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Painting

Painting

The painting program at IU Southeast provides experience in both acrylic and oil painting techniques. Painting students at IU Southeast develop the ability to manipulate spatial and expressive qualities in their work through paint application, color, and drawing. Students are also encouraged to explore representation, abstraction, and experimental image-making and techniques. The resident faculty member in painting has an extensive background in traditional and modern painting techniques. Students in the program learn traditional skills involving surface preparation and glazing, as well as more recent techniques involving digital imaging. Painting is one of the oldest mediums in the visual arts and is still considered one of the cornerstones of an artist’s education.

Painting Faculty

[Photo] Deb Clem

Debra Clem is a Professor of Fine Arts. She has taught fine arts at the college level for more than thirty years. Debra has shown her work in more than 60 group, invitational, and solo exhibitions. Debra also maintains the Painting Guide, an online painting manual for her students, as well as the Turptown blog. She is a member of FACET (Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching) and is an active visual artist whose works have been exhibited on a local, regional, and national level. She has been awarded five individual artist grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women, the Al Smith Fellowship as well as fellowships to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Vermont Studio Center. Debra is also the recipient of the university’s 2006 Distinguished Research and Creativity Award.

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Painting Facilities

18-easel facility with both artificial daylight and natural northern light, also includes vented spray booth, and painting storage, floor to ceiling exhibition and presentation surfaces.

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Storage racks for canvases. Easels in the Painting Studio. Easels in the Painting Studio.

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Painting Courses

S 230 Painting I

Credit(s): 3 cr.
P: F 100, F 102; S 200 or taken concurrently with F 101, P 273.
Introduction to painting in oil. Study of the spatial and expressive qualities of color, with an emphasis on composition and pictorial design. Development of technical skills in image making through exploration of traditional and modern methods of paint application. Introduction to surface preparation, framing, and display of paintings.

S 239 Painting for Nonmajors

Credit(s): 3 cr.
Introduction to painting in oil. Study of the spatial and expressive qualities of color, with an emphasis on composition and pictorial design. Development of technical skills in image making through exploration of traditional and modern methods of paint application. Introduction to surface preparation, framing, and display of paintings. (Will not count toward a major in Fine Arts.)

S 331 Painting II

Credit(s): 3 cr.
P: S 230
Intermediate course in painting, with an emphasis on the technical command of both oil and acrylic media. Continued study in composition and pictorial design in painting. Further development in traditional and modern methods of paint application with an emphasis on individual experimentation. May be repeated once.

S 431 Painting III

Credit(s): 3 cr.
P: S 331
Advanced course in painting aimed at the continued mastery of technical skills, with an emphasis on individual solutions to pictorial and conceptual problems in painting. May be repeated.

S 432 B.F.A. Painting

Credit(s): 1 - 6 cr.
Concentrated studio projects within the framework of the B.F.A. painting program. Attention to content, craftsmanship, intent, and resources. May be repeated for a total of 18 credit hours.

S 438 Water Media

Credit(s): 3 cr.
Study and exploration of water-based painting media. Attention to techniques and application of acrylic and watercolor.

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Painting Degree Checksheet

*For B.F.A. Checksheet please see a Fine Arts faculty member.

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Painting Student Work

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Alchemical Sketch (in vivo)~ Oil on Canvas~ Jill Morgan Release~ Mixed Media~ Josh Smart Untitled~ Oil on Canvas~ Brady Harbin Untitled~ Oil on Canvas~ Angie Hart Untitled~ Oil on Canvas~ Herb Reith

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