Painting Pictures 1: Creating Images (10 credit points)

Special Information

This course requires you to bring your own art and design materials. Most of these can be sourced and purchased in advance from any good art material supplier such as the Art Shop at ECA Lauriston Place Campus. Essential items not readily available will be provided during classes and you will be invoiced at the end of the course for items used. Listed below are the materials and equipment requirements for this course and an estimated cost. You are advised not to purchase any materials until you have received confirmation the course is running – usually 7 days before the start of the course.  You will be guided by the tutor as to which materials you need to bring to classes each week.

 

Essential materials you will need to bring to the first class:

* 2 sheets of A1 white cartridge paper

* A set of acrylic paints (minimum, red, yellow, blue and a large white)

* A range of medium hog hair brushes (not fine or sable)

* A roll of 3/4" - 1" standard masking tape

* A craft knife

* A paint palette and water container

* Pritt Stick or similar

* A hard backed A4 (or similar size) sketchbook with stitched in pages.

* A range of drawing pencils and pens

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

* N/A

Materials and equipment available for purchase during the course:

* Papers and Card

Essentials materials and equipment students will need to provide themselves:

* A1 white cartridge paper

* A set of acrylic paints (minimum, Cadmium red; crimson; cadmium yellow; lemon yellow; cobalt blue; ultramarine; titanium white; viridian green; and any others that you wish)

* A starter set of gouache paint

* Dip or scratch pens

* A range of medium hog hair brushes

* A range of smaller fine brushes

* A roll of 3/4" - 1" standard masking tape

* A craft knife

* Pritt Stick or similar

* PVA glue

* A hard backed A4 (or similar size) sketchbook with stitched in pages

* A range of drawing pencils and pens

* A 2 inch priming brush

* Old rags

* Empty jars

* Overalls or other protective clothing

* Printing photocopies of images

* Old magazine, coloured papers and cards

* A small hardbacked sketchbook

Content of Course

Over the class sessions the course will cover:

Developing skills within the sketchbook for Introduction to composition, tone and colour. Taking a collage for a walk.

How to make images from Photographs which don’t look like photographs.

Making expressive stained ink and wash drawings using gouache on paper

Making collaged works using dotted, lined and patterned paper

Using colour as a themed sketchbook for developing image ideas.

Taking colour for a walk in a sketchbook

Developing new images from the colour sketchbook

Designing composition

Painting images with expression using impasto techniques

Introduction to a personal project

Personal Project

Personal Project completed and Group Crit’s

Introduction to a range of relevant artists.

Keep a log/blog during the period of the course to record learning, achievements and challenges.

Teaching method(s)

The teaching 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, and set projects which lead to more focused and personal exploration. Over the course, students’ progress will be monitored and supported by the tutor.  Teaching will include practical demonstrations, one to one tuition, group discussions and critiques.

For work required to be undertaken after the class hours are complete, the course tutor will set students a ‘directed study plan’ which can be undertaken without the need for specialist workshops or access to models.

Directed study will include research into a range of suggested artists and their associated movements to engender a contextual awareness. Students are expected to demonstrate how their research has informed their work through annotated sketchbooks, a visual digital journal and practical outcomes. 

The Directed Study Plan will include preparing evidence of research and practical work to form an appropriate presentation for assessment.

Learning outcomes

On completion of this course, the student will be able to:

Research, context and ideas (33.3%) Use a range of drawing strategies to routinely record, research and make visual enquiry through the use of the sketchbook.

Practice, skills and techniques (33.3%) Show resourcefulness and inventiveness in the use of materials and processes to create a range of visual studies and resolved image-based artworks.

Selection, presentation and reflection (33.3%) Evidence independent judgment in the research, selection and editing of visual images.

Sources

Core Readings

Suggested Readings

MORSE, J. D., 1972, Ben Shahn, London: Secker and Warburg

BONNARD, P. , 2006, Pierre Bonnard : the work of art, suspending time : Muse´e d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, 2 February-7 May 2006, Paris: Paris muse´es; Gand: Ludion

BOYD, A., 1969, Retrospective exhibition of paintings, drawings and other work by Arthur Boyd, Edinburgh: Demarco Gallery

TAPIES, A., Ta`pies, Antoni, 1923-1972, London: Thames & Hudson, [text by] Vera Linhartova; [translated from the French by Anne Engel]

KIEFER, A., 2008, Bu¨cher : [anla¨sslich der Ausstellung "Anselm Kiefer. Bu¨cher", 18. Oktober-29. November 2008, Ausstellungsraum Celine und Heiner Bastian, Berlin-Mitte] / [Herausgeber: Heiner Bastian, Munchen.

WEIGHT, C., 1982, Carel Weight RA, a retrospective exhibition, London: Royal Academy of Arts(Great Britain)

IKEGAMI, H., 1973-2010, Great migrator : Robert Rauschenberg and the global rise of American art, Cambridge, Mass; London: MIT Press

Assessment

Details of the Art and Design assessment requirements can be found on the short course website. Please click on the following link for more information: Submission and Assessment Information

Studying for Credit

If you choose to study for credit you will need to allocate significant time outwith classes for coursework and assessment preparation. Credit points gained from this course can count towards the Certificate of Higher Education.

Queries

If you have questions regarding the course or enrolment, please contact COL Reception at Paterson's Land by email COL@ed.ac.uk 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.