Pre-requisites

AR643 Creative Practice Foundations: Painting

Co-requisites

None.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, the student will be able to:

• Apply and experiment with a broad range of principles and skills of painting including: colour, tone, figurative and compositional structure.

• Evaluate the development, experimentation and practical application of the creative process in the techniques of painting.

• Integrate development of personal imagery and visual language into painting

• Analyse the relationship, and integration, of the Christian faith and spirituality with painting.

Unit Description

This unit directly develops and expands upon the skills and techniques of contemporary painting and art making processes begun in AR643 Creative Practice Foundations: Painting. Students will continue to expand their involvement in and integration of the creative process of painting. This process will develop understanding and practical application of the formal conventions of painting while expanding critical and analytical thinking and visual perception. A number of painting principles, for example the nature and relationship of colour and tone, the effect and relevance of light, as well as figurative and compositional structures, will continue to be applied and developed through this process. Students will continue to integrate practical engagement in developing a portfolio of works based on a chosen theme in their creative process, ideas, imagery and visual language within painting activities by strengthening their personal body of painting work with works from both within and outside of class. Underpinning all practical work and theoretical concepts discussed students will continue to critically evaluate and develop how they integrate Christian faith and spirituality into their creative process especially in light of what ethical and moral issues may be raised in connection with the issues of representation.

Topics

• Advanced skills and techniques of painting
• Developing a body of work
• Developing a contemporary art practice
• Advanced critical, analytical thinking and visual perception
• Tone and Light
• Figurative and compositional structures
• Advanced creative process, ideas, imagery and visual language
• Painting informed by Christian faith
• Ethical and moral issues

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Unit offerings

Face to face: Semester 1, 2025 and Semester 1, 2026 (Every Year, Semester 1)

Please note

The Unit Offerings listed above are a guide only and the timetable for any year is the final authority. The College may vary offerings based on demand, regulatory requirements, continual improvement processes or other conditions.

This unit may be available in different modes of delivery i.e. online and face-to-face as listed above. The unit content will not differ between these modes of delivery. There will possibly be a difference in the schedule and/or the prescribed assessment tasks, however both will cover and assess the same content.