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Drawing and Painting

Large Scale Drawing

Course Times & Enrolment

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Course Summary

This course will enable you to broaden your approaches to create drawings on a large scale, giving you the opportunity to make ambitious and expressive works; exploring the physicality and challenges that working on a large scale has to offer. Through working with personal ideas and reference materials, you will explore working with non-traditional drawing tools and materials to create works that may not be easily achieve without a studio space. 

Course Details

Pre-requisites for enrolment

No previous knowledge of the subject is assumed.

Special Information

Materials and equipment provided for students as part of the course fee:

  • Mono printing ink and equipment

Materials available to purchase during course:

  • One-sided card

  • Newsprint

  • Cartridge paper

Essential materials and equipment students must provide themselves:

  • Quink and Indian ink

  • 1” household paint brushes

  • Sponge

  • Oil bars

  • Gum arabic

  • Graphite stick 6b

  • Oil and chalk pastels

  • White acrylic paint

  • A range of drawing papers: cartridge paper, newsprint, one-sided card)

  • Sketchbook A4 or A5

  • Charcoal (Compressed & Willow)

  • Eraser

  • A range of pencils (2H-6B)

  • Graphite stick (4B)

  • Masking tape

Content of Course

Each week students will focus on being introduced to various aspects in relation to working on a large scale exploring a combination of context references and practical exercises and demonstrations, which include:

1. Consideration on how to begin scaling-up ideas.

2. Explore working with colour.

3. Explore methods of covering large areas of a surface and different methods to employ depending on the surface used.

4. Explore working with a range of different drawing approaches.

5. Explore and develop an awareness of the physicality of scale.

6. Explore and develop an awareness for how area quadruples and you double in size

7. Explore working with a range of tools such as rollers and sponges working from wet and dry drawing materials.

8. Explore working from a series of personal references.

Teaching method(s)

This course will be based and delivered in specialist Art and Design studios or workshops and will typically include a range of practical exercises, introductions to techniques, processes and concepts. This is supported by practical demonstrations, group discussions, contextual references and one-to-one support.

Learning outcomes

By the end of this course, students should be able to:

  • Demonstrate a broad understanding of how to employ a range of non-traditional drawing tool to large scale image making;

  • Show and foster curiosity and enquiry to convey complex ideas coherently through a personal, visual language;

  • Show an understanding of art and design concepts through creative approaches, responding to a brief through to the finished work.

Sources

Core Readings

  • Schama, S., 2005 John Virtue London Paintings  National Gallery, London.

  • De Zegher, C., 2007. Julie Mehretu: The Drawings, Rizzoli International Publications

  • Accame, G.M., 2006 Sol Lewitt: Wall Drawings in Studio G7, Damiani.

  • Celant, G., 1997, Anselm Kiefer (Venezia contemporaneo), Edizioni Charta Srl.

  • Godfrey, T., & Tucker M. 1996 Ian McKeever: Works on Paper 1981-1996 G&B Arts International

Queries

If you have questions regarding the course or enrolment, please contact COL Reception at Paterson's Land by email or by phone 0131 650 4400.

Student support

If you have a disability, learning difficulty or health condition which may affect your studies, please let us know by ticking the 'specific support needs' box on your course application form. This will allow us to make appropriate adjustments in advance and in accordance with your rights under the Equality Act 2010. For more information please visit the Student Support section of our website.