Module Information

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this module students should be able to:

• to offer the student an important opportunity to experience more painting in general and for the acquisition of key skills in the methods and materials of painting in particular
• to help the student towards finding subject matter and ways of working both personal to their own expressive needs and interests and appropriate to the course as a whole
• through interaction in tutorials to help the student understand the capabilities and limitations of painting as a means of creative expression and communication
• to empower the students with the knowledge needed to make informed and appropriate choices of methods and materials, their relative potentials and limitations through a course of lectures/demonstrations and individual tutorials
• to give students some basic information about the history of methods and materials through a series of lectures/demonstrations
• to establish patterns of the correct preparation of surfaces for painting and the correct methods of making and completing a painting with view to professional practice in the future
• the acquisition of a knowledge of the processes involved in painting and the ability to correctly apply them through practical experience
• to further the student's ability to evaluate and to articulate ideas about his/her own work and that of his/her peers through interaction in personal and/or group tutorials.

Aims