The Dynamics of Landscape: Movement and Change (10 credit points)

Pre-requisites for enrolment

Special Information

This course will include a limited supply of basic papers and cards. However please do acquire the materials recommended for this course.

Materials you will need to bring to the first class:

• Small hard backed notebook

• A4or A5 hard backed sketchbook

• Graphite stick

• Black marker pen

• Roller and erasure

• Fine sandpaper

• A2 cartridge (for monotype) and craft knife

In addition to the course fee, students are expected to provide the following list of indicative tools, materials and equipment:

• Basic drawing medium including coloured pastels and coloured oil pastels and watercolour, gouache or acrylic paint

• Glue or acrylic medium matt, gum Arabic watercolour medium

• Collage paper (wallpapers, newspaper cuttings, fragments of old paintings, drawings and collages, rice paper, tissue paper, baking parchment)

• Fabric off cuts –any kind of woven cloth (opaque as well as transparent), canvas (raw as well as primed and tinted)

• Plastic sheet A3 (for mono-printing and drawing support)

Content of Course

1. Experiment with mixed media to create a range of surface qualities, marks and grounds.

2. Collect and select visual information on ecological systems in the sketchbook.

3. Adapt and modify fragments of maps and abstract patterns to use as collage fragments.

4. Create a series of composite working drawings which explore transparent and opaque qualities  of materials.

5. Using Mono print technique, collage and transfer make a series of test pieces in mono chrome.

6. Develop colour studies.

7. Explore the impact of changing scale using paint and collage.

8. Employ cropping technique to define starting points for working in series.

9. Map out personal projects to define, quantify and outline intentions.

10. Document work in progress.

11. Participate in group discussion and critiques.

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 or designers and their associated movements to engender a contextual awareness of the sculpted figure in visual culture. Students will be expected to demonstrate how the research has informed their work through annotated sketchbooks or visual journals 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:

• Develop a work ethic in the sketchbook that reflects a sense of engagement and evidence of deeper self-directed study in aspects of patterns in nature.

• Employ a mixed media approach imaginatively, to produce a range of works that explore a personal response to the idea of change and movement in landscape

• Develop and present a coherent series of related artworks which considers the potential of using abstract natural patterns as a vehicle of expression in landscape based works

Sources

Core Readings

Recommended:

• MEHRETU,J,2007,Julie Mehretu:drawings, New York,N.Y: Rizzoli International Publications

• GIACOMETTI,A,1965,Alberto Giacometti, Garden City, N.Y: Distributed by Doubleday

• CALAME. I, Ingrid Calame,2011, Edinburgh : Fruitmarket Gallery

• WINTERS,T, Terry Winters: computation of chains, 1997, New York: Mathew Marks Gallery

• PARTENHEIMER, J, Jürgen Partenheimer : discontinuity, paradox & precision,2008,Birmingham: Ikon Gallery: Bonn: Kunstmuseum Bonn

• ROTH, D Dieter Roth : diaries,2012,Edinburgh Fruitmarket Gallery

•  DURY,C, Chris Drury: silent spaces,1998, London: Thames and Hudson

• McKEEVER, I ,2010, Artists’ laboratory: Ian McKeever: Hartgrove paintings and photographs, London: Royal Academy of Arts

Web Sources

http://museum.stanford.edu/diebenkornsketchbooks/

http://www.in-terre-active.net/

http://www.marymorrison.co.uk/

https://uk.pinterest.com/portico_/architect-perry-kulper/

Class Handouts

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.