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DRPS : Course Catalogue : Edinburgh College of Art : Lifelong Learning (ECA)

Undergraduate Course: Painting; studio practices (LLLA07103)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh College of Art CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryTHIS 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 with an existing art practice to develop a series of ambitious paintings derived from interrogating and reflecting on their own visual ideas, drawings and studies. Students will be introduced to a range of approaches to preparing grounds and painting surfaces, to plan and consider how they will develop more resolved paintings which show a coherent and consistent theme and is designed to encourage a more independent approach from the students to enable further development of their art practice.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2017/18, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Quota:  10
Course Start Lifelong Learning - Session 1
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 100 ( Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 28, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 70 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) This course will be assessed by the submission of a portfolio of visual art works within the discipline studied. This will include a selection of resolved art works, preparatory studies, visual research and evidence of a contextual awareness through a completed sketchbook and/or visual journal. The work must be presented in a clear and professional manner appropriate to the discipline. The submission should include work undertaken within the class as well as directed and independent study out with the class.

The combined submission will be assessed against the three learning outcomes for this course. These are equally weighted and each will be given a percentage grade. To pass, students must achieve a minimum of 30% in each learning outcome and an overall combined mark of 40% minimum.

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Academic year 2017/18, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Quota:  10
Course Start Lifelong Learning - Session 2
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 100 ( Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 28, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 70 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) This course will be assessed by the submission of a portfolio of visual art works within the discipline studied. This will include a selection of resolved art works, preparatory studies, visual research and evidence of a contextual awareness through a completed sketchbook and/or visual journal. The work must be presented in a clear and professional manner appropriate to the discipline. The submission should include work undertaken within the class as well as directed and independent study out with the class.

The combined submission will be assessed against the three learning outcomes for this course. These are equally weighted and each will be given a percentage grade. To pass, students must achieve a minimum of 30% in each learning outcome and an overall combined mark of 40% minimum.

Feedback Not entered
No Exam Information
Academic year 2017/18, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Quota:  10
Course Start Lifelong Learning - Session 3
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 100 ( Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 28, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 70 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) This course will be assessed by the submission of a portfolio of visual art works within the discipline studied. This will include a selection of resolved art works, preparatory studies, visual research and evidence of a contextual awareness through a completed sketchbook and/or visual journal. The work must be presented in a clear and professional manner appropriate to the discipline. The submission should include work undertaken within the class as well as directed and independent study out with the class.

The combined submission will be assessed against the three learning outcomes for this course. These are equally weighted and each will be given a percentage grade. To pass, students must achieve a minimum of 30% in each learning outcome and an overall combined mark of 40% minimum.

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No Exam Information
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. By the end of the course, through attending classes and engaging in directed and independent study, students should be able to:

    RESEARCH
    use a visual sketchbook/journal to reflect and record the process of planning and preparing a series of paintings
  2. PRACTICE
    prepare suitable painting surfaces and make a series of ambitious paintings in the studios which consider personal research, composition, surface and uses of painting
  3. PRESENT
    Select, edit and present a coherent body of visual studies, and paintings that show an informed and individual response to personal research.
Reading List
RECOMMENDED
HICKS, N., 2005, Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing, London: Phaidon
CARIOU, A. and TOOBY, M., 1996, Christopher Wood: a painter between two Cornwalls, London: Tate Gallery Publishing
COHEN, D., 2001, Jock McFadyen: A book about a painter, Aldershot: Lund Humphries
DOIG, P., 2008, Peter Doig, London: Tate Publishing
FOWLE, F., 2008, Impressionism & Scotland , Edinburgh : National Galleries of Scotland
GRAHAM DIXON, A., 1994, Howard Hodgkin, London: Thames and Hudson
HOCKNEY, D., 2012, David Hockney : a bigger picture, London: Thames and Hudson
LOCHNAN, K., 2004, Turner Whistler Monet : impressionist visions, Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario in association with Tate
MCCONKEY, K., 2010, Sir John Lavery: a painter and his world, Edinburgh: Atelier Books
1996, Vincent Van Gogh drawings, Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum ; London: Lund Humphries
MORRIS, E., ed., 2000, Constable's clouds : paintings and cloud studies by John Constable, Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland; Liverpool: National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside
PEARSON, F., 2007, Joan Eardley , Edinburgh: Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland
SCHWABSKY, B. 2005, Triumph of Painting: The Saatchi Gallery, London: Jonathon Cape
GORDON, l., 1989, The Figure in Action, London: Batsford
KALLIR, J, 2003, Egon Schiele, ,drawings and watercolours, London: Thames and Hudson
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Painting in the studio
Developing ideas from various sources
pictorial composition
Working in series
Mark making skills using paint
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserMr Robbie Bushe
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Course secretaryMiss Zofia Guertin
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