Undergraduate Course: Drawing Practices: Experimenting with Materials (LLLA07230)
Course Outline
| School | Centre for Open Learning |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| 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 explores an expressive ambition within drawing, fusing materials and exploring scales through a range of directed projects. |
| Course description |
Academic Description
This course will allow students to develop personal and expressive approaches within drawing through a series of short research projects. Students will explore fusing drawing materials, found surfaces and collage, consider the use of colour, scales and tools, experimenting with formats, processes and techniques to develop their own ideas. A fusion of approaches, acting as a catalyst, to create a body of drawings.
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:
- Employing the use of the sketchbook for recording, researching and evidencing work.
- Develop a series of works based on directed and personal references themes and subjects.
- Explore formats, composition and editing.
- Explore working with colour through chalk and oil pastels.
- Explore expressive possibilities through scale and materials.
- Make site-specific observational drawings (as required).
- Explore fusing dry and wet drawing materials and introduce the use of mixed media.
- Employing non-traditional drawing materials and tools.
- Explore the use of mono-printing.
- Working on found surfaces and prepared grounds.
- Use photographic references to support ideas and project themes.
- A series of discussions and group critiques relating to the various exercises and project themes.
- Introduction to a range of relevant artists.
- Keep a log/blog during the period of the course to record learning, achievements and challenges.
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.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Research, context and ideas: Demonstrate a range of drawing approaches and strategies for recording and developing visual information, supported by contextual research.
- Practice, skills and techniques: Show a confident and enquiring use of drawing materials and processes to create a range of personal and expressive visual studies and resolved artworks.
- Selection, presentation and reflection: Demonstrate appropriate judgement to document, select, edit and present a body of drawings to reveal its value.
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Reading List
MASLEN, M., 2011, Drawing Project: an exploration of the language of drawing, London: Black Dog Publishing
KOVATS, T. 2005. The Drawing Book, a survey of drawing: the primary means of expression. Black Dogs Publishing.
DAVIDSON, M., 2011, Contemporary Drawing, Watson-Guptill.
DEXTER, E. 2010. Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing. Phaidon Press.
SCHAMA, S. 2005, John Virtue London Paintings, National Gallery, London.
DE ZEGHER, 2007. Julie Mehretu: The drawings, Rizzoli International Publications.
GODFREY, T. & TUCKER, M. 1996, Ian McKeever: Works on Paper 1981-1996, G&B Arts International.
Documentary Video
GRAHAM-DIXON, A. The Secrets of Drawing, BBC.
Web Sources
www.drawing.org.uk
www.johnwolseley.net
http://www.smb.museum/en/exhibitions/detail/jiang-eshi-1913-1972-wanderer-zwischen-den-welten.html
http://drawingcentre.org
http://a-vass.co.uk
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/microsites/sota/tracey/journal/
http://www.vimeo.com/album/231684/video12041376 Nicolas Hutcheson Antarctica Drawings
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
The ability to employ the use of the sketchbook to explore and develop lines of visual enquiry.
The ability to explore visual ideas through various practical drawing and painting techniques, methods and approaches.
The ability to make independent judgments on the selecting, editing and documentation of their work, showing an insight into critical context and reflective practice.
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| Keywords | Drawing,scale,formats,expressive,line,colour,mark-making,tone,compositions,sketchbook |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Oliver Reed
Tel:
Email: Oliver.Reed@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Kameliya Skerleva
Tel: (0131 6)51 1855
Email: Kameliya.Skerleva@ed.ac.uk |
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