Course Description 

This course introduces the principles, practices, and history of landscape painting and drawing. Students learn beginning techniques of drawing and painting from direct observation, and the conceptual framework for a variety of approaches to visual landscape theory. Critique, discussions center around skills, concepts, and context embedded in traditional and contemporary landscape painting and drawing. Students work primarily on site, within the landscape of the College and surrounding community. This class satisfies the Core Curriculum requirement for Arts.  This course satisfies a Humanities Track elective for the ENST major and minor. 

Special Topics Description

This course introduces the art of the Nature Journal and Sketchbook through an exploration of the principles, practices, and history of painting and drawing from direct observation. With the natural world as subject matter, students learn beginning techniques of drawing and water-based painting on paper along with basic bookmaking techniques to create journals and sketchbooks.