Undergraduate Course: Printmaking Practice: 1. Developing Techniques (LLLA07210)
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 develop practices, techniques and skills through a combination of processes and experimentation with monochrome, tone, colour, composition and scale. |
| Course description |
Academic Description
This course will enable students to develop their printmaking practice and techniques. Students will be encouraged and challenged to develop their knowledge of the medium and skills.
In addition to developing lino and woodcut techniques in relief printing and collagraphic and intaglio techniques the student will be introduced to combined processes and more complex etching techniques. This will include soft, hard acrylic ground, aquatint and 'non-etch' photopolymer processes.
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:
Revisiting and developing relief printmaking techniques. This includes learning different ways of cutting, inking and printing a lino or woodblock. Learn how to use stencils and registration techniques to introduce colour in a controlled and expressive manner.
Revisiting and developing intaglio techniques. This includes monotype printing and etching with aquatint on zinc plate and introduces non-etch photopolymer prepared acrylic plate printing.
Develop new strategies for producing printed images through etching. This includes examining the potential of Chine collé, multiple plate printing, manipulation of plate tone and the addition of colour 'á la poupeé' and by painterly application.
Revisiting and developing collagraphic techniques to print collagraphs.
The student will be encouraged to experiment with monochrome, tone, colour, composition, format and scale.
Students will be encouraged to consider and investigate a range of artists and illustrators who have used printmaking as a powerful means of expression and develop visual ideas suitable for print from their own visual research and sketchbooks.
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)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | Unless otherwise stated, all students on this short course pay a published course fee per enrolment.
Materials and equipment provided for students as part of the course and included in course fee:
Access to printmaking workshop, tools and presses.
Materials and equipment available for purchase during the course:
(Estimated cost: £10 - £40 depending on usage)
Zinc etching plates, cut to individual required dimensions.
Acrylic plate.
Proofing paper, newsprint and tissue paper.
"Somerset" etching paper.
Essentials Materials and equipment students will need to provide themselves:
(Estimated cost: £15 - £30 depending on usage)
A sketchbook.
A pair of inexpensive rubber gloves.
An apron or old shirt to protect clothes.
A sheet of 'Somerset', "Fabriano" or equivalent paper for etching.
Scalpel.
Pencils.
Fine paint brush.
Old brushes.
Wood cutting tools.
Pritt Stick.
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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: 10 |
| 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 Assessment
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 Assessment
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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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Research, context and ideas (33.3%) Demonstrate a range of working practices and strategies for recording and developing visual information, generating a range of visual ideas suitable to translate into artists¿ prints and supported by contextual references.
- Practice, skills and techniques (33.3%) Show a confident and enquiring use of materials and processes to explore printmaking practices and techniques to create a range of visual studies and resolved artworks.
- Selection, presentation and reflection (33.3%) Demonstrate an appropriate judgment to document select, edit and present a body of prints, considering the use of drawing, composition and colour to reveal its value.
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Learning Resources
Suggested Reading
Grabowski, B. and Fick, B., 2009. Printmaking: a complete guide to materials and processes. London: Laurence King.
Adam, R. and Robertson, C., 2007. Intaglio: The Complete Safety-First System for Creative Printmaking: Acrylic-Resist Etching, Collagraphy, Engraving, Drypoint, Mezzotint , London: Thames and Hudson.
Journal and periodicals
Printmaking Today
Web sources
www.printmakingtoday.com
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Good studio practice and organization.
Confidence to operate machinery to produce artwork in a studio environment.
Confidence to employ a range of techniques, follow processes and develop methods for the production of artworks.
Enhanced planning skills and development of strategies for the delivery of outcomes.
Ability to undertake independent research and reflective practice and apply these in the context of printmaking within visual culture and to extend this knowledge to other art disciplines.
An understanding of the potential application to other disciplines.
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| Keywords | Printmaking,linocut,woodcut,collagraph,etching,photopolymer,sketchbooks,drawing,registration |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Robbie Bushe
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Course secretary | Mr David Lonergan
Tel: (0131 6)51 4832
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