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ART 222 - Watercolor Painting 2: Theory and Elements


Credits: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3
Description: This course is a continuation of ART 221  where emphasis is on critiquing published works of art for watercolor and water-based media techniques and processes. Students also investigate how artists utilize the elements in watercolor and water-based media to create a variety of effects.

Prerequisites: ART 221  
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
  1. Determine why watercolor and water-based media paintings evoke positive responses from the viewer.
  2. Determine how watercolor and water-based media works of art evolved through art history.
  3. Compare and contrast the characteristics and applications of opaque and transparent watercolor and water-based media.
  4. Differentiate the properties of watercolor and water-based media paints (i.e. opaque, transparent, staining, non-staining) that are unique to this art form.
  5. Summarize the characteristics and application of transparent water-based media.
  6. Evaluate how a watercolor and water-based media artist utilized washes to create a desired effect.
  7. Construct a painting that utilizes masking techniques to emulate a published work of art. S
  8. ummarize why watercolor and water-based media artists utilize glazing techniques.
  9. Critique published watercolor and water-based media artists’ use of the elements and techniques for watercolor and water-based media paintings.
  10. Design a series of watercolor and water-based media paintings utilizing a defined theory.



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