Painting and drawing dialogues: time-based strategies

What is the course about?

Becoming more sensitive to the pace of drawing and painting and the evidence of this in the surface of your images will offer new perspectives on ways to develop your work. Using ‘colour scripts’ i.e. the colour palette of moving image and developmental image-making you will extend your approaches to drawing and painting.

What will we cover?

• Investigate the distinct ways that working between the mediums of painting and drawing affects the development of an image through time.
• Looking at the ‘colour scripting’ of moving image, explore how palette emphasis may change, particularly in relation to emotional colour.
• Working with stop-motion drawn animation to explore the sequential nature of image-making.

What will I achieve?
By the end of this course you should be able to...

• Use drawing and painting to register the passing of time in different ways to develop your visual language.
• Make a stop-frame drawn animation.
• Work with the motion of your mark-making, considering its effects on the pace and sequencing of your image-making.
• Apply ‘dynamic composition’ to inform your visual thinking.
• Discuss and evaluate the progress of your work.

What level is the course and do I need any particular skills?

This is an intermediate level course, intended for those with some painting or drawing experience (e.g. Painting 2, Drawing 2) or those who wish to explore the relationship between the two disciplines.

You should be able to follow simple written and verbal instructions, demonstrations, hand-outs and health and safety information, and will be invited to take part in group discussion. You should be able to use numbers and be able to do simple measurements and calculations.

How will I be taught, and will there be any work outside the class?

• Practical structured projects
• Group discussion and evaluations
• One to one guidance
• Presentations on the work of selected artists

This course is supported by Google Classroom as a Virtual Learning Environment, where you will be able to access course material, presentations, and handouts etc.

Are there any other costs? Is there anything I need to bring?

All materials required are provided.

When I've finished, what course can I do next?

This is one of a suite of Painting and Drawing Dialogues courses. Taking further modules will expand your experience and confidence with cross-disciplinary working and prepare you for higher level study in the City Lit’s Advanced Practice Area.