Painting Landscape 4: A Personal Landscape (10 credit points)

Pre-requisites for enrolment

It is RECOMMENDED that students have passed: Landscape Painting 2: Developing Landscape Painting or Landscape Painting 3: The Urban Landscape

Special Information

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:

* Cartridge paper,

* sketchbooks (with some sketches),

* Source material (sketches , photographs etc),

* Drawing materials (pencils, eraser, chalk pastels)

 

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:

* Set of acrylic paints,

* Brushes

* Palette knife,

* Rags, 

* Sponge,

* Roller,

* One sided card/acrylic paper,

* Gesso primer ,

* Sketchbook,

* Drawing materials (charcoal, pencils, chalk pastels, eraser, masking tape)

 

Additional recommended materials and equipment students can provide:

Content of Course

Over the class sessions the course will cover:

Introduction to the landscape painting using historical/contemporary imagery and brief.

Preparation for grounds in sketchbooks and on other surfaces

Research through sketchbooks, notes, photographs and other sources.

Editing images digitally or through collage and printing

Small studies exploring idiosyncrasies in source material

Preparation for larger studies to be worked over weeks

Layering imagery and paint.

Developing a series

Multiples developed in tangent

Finishing work and group critique

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%) Demonstrate an enquiring work ethic, employing a range of personal strategies for recording and developing visual ideas and concepts and integrating contextual research.

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

Selection, presentation and reflection (33.3%) Employ independent judgment to select, edit and produce a visually coherent and personally expressive body of art work.

Sources

Core Readings

Suggested Reading

DOIG, P. et al.2008.  Peter Doig. New York: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers. Print.

HODKIN, H. et al. 1995. Howard Hodgkin Paintings. New York: Harry N. Abrams Publishers in association with the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Print.

RHODES, C. 2000. Carol Rhodes. [Glasgow]: Tramway. Print.

EARDLEY, Joan. 1990. Joan Eardley. London: The Scottish Gallery, London. Print.

RAEDECKER, M. 2009. Michael Raedecker. London: Camden Arts Centre. Print.

McFADYEN, J. 2012. Jock Mcfadyen. Edinburgh: Bourne Fine Art. Print.

SILLARS, L. 2011. George Shaw : the sly and unseen day. Baltic.

DUMAS, M. 2014. The Image as Burden, Tate.

KIEFER, A. 1998. 20 Jahre Einsamkreit. Paris: Regard, 1998. Print.

Journal and periodicals

Modern Painters

Web Sources

www.tate.org

www.saatchigallery.com

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.