Undergraduate Course: Mixed Media: Exploring Materials and Processes (LLLA07258)
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 is designed to extend self exploration in materials and processes. The investigation will inform a series of related mixed media art works to develop a deeper understanding of how to think laterally about a subject and define new directions to explore. The student will evaluate, select and edit to discern a personal sensibility in the use of materials and processes to progress work |
| Course description |
This course is designed to enable the student to explore mixed media processes and strategies to define, quantify and outline the intentions of working in a series. The process is not about repetition, but rather about being able to explore, investigate, examine or address particular themes, issues, compositions or concepts. A course project will encourage you to experiment with layering images such as using transparencies, symbols and text to create a body of work.
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 student will:
- Explore structure and form of the studio environment in a series of drawings
- Make a series of test pieces investigating personal response to colour, tone and tactile surfaces
- Explore ways to create a sense of mood in mixed media drawing
- Employ analytical and expressive drawing techniques in sketchbook to develop a series of compositional ideas based on a set brief based on the city by day and city at night
- Develop ideas from city work and explore mixed media approach to restate in different yet interconnected ways
- Experiment with scale
- Work in series to explore the concept of revealing and concealing.
- Evaluate and reflect in Learning Journal
- Participate in group discussion and critiques
- 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.
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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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
Drawing medium ( at least three to begin the course)
- Graphite stick, conte crayon, black marker pen, coloured biro pens, soft pastel ( 1red, 1yellow, 1blue), oil pastel ( 1white, 1 black, wax crayons, black drawing ink
- Eraser
- Scissors
- 1 A4 soft cover stapled Sketchbook and 1 hard backed (A3 or A4 size)
- Images cut out from newspaper
- Acrylic paint- Cadmium red, crimson, cadmium yellow, lemon yellow, cobalt blue, ultramarine, viridian or phthalo green and titanium white.
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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: Demonstrate a range of research practices and strategies for recording and developing visual information, supported by contextual references.
- Practice, skills and techniques: Show a confident and enquiring use of materials and processes to create a range of visual studies and resolved artworks.
- Selection, presentation and reflection: Demonstrate appropriate judgment to document select, edit and present artwork to reveal its value.
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Reading List
Suggested Reading
BEN TUFNELL; Prunella Clough 1919-1999.; Tate Britain (Gallery) London : Tate Publishing ;2007
WALKER ART CENTRE; Photomontage of Hannah Hoch
ALBERTO GIACOMETTI, 1994, Alberto Giacometti : sculpture, paintings, drawings, Munich ; New York, N.Y. : Prest
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
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Drawing,mixed media,collage |
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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