The cleanest and easiest medium to put creative ideas to paper. Learn techniques of layering, blending, and glazing in a direct format to create beautiful images that often belie the medium. Students can achieve impressionist, traditional, or expressive effects as they find their own voice through exploration of color and design.

Learn how to create your own comics or graphic novels. Start by creating a main character and learn how to tell a story through pictures. Explore how to use close-ups, dramatic angles, and storyline to move the reader along. Learn drawing, shading, and inking skills to create a finished comic book.

Learn how to create your own comics or graphic novels. Start by creating a protagonist with special attributes and learn how to tell a story through pictures. Explore how to use close-ups, dramatic angles, and a story line to move the reader along. Practice drawing, shading, and inking skills to create a finished comic book.

Working from a live model and using a medium of choice - watercolor, acrylic, or oil the class will spend 2 to 3 weeks per pose.

Learn to define light and shade using paint. Explore traditional approaches of monochromatic studies as well as contemporary approaches to formulate your own artistic interest in studies and finished grisaille paintings. Exercises include drawing and painting from plaster casts or still-life objects under dramatic lighting.

Learn the basics of 1 and 2 point perspective accurately. Explore drawing perspective of interior spaces and outdoor environments with buildings. Architectural elements and light sources are introduced with pencil, ink, and/or charcoal. Discover techniques of atmospheric perspective that enhance distance.