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Undergraduate Course: Mixed Media 2 (LLLA07188)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh College of Art CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryWorking in series: The closer you look, the more you see, and the more you see, the more fascinating it gets.
Course description Academic Description
This course is designed to enable the student to explore strategies to define, quantify and outline intentions of working in series. The process is not about repetition, but rather about being able to explore, investigate, examine or address particular ideas, themes, issues, compositions, concepts. Course projects encourage you to experiment with layering images and using transparencies, symbols, text and collaboration to create a body of work to develop ideas.
The aims of the course are :
to encourage an exploratory and open ended approach to the medium, its effects and creative potential in relation to experiences and interests of the individual student.
Provide opportunities for students to gain skills in materials that emphasize their thinking about ideas across media.

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:
Introductions
Developing ideas stated in MM1 project and explore mixed media approach to restate in different yet interconnected ways.
Work in series using additive techniques to explore the idea of revealing and concealing.
Work in a new series using both additive and subtractive techniques
Collaborate ¿introducing a new perspective. Working in pairs the students will question, problem solve and document the process.
Evaluation and reflection ¿ group discussion on work to date
Sketchbook content ¿ increasingly student-led as ideas develop.
Drawing Project ¿ bridging the gap between painting and sculpture. Sketch out ideas about how to address both sides of paper and explore ways to extend the drawing from the surface of the paper.
Make series of simple test pieces and document.


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.

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites It is RECOMMENDED that students have passed Mixed Media 1 (LLLA07189)
Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs Unless otherwise stated, all students on this short course pay a published course fee per enrolment.

In addition to the course fee, students are expected to provide the following list of indicate tools, materials and equipment:
Easels
Drawing boards
Chairs and tables
Still life objects and set ups
A range of mixed media papers and cuttings
Cutting mats
Printing inks and rollers
Overhead projector
Black or white paper
In addition to the learning and teaching resources and content, this fee also includes;
please list materials and equipment and here:
Assorted black and white photo copies of patterns and diagrams (randomly selected by the student)
Scissors or scalpel knife
A range of drawing media as well as eraser and rags
A range of paint brushes
Pritt stick or pva glue
One ¿ sided tape
Palette
wire may be needed if to produce 3d models.
Sketchbook
Papers
collage material
drawing materials including colours
acrylic paints- primary colours
brushes, one- sided tape
A digital camera
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Research, context and ideas (33.3%) Demonstrate a range of research practices and strategies for recording and developing visual information, supported by contextual references.
  2. Practice, skills and techniques (33.3%) Show a confident and enquiring use of materials and processes to create a range of visual studies and resolved artworks.
  3. Selection, presentation and reflection (33.3%) Demonstrate appropriate judgment to document select, edit and present artwork to reveal its value.
Learning Resources
Suggested Reading
Cameron, D,1999,William Kentridge 1995-: Christov-Bakargiev:J.M.Coetzee 1940, London,Phaidon
Ruit,O:,Cantz.H, 2001. Kiki Smith: small sculptures and large drawings, New York, Arts Publishers.
Dietrich,D,1993,The Collages of Kurt Schwitters. Cambridge University Press
Sze S,2007,Sarah Sze,1969-Criticism and Interpretation:Installation(Art)
Web sources
http://www.textileartist.org/stef-kreymborg-to-play-and-discover/
http://www.nancykoenigsberg.com/
http://www.gelahpenn.com/
http://www.losq.co.uk/page9.htm


Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsDrawing,mixed media,collage
Contacts
Course organiserMr Oliver Reed
Tel:
Email: Oliver.Reed@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMr Benjamin Mcnab
Tel: (0131 6)51 4832
Email: Benjamin.Mcnab@ed.ac.uk
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