Course Title: Develop and refine artistic practice to produce a concept for thematically connected prints
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term1 2012
Course Code: VART5996
Course Title: Develop and refine artistic practice to produce a concept for thematically connected prints
School: 340T Art
Campus: City Campus
Program: C5234 - Diploma of Visual Art
Course Contact : Jennifer Cabraja
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4472
Course Contact Email:TAFEArt@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Deborah Williams
deborah.williams@rmit.edu.au
Ph; 9925 4215
Nominal Hours: 100
Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.
Pre-requisites and Co-requisites
None
Course Description
This course describes the skills and knowledge required to develop artistic practice to produce a concept for thematically connected prints through the exploration and application of a range of advanced techniques and media.
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
VPAU030 Develop and refine artistic practice to produce a concept for thematically connected prints |
Element: |
1. Experiment with printmaking techniques and media to inform work |
Performance Criteria: |
1.1 Evaluate the potential for new approaches to printmaking based on capabilities of techniques already used |
Element: |
2. Develop and refine conceptual vision thematically connected prints |
Performance Criteria: |
2.1 Determine the conceptual vision for the proposed series of prints based on knowledge and understanding of different printmaking techniques |
Learning Outcomes
The following learning outcomes will be undertaken through this course:
- Explore the possibilities of printmaking through experimentation with printmaking techniques and media to inform work.
- Extend your understanding of the unique possibilities with printmaking - the multiple and the unique state print.
- Gain an understanding of the screen printing process.
- Health and Safety will be addressed.
- You will determine and organise resource requirements for new work.
- Develop research and refine a conceptual vision for prints.
- Develop critical evaluation and articulation skills.
- Develop and refine conceptual vision thematically connected prints.
Details of Learning Activities
In this course, you learn through:
1. In-class activities:
• teacher directed group activities/projects
• class exercises to review discussions/lectures
• peer teaching and class presentations
• group discussion
• class exercises to review discussions/lectures
• studio work
2. Out-of-class activities include:
• practical exercises
• reading articles and excerpts
• preparing for discussion
• project work
• independent research
You are expected to manage your learning and undertake an appropriate amount of out-of-class independent study and research and industry guests speak about professional practice.
Teaching Schedule
Week 1
Project 2 Object as Reference
General unit outline
Required materials for project 2
Discuss bulk copper options
Preparation/edges
Hard and soft ground
Etching bath
Week 2 Project 2 Object as Reference
Preparation/edges
Hard and soft ground
Etching bath
Week 3 Project 2 Object as Reference
Soft ground Aquatint demonstration
Etching bath use
Week 4 Project 2 Object as Reference
Process plate
Extension of aquatint using scrapers & burnishers
Week 5 Project 2 Object as Reference
Chine colle
Litho crayons
Week 6 Project 2 Object as Reference
2 plates Print registration demo & press training refresher Ongoing activities
Multi plate colour etching
chine colle, hard & soft ground
sugar lift, aquatint, engraving, tuché, Litho crayons, stencilling, monoprinting, relief intaglio
Week 7 Project 2 Object as Reference
Ongoing activities
Week 8 Project 2 Object as Reference
Ongoing activities
Week 9 Project 2 Object as Reference
Extending the print;
Relief intaglio
Week 10 Project 2 Object as Reference
Extending the print; Monoprinting techniques
Week 11 Project 2 Object as Reference
Ongoing activities
Week 12 Project 2 Object as Reference
Print Room
Extending the print; stencilling techniques
Week 13 Project 2 Ongoing activities
individual tutorials
Week 14 Project 2 Ongoing activities
individual tutorials
Week 15 Project 2 Ongoing activities
individual tutorials
Week 16 FOLIO PREPARATION
Confirmation of general assessment criteria
Students will be
introduced to a range
of printmaking techniques
through workshops –
Multi plate colour etching
chine colle, hard & soft ground
sugar lift, aquatint, engraving

Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
Printmaking supplies are available from the following: |
References
Art Almanac provides a comprehensive listing of galleries and exhibitions throughout Melbourne and regional Victoria however you should become familiar with the following print specific bodies: |
Other Resources
‘Imprint’ quarterly publication of the Print Council of Australia.
Lambert, Susan, Print: art and technique, V&A Publications, London, 2001.
McCann, M., Artist Beware, Watson-Guptill, New York, 1979.
Petardi, A. Printmaking, London, 1959.
Grishin, Sasha, Australian Printmaking in the 1990s, Craftsman House, Sydney 1979
Whale, George., Digital printmaking, London : A. & C. Black, 2001.
Simmons, Rosemary., Dictionary of printmaking terms, London : A. & C. Black, 2002.
Ross and Romano The Complete printmaker New York, Free Press 1972
Westley, Anne. Relief printing London, Atc Black 2000
York, Emily. Magical secrets about aquatint : spit bite, sugar lift & other etched tones step-by-step San Francisco : Crown Point Press, c2008
Brooks, Catherine. Magical secrets about line etching & engraving : the step-by-step art of incised lines San Francisco : Crown Point Press, c2007
D’arcy Hughes, Ann & Vernon-Morris, Hebe The printmaking bible : the complete guide to materials and techniques San Francisco, Calif. : Chronicle Books, 2008
Leaf, Ruth Etching, engraving, and other intaglio printmaking techniques New York : Dover, 1984, c1976
Noyce, Richard. Printmaking at the edge. London : A. & C. Black, 2006
Watrous Madison, James. American printmaking: a century of American printmaking, 1880-1980 , Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 1984
http://www.brodskycenter.org/_pages/ARTISTS/smith2.html
www.crownpoint.com/
http://www.printeresting.org/
http://www.worldprintmakers.com/
http://tandempress.wisc.edu/artists.html
Overview of Assessment
Production of prints which demonstrates a highly developed command of the selected techniques and which is consistent with the conceptual vision.
In depth knowledge of techniques, materials and tools and the ways they may be adapted and extended in printmaking.
Assessment evidence will be via
- Visual Diary
- Observation of performance
- Tutorial
- and Folio (see below).
Folio requirements
- Completion of two resolved outcomes that will utilise some of the printmaking techniques demonstrated in classes. Your work will show an involvement to extend the technical processes used to make conceptually resolved prints
- There will be outcomes which show experimentation with monochromatic and multi-colour prints.
PRINT 1, 2, & 3
- There will be traditional and unique state outcomes.
- Edition a minimum of 3 prints for traditional outcome
- Unique states prints should be considered and resolved outcomes which may include installations, artists books and printed works which use different substrates. There will be 3 resolved outcomes.
PRINT 1 & 2
- There will be traditional and unique state outcomes
- Edition a minimum of 3 prints for traditional outcome
- Unique states prints should be considered and resolved outcomes which may include installations, artists books and printed works which use different substrates. There will be 2 resolved unique state print outcomes
- Students should note that preparatory work and experimental printing will be a major component of assessment.
We will be looking for engagement in the following:
- Evidence of research
- Evidence of experimentation and manipulation of processes
- Conceptual response to projects
- Technical proficiency
- Resolution of finished art work
- Presentation.
Assessment Tasks
Assessment Tasks
Semester : 1
1. Object as Reference
Description: Completion of two resolved outcomes that will utilise some of the printmaking techniques demonstrated in classes. Your work will show an involvement to extend the technical processes used to make conceptually resolved prints.
There will be outcomes that show experimentation with monochromatic and multicolour prints.
Studio 2
There will be traditional and unique state outcomes.
An edition of your multi plate etching in multicolour at a minimum of 3 prints for traditional outcome.
Unique states prints of your experimental plate. These will need to be printed throughout the semester and should be considered and resolved outcomes. There will be 2 resolved unique state print outcomes.
Students should note that preparatory work and experimental printing will be a major component of assessment.
We will be looking for engagement in the following:
• Evidence of research
• Evidence of experimentation and manipulation of processes
• Conceptual response to projects
• Technical proficiency
• Resolution of finished art work
• Presentation
Due date: End of semester
Semester: 1
Week: 18
Assessment Matrix
| Assessment evidence | Element | Essential skills | Essential knowledge | Critical aspects of assessment |
| Visual diary | 1 Experiment with printmaking techniques and media to inform work 2 Develop and refine conceptual vision thematically connected prints |
- demonstrates a command of advanced techniques and which are consistent with the conceptual vision - demonstrates knowledge of materials and tools and how they are used and extended in printing. |
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| Folio | 1 Experiment with printmaking techniques and media to inform work 2 Develop and refine conceptual vision thematically connected prints |
- literacy skills sufficient to read product safety labels - numeracy skills sufficient to calculate quantities, and cost - ways of exploring, adapting and combining techniques and materials to achieve different effects in printmaking - ability to integrate or interpret other mediums into print artworks to allow for the evolving characteristics of contemporary practice |
- organisational and legislative occupational health and safety procedures in relation to printmaking - the physical properties and capabilities of the range of materials, tools and equipment used in printmaking - general knowledge of the formal elements and principles of design and their specific application to the production of prints - the historical and theoretical contexts and how these may be used to inform own artistic practice - knowledge of contemporary practices - awareness of copyright, moral rights and intellectual property issues |
- demonstrates a command of advanced techniques and which are consistent with the conceptual vision - demonstrates knowledge of materials and tools and how they are used and extended in printing. |
| Observation of performance | 1 Experiment with printmaking techniques and media to inform work |
- literacy skills sufficient to read product safety labels - numeracy skills sufficient to calculate quantities, and cost - ways of exploring, adapting and combining techniques and materials to achieve different effects in printmaking - ability to integrate or interpret other mediums into print artworks to allow for the evolving characteristics of contemporary practice |
- organisational and legislative occupational health and safety procedures in relation to printmaking - the physical properties and capabilities of the range of materials, tools and equipment used in printmaking - work space requirements for printmaking, including ways of organising and maintaining space |
- demonstrates a command of advanced techniques and which are consistent with the conceptual vision - demonstrates knowledge of materials and tools and how they are used and extended in printing |
| Tutorial | 1 Experiment with printmaking techniques and media to inform work 2 Develop and refine conceptual vision thematically connected prints |
- literacy skills sufficient to read product safety labels - numeracy skills sufficient to calculate quantities, and cost - ways of exploring, adapting and combining techniques and materials to achieve different effects in printmaking - ability to integrate or interpret other mediums into print artworks to allow for the evolving characteristics of contemporary practice |
- organisational and legislative occupational health and safety procedures in relation to printmaking - the physical properties and capabilities of the range of materials, tools and equipment used in printmaking - work space requirements for printmaking, including ways of organising and maintaining space - general knowledge of the formal elements and principles of design and their specific application to the production of prints - cleaning and maintenance techniques for tools and equipment used in printmaking - the historical and theoretical contexts and how these may be used to inform own artistic practice - knowledge of contemporary practices - awareness of copyright, moral |
- demonstrates a command of advanced techniques and which are consistent with the conceptual vision - demonstrates knowledge of materials and tools and how they are used and extended in printing |
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