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FINE 202Painting

Units
0.50
Faculty
Arts
Subject
Fine Arts

When it runs

  1. F24
  2. W25
  3. S25
  4. F25
  5. W26
  6. S26
  7. F26
  8. W27
  9. S27

Ran in 2 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: scheduled. Spring 2027: schedule not out yet.

Students will explore acrylic paint techniques through a series of lectures, demonstrations, and projects that address pictorial organization and representation as well as abstraction. An emphasis is placed on an introduction to skills development, such as building and preparing substrates for paint application, paint mixing, and colour relationships.

Prerequisites

  • Complete all of the following
    • Must have completed the following:
      • FINE100 - Studio Fundamentals (0.50)
    • Obtained all of the following milestones: Fine Arts Health and Safety Milestone and Fine Arts Woodshop Workshop Milestone

Antirequisites

None listed.

Notes

  • Studio course.

Leads to

No course lists it as a requisite.

Winter 2027 sections

Enrolment from UW Open Data, which can trail Quest by up to two days. Instructors and rooms: Schedule of Classes.
SectionClassEnrolledMeets
STU 00175250 / 25TTh 13:00–15:20
STU 701816325 / 9999Online or by arrangement

Reviewed on UW Flow

100% liked it69% easy100% useful

From 7 ratings and 1 comment on UW Flow. The most helpful comments, quoted as written, without names. Read them all on UW Flow.

  • Fun course!! The assignments are all straightforward, and I feel like this course improved my acrylic painting skills! I was worried that the marking would be harsh, but Cora is very lenient and takes effort, experience, creativity, and composition difficulty into account when marking. One thing to mention is that if you want to pay for the materials in the course kit, it costs $180 :(. .. Also, you have to pay for the materials to assemble your canvases and panels. But that's honestly to be expected in most studio courses!

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Winter 2019

interested in Art courses 4 points, 5 comments

“Hey everyone, I’m an engineering student but always had a passion for art. I do my own art on the side but they are mainly line arts and sketches cause I’m bad at painting. …”

u/whitepenguins: “… FINE 100 as a prereq first before you can take the courses that actually focus on painting (FINE 202, 220, 221). You can also give FINE 150 a try. The instructors change every term and the projects also differ, but you'll be able to do a variety of art. …”

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