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Undergraduate Course: Painting: Landscape in the Studio (intensive) (LLLA07092)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh College of Art CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Course typeStandard AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) Credits10
Home subject areaLifelong Learning (ECA) Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionTHIS 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 to develop a series of exploratory and resolved landscape paintings from source material such as sketches, plein air drawings, paintings and photographs in the studio environment. Students will be encouraged to find and develop their own interests using landscape as a subject in its own right and as a backdrop for other subjects. Students will examine landscape painting techniques and characteristics in works by other artists.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs None
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. On completion of this course through class hours, directed and independent study, students will be able to;

RESEARCH
use a visual sketchbook/journal to research, record and reflect on the process of planning and preparing a series of landscape paintings made in the studio from students¿ own source material

2. PRACTICE
develop individual paintings and drawings in the studio from sketches or photographs

3. PRESENT
Select, edit and present a coherent body of visual studies, and paintings developed from landscape sources and informed by individual response to the subjects.
Assessment Information
The course will be assessed by the submission of a portfolio of visual art works and supporting materials 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.

Typically, this will comprise:
Class Contact hours: 27.5 (work students do during the class)
Directed hours: 27.5 (work your tutor has set students to do after the class teaching is complete)
Independent Study Hours: 45 (work students set themselves to do, relevant to the discipline studied)

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.
Special Arrangements
None
Additional Information
Academic description Not entered
Syllabus Not entered
Transferable skills painting in the studio
using acrylic and oil paint
skills in composition
Ability to undertake research and reflective practice and apply these in the context of landscape painting within visual culture
Reading list Recommended Reading

Scottish Gallery, 1990, Joan Eardley, Edinburgh: The Scottish Gallery
BBC, 2006, Imagine: a picture of the painter Howard Hodgkin, BBC DVD
Cohen, D., 2001, Jock McFadyen: a book about a painter, Aldershot: Lund Humphreys
Saatchi Gallery, 2005, Triumph of Painting: Saatchi Gallery, London: Jonathon Cape
Study Abroad Not entered
Study Pattern Not entered
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserMr Robbie Bushe
Tel:
Email: r.bushe@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMs Sherrey Landles
Tel: (0131 6)50 4400
Email: s.landles@ed.ac.uk
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