Painting 2: Exploring Concepts*

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Level:: 2
Credits:: 60
Length:: 15 months approx.
10hrs per week
Cost:: £595
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This second level OCA course Exploring Concepts is the equivalent to participating at second year degree level of a Fine Art course and completing half a year of study. This course is recommended for those who take their artistic development seriously, and have a strong desire to improve their results. The course provides a framework that will challenge even an experienced artist. However, it also provides the flexibility for the less experienced to experiment and grow, and a practice a breadth of techniques and approaches to painting.

Throughout this course you will work through a range of projects and explore new approaches to artistic concepts. The course will push you to consider your artistic strengths and preferences, and requires you to trial a wide range of perspectives on art: from the very precise and detailed, through realistic figurative painting, and then the exploration of themes such as landscape and the figure and finally to exploring seminal 20th movements in art, that challenged the traditional conceptual basis of art from the Renaissance onwards.

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Abstraction and abstract painting
Painting detail
Figure painting
Landscapes
Abstraction
Abstract Expressionism
Parallel project: the seasons

To view a sample of this course online, click HERE or to download a PDF of the sample, click HERE.

The course aims to deepen understanding of painting techniques; introduce different subjects and attitudes to painting; help students understand how their work relates to that of other artists; strengthen self-reliance and the ability to express attitudes to the visual world through a personal visual language.

Distance Tuition

You are allocated a tutor and receive their details in your course pack. You work from the course materials and send regular assignments to your tutor. These are returned to you with comment and advice. The course fee includes tutor feedback on your set assignments, but you can purchase feedback and comment on additional pieces of work if you wish.

Face to Face Tuition

You choose a tutor within travelling distance (call OCA on 0800 731 2116 to find your nearest tutor) and you meet them at mutually agreeable times and dates. You are entitled to an agreed number of hours tuition, typically five hours. Tutors work from their own studios or other suitable teaching space. You can find out where your nearest tutor is by contacting Academic Services on 0800 731 2116.

22 projects, five assignments and a final personal project. Students also maintain a learning log.

For more information on assessment, click here - Assessment and how to get qualified booklet - to download the booklet PDF.