Undergraduate Course: Painting; studio practices (LLLA07103)
Course Outline
| School | Centre for Open Learning |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| 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 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. |
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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
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- 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
- 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
- PRESENT
Select, edit and present a coherent body of visual studies, and paintings that show an informed and individual response to personal research.
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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
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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
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Robbie Bushe
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Course secretary | Ms Kameliya Skerleva
Tel: (0131 6)51 1855
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