ART 125

Tone, Color, and Composition (3 Cr.)

Prerequisite: ART 101

Description: This course continues to build upon students’ abilities to draw by exploring the nature and use of tone, color, and composition in drawing. It emphasizes methods of creating tone, using luminance as an organizational element, and critical thinking. Additionally, the course will introduce students to a variety of classical tonal systems and tonal illusions including atmospheric perspective, sculptural modeling, basic direct lighting, lighting position relative to viewpoint, light intensity, local value, and reflectivity. Students will then explore the artistic use of color. The course will cover systems and traditions of organizing hue and saturation and will examine methods of building from tonal preliminary studies. Students will also explore classical forms of compositional organization such as symmetry, asymmetry, golden mean, and figure-ground relationships.