Course Title: Realise thematically connected prints
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term1 2010
Course Code: VART5997
Course Title: Realise 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
Megan McPherson
Nominal Hours: 150
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
In this course you will gain a strong understanding of how to produce and present a thematically connected prints.
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
VPAU031 Realise thematically connected prints |
Element: |
1. Prepare project work plan 2. Determine, organise and maintain resources for a thematically connected prints 3. Realise thematically connected prints 4. Present/exhibit prints 5. Evaluate own work |
Performance Criteria: |
1.1 Identify components required to produce the concept design. 1.2 Develop project timeline 1.3 Identify project planning constraints that may impact on meeting timeline 1.4 Identify potential sources of supply of resources 1.5 Cost project 1.6 Monitor & document project work flow consistent with the concept for the brief and work plan
2.1 Assess specific resource requirements which arise from the use of techniques & experimental approaches 2.2 Organise & maintain workspace & resource requirements in accordance with safety & other workplace requirements. 2.3 Research & evaluate costs & potential sources of supply of print resources & other constraints which may impact on work.
3.1 Realise the prints using techniques & media selected from research & experimentation to meet conceptual vision. 3.2 Evaluate & respond to the potential for changes in the use of techniques & experimentation to meet the conceptual vision. 3.3 Use safe working practices throughout the production of the prints.
4.1 Determine specific requirements for display / presentation of prints. 4.2 Consider issues of presentation & take action accordingly 4.3 Prepare prints for display/presentation
5.1 Seek & apply constructive criticism from others to improve own work 5.2 Evaluate own work against planned strategy for own artistic practice 5.3 Evaluate own work in the context of work by others in order to extend own practice 5.4 Adjust work processes & practice as necessary to improve technical & conceptual outcomes. |
Learning Outcomes
In this course, you learn through:
1. In-class activities:
- lectures
- 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.
In addition you will:
- extend on your command of advanced techniques which is consistent with realising thematically connected prints.
- extend your knowledge of tools & how they are used in printmaking.
- extend on your research skills in order to realise their body of work
- present and exhibit prints.
- evaluate their own work.
Details of Learning Activities
Students will continue to explore the possibilities of Printmaking through workshops that will cover the following and extend on VART 5996-
mulitiple plate printing
hard & soft grounds
Touche
oil paint
lithographic crayons
extending aquatint
collograph
relief printing
masking
monoprinting
stencilling
Teaching Schedule
Week 1
Orientation
Week 2
Project outline - Object as Reference
General unit outline, OH&S , Aquatint demonstration, etching bath use.
Week 3 ongoing Project 2 Object as Reference
Plate preparation, hard & soft grounds, etching bath use.
Process plate, extension of aquatint using burnishers and scrapers
Week 4 ongoing Project 2 Object as Reference
Plate process, touche, oil paint, litho crayons, aquatint demonstration, etching bath use.
Week 5 ongoing Project 2 Object as Reference
Print registration for muliti plate printing, Plate process, touche, oil paint, litho crayons
Week 6 ongoing Project 2 Object as Reference
Print registration, press training refresher
Week 7 ongoing Project 2 Object as Reference
press training refresher
Tutorials
Week 8 ongoing Project 2 Object as Reference
Tutorials
Week 9 ongoing Project 2Object as Reference
Extending the print, collograph techniques
Week 10 ongoing Project 2 Object as Reference
Extending the print, monoprinting & collograph techniques
Introduction to Detail project
Week 11 ongoing Project 2 Object as Reference
Extending the print, monoprinting technique
Week 12 ongoing Project 2 Object as Reference
Extending the print, stencilling techniques
Week 13 ongoing Project 2Object as Reference
Studio access and individual tutorials
Week 14 ongoing Project 2 Object as Reference
Studio access and individual tutorials
Week 15 ongoing Project 2 Object as Reference
Studio access and individual tutorials
P/T Project 3 Detail; continues to week 6 of 2nd semester
Week 16 Project 2 Object as Reference
Folio preparation
Week 17 Project 2 Object as Reference
Folio Assessment
Please note that the weekly program indicated above may alter due to group needs or supplies. Staff will endeavour to give students ample warning of any alterations.
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
References
Other Resources
Imprint Magazine, Print Council of Australia
Cabinet Magazine, held at RMIT Library, Swanston street
Lambert, S. Print: Art & Technique, V & A Publications, London, 2001
McCann, M. Artists Beware, Watson-Guptill, NY, 1979
Petardi, A. Printmaking, London, 1959
Grishin, S. Australian Printmaking in the 1990’s, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1979
Whale, G. Digital Printmaking,A & C Black, London, 2002
Simmons, R. Dictionary of Printmaking terms, A & C Black, London, 2002
Ross & Romano. The Complete Printmaker, Free Press, New York, 1972
Westley, A. Relief Printing, Atc Black, London 2000
Crown Point Press, Magical Secrets, A Printmaking Community
http://www.magical-secrets.com/
http://www.australianprints.gov.au
http://www.mala.bc.ca/~soules/CMC290/imagetxt.htm
Overview of Assessment
Assessment may incorporate a range of methods to assess performance and the application of essential underpinning knowledge and skills and might include:
- Direct observation of printmaking in progress, including exploration of and experimentation with techniques
- Written and/or oral questioning and discussion to assess knowledge and understanding and candidate’s intentions and work outcome
- Third-party reports from experienced practitioners.
- Completion of an art journal and/or portfolio including personal reflection and feedback from relevant others.
- Produce a project work plan
- Production of prints that are thematically connected and which demonstrate a highly developed command of the selected techniques
- In depth knowledge of techniques, materials and tools and the ways they may be adapted & extended in printmaking
Assessment evidence will be via
- Visual Diary
- Folio
- Observation of Performance
- Presentation of work.
Assessment Tasks
The ability to realise thematically connected prints which
-demonstrates a command of selected advanced techniques and which are consistent with the conceptual vision
- demonstrates advanced knowledge of materials and tools and how they are used and extended in printmaking.
This will be realised through
Visual Diary
Folio
Observation of performance
Tutorial
Assessment Matrix
| Assessment evidence | Element | Essential skills | Essential knowledge | Critical aspects of assessment |
| Visual Diary |
1.Prepare project work plan 2.Determine, organise & maintain resources for a thematically connected prints |
-literacy skills sufficient to read product safety labels & to research and interpret information & materials about the work of other printmakers -numeracy skills sufficient to calculate & evaluate quantities & 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 -awareness of copyright, moral rights and intellectual propert issues -environmental issues associated with tools and materials used in printmaking |
-the physical properties and capabilities of the range of materials, tools and equipment used in printmaking -the characteristics of different materials under different treatments & the potential of these characteristics to achieve different effects -the formal elements & principles of design & how these may be used, adapted & challenged in the development of prints -sources of raw, part processed and processed materials & other resources for printmaking -knowledge of contemporay practices |
The ability to realise thematically connected prints which: -demonstrate command of selected advanced techniques and which are consistent with conceptual vision -demonstrates advanced knowledge of materials and tools and how they are used and extended in printmaking |
| Folio | 3. Realise thematically connected prints | -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 -awareness of copyright, moral rights and intellectual propert issues -environmental issues associated with tools and materials used in printmaking |
-the physical properties and capabilities of the range of materials, tools and equipment used in printmaking -the characteristics of different materials under different treatments & the potential of these characteristics to achieve different effects -the formal elements & principles of design & how these may be used, adapted & challenged in the development of prints -sources of raw, part processed and processed materials & other resources for printmaking -knowledge of contemporay practices |
The ability to realise thematically connected prints which: -demonstrate command of selected advanced techniques and which are consistent with conceptual vision -demonstrates advanced knowledge of materials and tools and how they are used and extended in printmaking |
| Observation of performance | 2.Determine, organise & maintain resources for a thematically connected prints |
-literacy skills sufficient to read product safety labels & to research and interpret information & materials about the work of other printmakers -numeracy skills sufficient to calculate & evaluate quantities & cost |
-knowledge of contemporay practices -cleaning & maintenance techniques for tools andequipment used in printmaking -environmental issues associated with tools and materials used in printmaking |
The ability to realise thematically connected prints which: -demonstrate command of selected advanced techniques and which are consistent with conceptual vision -demonstrates advanced knowledge of materials and tools and how they are used and extended in printmaking |
| Other eg. essay, presentation, |
4. Present / exhibit prints 5. Evaluate own work |
-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 |
-knowledge of contemporay practices -awareness of copyright, moral rights and intellectual propert issues -the physical properties and capabilities of the range of materials, tools and equipment used in printmaking |
Other Information
Printmaking supplies are available at the following:
Melbourne Etching Supplies, St David St, Fitzroy 3065
Neil Wallace, Greaves Street, Fitzroy 3065
Magnani Papers, Footscray
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