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Sculpture 1
- Level:
- 1 (HE4)
- Credits:
- 40
- Length:
- 12 months approx.
8hrs per week - Cost:
- £625
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Course Overview
Course Sample(Adobe PDF Format)
Elective Option for BA Hons Painting, BA Hons Creative Arts*
This course will introduce you to three-dimensional art and help you develop to the point where you can work on your own. You will be surprised how quickly you can accomplish things you would have thought impossible. You will use drawing for accumulating and refining ideas, follow up references in course texts and keep a log of reflections on your work.
- Constructing relief sculpture
- Constructing a head and figure
- Modelling a head and figure
- Casting in plaster
- Wood carving
- Stone carving.
The course aims to develop understanding of the techniques and skills of sculpture; introduce use of construction techniques involving a variety of media and tools; develop basic skills in drawing and the use of drawing to develop ideas; develop the ability to think in the round; introduce the work of other sculptors.
12 projects and five assignments, and reflect in writing on their work. Students also maintain a learning log and complete five logbook activities.
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