This course explores advanced lighting and camera techniques essential to commercial and personal assignments.

Gain an understanding of how to use natural and artificial lighting to enhance your subject.

Designed for beginning photographers, this course provides an introduction to digital workflow using Photoshop.

Both intermediate and advanced photographers will gain control of all photographic variables while attempting various creative assignments in this course.

Explore the fundamental technical and aesthetic principles of digital photographic processes, including DSLR camera operation, composition, and digital retouching and manipulation.

This course introduces beginners to the art of calligraphy, and gives them mastery over basic calligraphic tools. Alphabets vary by quarter.

This in-depth exploration of photographic portraiture covers approaching subjects, establishing a rapport, collaborating with your subject, and digital workflow.

This course introduces students to a variety of creative methods of expression using studio drawing projects.

Learn hands-on strategies for creating memorable portraits though interaction with your subject, their environment, and meaningful objects within it.

In this course, students work from live models to translate the figure into abstract imagery

In this course, students explore the spontaneous style of Chinese Brush Painting through hands-on step-by-step instruction.

This class explores the open spaces between drawing and painting, representation and abstraction, proper art materials and improper art materials. By using traditional materials (such as acrylic,…

Learn about how our Interior Design certificate prepares you to enter the Master of Interior Architecture program from Cal Poly Pomona, our partner in preparing you for an exciting career and reaching your personal and professional goals.   

Encouraging students to see in new ways, this studio-based course focuses on translating visual representation into abstraction.

Explore both contemporary and traditional approaches to portraiture by looking at the head in relation to the full body

Use pastel to learn and practice foundational concepts in color theory, form and composition

Learn the fundamentals of figure painting working directly from models

Designed for those at an intermediate or advanced level, students in this course develop and work on a personal project, with guidance and input from the instructor.

This course is part of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science (HSSEAS) Master of Science in Engineering Online (MSOL) program. It is available only to students pre-approved by HSSEAS. For more information visit msol.ucla.edu.

This class will take as its point of focus Mary Gabriel's book Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art, published in 2017.  The course will expand the book's content so as to include other female painters and sculptors allied with Abstract Expressionism.