Undergraduate Course: Painting Pictures 1: Creating Images (LLLA07181)
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 course will investigate the process by which artists find their subjects and how they invent original images.
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| Course description |
Academic Description
Students will investigate process artists employ find their subjects and how they invent original images. They will learn to develop subjects or themes for drawing, painting, print, illustration or design, by recording, collecting, editing and manipulating images and objects. They will be taken through an intense series of developed drawing, painting and mixed media techniques, gaining practical insight into how artists discover their visual ideas to create a portfolio of compositional studies that you may continue to develop.
Outline of Content
The course teaching is typically delivered over weekly class sessions of around 3 hours each and totaling 30 hours. Alternatively, the course can be delivered more intensely or as a block if required.
Over the class sessions the course will cover:
Developing skills within the sketchbook for Introduction to composition, tone and colour. Taking a collage for a walk.
How to make images from Photographs which don't look like photographs.
Making expressive stained ink and wash drawings using gouache on paper
Making collaged works using dotted, lined and patterned paper
Using colour as a themed sketchbook for developing image ideas.
Taking colour for a walk in a sketchbook
Developing new images from the colour sketchbook
Designing composition
Painting images with expression using impasto techniques
Introduction to a personal project
Personal Project
Personal Project completed and Group Crit's
Introduction to a range of relevant artists.
Keep a log/blog during the period of the course to record learning, achievements and challenges.
The Learning Experience
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.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | Unless otherwise stated, all students on this short course pay a published course fee per enrolment.
Cutting matts
Limited supply of collage materials and PVA
mono-printing plates, black ink and rollers.
In addition to the course fee, students are expected to provide the following list of indicate tools, materials and equipment:
An A4 or A5 sketchbook (hardback book -not soft cover)
a range of drawing materials - pencils, conté, charcoal, fibre pens, dip pens
a starter set of acrylic paints (to include: red, blue, yellow, white, black
a range of hog hair brushes
a craft knife and scissors
masking tape
PVA glue, Pritt Stick
cartridge paper
any collected visual research - photographs, magazines, drawings, sketches and studies from previous classes or own work
an assortment of collage material ¿ papers, fabrics, wrappings, newspapers, etc.
one sided card a bottle of black drawing ink
your own digital camera
further photocopying as required
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Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2017/18, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 12 |
| Course Start |
Lifelong Learning - Session 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 30,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
68 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Summative Assessment«br /»
(Occurs at least 2 weeks after the last taught class)«br /»
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Two weeks after the end of the class teaching, this course will be assessed by the submission of:«br /»
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A digital journal documenting a summary of the learning journey as evidenced in the portfolio«br /»
weighting: 20% «br /»
This will include a summary of idea development, media exploration, contextual research, critical reflection and outcomes through notes, annotation, illustration and photography.«br /»
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A portfolio of visual art/design works «br /»
weighting: 80% «br /»
This will include a selection of resolved design works, sketchbook works, preparatory studies, visual research and evidence of a contextual awareness. «br /»
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The Digital Journal and Portfolio 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. «br /»
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The combined Digital Journal and Portfolio submission will be assessed against the three learning outcomes for this course. These are equally weighted (33.3% each) 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.«br /»
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| Feedback |
Formative Assessment (required for all credit courses).
(Occurs in weeks 6 or 7 of the 10 week course)
A formative assessment session will occur in week 6 or 7 of the taught element of the course. Each student will undertake a 5 minute verbally presentation with their practical work in progress to other members of the class group followed by a 5 minute group critique supported by the course tutor. Each student will also electronically submit their work in progress digital journal to the course tutor.
Indicative and supportive feedback will be summarised in written form on the digital journal which will give an indication of what areas requires to be address in order to meet the published learning outcomes. This will comprise of short written summary of action points.
Formative Assessments
This will comprise of short written summary of action points of areas requiring addressing to meet the learning outcomes, but no indicative grades will be given.
Summative Assessments
On completion the assessment ¿ each student will receive a % mark for each learning outcome along with written feedback putting in context the % mark and outlines areas for development.
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Research, context and ideas (33.3%) Use a range of drawing strategies to routinely record, research and make visual enquiry through the use of the sketchbook.
- Practice, skills and techniques (33.3%) Show resourcefulness and inventiveness in the use of materials and processes to create a range of visual studies and resolved image-based artworks.
- Selection, presentation and reflection (33.3%) Evidence independent judgment in the research, selection and editing of visual images.
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Reading List
Suggested Readings
MORSE, J. D., 1972, Ben Shahn, London: Secker and Warburg
BONNARD, P. , 2006, Pierre Bonnard : the work of art, suspending time : Muse´e d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, 2 February-7 May 2006, Paris: Paris muse´es; Gand: Ludion
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.
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
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
The ability to employ the use of the sketchbook to explore and develop lines of visual enquiry.
The ability to explore visual ideas through various practical drawing and painting techniques, methods and approaches.
The ability to make independent judgments on the selecting, editing and documentation of their work, showing an insight into critical context and reflective practice.
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| Keywords | Image making,ideas,sketchbook,mixed media,narrative,illustration,drawing,painting,compositi |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Robbie Bushe
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Course secretary | Mr David Lonergan
Tel: (0131 6)51 4832
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