Undergraduate Course: Painting: Landscape in the Studio (intensive) (LLLA07092)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | THIS IS A FOR-CREDIT ONLY COURSE OFFERED BY THE OFFICE OF LIFELONG LEARNING (OLL); ONLY STUDENTS REGISTERED WITH OLL SHOULD BE ENROLLED
This course enables students to develop a series of exploratory and resolved landscape paintings from source material such as sketches, plein air drawings, paintings and photographs in the studio environment. Students will be encouraged to find and develop their own interests using landscape as a subject in its own right and as a backdrop for other subjects. Students will examine landscape painting techniques and characteristics in works by other artists. |
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Not entered
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- On completion of this course through class hours, directed and independent study, students will be able to;
RESEARCH
use a visual sketchbook/journal to research, record and reflect on the process of planning and preparing a series of landscape paintings made in the studio from students¿ own source material
- PRACTICE
develop individual paintings and drawings in the studio from sketches or photographs
- PRESENT
Select, edit and present a coherent body of visual studies, and paintings developed from landscape sources and informed by individual response to the subjects.
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Reading List
Recommended Reading
Scottish Gallery, 1990, Joan Eardley, Edinburgh: The Scottish Gallery
BBC, 2006, Imagine: a picture of the painter Howard Hodgkin, BBC DVD
Cohen, D., 2001, Jock McFadyen: a book about a painter, Aldershot: Lund Humphreys
Saatchi Gallery, 2005, Triumph of Painting: Saatchi Gallery, London: Jonathon Cape
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
painting in the studio
using acrylic and oil paint
skills in composition
Ability to undertake research and reflective practice and apply these in the context of landscape painting within visual culture
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Robbie Bushe
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Course secretary | Miss Zofia Guertin
Tel: (0131 6)51 1855
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