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This course will enable students to develop personal subjects or related themes by exploring compositions and visual ideas from drawing, painting, print, illustration of design outcomes. Students will undertake a range of focused drawing, painting and mixed media techniques to consider how they can inform and shape the content and mood of finished work.
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: Painting Pictures 1: Creating Images
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:
* 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:
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
Additional recommended materials and equipment students can provide:
Over the class sessions the course will cover:
Developing skills within the sketchbook for ‘Pot Noodle Art – just add boiling water’, developing instant visual ideas through college and paint
‘Grand Art Theft 1’- appropriating and transcribing compositions from other artists work
‘Grand Art Theft 2’ – diagnosing techniques of selected artists work and emulating how they were achieved
‘The best subjects and ideas for our artworks are right under our nose’! Using what we are already attracted to taking these ideas for a visual walk.
Developing a thematic approach to picture making
Group critiques to develop a personal project.
Personal project
presentation of portfolio of work as sustained exploration of personal enquiry
A series of discussions and group critiques based on each project theme.
Introduction to a range of relevant artists.
Keep a log/blog during the period of the course to record learning, achievements and challenges.
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%) Make visual enquiry through the use of the sketchbook demonstrate a range of strategies for recording and developing visual information.
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Practice, skills and techniques (33.3%) Show an emerging individuality in exploring ideas, materials and processes to create a range of visual studies and resolved image-based artworks.
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Selection, presentation and reflection (33.3%) Evidence independent judgment in the research, selection and editing of visual images to reveal its value. |
Suggested Readings
MORSE, J. D., 1972, Ben Shahn, London: Secker and Warburg
HAMILTON, J., O’DONOGHUE, H. 2003, Hughie O’Donoghue Merrell Publishers Ltd
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.
Jenkins, D., 2003, John Piper in the Thirties: Abstraction on the Beach, London: Merrell
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
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.