Undergraduate Course: Printmaking Practices: Mastering Print (LLLA07247)
Course Outline
| School | Centre for Open Learning |
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 course will enable the student to refine their experience of developed printmaking techniques to define and extend their individual practice. |
| Course description |
Academic Description: This course will enable students to advance their printmaking practices. Students will be encouraged and challenged to develop their personal visual research methods and demonstrate their knowledge of the medium, skills, techniques and processes to produce a body of print-based art works. This will enable the students to reflect a more complex understanding of relief and intaglio techniques and processes and result in a body of works that may focus exclusively on one technique or employ a combination of techniques.
Outline of Content: The course teaching is typically delivered over weekly class sessions of around 3 hours each and totaling 30 hours.
The student will be challenged to examine ways in which their practice and the medium can be extended.
Following inductions to the printing presses and processes the student will be encouraged to experiment with relief and intaglio printmaking techniques and devise a focused personal approach to the medium which allows for the introduction of other materials and processes.
The student will be encouraged to experiment with the use of monochrome and polychrome inks, composition, format and scale and investigate the potential of etching with aquatint, non-etch photopolymer printing, collagraph, monotype and relief techniques .
An examination of the potential for non-standard materials such as found matrices and non-paper substrates for printmaking will be made.
Students will be encouraged to survey and undertake in-depth research of a range of artists who have produced unique bodies of work in the medium of printmaking.
Strategies for developing visual ideas and the potential for combining informed and intuitive responses to outcomes suitable for print works from visual research material will be demonstrated and discussed.
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, student 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.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | Materials and equipment provided for students as part of the course and included in course fee:
Access to printmaking workshop, tools and presses.
Materials and equipment available for purchase during the course:
(Estimated cost: £10 - £40 depending on usage)
Zinc etching plates, cut to individual required dimensions.
Acrylic plate.
Proofing paper, newsprint and tissue paper.
"Somerset" etching paper.
Essentials Materials and equipment students will need to provide themselves:
(Estimated cost: £15 - £30 depending on usage)
A sketchbook.
A pair of inexpensive rubber gloves.
An apron or old shirt to protect clothes.
A sheet of "Somerset", "Fabriano" or equivalent paper for etching.
Scalpel.
Pencils.
Fine paint brush.
Old brushes.
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Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Research, context and ideas (33.3%): Demonstrate an ability and enquiring work ethic, employing a range of personal strategies for documenting and developing visual ideas and concepts, integrating contextual research.
- Practice, skills and techniques (33.3%): Show resourcefulness and inventiveness in the use of materials and processes to create an extended range of focused and coherent visual studies and resolved, print- based artworks.
- Selection, presentation and reflection (33.3%): Evidence independent judgment in the documentation and presentation of research, selection and editing of visual images to reveal its value.
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Reading List
Essential Reading:
Grabowski, B. and Fick, B., 2009. Printmaking: a complete guide to materials and processes. London: Laurence King.
Suggested Reading:
Adam, R. and Robertson, C., 2007. Intaglio: The Complete Safety-First System for Creative Printmaking: Acrylic-Resist Etching, Collagraphy, Engraving, Drypoint, Mezzotint , London: Thames and Hudson.
Journal and Periodicals:
Printmaking Today
Web Sources:
www.printmakingtoday.com
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Good studio practice and organization.
Confidence to operate machinery to produce artwork in a studio environment.
Confidence to employ a range of techniques, follow processes and develop methods for the production of artworks.
Enhanced planning skills and development of strategies for the delivery of outcomes.
Ability to undertake independent research and reflective practice and apply these in the context of printmaking within visual culture and to extend this knowledge to other art disciplines.
An understanding of the potential application to other disciplines.
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| Keywords | printmaking,extended practice,relief,intaglio,sketchbooks |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Oliver Reed
Tel:
Email: Oliver.Reed@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr Benjamin Mcnab
Tel: (0131 6)51 4832
Email: Benjamin.Mcnab@ed.ac.uk |
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