Undergraduate Course: Patterns in Nature: static (LLLA07151)
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 | Students will research and develop a body of work based on ideas about group animal behaviour on land, sea or in air. A combination of sketchbook research and secondary sources such as patterns of migration and weather patterns will be employed to visualise concepts of time, space and movement.
During the course the student will be encouraged to think about the natural world as a dynamic global cycle. The mixed media approach employed will enable the student to create subtle changes in their methodology towards work that conveys variations of focus and a deeper engagement with naturally occurring phenomena. Students will consider concepts of space, arrangement, perspective, repetition, flatness and light in composing the work produced. Demonstrations on materials and techniques will inform students of ways to be innovative in their approach to making art that is insightful and expresses an individual viewpoint.
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| Course description |
Over the weeks the course will cover:
Finding starting points- Automatic drawing and mappings
Create small test pieces fusing sections of drawings from wk 1 with cut out contours from some of following secondary source material- maps/isobar chart/sonar scanning etc
SEA: Drawing the sensation of the movement of marine mammal as they are tracked through the ocean.
AIR: Exploring Scale in mixed media drawing: using bird migration maps , land formation maps and isobar charts
LAND: Exploring colour and textures in land mammal migration using geological maps
Group discussion of work to date and scope for research and focus of personal project
Student begins personal project based of animal, maps or weather informed by work made in previous weeks
Personal project
Completion of final series
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
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
Demonstrate a work ethic in the sketchbook that conveys personal interpretation of the scale and spectacle of natural phenomena in the natural world through dedicated self directed study
- PRACTICE
Employ a mixed media approach imaginatively, to produce a range of works that demonstrate subtle infusion of primary and secondary sources to good effect.
- PRESENTATION
Develop and present a coherent series of related artworks which considers the potential of using abstract natural patterns as a vehicle of expression of movement and energy in the natural world.
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Reading List
POUS PHYLLS Terry Winters Painting and Drawing Santa Barbara : University Art Museum ; Seattle : Distributed by University of Washington Press, [1987], ©1987.
BACON FRANCES, 1909-1992-Exhibitions Publisher:London : Tate Gallery, 1985.
Muybridge, Eadward 1830-1904 Animals in motion
Publisher: New York : Dover, 1957.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
using a sketchbook as an artist¿s/designer¿s 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 | Miss Zofia Guertin
Tel: (0131 6)51 1855
Email: Zofia.Guertin@ed.ac.uk |
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