Art Classes offered to the Community
Classes offered on Monday evenings, March 23 - April 20, 2009 | 6 - 8:30 pm
Texas Woman's University | Fine Arts Building | Oakland Street | Denton, Texas
Visual Arts Department | Register Online
About the Visual Arts Studio
This studio-based program in the visual arts is designed to build skill and knowledge in a variety of diverse media. The emphasis is on exploring a specific area of the arts through formal instruction for personal and individual creative expression. Classes are designed to allow for intergenerational participation among families and friends.
Art Classes Offered
Introduction to Drawing
Drawing arises from a universal human impulse–the desire to communicate. If you have always wanted to express yourself through drawing, this course will explore drawing techniques while heightening your visual sensitivity. The course will focus on how people perceive objects and spaces, how light behaves on surfaces, how buildings and interiors read in perspective, and the drawing conventions that describe these phenomena. You will explore a wide range of subject matter as well as collage, color, scale, and mixed media.
Regardless of your drawing experience, you learn to open yourself up more fully to the complexity and subtlety of the subject before you. This course will help you develop both technical and perceptual skills that allow you to respond more intensely to what you draw.
In-class exercises are supplemented by outside projects and students are encouraged to develop individual projects by working with the instructor. (Age: 12 - adult)
Materials needed: 18”x24” inexpensive drawing pad (ex: Strathmore 400 series), sketchbook/notebook of your choice, pencils (varying degrees of hardness/Ebony preferred), black ballpoint pens (any kind), ruler over 12” long.
TWU Fine Arts Building, Room 302 | Instructor: Vance Wingate
Creative Journaling – Beyond the Scrapbook
Design and bind your own journal and explore various approaches to fill it with words and images that inspire you. Present family histories through the medium of book arts. Learn about the tools and materials commonly used in bookbinding. See examples of creative and successful artist’s journals. Explore different techniques and media to enhance your own journal. Utilize the book form to present family memories in a way that transcends the traditional forms and materials generally associated with family scrapbooks.
(Age: teens and adults.)
Materials needed: Specialty paper of your choice, X-acto knife, metal ruler, and bone folder. Other materials dependent on the project that you choose.
TWU Fine Arts Building, Room 301 | Instructor: Deanna Wood
Introduction to photography
Have you ever wanted to learn more about photography, or make your photos more creative! This introductory course in camera skills can show you how! You will learn camera and lighting fundamentals as well as how to capture exciting compositions.
Materials needed: digital camera, 5 blank cd’s, camera memory card, access to a computer (preferably with PowerPoint capability).
TWU Fine Arts Building, Room 202 | Instructor: Twyla Bloxham
The Basics & Beyond with Photoshop CS3
This beginning class will explore how to get images from the camera to the computer to print ready. We will begin with how to get the best photos, then how to get them into the computer and last how to manipulate them using Adobe Photoshop. No prior knowledge of Photoshop or Macintosh computers is required.
(Age: 15 - adult)
Materials needed: USB flash drive (minimum of 512 mb) and photos to work on (digital or printed)
TWU Fine Arts Building, Room 106 | Instructor: Beth Higgins
Building a Painting – The Basics
• Do you think your painting is more like a coloring book than like Renoir?
• Do you become intimidated by the colors on your palette, not knowing what goes with what, instead of
being inspired?
• Do you become irritated or disappointed in your paintings instead of excited at your progress?
This class will help you. You will learn how to put together a painting with some basic rules you can count on getting you a painting you like and still have fun doing it! You will learn how to choose and put colors into a painting; why some colors work and why some don’t play nice together; the difference between cool and warm colors and how that helps you. You will learn how to get rid of the “mish-mash-too-many-things-that-don’t-go-together” look and build focus point. You will get rid of that dead space in your painting that you do not know what to do with. Learn how to use dark and light to make your painting stronger, and how to lead your eye back to what YOU want to be seen. (Age: 15 - adult)
Materials needed: craft paint - red,0blue, black, white, green, yellow, purple, orange (other favorite colors), canvas panels your choice size - package of three, heavy artist paper tablet 9 x 12 at least 80# listed0on the cover of the pad, small bottle of matte medium or acrylic glazing medium
TWU Fine Arts Building, Room 206 | Instructor: Linka Behn
General Information
When and where are the classes offered
The art classes are held on the Denton Campus at Texas Woman’s University in the Fine Arts Building located on Oakland Street. Classes will be held on Monday evenings, March 23 – April 20, 2009. Classes will begin at 6 p.m. and end at 8:30 p.m.
What are the costs?
The registration fee is $95.00 per person. Registration deadline is March 13, 2009.
- Materials
Participants will be responsible for obtaining their own materials for the classes. Most materials are available at a hobby or craft shop.
Refund/Cancellation Policy
Registrants who find it necessary to cancel will receive a refund, less a $20 processing fee. To receive a refund, you must submit written notification seven days prior to the class start date. Substitutions may be made at any time. No refunds will be issued once the classes start. The Office of Lifelong Learning reserves the right to cancel the classes if sufficient enrollment is not met. In doing so, Texas Woman’s University’s liability is limited to the registration fee.
Confirmation Letters
All event correspondence will be delivered to you by email. It is important to provide a current email address on the registration form and to check your spam box for information from Texas Woman’s University. Our goal is to provide you with up-to-date information regarding this event in a timely and efficient manner.
Questions
Call Texas Woman’s University, Office of Lifelong Learning at 940.898.3408 or email lifelonginfo@twu.edu.
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