Undergraduate Course: Creating Images (LLLA07226)
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 will investigate the process by which artists find their subjects and how they invent original images. |
| Course description |
This course will enable students to investigate the process by which artists find their subjects and how they invent original images. Students will learn to develop subjects or themes for drawing, painting, print and illustration by recording, collecting, editing and manipulating images and compositions. Students will be taken through an intense series of developed drawing, painting and mixed media techniques, gaining practical insight into how artists 'discover' their visual ideas to create a portfolio of compositional studies suitable for further study.
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:
Developing skills within a sketchbook for Introduction to composition, tone and colour.
Taking a collage for a walk as a means of creating compositions
Making images from photographs which move beyond the photographic
Using drawing is a tool for routine recording of observation.
Taking colour for a walk in a sketchbook
Developing new images from the colour sketchbook
Introduction to a range of relevant artists to inform practice.
Keep a log/blog during the period of the course to record learning, achievements and challenges.
Working on a focused project to create a coherent portfolio of studies and samples.
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 |
| Additional Costs | Unless otherwise stated, all students on this short course pay a published course fee per enrollment.
- Cutting matts
- Limited supply of collage materials and PVA
- mono-printing plates, black ink and rollers.
In addition to the course fee, students are expected to provide the following list of indicate tools, materials and equipment:
- An A4 or A5 sketchbook (hardback book -not soft cover)
- a range of drawing materials - pencils, conté, charcoal, fibre pens, dip pens
- a starter set of acrylic paints (to include: red, blue, yellow, white, black
- a range of hog hair brushes
- a craft knife and scissors
- masking tape
- PVA glue, Pritt Stick
- cartridge paper
- any collected visual research - photographs, magazines, drawings, sketches and studies from previous classes or own work
- an assortment of collage material - papers, fabrics, wrappings, newspapers, etc.
- one sided card a bottle of black drawing ink
- your own digital camera
- further photocopying as required
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Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Research, context and ideas: Use a range of drawing strategies to routinely record, research and make visual enquiry through the use of the sketchbook.
- Practice, skills and techniques: Show resourcefulness and inventiveness in the use of materials and processes to create a range of visual studies and resolved image-based artworks.
- Selection, presentation and reflection: Evidence independent judgment in the research, selection and editing of visual images.
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Reading List
MORSE, J. D., 1972, Ben Shahn, London: Secker and Warburg
BONNARD, P. , 2006, Pierre Bonnard : the work of art, suspending time : Muse'e d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, 2 February-7 May 2006, Paris: Paris muse'es; Gand: Ludion
BOYD, A., 1969, Retrospective exhibition of paintings, drawings and other work by Arthur Boyd, Edinburgh: Demarco Gallery
TAPIES, A., Ta`pies, Antoni, 1923-1972, London: Thames & Hudson, [text by] Vera Linhartova; [translated from the French by Anne Engel]
KIEFER, A., 2008, Buecher : Anlaesslich der Ausstellung "Anselm Kiefer. Buecher", 18. Oktober-29. November 2008, Ausstellungsraum Celine und Heiner Bastian, Berlin-Mitte] / [Herausgeber: Heiner Bastian, Munchen.
WEIGHT, C., 1982, Carel Weight RA, a retrospective exhibition, London: Royal Academy of Arts(Great Britain)
IKEGAMI, H., 1973-2010, Great migrator : Robert Rauschenberg and the global rise of American art, Cambridge, Mass; London: MIT Press
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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 | Image making,ideas,sketchbook,mixed media,narrative,illustration,drawing,painting |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Robbie Bushe
Tel:
Email: r.bushe@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr John Ethcuit
Tel: (0131 6)50 3409
Email: jethcuit@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
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