This course will make sure you showcase your best work to support College and UCAS applications for Art and Design based courses. You will get to explore a variety of approaches media and techniques working from the life model focusing on drawing.
Course overview
This course is available to school pupils aged 16 and over. This course provides the perfect opportunity to develop life-drawing elements towards a portfolio of artwork.
This course will make sure you showcase your best work to support College and UCAS applications for Art and Design based courses. You will get to explore a variety of approaches media and techniques working from the life model focusing on drawing.
You will learn both accurate rendering of the figure and a variety of expressive and mixed media approaches. You will also explore a whole range of different ideas about drawing by looking at artists' works and learning to appreciate different ways of seeing or interpreting the figure - essential research for your ongoing development as an artist.
This course offers SCQF Level 5 units which will really support your progression onto exciting further studies in art.
What you will learn
Life Drawing
How to Build an Art Portfolio
Mixed Media Approaches
Seeing and Interpreting the Figure
Research Skills
Number of days per week
1 day per week. Wednesday 17.00-19.00
Entry requirements
Studying National 5, Higher or Advanced Higher in Art & Design, Photography, Craft and Technology or Graphic Communication.
Edinburgh College was formed on 1 October 2012 as part of the merger of Edinburgh's Jewel and Esk, Telford, and Stevenson colleges. The college has four campuses, all of which were previously the campuses of the constituents of the merger:
On 17 April 2012, Edinburgh's Jewel and Esk, Telford, and Stevenson colleges collectively submitted to the Scottish Government a business case for their merger into a single "Edinburgh" college.
The merger was approved by the Scottish Ministers, and came into force on 1 October 2012. Edinburgh College values it’s rich history, especially those of the many legacy colleges that have come together over the years to better serve the learners of the Edinburgh and Lothian’s region.
A project is currently underway to collate the history of Edinburgh College and its legacy institutions and to create an archive of material to tell its story. Lots of interesting items have already been uncovered including old prospectuses, student newsletters, photographs and a log book from Ramsay Technical Institute dated 1923.
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