This course is based on the students' continued development in the methods, practice and concepts of painting. Students are expected to show proficiency in various approaches and processes used to represent their ideas in paint. Each student is expected to have a fundamental working knowledge of basic oil and acrylic paints and respective mediums. This course is also essentially concerned with developing each student's ability to work independently on such aesthetic issues as the physical nature, kind and form of representation and conceptual components of their work.

Our primary commitments in class are as follows: To work in class during assigned hours, paint 6+ hours outside of class time, discussions about painting or independent crits minimum 1 each class session, in progress and class crits on scheduled dates, active participation in crits and discussion. Also, a requirement of this course is to read in painting theory, criticism and or history of painting. A class lecture will be given towards the end of the semester on a painter or particular type of painting currently being exhibited in the L.A. area.