Course Title: Realise a creative project

Part B: Course Detail

Teaching Period: Term2 2017

Course Code: VART6352C

Course Title: Realise a creative project

School: 340T Art

Campus: City Campus

Program: C4370 - Certificate IV in Visual Arts

Course Contact: Jennifer Mills

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4472

Course Contact Email: visualarts@rmit.edu.au

Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff

Nominal Hours: 60

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

This course is delivered in conjunction with CUVACD301A Produce drawings to communicate the ideas.

Course Description

In this course you will explore the skills and knowledge required to organise and realise a creative project from the development of ideas to the creation of the work.

National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria

National Element Code & Title:	CUAPPR401 Realise a creative project
Element:	1. Develop ideas for creative project
Performance Criteria:	1.1 Identify and analyse sources that inform ideas for work 1.2 Explore and identify ideas using visual representation and design tools 1.3 Challenge identified ideas, engaging with others as required 1.4 Identify possible project constraints, based on nature and purpose of work 1.5 Refine and select options based on own analysis and communication with others
Element:	2. Plan the creative project
Performance Criteria:	2.1 Confirm scope and objectives of the work in consultation with relevant people as required 2.2 Organise financial, physical and other resources 2.3 Evaluate safety and sustainability considerations for the project 2.4 Identify options for documenting and recording work and the ideas and research that inform it
Element:	3. Create finished work
Performance Criteria:	3.1 Adapt and extend skills in manipulating selected materials, processes and technologies to fulfil project objectives 3.2 Evaluate creative work in progress and respond to conceptual and technical issues by adjusting work as required 3.3 Monitor project workflow against the plan 3.4 Apply safe and sustainable work practices relevant to chosen creative form 3.5 Document the production of work using approaches suitable to chosen creative form
Element:	4. Evaluate own work
Performance Criteria:	4.1 Analyse own work in terms of conceptual development, technical execution and professional potential 4.2 Identify areas for future improvement especially in terms of own technical skills in particular creative form 4.3 Evaluate efficiency and effectiveness of overall work process 4.4 Seek input from others as required and respond positively to feedback

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will have completed a series of creative projects that will contribute to a portfolio of evidence.

Details of Learning Activities

In this course, you learn through:

 

In-class activities:

• • teacher directed studio activities/projects
• • studio exercises to review discussions
• • peer teaching and class presentations
• • group discussion and review of peer work
• • studio work
• • practical demonstrations in the studio
• • lectures, videos and PowerPoint presentations

 

Out-of-class activities include:

• • practical exercises
• • reading articles and excerpts
• • preparing for discussion
• • project work
• • independent research in your visual diary
• • gallery visits.

 

You are expected to make use of the RMIT Library resources and visit RMIT and other local galleries to increase your knowledge of contemporary art and artists.

Teaching Schedule

Week	Class content	Visual Diary Tasks
Week 1 6 July	Introductions.   Video Presentation:   William Kentridge Interview                                    How We Make Sense of the World   Housekeeping, OHS, recommended easel use.   Focus: Line and shape. Dark marks on light field.   Medium: Charcoal
Week 2 13 July	Introduction to weekly schedule and Course Guide   PowerPoint:        Formal Elements of Drawing   Focus: Line, shape, space, tone and composition.             Identifying positive and negative shape                           through cut outs. Practising tonal range.   Major Drawing: Drawing tonally from white objects.   Medium: Graphite Pencil	Visual Diary Task 1:   Draw an egg (or eggs) in graphite pencil using a range of tonal values.
Week 3 20 July	Rub Back Drawing Focus: “Subtractive Drawing” Rub back drawing from still life tableau. From dark to light.   Medium: Charcoal, erasers   NB. This is an assessable task.	Visual Diary Task 2:   Make a simple rub back drawing of an object in your visual diary.
Week 4 27 July	Fabric Landscape   Focus: Tonal drawing of drapery and metal bins. Observational and tonal realist approach to irregular form.   Viewfinders, composition and “trapped shapes” (Trapped Shapes Exercise handout)   Medium: Charcoal, erasers.
Week 5 3 August	Collaborative mural drawings   Focus: Tone, blending, scale, observation, proportion.   Medium: Charcoal, Rembrandt pastel and white pastel	Visual Diary Task 3:   Document the process of making the collaborative drawing in class.  Describe the process and include images.
Week 6 10 August	Strategies of Perspective   PowerPoint examples of Linear, Scale, Foreshortening and Atmospheric Perspective.   Focus: Drawing either cityscape using perspective from the windows of the building or an interior stairwell.   Medium: Graphite Pencil, ruler, eraser, small drawing boards provided.
Week 7 17 August	Shells   Focus: Brown paper drawings of small objects (shells). Texture and pattern.   Medium: Conté pencils and Conté crayons.	Visual Diary Task 4:   Find 3 objects that have pattern or texture and draw them in any medium on three separate pages.
Week 8 24 August	Mixed media. Ink and dry media.   Focus: Drawing reflective objects building up tone in layers of ink and small detailed objects refining detail with nibs.  Metallic containers and vintage shoe holders.   Medium: Ink, brushes, pens and nibs. Soft pastel or conté.	Visual Diary Task 5:   Test mark making with ink and nibs and brushes.  Cover two full pages of the visual diary with experiments.
Week 9 31 August	Limited Palette Soft Pastel.   Pastel techniques, layering, feathering, hatching, cross-hatching and blending.   Focus: Simple forms and colour relationships – balloons.   Medium: Soft pastel.	Visual Diary Task 6:   Trial pastel techniques. Layering of colours, “feathering”, hatching and cross hatching and blending.
Week 10 7 Sept	En Plein Air Pastels   Focus: working on small studies in the field - en plain air. Carlton Gardens. Fountain, organic forms, landscape or architectural detail.   Medium: Soft pastel. Colour pastel papers and boards provided.
Week 11 14 Sept	Introduction to Project Brief: Drawing to Communicate   PowerPoint of examples of artist’s works that “communicate ideas”.   Looking for content #1 – Communicating an idea?   Focus: Where to start.   Drawing and “research” exercises from the book “How to Be an Explorer of the World” by Keri Smith.   Serial Drawings. Drawings of hands (using own hands) to communicate an idea in series. 5 sequential drawings that describe an idea.   Discuss: commonly used research methodologies for creative practitioners.  How do artists and creative people find their ideas for something to make?   Materials: Choice of media.
18-29 Sept	Mid Semester Break
Week 12 5 Oct	Looking for content #2 - Three Objects into One Bring three small objects to class and draw a “compilation” drawing creating one object from elements of the three.   Discuss: current and emerging practices for documenting work in a creative context.  How will you record the process from idea to drawing?
Week 13 12 Oct	Looking for content #3 - Collage   Focus: strategies for finding ideas.   Using a process to find ideas. Collage. Creating ideas for a new monument using collaged vintage magazines and other materials. Possible extension- drawing onto or from the collage.
Week 14 19 Oct	Looking for content #4 – Memory Drawing   Focus: strategies for finding ideas.   Drawing from Memory. 1. Drawing from the memory of an existing historical art work. 2. Drawing from your own memory of a sequence of events in panels.   Materials: choice of media   Discuss: outlined basic project management techniques, particularly in relation to work planning, time management and resource management	Visual Diary Task 7:   How will you use your time to realise your project?  Outline the timeframe, the process (order of tasks and priorities etc) to show how you intend to make and document your processes.
Week 15 26 Oct	Choosing a Drawing Medium Choosing a drawing medium to suit the communication of your idea. Thinking about materials as a communicating device. Eg. Ephemeral drawings and how they might communicate through the medium.   Material research of media and process. Studies.   Discuss in Pairs and/or groups: progress of ideas with the support of the teacher.   Discuss: sustainability issues associated with the tools and materials used in the chosen creative form   Discuss: work health and safety procedures in relation to chosen creative form.
Week 16 2 Nov	Working individually in studio setting on development and progression of Project.
Week 17 2 Nov	Working individually in studio setting on development and progression of Project.
Week 18 2 Nov	Working individually in studio setting on development and progression of Project.
Week 19 2 Nov	Working individually in studio setting on development and progression of Project.
Week 20 30 Nov	Resolving Project works. Focus: Presentation and installation of final drawings for Project. Hallway exhibition. Hanging and arranging works.   Group review: evaluating the process, works, successes and opportunities.
Week 21 4-8 Dec	Assessment Week

NB. While all course content in this schedule will be covered, the weekly order may change depending on class needs and availability of resources.

Learning Resources

Prescribed Texts

References

Other Resources

Mayer, R, Sheehan, S 1991, The Artist’s handbook of materials and techniques, 5th Edition, Faber & Faber        

Spicer, J. 2017, You Will Be Able to Draw By the End of This Book Octopus Publishing Group, London

Valli, M and Ibarra, A, 2013 Walk the Line The Art of Drawing, Laurence King Publishing, London

Thomas, P and Taylor, A, 2003, Drawing Foundation Course, Bounty Books, Great Britain

Overview of Assessment

Assessment for this course is on going throughout the semester. Your knowledge and understanding of course content is assessed through completion of a body of work that demonstrates concept development, understanding of materials and adhering to the guidelines of working in a studio.

Assessment Tasks

To demonstrate competency in this course, you will need to complete the following pieces of assessment to a satisfactory standard. You will receive feedback during class and during Tutorial Week.

 

Assessment Task 1:

Rub Back Drawing – Due Week 3 (submitted in class)

 

Folio Submission

A folio is to be submitted for assessment at the end of semester comprising of the following Assessment Tasks undertaken to a satisfactory standard.

 

Assessment Task 2:

A selection of 6 major drawings from class workshops from Weeks 1-14

Due Date: Week 21 (4-8 December)

 

Assessment Task 3:

One “resolved” drawing (or series of drawings) from the Project “Drawing to Communicate” supported by all studies, revisions, documentation of installation and material research evidence. Due Date: Week 21 (4-8 December)

 

Assessment Task 4:

Visual Diary Submission

Description: A visual diary is to be developed over the course of the semester.  In this diary you should gather ideas, references, responses to drawing approaches, techniques and individual drawings that are relevant to your understanding of processes and materials. Specific visual diary tasks are outlined in the weekly schedule.  A visual diary should also include ongoing documentation of drawings encountered in exhibition experiences and independent research in the relevant subject areas.

 

Due Date: Week 21 (4-8 December)

 

NB. Regular attendance is essential to complete the recommended number of resolved drawings in the studio setting. 

Assessment Matrix

The Assessment Matrix for this unit are available through the Course Co-ordinator. 

Other Information

Assessment Feedback: 

You will receive spoken and written feedback on your work during class and in Tutorial Week.  Where relevant, this feedback will also include suggestions on how you can proceed to the next stage of developing your projects.

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Student Progress:

Monitoring academic progress is an important enabling and proactive strategy designed to assist you in achieving your learning potential.

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Adjustments to Assessment (eg. applying for an extension of time):

If you are unable to complete any piece of assessment satisfactorily by the due date, you can choose to apply for an adjustment to your assessment. RMIT University offers a range of adjustments designed to support you in your studies, including an extension of time to complete the assessment.

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Academic Integrity and Plagiarism:

RMIT University has a strict policy on plagiarism and academic integrity. Please refer to the website for more information on this policy.

http://www1.rmit.edu.au/students/academic-integrity

 

Credit Transfer and Recognition of Prior Learning:

Credit transfer is the recognition of previously completed formal learning (an officially accredited qualification).

Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) is an assessment process that allows you to demonstrate competence using the skills you have gained through experience in the workplace, voluntary work, informal or formal training or other life experiences.

 

Recognition of Current Competency (RCC) RCC applies only if you have previously successfully demonstrated competence in a unit of competency, and now require to be reassessed to ensure that the competence is being maintained.

 

Please speak to your teacher if you wish to discuss applying for Credit Transfer, RPL, or RCC for the unit(s) of competency addressed in this course.

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