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111 - Beginning Oil Painting

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Course Description: The objective of this workshop is to develop basic oil painting skills. This course will focus primarily on the technical aspect of oil painting and thus focus primarily on painting from observation. Students will learn and explore basic aspects of painting such as brush techniques, mixing paint, color, value, composition, use of soft and hard edges and many other fundamental principles in painting. Refer to Summer Citizens website: summercitizens.usu.edu/schedule/CourseInfo.cfm for a detailed list of supplies and daily course schedule. All paint supplies are an additional cost per student, not included in registration fees.

Course Instructor: Shane Larson received his BA and MFA degrees in illustration from USU. Shane has taught courses in Basic and Advanced Illustration, Drawing for Illustration, Graduate Illustration Studio, and Children’s Storybook Illustration. He is currently teaching Drawing I and II and 2-D Design at USU. He has worked as a free-lance illustrator, doing digital concept illustrations for Frito-Lay, Walmart, Hershey’s, and Deans Foods. He’s had award-winning paintings in the ‘Arts for the Parks’ in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and the United States Olympic Committee National Art Contest.
shanelarsonart@msn.com