Undergraduate Course: Images and Ideas (LLLA07234)
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 course will enable students to develop personal subjects or related themes by exploring compositions and visual ideas. |
| Course description |
This course will enable students to develop personal subjects or related themes by exploring compositions and visual ideas from drawing, painting, print, illustration of design outcomes. Students will undertake a range of focused drawing, painting and mixed media techniques to consider how they can inform and shape the content and mood of the finished work.
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:
- Using a sketchbook as a means of routine recording of observations, ideas and development through drawing, mixed media, collage and photography.
- Explore, appropriate and transcribe composition, colour, tone and technical approaches from a range of researched artists' work.
- Taking ideas for a visual walk through a series of drawing, painting and mixed media exercises.
- Developing a thematic approach to picture making
- Develop a personal project which interrogates themes and ideas as means to drive visual image making.
- Crate and present of portfolio of work as sustained exploration of personal enquiry
- 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
- a digital camera
- further photocopying as required
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Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Research, context and ideas: Make visual enquiry through the use of the sketchbook demonstrate a range of strategies for recording and developing visual information.
- Practice, skills and techniques: Show an emerging individuality in exploring ideas, materials and processes to create a range of visual studies and resolved image-based artworks.
- Selection, presentation and reflection: Evidence independent judgment in the research, selection and editing of visual images to reveal its value.
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Reading List
Suggested Readings
MORSE, J. D., 1972, Ben Shahn, London: Secker and Warburg
HAMILTON, J., O'DONOGHUE, H. 2003, Hughie O'Donoghue Merrell Publishers Ltd
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, Buecher : anlaesslich der Ausstellung "Anselm Kiefer. Buecher", 18. Oktober-29. November 2008, Ausstellungsraum Celine und Heiner Bastian, Berlin-Mitte] / [Herausgeber: Heiner Bastian, Munchen.
Jenkins, D., 2003, John Piper in the Thirties: Abstraction on the Beach, London: Merrell
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.
3.3 Reading List
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| Keywords | Image making,ideas,sketchbook,mixed media,narrative,illustration,drawing,painting |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Oliver Reed
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Course secretary | Ms Kameliya Skerleva
Tel: (0131 6)51 1855
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