This course is designed to introduce basic principles of acrylic painting to students with little or no previous painting experience. Learn about palettes, supports, mediums, basic color principles and basic composition. Explore color, texture, and transparent/opaque use of acrylic paint in producing a contemporary realist painting. Learn how to use photographs and sketches to work from in creating a painting. This course is taught with an emphasis on the contemporary approach to realist/representational painting.