Studio Art
Two-Dimensional Arts
As an Art major, you will be prepared for a career in fine arts and illustration. You will take a core of courses in drawing and design to sharpen your perceptive skills and to lay a solid technical foundation for advanced work. You will then concentrate your study in the areas of drawing, painting and printmaking. Art instruction is given without additional cost above the regular tuition.
Curriculum Highlights
- Freshman
- Drawing & Structural Representation
- Introduction to Art
- Three-Dimensional Design
- Drawing
- Sophomore
- Human Anatomy
- Composition Theory I & II
- Printmaking: Intaglio & Relief
- Basic Painting
- Watercolor I
- Junior
- Advanced Drawing I
- Advanced Painting I & II
- History of Art
- Printmaking: Lithography & Serigraphy
- Advanced Printmaking
- Watercolor II
- History of Art
- Advanced Printmaking
- Senior
- Advanced Drawing II
- Advanced Painting III
- Illustration I & II
- Watercolor III
- Studio Internship
For further details see complete major information:
Studio Art (2D) Personal Opportunity Profile
You may also contact Admissions (1.800.BJ.AND.ME) to receive a printed copy of this information.
Key Courses
Drawing and Structural Representation In this course you will receive studio training in beginning drawing and the graphic representation of three-dimensional forms. A concentrated study of perspective is followed by experience with proportions and form description with light and shade.
Basic Painting Using oil paint you will begin painting the still life with an awareness of light and shadow relationships, the rendering of texture and form, and the study of composition.
Printmaking Various artistic printing techniques are explored. Drawings are executed on lithographic stones and aluminum plates and printed in color and black and white. In this course, you will produce collagraphs, etchings, aquatints, photoengravings, linocuts and silk screen prints.
Career Opportunities
As a graduate from our art program, you will have the opportunity to go on to a career as a studio artist, or as a designer and illustrator in advertising and in the publishing industry. A number of our graduates are working for Christian publication firms and others are in secular positions in commercial illustration and design. A student intern position may lead to work in sales gallery/frame shop or museum employment.