Print Painting and Drawing Projects
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Show the world through your eyes and develop a depth to your paintings that will captivate your audience. Encounter different approaches to paintings while developing your technical skills and abilities with your chosen media and extending your responses to your chosen subject matter. Come with an open and enquiring approach, along with a desire to develop your own practice further.
Course Content
The course will provide a range of activities and approaches for the first half of the term that you can try out and explore at your leisure. These are exercises designed to get you to extend your thinking and approach to working from different projects each term. Each exercise invites you to work in a particular way, or with particular materials, or both. You will plan, record, and build up a personal record of your investigatory ideas in your sketchbook. The aim is to show you a broad range of possible strategies which you might employ and to inspire your own ideas further after the half term.
Past projects include Non-representational Art, The Interior, Cityscapes, Figurative Art, Nature and Forms, Art as a Reflection of Social and Political thinking, Composition Balance and Structure, Exploring Themes in Art, Working with and from Photographs, The power of colour, Extreme and Simple Painting.
Looking at examples of other artists is a way of introducing you to other contemporary painters, with whom you may not be familiar.
In the second part of the term, you will develop your personal work, with support through lively group discussions of ideas and developments, individual tutoring, pair work and regular individual tutorials. The structured activities in the first part of term should give you plenty of good starting points. The emphasis will be on developing ideas, preparation and process, and using a variety of approaches and techniques. You will require some degree of individual reflection, related to your own practice. You will learn to stay motivated and inspired, share your results and insights gained with other students, experiment with new ideas in your work and get support and feedback from a dedicated tutor to develop and build your confidence.
This can also include specified approaches to the subject. Emphasis will be placed on the idea of reflective studio practice, so that you can begin to develop a sense of critical thinking in relation to your own work. An open approach directed towards each student’s needs.
The subject matter you work from, and the level of abstraction can be open and set by you, but you will have gained many ideas from the tutor-lead activities. You will work from your own drawings or photographic references (personal images, internet and magazines) that can be used as a starting point. This course makes use of one of our larger painting studios with easels and tablespace.
If outdoors, on location a timetable will allocate periods working in the studio and outdoors (weather permitting). You will collect imagery and experience plein air painting. You will venture out and explore surprisingly diverse setting and locations to forage for source material. You will be encouraged to see that unexpected and unusual locations offer a wealth of abstract and representational possibilities - come prepared for all weather conditions, it will vary not only from week to week but from hour to hour. In case of wet weather, a studio is reserved so that the group can carry on developing their paintings indoors.
Entry Requirements
To be eligible for this course you must be 19 or over on 31st August prior to the course start date.
You must be 19 or over on 31st August prior to the course start date.
Some prior knowledge of art materials, tools and techniques is required.
Carers may be entitled to support, visit our Parkshot reception for assistance.
First Class Requirements
Please bring basic drawing and painting materials including a sketchbook no smaller than A4. You should have your sketchbook with you for every session. As the course develops you may need to supplement basic materials with other materials necessary to develop your work for independent study etc. to suit specific needs or preferences and to provide variation depending on the type of work you develop. You will need to an A1 size portfolio case to carry work.
Attendance Requirements
To make maximum progress, it is advisable you attend all classes.
Regular attendance is beneficial.
You will be working towards project deadlines at the end of each term.
Assessment Methods
Outcomes will vary according to the individuals’ aims and experience.
You may wish to consider further developing your Fine Art skills by joining on of our other art courses, these range from short courses to more substantive study such the Access to HE Art and Design Course.
Further Study Options
You may wish to consider further developing your Fine Art skills by joining the next term s course, or choose from our wide variety of visual art courses. These range from short courses to more substantive study such the Access to HE Art & Design Course or the HNC Fine Art Course.
Additional Information
Please bring basic drawing and painting materials including a sketchbook no smaller than A4. You should have your sketchbook with you for every session. As the course develops you may need to supplement basic materials with other materials necessary to develop your work for independent study etc. to suit specific needs or preferences and to provide variation depending on the type of work you develop. You will need to an A1 size portfolio case to carry work. Paper is available to buy in class.
