Undergraduate Course: Painting; studio practices (LLLA07103)

Course Outline
School	Edinburgh College of Art	College	College of Humanities and Social Science
Course type	Standard	Availability	Not available to visiting students
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate)	Credits	10
Home subject area	Lifelong Learning (ECA)	Other subject area	None
Course website	None	Taught in Gaelic?	No
Course description	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.

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None
Additional Costs	None

Course Delivery Information

Delivery period: 2013/14 Lifelong Learning - Session 1, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Learn enabled: No	Quota: 12
Web Timetable	Web Timetable
Course Start Date	27/09/2013
Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 100 ( Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 27, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 71 )
Additional Notes
Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info)	Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
No Exam Information

Delivery period: 2013/14 Lifelong Learning - Session 2, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Learn enabled: No	Quota: 12
Web Timetable	Web Timetable
Course Start Date	16/02/2014
Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 100 ( Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 27, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 71 )
Additional Notes
Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info)	Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
No Exam Information

Delivery period: 2013/14 Lifelong Learning - Session 3, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Learn enabled: No	Quota: 12
Web Timetable	Web Timetable
Course Start Date	28/04/2014
Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 100 ( Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 27, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 71 )
Additional Notes
Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info)	Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
No Exam Information

Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to: 1. 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 2. 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 3. PRESENT Select, edit and present a coherent body of visual studies, and paintings that show an informed and individual response to personal research.

Assessment Information
This course will be assessed by the submission of a portfolio of visual art works 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. 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 Developing ideas from various sources pictorial composition Working in series Mark making skills using paint
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
Study Abroad	Not entered
Study Pattern	Typically, the course is delivered in weekly taught sessions of between 2.5 and 3 hours for 9-11 weeks or for 5-6 hour for 5 weeks. Class Contact hours: 27.5 (work undertaken during the class) Directed hours: 27.5 (work the tutor has set students to each week in their own time) Independent Study Hours: 45 (work students set themselves to do, relevant to the discipline studied)
Keywords	Not entered

Contacts
Course organiser	Mr Robbie Bushe Tel: Email: r.bushe@ed.ac.uk	Course secretary	Ms Sherrey Landles Tel: (0131 6)50 4400 Email: s.landles@ed.ac.uk