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This course enables students to develop a personal approach to portraiture through drawing and painting techniques. It will provide a concentrated examination of the human head character and anatomy. Students will explore how to do this working directly from models using expressive drawing, painting and mixed media approaches. They will also be introduced to a range of historical and contemporary artists whose work features the portrait.
Please note - this is a credit course and has an integrated digital component. All students enrolled on credit courses are required to matriculate through the university student system EUCLID. If you do not do so you will not be able to access information provided by your tutor nor will you be able to submit work for assessment. Please read our Studying for Credit Guide, Rules and Regulations for more information.
It is RECOMMENDED that students have passed: Head Life Drawing and Portraiture 1
This course requires you to bring their 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:
*Sketchbook A3,
*pencil,
*eraser,
*willow charcoal
*white Chalk
Materials and equipment provided for students as part of the course and included in course fee:
Materials and equipment available for purchase during the course:
Essentials materials and equipment students will need to provide themselves:
* Fixative
* Masking tape
* Craft knife
* Pencils-HB, 2B, 4B
* Charcoal-willow and one stick compressed.
* Sheets of paper-white cartridge paper sugar paper in a a variety of colours. * Waterproof Drawing ink
* Soft chalk pastels
* Range of brushes suitable for chosen paints-soft for watercolour, harder bristles acrylic paint and in a range of sizes, square and rounded heads.
* Household paint brush- 2 inch
* A set of acrylic or watercolour paints (suggested colours; titanium white, cadmium red, crimson, cerulean blue, ultramarine, yellow ochre, Naples yellow, raw umber, burnt sienna, sap green).
* Jar for water
* Palette
* Protective clothing
* Rags, kitchen towel
* Heavy duty card or canvas for painting on.
Additional recommended materials and equipment students can provide:
Over the class sessions the course will cover:
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.
On completion of this course, the student will be able to: |
Research, context and ideas (33.3%) Demonstrate the use of a sketchbook/journal, to develop independent research, to record and reflect on an increased understanding of the proportion, form and anatomy of the human head within the context of contemporary art practices. |
Practice, skills and techniques (33.3%) Produce a range of paintings, drawings and studies which demonstrate a confident and enquiring use of materials, methods and techniques to explore the form of the human head within a compositional framework. |
Selection, presentation and reflection (33.3%) Demonstrate appropriate and informed judgment to select, edit and present a coherent body of visual studies which displays a considered and individual response to the portrait/human head. |
Suggested Reading
MARSH, R., 1970. Anatomy for artists: London, Dover.
HOCKNEY, D., 2006, Portraits. New Haven, CT:Yale University Press.
FREUD, L., 2012, Painting People. National Portrait Gallery, London
PEYTON, E., 2011, Live Forever. London: Phaidon Press
Journal and periodicals
Modern Painters,
Freize
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
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.
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.
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.