Undergraduate Course: How to use a Sketchbook (LLLA07074)
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 IS A FOR-CREDIT COURSE OFFERED BY THE OFFICE OF LIFELONG LEARNING (OLL); ONLY STUDENTS REGISTERED WITH OLL SHOULD BE ENROLLED.
Working both ¿on location¿ and within the studio environment, this course introduces ways to use a sketchbook as an effective tool to record visual images and ideas and develop a personal visual language using a range of media and techniques. The course informs students as to how a sketchbook can be used to record impressions, ideas, drawings and notes, revealing over time where individual interests lie. Students will be helped to understand how a sketchbook can ¿talk back¿ and act as a reminder of previous experiences or sets of ideas. |
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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
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, through attending classes and engaging in directed and independent study, students should be able to:
RESEARCH
make coherent use of a sketchbook to record, develop and reflect on visual ideas, images and research;
PRACTICE
be effective in the uses of a range drawing, painting and mixed media techniques both within a sketchbook and in development studies
PRESENT
present a range of directed lines of enquiry and insightful reflection in the selection and editing of visual ideas.
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Reading List
Recommended
PERRELLA, L., 2004. Artists' Journal and Sketchbooks: Exploring and Creating Personal Pages, Gloucester, MA: Quarry Books.
BRERETON, R., 2009, Sketchbooks: the hidden art of designers, illustrators and creative, London: Laurence King.
MANCO, T., 2007, Street sketchbooks, London: Thames and Hudson
MASLEN, M., 2011, Drawing projects : an exploration of the language of drawing, London: Black Dog Publishing
GIACOMETTI, A. (1901-1966), 1967, Giacometti : a sketchbook of interpretive drawings, New York: H. N. Abrams
NORDLAND, G., 2007, Richard Diebenkorn in New Mexico Santa Fe, NM: Museum of New Mexico Press; Taos: Harwood Museum of Art.
HOCKNEY, D., 1978, Travels with pen, pencil and ink, New York: Petersburg Press
DOIG, P., 2005, Peter Doig : works on paper , Dallas, TX: The Dallas Museum of Art Toronto: The Art Gallery of Ontario, Ko¿ln : Ko¿nig
ARTS COUNCIL OF GREAT BRITAIN, 1974, Jasper Johns drawings, London: Arts Council of Great Britain.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
- using a sketchbook as an artist¿s/designers¿ tool
- recording and developing visual ideas
- effective use of drawing, painting and mixed media
- ability to undertake research and reflective practice and apply these in the context of the sketchbook within visual culture
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| 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 |
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