Requirement.

This Course is Typically Offered: Winter, Spring, Fall
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Course Competencies

Explain how watercolor and water-based media works of art evoke a response from the viewer.
Determine how watercolor and water-based media paintings can function within society.
Compare watercolor and water-based media paintings to other art forms.
Explain how a watercolor and water-based media artist utilizes layers of color and value to create form and atmospheric perspective.
Investigate which watercolor and water-based media artists utilize experimental methods and materials.
Explain how an artist would construct a watercolor and water-based media painting from direct observation that records the effect of light on natural surfaces.
Research different theories of watercolor and water-based media painting within established Art History sources.
Construct a watercolor and water-based media painting employing the white of the paper as the lightest value and moving progressively to the darker values.
Explain why published watercolor and water-based media artists use washes, masking and glazing techniques.
Compare and contrast how water media behaves on different types of surfaces.