2010-2011 HBU Catalog - Houston Baptist University

ART 2232 Drawing I Basic
This course introduces students to basic exercises using various drawing media and subject matter with emphasis on the
human figure. Anatomical rendering, contour and value drawing are studies that will be utilized in the student‘s
ultimate development toward a personal approach to drawing.
ART 2233 Painting I Basic
This introduction to studio experiences course is based on problems designed to acquaint the student with the
possibilities of various painting media and approaches to painting. Students are encouraged to explore and develop a
personal direction for their work.
ART 2234 Printmaking I Basic
This course begins a series of introductory experiences to printmaking procedures in relief, intaglio, lithography,
serigraphy, and experimental forms. The course will introduce the student to a broad understanding of the possibilities
of the printmaking media. Individual solutions are encouraged after basic technical procedure has been learned.
ART 2235 Sculpture I Basics
In this course emphasis is placed on beginning a basic understanding of three-dimensional design problems and an
initial exploration of various media in a variety of approaches including additive, subtractive, manipulative, and casting
techniques.
ART 2236 Water Media – Painting I
During this course students will be introduced to the use and development of water media techniques, both transparent
and opaque. These courses will serve as preparatory for upper level painting classes both advanced and experimental.
ART 2237 Introduction to Applied Arts
Prerequisite: ART 1313, 1323, preferred by not required.
Applied Arts procedures in fiber arts, paper-making / book arts, mosaic, metal-working, and experimental forms will be
researched to give the student a broad understanding of the possibilities of applied arts in terms of functional media.
ART 2238 Life Drawing I Basic
Prerequisites: ART 1303, 1313
This figure drawing class is a basic introduction to the following techniques, skills and knowledge: Gesture drawing,
contour, cross contour, flash pose, memory drawing, descriptive poses, moving action, modeled drawing, descriptive
poses, quick contour, extended contour, the long composition, studies of body parts water color studies, oil studies.
ART 2238, 2248, 3238, 3248, 4238, 4248 Life Drawing
Since the human figure is one of the most enduring themes of the visual arts, and it can be applied to almost any
content of creativity, a knowledge of and a development of the ability to draw and render the human figure should be a
basic undertaking for a student of studio art. A student should take instructions from a master artist focusing on the use
of models in a complete variety of ways to draw the human figure. Also, drawing and creating images of the figure
from the imagination with expressive overtones is an effective means of life drawing. A complete course for imagery
of the human forms should include many variations of perceptual and conceptual means of creativity. Therefore,
working from the model and from memory is a considerable approach to the subject of the human figure. It can be an
unending source of art forms and subjects for artists throughout an extended career in art. The figure drawing class can
include and should include most or all of the following: gesture drawing, conture, cross conture, flash pose, memory
drawing, descriptive poses, moving action, modeled drawing, descriptive poses, quick contour, extended contour, the
long composition, studies of body parts, water color studies, and oil studies.
ART 2241 Ceramics I Intermediate
In this second level introductory course, students continue their work with hand-built and wheel-thrown techniques of
forming pottery. Experimentation with glaze formulation, glazing, firing and the search for a form language that
expresses the individual are emphasized.
ART 2242 Drawing I Intermediate
This course continues to introduce students to basic exercises using various drawing media and subject matter with
emphasis on the human figure. Anatomical rendering, contour and value drawing are studies that will be utilized in the
student‘s ultimate development toward a personal approach to drawing.
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