Undergraduate Course: The Dynamics of Landscape: Movement and Change (LLLA07227)
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 encourage self exploration of drawing and painting processes to render change and movement. The student will explore how to develop a working practice that begins with the collection and selection of visual information about ecological natural systems and ends with the measured task of arrangement, re- arrangement of landscape based art. |
| Course description |
Students will research and develop a body of work based on ideas about the landscape, informed by researching a range of 'dynamic' systems of the natural world. A combination of sketches and notes on land forms and abstract patterns will inspire a new perspective on responding to the landscape. Active research is required to determine fields of knowledge that will inform the scope of making images that reflect a personal response to the landscape and natural phenomena, examples of these systems are microorganisms, soil, rocks and atmospheric conditions.
Outline of Content:
Experiment with mixed media to create a range of surface qualities, marks and grounds
Collect and select visual information on ecological systems in the sketchbook
Adapt and modify fragments of maps and abstract patterns to use as collage fragments
Create a series of composite working drawings which explore transparent and opaque qualities of materials
Using Mono print technique, collage and transfer make a series of test pieces in mono chrome
Develop colour studies
Explore the impact of changing scale using paint and collage
Employ cropping technique to define starting points for working in series.
Map out personal projects to define, quantify and outline intentions
Document work in progress
Participate in group discussion and critiques
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 or designers and their associated movements to engender a contextual awareness of the sculpted figure in visual culture. Students will be expected to demonstrate how the research has informed their work through annotated sketchbooks or visual journals 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)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | Materials List:
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 s
Acrylic paint- Cadmium red, crimson, cadmium yellow, lemon yellow, cobalt blue, ultramarine, viridian or phthalo green and titanium white. |
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%): Develop a work ethic in the sketchbook that reflects a sense of engagement and evidence of deeper self directed study in aspects of patterns in nature.
- Practice, skills and techniques (33.3%): Employ a mixed media approach imaginatively, to produce a range of works that explore a personal response to the idea of change and movement in landscape.
- Selection, presentation and reflection (33.3%): Develop and present a coherent series of related artworks which considers the potential of using abstract natural patterns as a vehicle of expression in landscape based works.
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Reading List
Suggested Reading:
MEHRETU, J, 2007, Julie Mehretu: drawings, New York, N.Y: Rizzoli International Publications
GIACOMETTI, A, 1965, Alberto Giacometti, Garden City, N.Y: Distributed by Doubleday
CALAME, I, Ingrid Calame, 2011, Edinburgh: Fruitmarket Gallery
WINTERS, T, Terry Winters: computation of chains, 1997, New York: Mathew Marks Gallery
PARTENHEIMER, J, Jurgen Partenheimer: discontinuity, paradox & precision,2008,Birmingham: Ikon Gallery: Bonn: Kunstmuseum Bonn
ROTH, D, Dieter Roth: diaries, 2012, Edinburgh: Fruitmarket Gallery
DURY, C, Chris Drury: silent spaces, 1998, London: Thames and Hudson
McKEEVER, I, 2010, Artists' laboratory: Ian McKeever: Hartgrove paintings and photographs, London: Royal Academy of Arts
Web sources:
http://museum.stanford.edu/diebenkornsketchbooks/
http://www.in-terre-active.net/
http://www.marymorrison.co.uk/
https://uk.pinterest.com/portico_/architect-perry-kulper/ |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Using a sketchbook as an artist's / designer's tool.
Recording and developing visual ideas.
Effective use of drawing, painting and mixed media.
To undertake research and reflective practice and apply these in the context of the sketchbook within visual culture.
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| Keywords | sketchbook,drawing,painting,mixed media,reflective practice |
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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