The Drawing and Painting Certificate provides students with a pathway for pursuing Fine Arts inside the system of transferable courses, and for developing a portfolio that will assist them to move forward in the marketplace. This program will assist students in gaining a solid understanding of drawing and painting techniques. It will cover the basic dynamics of composition, color theory, manipulation of space, light, and surface, as well as the power and range of the physical media. Students will study a wide range of approaches, including painting for public art projects, on-site painting, abstraction, and landscape. Students will have hands-on experience working in a variety of media, including watercolor, oil, oil pastel, acrylics, gouache, soft pastels, charcoal, graphite, and ceramics. Students will take field trips to learn Plein-air outdoor work and studio work. Students will learn how to set up a portfolio, web design, resumes, and gallery presentation.

For more information, contact Dr. Geno Castillo at gcastillo@luna.edu / 505-454-5388.

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Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs)

• Graduates will produce paintings that demonstrate the tradition of methods, techniques, materials, and tools of oil painting. Students will construct a variety of support structures and grounds on which paintings are created.
  
• Graduates will examine the historical origins and practices of painting from the personal, social, and cultural perspectives.
  
• Graduates will identify and apply environmentally safe painting practices, care of tools, equipment, and facilities, as well as disposal of mediums, solvents, and paints.
  
• Graduates will apply basic color theory to representational and non-representational painting.
  
• Graduates will acquire proficient research skills, including the ability to locate, evaluate, and effectively utilize relevant resources to support their analysis and interpretation of humanities topics.
  

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Degree Requirements

The follow degree requirements are for the 2025-2026 Catalog. For other catalogs, please see Catalogs

Minimum of 30 Credit Hours